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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem participates in a roundtable event with President Donald Trump in Texas. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Why Kristi Noem hates FEMA

Amanda Marcotte
U.S. President Donald Trump looks up at the new flag on the south lawn of the White House. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Tomorrow belongs to MAGA

Alex Galbraith
David Corenswet as Superman in "Superman" (Jessica Miglio/Warner Bros. Pictures)

"Superman” is super woke — on purpose

Coleman Spilde
Sarah Jessica Parker in "And Just Like That" (Craig Blankenhorn/Max)

Free Carrie Bradshaw

Melanie McFarland
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JD Vance at a campaign event in Phoenix, Sept. 5, 2024. (Olivier Touron/AFP via Getty Images)

Who's a real American? JD Vance knows

Andrew O'Hehir
Reverend Hyung Jin "Sean" Moon poses for a portrait with his gold AR-15 "rod of iron." (Bryan Anselm/Redux For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's cult tactics are eerily familiar

Akina Cox
Flanked by industry workers, President Donald Trump speaks at a White House signing ceremony for executive orders to revive clean coal technology. (ANDREW THOMAS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Appalachia clings to Trump

Jim Branscome
"Sinners" and "KPop Demon Hunters" (Photo illustration by Salon/Warner Bros. Pictures/Netflix)

The 2025 version of Barbenheimer is here

Melanie McFarland
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Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan in "Dexter: Resurrection" (Zach Dilgard/Paramount+ with SHOWTIME)

Dexter should've stayed dead

Kelly McClure
Praise event in a local Church (Getty Images/middelveld)

IRS payola will backfire on evangelicals

Amanda Marcotte
Lena Dunham and Megan Stalter (Photo illustration by Salon/Jonathan Brady/PA Images via Getty Images)

Lena Dunham's sharply crafted chaos

Melanie McFarland
Christopher Reeve as Superman, 1978 (Keystone/Getty Images)

Reeve's Superman can never be defeated

Coleman Spilde
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Search and rescue personnel continue to look for missing people along the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's America is a cold, hard place

Brian Karem
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attends an event on June 20, 2025 in Detroit, Mich. (Emily Elconin/Getty Images)

FEMA's acting director is MIA

Sophia Tesfaye
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. delivers a speech outlining his foreign policy vision at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

RFK Jr.’s "real food" hypocrisy

Ashlie D. Stevens
Federal immigration agents near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on July 7, 2025. (Carlin Steihl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

$178 billion to create a police state

Heather Digby Parton
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Rogan O'Handley, aka DC Draino, with a binder reading "The Epstein Files: Phase 1," leaving the White House on Feb. 27, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Why MAGA clings to the "Epstein files"

Amanda Marcotte
Federal immigration agents near MacArthur Park in the Westlake area on July 7, 2025. (Carlin Steihl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Performative fascism in Los Angeles

Charles R. Davis
Open fridge door (Olena Ivanova / Getty Images)

The heat is on (but the stove is off)

Ashlie D. Stevens
Bruce Springsteen, 2025 (Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images)

Springsteen maps his vault's treasures

Caryn Rose
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt during the daily briefing, July 7, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

MAGA melts down: No Epstein files!

Sophia Tesfaye
President Trump has signed many executive orders in four months. One instituted merit-based hiring, which MAGA turned into a loyalty test. (MANDEL NGAN / Getty Images)

The midterms will require vigilance

Heather Digby Parton
Damson Idris as Joshua Pearce and Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes in "F1" (Warner Bros. Pictures / Apple Original Films)

"F1" is everything wrong with Hollywood

Coleman Spilde
Alexander Skarsgård in "Murderbot" (Apple TV+)

We'd be lucky if AI were like Murderbot

Melanie McFarland
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