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Sebastian Stan as Mihai Gheorghiu in "Fjord" (Neon)

"Fjord" and the myth of objectivity

Coleman Spilde
Daily life continues in Tehran, capital of Iran, amid ongoing tensions between Iran and the United States, under the impact of US sanctions, on September 14, 2026. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump's Iran war has economists aghast

Troy Farah
Donald Trump during a press conference at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, July 8, 2026. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The tyrant's playbook

Andrea Mazzarino
Mia Kirshner in Brian De Palma's "The Black Dahlia" (Rolf Konow/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

The curious case of “The Black Dahlia"

Melanie McFarland
A woman entering a voting polling place. (YinYang / Getty Images)

America, this is who we are. Now vote

Brian Karem
FBI Director Kash Patel testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Sept. 15, 2026. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

How Kash’s attack dog act helps Trump

Amanda Marcotte
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks to reporters outside of his Capitol office on Sept. 16, 2026. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Johnson is the GOP's top scaredy-cat

Alex Galbraith
Inde Navarrette (Brianna Bryson/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

The men who think actresses owe them

Kristen Lopez
Sen. Mitch McConnell arrives for a vote at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 14, 2026. It was his first public appearance in more than 90 days. (Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

Mitch is back and it’s terrifying

Troy Farah
Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson at the Formula One Grand Prix of Monaco, June 7, 2026. (Arnold Jerocki / FilmMagic)

Don Jr.'s wedding, a corruption story

Sophia Tesfaye
President Donald Trump (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

Trump says he's respected. World says no

Heather Digby Parton
Ed Sheeran performs at TD Garden in Boston, Dec. 14, 2025. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)

Sheeran's a coward: Can you blame him?

Alex Galbraith
Author and TV personality Anthony Bourdain (Slaven Vlasic / Getty Images)

Bourdain couldn't quit the kitchen

Francesca Giangiulio
Sydney Sweeney (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/getty images)

Sydney Sweeney has no endgame

Coleman Spilde
Donald Trump walks on stage during the first day of the 2026 Republican "midterm convention" in Dallas, Sept. 9, 2026. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

White House is terrified of Trump videos

Amanda Marcotte
(Yuuji/Getty Images)

Are we in the AI end times?

Troy Farah
Hide your vegetables. You're an adult (twomeows / Getty Images)

Hide your vegetables. You're an adult

Ashlie D. Stevens
Mariska Hargitay performs onstage during the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater on Sept. 14, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Chloe Kern / WireImage)

The Emmy crimes of Mariska Hargitay

Melanie McFarland
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman in "Practical Magic 2" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Some sequels are destined to disappoint

Coleman Spilde
Marathon Petroleum Corp's Los Angeles Refinery, one of the largest oil refineries in the North America on March 10, 2026. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Trump's own energy crisis traps him

Troy Farah
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a Mexican Border Defense Medal Ceremony at the Pentagon on July 27, 2026. (Annabelle GORDON / AFP)

Pete Hegseth's polygraph theater

Jesselyn Radack
Earth Wind & Fire perform at Music for UNICEF Concert at The United Nations in New York, on January 9, 1979. (Michael Putland/Getty Images)

Your instant mood fix soundtrack

Melanie McFarland
Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, Hasan Piker and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. (Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Finn Gomez / John Nacion / Noushad Thekkayil / ANGELA WEISS)

America's wet hot socialist summer

Michael Tedder
All the administrations after 9/11 have caved to the temptation to skirt civil liberties in the name of protecting “the homeland” (Getty Images)

The security state we never turned off

Heather Digby Parton
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