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Harry Styles performs on stage during his "Together, Together" tour on May 17, 2026, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Anthony Pham/Getty Images for HS)

Harry Styles' answer to toxic manhood

Dimitrios Aletras Jr.
Isaac Mizrahi and Naomi Campbell in "Unzipped" (Janus Films)

"Unzipped" captures a designer’s nuance

Coleman Spilde
Associate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. attends inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Alito is complicit in climate disaster

Troy Farah
Antonia Thomas & Josh Dylan in "Agatha Christie's Tommy & Tuppence" (Nick Wall//Courtesy of BritBox)

This Agatha Christie show is disarming

Melanie McFarland
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

It's time for Trump to fire Pete Hegseth

Brian Karem
Second lady Usha Vance and Vice President JD Vance arrive for a military mothers celebration in the East Room of the White House on May 6, 2026. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

JD's chivalry to Usha fools no one

Amanda Marcotte
Mark Zuckerberg (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Meta builds AI "for everyone" in secret

Alex Galbraith
Feminist activist and journalist Gloria Steinem sits in her New York City apartment, Nov. 2, 1990. (Barbara Alper / Getty Images)

Gloria Steinem dead at 92

Melanie McFarland
Emily Rossum in "Furious" (Disney)

Women's rage is in season again

Melanie McFarland
Protest against the termination of Temporary Protected Status for the Haitian community, Foley Square in New York City, Aug. 28, 2026. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's cruelest act yet

Heather Digby Parton
(L-R) Robert De Niro as Peter Willis, Adam Scott as Tom Kennedy and Michelle Monaghan as Amanda Beck in The Whisper Man (David Lee / Netflix © 2026)

Why Netflix only champions crap

Coleman Spilde
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic nominee for the US Senate, speaks at the Democratic Nominating Convention in Lansing MI, on August 29th, 2026. (Katie McTiernan/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Abdul El-Sayed was right about 9/11

Alex Galbraith
An Amazon Web Services data center in Stone Ridge, Virginia, seen on Aug. 26, 2026. Data centers' economic benefits versus their energy and water demands have become a debate ahead of the midterms. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

Data center rebellion causes tech panic

Amanda Marcotte
Lindsay Clancy and defense attorney Kevin Reddington listen to testimony at Plymouth Superior Court, Aug. 18, 2026. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Lindsay Clancy and a system on trial

Jesselyn Radack
President Donald Trump speaks alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. (Aaron Schwartz / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump pounces on the press in a panic

Sophia Tesfaye
Mural in Caracas depicting an oil pumpjack against a Venezuelan flag. (Pedro Mattey/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's slimy Venezuela oil deal

Heather Digby Parton
Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, son of imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro, greets supporters at the Brasília airport, May 28, 2026. (Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images)

US backs autocrats, calls it democracy

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Cairo Cash Lee in "Lanterns" (John Johnson/HBO Max)

The familiar double standard in Lanterns

Melanie McFarland
Anti-Trump protesters in Nathan Phillips Square near Toronto City Hall, March 22, 2025. (Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Why Canada is ready to fight

Andrew O'Hehir
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico speaks during a campaign rally as part of his "New American Dream Tour" in Beeville, Texas, on Aug. 22, 2026. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)

Voters are finally over MAGA corruption

Amanda Marcotte
Attendees react during a public comment meeting over xAI's permit application to use gas turbines for a new data center in Tennessee. (Brandon Dill / Getty Images)

Big Tech's "local control" con

Nicholas Liu
Will Forte in "Coyote vs. Acme" (Ketchup Entertainment)

It's critical you see "Coyote vs. Acme"

Coleman Spilde
Lena Dunham attends the New York premiere of the sixth and final season of "Girls" on Feb. 2, 2017. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

What defines millennial television?

Alex Galbraith
White supremacists carry torches during a march at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, Aug. 11, 2017, the night before the "Unite the Right" rally. (Zach D Roberts / NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The GOP's "blood and soil" obsession

Heather Digby Parton
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