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Sam Neill In "In the Mouth of Madness" (New Line Cinema/Getty Images)

Sam Neill, king of the creature feature

Coleman Spilde
President Donald Trump (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Trump is trapped in his own forever war

Brian Karem
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Hegseth wants to measure your manhood

Amanda Marcotte
Your safety is worth more than that selfie (bennymarty/Getty Images)

Wild animals don't exist for content

Andi Zeisler
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Press freedom is the new terrorism

Jesselyn Radack
Still from "My Neighbor Totoro." (©1988 Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli)

The gentle joy of "My Neighbor Totoro"

Melanie McFarland
Letterboxd (Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

If Letterboxd sells out, the people lose

Coleman Spilde
Graham Platner withdrew from the Maine Senate race following an allegation of sexual assault from a former partner (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

MAGA is wooing Platner's male fans now

Amanda Marcotte
Argentina's Lionel Messi during the quarter final match between Argentina and Switzerland at the 2026 FIFA World Cup (Xu Chang/Xinhua via Getty Images)

The quiet answer to MAGA manhood

Dimitrios Aletras Jr.
President Donald Trump at the 2026 NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

NATO’s summit of love that wasn't

Heather Digby Parton
Protestors hold signs during a press conference inside the rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol Building on September 10, 2025 in Jefferson City, Missouri. Activists and concerned voters descended on the Missouri Capitol to protest the current plan on redistricting maps ahead of the midterm elections. (Photo by (Michael Thomas/Getty Images)

Trump’s slow dismantling of elections

Chauncey DeVega
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., died on July 11, 2026. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

There were two Lindsey Grahams

Jason Kyle Howard
Technology overload (sorbetto/Getty Images)

It's time to reclaim the Luddite

Andi Zeisler
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

New DHS boss, same old lies

Amanda Marcotte
Miles Gutierrez-Riley as Otto, John Slattery as himself, Ben Wang as Caleb, Ken Marino as Vincent and Zoey Deutch as Gail Daughtry in "Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass" (Sony Pictures Classics)

"Gail Daughtry" is absurdism done right

Coleman Spilde
Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

Marco Rubio's far-left terrorism crusade

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump's economic war on Black America

Chauncey DeVega
Crosby Fitzgerald as Caroline Ingalls, Luke Bracey as Charles Ingalls, Skywalker Hughes as Mary Ingalls, Alice Halsey as Laura Ingalls in "Little House on the Prairie." (Eric Zachanowich/Netflix © 2026)

We can handle a grown-up "Little House"

Melanie McFarland
Blue retro freezer (brizmaker / Getty Images)

Your freezer wants to be hot

Ashlie D. Stevens
The National Institutes of Health headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. (Wesley Lapointe/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump is now targeting science itself

Chauncey DeVega
Roswell Encina is surrounded by masked members of the Patriot Front, a white supremacist group (Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

My subway ride with white supremacists

Roswell Encina
"Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story" (HBO)

The sex ed icon who won't go quietly

Coleman Spilde
GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"Where's Mitch?" exposes media failures

Brian Karem
Life-size replica of Noah's Ark at the Ark Encounter historically themed attraction near Williamstown, Kentucky. (Ron Buskirk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

MAGA still says T. Rex rode Noah’s ark

Amanda Marcotte
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