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Amanda Seyfried in "The Testament of Ann Lee" (Searchlight Pictures)

"Ann Lee" shows us utopia is possible

Coleman Spilde
An "ICE out of Home Depot" protest in Oakland, California, on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. (Yalonda M. James/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Neighbors are standing up for immigrants

Heather Digby Parton
A statue titled "Dictator Approved" is displayed on the National Mall on June 17, 2025. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

How much worse will it get by 2029?

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Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov and Hudson Williams as Shane Hollander in "Heated Rivalry" (Sabrina Lantos/HBO Max)

On Heated Rivalry, the smut is the point

Melanie McFarland
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President Donald Trump on Christmas Eve at Mar-a-Lago. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

The judiciary's Christmas gift to Trump

Brian Karem
Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser in "Marty Supreme" (A24)

The steep sacrifice of "Marty Supreme"

Coleman Spilde
Scene from "Christmas in Connecticut" (John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

A Christmas classic, a perfect food film

Ashlie D. Stevens
OxyContin pill bottles scattered in front of protestors of the opioid crisis. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The overdose crisis is turning around

Libby Jones
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Megyn Kelly speaks during a TPUSA "American Comeback Tour" stop on Sept. 24, 2025. (ALEX WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

It's Megyn Kelly vs. everybody

Sophia Tesfaye
Christmas lights in Veterans Memorial Park, Port St. Lucie, Florida (Getty Images)

Christmas can't escape our war fetish

Daniel Secatore
Reginald Owen stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1938 motion picture "A Christmas Carol" (John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The timeless gift of Scrooge

Coleman Spilde
"Another Beatles Christmas Show" at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 23rd December 1964. (Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

The inside joke of Beatles Xmas singles

Caryn Rose
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Vice President JD Vance speaks at Turning Point USA's annual AmericaFest conference on Dec. 21, 2025. ( Caylo Seals/Getty Images)

JD’s 2028 strategy: Be worse than Trump

Amanda Marcotte
Bari Weiss speaks onstage in New York on Nov. 19, 2024. (Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press)

Bari Weiss' story spike shows her hand

Sophia Tesfaye
Gwyneth Paltrow in "Marty Supreme" (A24)

Gwyneth Paltrow, 2025's patron saint...?

Coleman Spilde
President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One on Dec. 17, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's excuse in 2025: "I don't know"

Amanda Marcotte
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Edwin Lee Gibson as Ebraheim and Rob Reiner as Albert in "The Bear" (FX)

The lovable Rob Reiner, as seen on TV

Melanie McFarland
"Get me out of here" (Obbchao/Getty Images)

In 2025, we all wanted to be raptured

Coleman Spilde
US President Donald Trump fields a question from a reporter during a roundtable about Antifa in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Trump's crackdown on the left is coming

Heather Digby Parton
Traditional Russian wooden nesting dolls depicting Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at a gift shop in Moscow. (Nikita Borissov/AFP via Getty Images)

How Putin won the war

Andrew O'Hehir
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to the White House on Nov. 2, 2025 after taking off from Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

My brush with Trump Derangement Syndrome

Yahia Lababidi
Tenika Davis as Achillia in "Spartacus: House of Ashur" (Starz)

Why the Roman Empire still captivates us

Melanie McFarland
HOUSTON, TEXAS - OCTOBER 18: Julie Neuman, 58, joins hundreds gathered for the No Kings Protest in front of City Hall on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025 in Houston. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Pushing Democrats beyond resistance

Christopher D. Cook
Writer and commentator George Will attending a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, Sept. 21, 2023. (Jamie Sabau/Getty Images)

George Will: Last lonely never-Trumper

Mike Lofgren
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