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Rob Reiner watches as Harry Connick Jr. sings for the soundtrack to the movie "When Harry Met Sally," circa 1989. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Rob Reiner gave music the spotlight

Andi Zeisler
Paris, France - March 10, 2013: Old black and white and sepia photos at flea market. There are more than 20 flea markets in Paris.

Gen Z does not exist

Troy Farah
President Donald Trump addresses the nation on Dec. 17, 2025. (Doug Mills / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's speech was his Joe Biden moment

Brian Karem
Construction on Trump's enormous ballroom began this week. Not everyone was pleased about it. Even on Fox News. (Salwan Georges / The Washington Post / Getty Images)

The White House ballroom ain't happening

Amanda Marcotte
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Jeffrey Epstein in 2004. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)

Epstein was reading "Lolita" wrong

Alex Galbraith
Yule log (Ptahi/Getty Images)

How the TV Yule log stole Christmas

Melanie McFarland
President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation on Dec. 17, 2025. (Doug Mills - Pool/Getty Images)

Trump's big speech was all gaslighting

Heather Digby Parton
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr testifies at a Senate oversight hearing on Dec. 17, 2025. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Trump's attack dog is Biden's legacy

Sophia Tesfaye
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Billy Crystal as Harry Burns and Meg Ryan as Sally Albright in "When Harry Met Sally" (Columbia Pictures)

Rob Reiner's everlasting message of love

Coleman Spilde
President Donald Trump prepares to speak at the White House on Dec. 16, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Republicans are quiet quitting on Trump

Amanda Marcotte
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum greets supporters in Mexico City on Dec. 6, 2025. (Alfredo ESTRELLA / AFP via Getty Images)

Antisemitism damages Mexico protests

Amy Reed-Sandoval
Former Sen. Doug Jone speaks at the 60th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on Sept. 15, 2023. (Butch Dill - Pool/Getty Images)

Will we see an Alabama miracle in 2026?

Heather Digby Parton
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President Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

MAGA shifts away from Trump after Reiner

Sophia Tesfaye
Josh Hutcherson and Rachel Sennott in "I Love LA" (Kenny Laubbacher/HBO)

"I Love LA" tackles Zillennial ambition

Angelina Mazza
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One on Nov. 16, 2025.

A Hong Kong-style fire could happen here

Sabrina Haake
Erika Kirk speaks onstage during The New York Times DealBook Summit 2025 on Dec. 3. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images for The New York Times))

Erika Kirk can't escape Candace Owens

Amanda Marcotte
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Jared Leto in "Tron: Ares" (Disney Enterprises, Inc.)

6 soundtracks hit a high note in 2025

Melanie McFarland
Feast of Seven Fishes (Olga Mazyarkina / Getty Images )

Why Seven Fishes is still our feast

Francesca Giangiulio
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., attends a news conference on the government shutdown on Oct. 8, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Mike Johnson's speakership is in trouble

Heather Digby Parton
Former FBI Director James Comey (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Trump's prosecutions keep crumbling

Garrett Owen
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The cast of "The Dick Van Dyke Show," circa 1965. (Bettman/Contributor/Getty Images)

Dick Van Dyke changed TV forever

Melanie McFarland
Jared Kushner at a press conference in Israel on Oct. 21, 2025. (Nathan Howard/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Kushner is at the center of corruption

Sophia Tesfaye
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher speaks about her memoir in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump is whitewashing American history

Chauncey DeVega
Ronald Reagan meets in the Oval Office with a group of Afghan resistance fighters, Feb. 2, 1983. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

Afghanistan's tragedy — and America's

Leila Nadir
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