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Paul Dano as Edward Nashton/The Riddler in "The Batman" (Warner Bros.)

Rating Paul Dano as The Batman’s Riddler

Sabrina Reed - Winter is Coming
Elton John performs on stage during Global Citizen Live on September 25, 2021 in Paris, France (Marc Piasecki/Getty Images For Global Citizen)

Elton John at 75 isn't slowing down

Annie Zaleski
A lot of garbage in the forest on the background of modern high-rise buildings (Getty Images/PavelKant)

Is the U.S. "exceptional"? Definitely

Aviva Chomsky - TomDispatch.com
A view of Gazproms Amur Gas Processing Plant (Yuri SmityukTASS via Getty Images)

The climate crisis–Ukraine connection

Carl Pope
Alvin Bragg and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Can anyone stop Trump?

Heather Digby Parton
The US Capitol is seen from Freedom Plaza where Supporters of President Donald Trump have gathered for a rally on January 5, 2021 in Washington, DC. Today's rally kicks off two days of pro-Trump events fueled by President Trump's continued claims of election fraud and a last ditch effort to overturn the results before Congress finalizes them on January 6. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Jan. 6: Does America even want to know?

Chauncey DeVega
American jurist, lawyer, associate justice Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993), who had been recently appointed Solicitor General by President Lyndon Johnson, sits behind his desk in his office at the Federal Courthouse, Washington, DC. He later became the first black Supreme Court Justice. (Sam Falk/New York Times Co./Getty Images)

KBJ hearing: Echoes of the past

Margaret M. Russell - The Conversation
Dorris Bowdon, Jane Darwell and Henry Fonda in "The Grapes of Wrath," directed by John Ford, 1940. (20th Century Fox/Courtesy of Getty Images)

Classic literature insights on refugees

Robert F. Barsky - The Conversation
Sen. Ted Cruz (lower left) (R-TX), Sen. Josh Hawley (top left) (R-MO) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (top right) (R-TN) confer during a break in testimony for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 23, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Republicans ready to roll back SCOTUS

Amanda Marcotte
Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Russian President Vladimir Putin and former US Vice President Dick Cheney (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How can America talk about "war crimes"?

Chris Hedges
Flee (Neon)

Animating conflict & refugees in "Flee"

Yael Friedman, Deborah Shaw - The Conversation
US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) looks to a display of a children's book on race while speaking during the confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee on her nomination to be an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2022. (Photo illustration by Salon/SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

GOP's racist babies throw SCOTUS tantrum

Amanda Marcotte
Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Who pays for the COVID lies?

Heather Digby Parton
Supporters gather at a rally by former President Donald Trump at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds on January 15, 2022 in Florence, Arizona. The rally marks Trump's first of the midterm election year with races for both the U.S. Senate and governor in Arizona this year. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

It's science: Trump voters are dumb

Chauncey DeVega
A Ukrainian serviceman walks towards the front line in the city of Irpin, northern Ukraine, on March 12, 2022. - Russian forces are positioned around Kiev on March 12, 2022 and are "blocking" Mariupol, where thousands of people are suffering a devastating siege, in southern Ukraine, a country that has been bombed for more than two weeks. (ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia's war crimes — and America's

Norman Solomon
The Power of the Dog (Photo courtesy of Netflix )

Power of Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons

Alison Stine
The contestants and judges sit down for a family style meal to taste the dishes from the second challenge, as seen on The Julia Child Challenge (Photo courtesy of Food Network/Discovery)

Julie breaks down "The Julia Challenge"

Julie Powell
Brett Kavanaugh, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Cruz flips SCOTUS hearings for Kavanaugh

Amanda Marcotte
Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Amy Schumer (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Zelenskyy at the Oscars? Nice try, Amy

Joy Saha
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and a QAnon sign in fron of the U.S. Capitol (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP is using SCOTUS to pander to QAnon

Amanda Marcotte
Joe Biden | Rubble in Zhytomyr on March 02, 2022, following a Russian bombing the day before (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP plans to exploit Ukraine for gain

Heather Digby Parton
A woman looks at a computer screen watching a dissenting Russian Channel One employee entering Ostankino on-air TV studio during Russia's most-watched evening news broadcast, holding up a poster which reads as "No War" and condemning Moscow's military action in Ukraine in Moscow on March 15, 2022. - As a news anchor Yekaterina Andreyeva launched into an item about relations with Belarus, Marina Ovsyannikova, who wore a dark formal suit, burst into view, holding up a hand-written poster saying "No War" in English. (AFP via Getty Images)

Who will stand up to Tucker Carlson?

Kirk Swearingen
Mutating virus variant (Getty Images/wildpixel)

How to prevent future Covid variants

Michael Rose - Undark
US President George W. Bush make a point during his State of the Union address 20 January 2004 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. In his speech, Bush had vowed that the United States "will never seek a permission slip" to go to war as he took aim in his annual State of the Union speech at critics of the invasion of Iraq. | Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of big businesses at the Kremlin in Moscow on February 24, 2022. - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said his country wanted to remain part of the world economy and had no plans to harm it. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, killing dozens and triggering warnings from Western leaders of unprecedented sanctions. Russian air strikes hit military installations across the country and ground forces moved in from the north, south and east, forcing many Ukrainians flee their homes to the sounds of bombing. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Stephen JAFFE/AFP/Alexey NIKOLSKY)

Putin's big mistake: Echoes of Bush

Paul Rosenberg
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