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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and President Donald Trump during a dinner at the White House for tech and business leaders on Sept. 4, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Calling Mark Zuckerberg's bluff

Jenna Sherman
Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel ( Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

Kimmel’s return is a Project 2025 defeat

Sophia Tesfaye
Erika Kirk speaks during the memorial service for her husband, right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, on Sept. 21, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Erika Kirk can’t keep Charlie’s audience

Amanda Marcotte
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. and Donald Trump (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The FCC's phony right-wing critics

Charles R. Davis
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Paula Cole on stage at Lilith Fair (Merri Cyr/Hulu)

Lilith Fair rewrote the rules of rock

Caryn Rose
(Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Leon Neal / Bettman / Cynthia Johnson / The Chronicle Collection)

Trump-Nixon parallels are now uncanny

Heather Digby Parton
Woman holds an upside down US flag to protest against President Donald Trump outside the US Capitol ahead of his joint address to Congress in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP via Getty Images)

American democracy is not a lost cause

Chauncey DeVega
Brain fog? Menopause? Or both? (Overearth/getty images)

Gen X women are going through it

Andi Zeisler
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Brian Glenn interviews Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on camera during a campaign rally for Donald Trump on March 9, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

MAGA's favorite White House reporter

Sophia Tesfaye
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is interviewed on Fox News outside of the West Wing on Sept. 9, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

RFK Jr is shaming moms, not helping kids

Amanda Marcotte
Robert Redford poses for a picture at the Sundance Film Festival January 21, 1994 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Tom Smart/Liaison/getty images)

Robert Redford: micro cinema's champion

Coleman Spilde
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in the Oval Office on May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

How Orbán inspired Trump's media assault

Heather Digby Parton
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No Kings demonstration in Chicago, June 14, 2025. (Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

America's slow-motion coup speeds up

Andrew O'Hehir
Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens speak at the University of Colorado, Boulder on Oct. 3, 2018. (Paul Aiken/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images)

Inside MAGA's fight over Kirk's legacy

Sophia Tesfaye
(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / JasonDoiy / baona)

Cash bail doesn't make us safer

Emily Galvin Almanza
US President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida on February 19, 2025. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump is causing massive moral injury

Michael Bader
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Demonstrators protest the suspension of the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show on Sept. 18, 2025, outside the El Capitan Entertainment Centre in Hollywood where the show is performed. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Media censorship is a structural problem

Jeff Cohen
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (ABC/Randy Holmes)

The strongman's fear of comedians

Melanie McFarland
Marlon Wayans and Tyriq Withers in "HIM" (Universal Pictures)

“HIM” decries our false football Gods

Coleman Spilde
President Donald Trump walks to Air Force One at Morristown Airport on Sept. 14, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images))

All Trump requires is total fealty

Brian Karem
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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on May 21, 2025. (John McDonnell/Getty Images))

Brendan Carr betrays free speech

Austin Sarat
"Alien: Earth" (FX)

The "Alien: Earth" terror we can't unsee

Melanie McFarland
Jimmy Kimmel attends the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sept. 7, 2025 in Los Angeles, Calif. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Kimmel falls victim to Trump's media war

Heather Digby Parton
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speak at a press conference on June 11, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Dems should play hardball over shutdown

Chauncey DeVega
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