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Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo on stage during the EE BAFTA Film Awards (Stuart Wilson/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA)

We’re arguing over the wrong words

Melanie McFarland
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - SEPTEMBER 24: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Johnny Mercer Theatre on September 24, 2024 in Savannah, Georgia. The former president spoke to attendees on various plans including the tax code, U.S. manufacturing, and future economic opportunities if reelected a second term. Trump continues campaigning around the country ahead of the November 5 presidential election. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Trump is swift boating the midterms

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump at Palm Beach International Airport, Feb. 27, 2026. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's Iran war, and the world's shame

Andrew O'Hehir
Jon Cryer, Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy on set of "Pretty In Pink," 1986. (Paramount/Getty Images)

Justice for the "Pretty in Pink" women

Coleman Spilde
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Alan Cumming, host of the U.S. version of “The Traitors,” appears against a backdrop of plated smoked salmon, nodding to the show’s unexpected culinary cameo. (Photo illustration by Salon / NBCUniversal / Getty Images)

Salmon is the real Traitors power player

Francesca Giangiulio
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Jan. 7, 2026. Behind her is Border Patrol official Greg Bovino. (Carlos Gonzalez/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Abolish ICE? Absolutely — and DHS too

Mike Lofgren
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald Trump at the White House, Feb. 13, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images))

Trump’s risky public health charade

Troy Farah
A seven month-old male macaque monkey named Punch, who was abandoned by his mother shortly after birth (JIJI PRESS / AFP via Getty Images / Japan OUT)

Punch deserves better. And we do too

Andi Zeisler
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Robert De Niro speaks outside of Manhattan Criminal Court during Donald Trump's criminal trial in May 2024 (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

De Niro skewers Trump at SOTU rival

Brian Karem
Sarah Chalke as Elliot Reid, Zach Braff as John “J.D.” Dorian and Donald Faison as Christopher Turk in "Scrubs" (Disney/Brian Bowen Smith)

The uplifting medicine of "Scrubs"

Melanie McFarland
President Donald Trump has talked of military intervention in Mexico (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Mexico could be Trump's forever war

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump | The U.S. Supreme Court Building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump says he is the law

Chauncey DeVega
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Peter Claffey in "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" (Steffan Hill/HBO)

In Westeros, the soul outweighs the body

Nicholas Liu
Sunday reset cleaning (SeventyFour/Getty Images)

Why we’re watching strangers tidy up

Andi Zeisler
President Donald J. Trump delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, February 24, 2026. (Pool photo by Kenny Holston/The New York Times.) (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump hides in plain sight at the SOTU

Amanda Marcotte
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 Iran bravado echoes Bush

Heather Digby Parton
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Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff in "Wuthering Heights" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

The "Wuthering Heights" double standard

Coleman Spilde
Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell in "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" (Steffan Hill/HBO)

An Undercover Boss of the Seven Kingdoms

Melanie McFarland
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The new DHS spokeswoman is even worse

Amanda Marcotte
Jesse Jackson speaks to reporters in regard to his appearance on the late night NBC television show, "Saturday Night Live." (Jacques M. Chenet/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Jesse Jackson took his humor seriously

Melanie McFarland
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., at the Munich Security Conference, Feb. 13, 2026. (Marijan Murat/picture alliance via Getty Images)

AOC vs. Marco: First throwdown of 2028?

Andrew O'Hehir
President Donald Trump on Christmas Eve at Mar-a-Lago. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Voter fraud claims predate Trump

Heather Digby Parton
Law and the Olympics (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

New hope, maybe, for sports-abuse agency

Irvin Muchnick
A group of cabbage laid in a pattern on a colorful background. (Daniel Grizelj / Getty Images )

The real reason cabbage is everywhere

Joy Saha
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