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Donald Trump | The Supreme Court of the United States building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS ruling reinforces political chasm

Austin Sarat
President Donald Trump at the White House on Sept. 29, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump is losing his forgotten Americans

Chauncey DeVega
Tyra Banks (Don Arnold/WireImage/Getty Images)

America's worst top role model

Melanie McFarland
USA border, surveillance camera, barbed wire and USA flag, concept picture (Getty Images/Alxey Pnferov)

Big Tech’s surveillance dream in trouble

Troy Farah
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President Donald Trump gives a speech in Georgia, previewing his State of the Union message. (SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

What Trump won’t say in his SOTU speech

Brian Karem
(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Dan Kitwood / Tom Williams / Tim Graham)

King Charles exposes Pam Bondi's shame

Amanda Marcotte
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters near Air Force One on August 03, 2025 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump's policies backfire on MAGA voters

Chauncey DeVega
Women studying in a college library (Maskot/Getty Images)

Epstein’s role in campus culture wars

Andi Zeisler
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., joined by President Donald Trump, delivers at the White House on Sept. 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

RFK Jr. is winning MAHA’s vaccine war

Heather Digby Parton
USA's Elana Meyers Taylor and USA's Kaillie Armbruster Humphries pose for pictures after winning gold and bronze respectively in the bobsleigh women's monobob heat 4 at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. Taylor and Humphries have both spoken openly about balancing motherhood and Olympic competition. (Marco BERTORELLO / AFP via Getty Images)

This Winter Olympics is for moms

Nicole Karlis
Samantha Mathis, Juliette Lewis and Robin Tunney in "By Design" (Music Box Films)

"By Design" lusts after sweet apathy

Coleman Spilde
Kristi Noem's leadership of the Department of Homeland Security has been marked by chaos (Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)

Noem’s law-and-order pitch is collapsing

Amanda Marcotte
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Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 21, 2026. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's "Mission Accomplished" moment

Heather Digby Parton
At the 2025 Munich Security Conference, Vice President JD Vance chided Europeans on limiting free speech. (Johannes Simon/Getty Images)

JD Vance doesn't believe in free speech

Austin Sarat, Thomas Dumm
Rebecca Black performs at Outside Lands at Golden Gate Park on August 10, 2025 in San Francisco, California. (Dana Jacobs / WireImage)

Rebecca Black started the ragebait era

Alex Galbraith
Elon Musk envisioned a future with optional work and irrelevant money thanks to the domination of artificial intelligence. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

MAGA loves bad dads

Amanda Marcotte
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James Van Der Beek (Ray Tamarra/GC Images/Getty Images)

James Van Der Beek kept us guessing

Coleman Spilde
Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 11, 2026. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Next Dem attorney general faces a mess

Heather Digby Parton
Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff and Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw in "Wuthering Heights" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

"Wuthering Heights" is a reader's dream

Coleman Spilde
"Lady And The Tramp" lobbycard (LMPC via Getty Images)

Spaghetti is messy. Why is it romantic?

Joy Saha
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President Donald Trump (Win McNamee/Getty Images))

Trump gets help ignoring public opinion

Chauncey DeVega
Savannah Guthrie poses alongside her mother Nancy Guthrie during a production break whilst hosting NBC's "Today Show" live from Australia at Sydney Opera House on May 4, 2015. (Photo by Don Arnold/WireImage)

Watching a true crime story in real time

Melanie McFarland
Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara is seen during the Walk for Peace closing ceremony in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on February 11, 2026. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Buddhist monks vs. Trump's fake UN

Troy Farah
Hudson Williams in "Heated Rivalry" (Sabrina Lantos/HBO Max)

What lesbians see in "Heated Rivalry"

Ava Pauline Emilione
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