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Mark Wahlberg, Chris Pratt and Gwen Stefani (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / TheStewartofNY / Viorika / Carlos Alvarez / Charley Gallay / Getty Images for Netflix )

An atheist tries MAGA's big prayer app

Amanda Marcotte
Stephen Miller and Martin Luther King Jr. (Getty Images/Salon)

History has the answer to Trump's future

Douglas H. White - TomDispatch.com
The NS-31 crew prior to their flight. Left to right: Lauren Sánchez, Katy Perry, Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn, Gayle King and Amanda Nguyễn. (Blue Origin)

Space: the final marketing frontier

Melanie McFarland
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office of the White House April 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump and Bukele were expected to discuss a range of bilateral issues including the detention of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who has been held in a prison in El Salvador since March 15. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

A madman president sinks even lower

Brian Karem
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) and US Senator from Ohio and Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance attend a remembrance ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, in New York City on September 11, 2024. (ADAM GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)

Vance undermines Trump on student visas

Amanda Marcotte
David Thewlis as Sherlock Holmes in "Sherlock & Daughter" (Fionn McCann/Starlings Entertainment)

TV's logical revival of Sherlock Holmes

Melanie McFarland
Lady Gaga performs during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 11, 2025, in Indio, California. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella)

Beauty isn't lost, just harder to find

Coleman Spilde
President Donald Trump duiring a Cabinet meeting at the White House on February 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford /The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's security: The cover of chaos

Chauncey DeVega
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Bryce Jordan Center on October 26, 2024 in State College, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Harvard knows: Complicity won't save you

Amanda Marcotte
Actors Blake Lively (left) and Justin Baldoni (right) (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Variety via Getty Images/ Araya Doheny / Taylor Hill / Ernesto r. Ageitos)

How to end the "It Ends With Us" drama

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Allee Willis on the set she designed for MTV's "Just Say Julie" (Courtesy of the Estate of Allee Willis and Magnolia Pictures)

The genius you didn’t know you knew

Caryn Rose
US President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts (Getty Images/Salon)

Roberts can't control a monster he made

Lucian K. Truscott IV
MMR vaccine. (SERGII IAREMENKO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images)

Getting 2025's vaccine schedule right

Sue Peschin
Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the Bible during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (MORRY GASH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Bracing for Trump's big decision

Austin Sarat
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C), US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz (R) and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff attend an interview after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on February 18, 2025. (EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Rubio pushes Trump's theocratic purge

Amanda Marcotte
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (C) listens as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol on July 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Musk's DOGE mission goes off target

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The problem of RFK's phony autism pledge

Amanda Marcotte
The Ten Commandments monument that was removed from the Alabama Judicial Building is on display during the "America for Jesus" rally October 22, 2004 at the National Mall in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

And then Jesus said, "America First"

Serene Jones
Taylor John Smith, Charles Melton and Alex Brockdorff in "Warfare" (Murray Close/A24)

An apolitical war film is impossible

Coleman Spilde
A performance of the "Oedipus" plays by Sophocles, 1996. (Robbie Jack/Corbis via Getty Images)

How theater can save democracy

Bernd Reiter
Meghann Fahy as Violet in "Drop" (Bernard Walsh/Universal Pictures)

Keeping cool on the worst date ever

Coleman Spilde
People protest against the administration of US President Donald Trump's decision to virtually shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2025. (DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)

A progressive DOGE? Yes, it's possible

Paul Rosenberg
Jon Hamm in "Your Friends and Neighbors" (Apple TV+)

What a rich time for dramas about the 1%

Melanie McFarland
Michael Cera and Michael Angarano in "Sacramento" (Courtesy of Vertical)

“Sacramento” captures the city's majesty

Coleman Spilde
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