Go ad-free with Premium

Topic: commentary (page 7)

(© 2004 Diana Wynne Jones/Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, NDDMT)

A Miyazaki film that sees our heart

Melanie McFarland
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speak at a press conference. June 11, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Dems miss opportunity on ICE cruelty

Heather Digby Parton
Gillian Welch performing at New York City's Town Hall in 2001. (Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images)

Gillian Welch knew this was coming

Alex Galbraith
Zendaya and Tom Holland in "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" (Sony Pictures)

Spider-Man should focus on his job

Kelly McClure
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Mitch McConnell is never coming back

Amanda Marcotte
Matt Damon is Odysseus in "The Odyssey," written, produced and directed by Christopher Nolan (Melinda Sue Gordon / Universal Pictures)

Nolan’s Odysseus had to be Matt Damon

Melanie McFarland
Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino hold the FIFA World Cup winner's trophy, July 19, 2026 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Carl Recine/Getty Images)

Trump's FIFA pal takes a big L

Andrew O'Hehir
A Paramount-Warner Bros. merger could mean fewer originals like "Diarra From Detroit" reaching audiences. (Illustration by Salon / Paramount+ / Getty Images / Justin Sullivan / AaronP / Bauer-Griffin)

The TV shows a media merger could erase

Melanie McFarland
Former National Institutes of Health Director Anthony Fauci (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

We're still living in 2020

Heather Digby Parton
Olivia Wilde in "I Want Your Sex" (Magnolia Pictures)

"I Want Your Sex" is deliberately unsexy

Coleman Spilde
Ryan Reynolds in his Deadpool costume speaks during 2026 Comic-Con International in San Diego, July 25, 2026. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

Politics is broken — but Comic Con isn't

Brian Karem
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche (Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images)

The reason Blanche won't drop slush fund

Amanda Marcotte
A still from "Kiki's Delivery Service." (1989 Eiko Kadono/Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, N)

A magical Miyazaki cure for burnout

Melanie McFarland
People visit a makeshift memorial at the intersection where Corey Ruiz was shot and killed by Madison Police on July 23, 2026 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

Accountability can't stop at ICE

Insha Rahman
In a scene from "Hadestown," actors Eva Noblezada and Reeve Carney demonstrate the capacity to hold another’s reality without collapsing it into their own. (Walter McBride/Getty Images)

Performing arts and the empathy crisis

Stephen Brown-Fried, Pablo Helguera
Vice President JD Vance (Mark Schiefelbein-Pool/Getty Images)

Vance will never be the GOP Obama

Amanda Marcotte
The Republicans' new Education Freedom Tax Credit will siphon money away from public schools that most need it (Celal Güne/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Private school on the public's dime

Glenn Sacks
Donald Trump and Elon Musk (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)

Trump and Musk's history obsession

Sonja Drimmer
Attendees react to a talk given by Riley Gaines during the Turning Point USA Young Women's Leadership Summit (Sam Hodde for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The right's Gen-Z influencer pipeline

Andi Zeisler
Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Fighting Marco Rubio's enemies list

Keri Leigh Merritt
Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer in "Ride or Die" (Amazon Prime Video)

The small-screen seduction of middle age

Melanie McFarland
The golf course at Trump National Doral now features a 22-foot golden statue of its namesake. (Ben Jared / PGA TOUR / Getty Images)

The last gasp of Trump's foreign policy

Andrew O'Hehir
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (Pet Hegseth)

Hegseth's Iran war math doesn't add up

Heather Digby Parton
A young man reading "The Catcher in the Rye" (Craig F. Walker/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Was Holden Caulfield performative?

Andi Zeisler
« Previous
Page: 7
Next »