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Philly’s ambitious plan to scare off ICE

Amanda Marcotte
"Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains" (IFC/Paramount Pictures)

The punk film that taught not to put out

Caryn Rose
A protester sits on the street with his arms up in front of a gaggle of federal agents and Minneapolis Police on W. 27th St and Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis after Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal agents in the area.

Why GOP voters still love ICE

Chauncey DeVega
Federal agents at an anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis after Alex Pretti's fatal shooting by Border Patrol agents on Jan. 24, 2026. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

MAGA angers the NRA

Sophia Tesfaye
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Lisa Rinna at the Michael Kors Collection Spring/Summer 2024 Runway Show on September 11, 2023 in New York City. (Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images)

Leopard was never just for cougars

Andi Zeisler
A rosary adorns a framed photo Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive-care unit nurse who was gunned down by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 25, 2026. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)

Pro-ICE church is worse than you think

Amanda Marcotte
Matt Damon as Lieutenant Dane Dumars and Ben Affleck as Det Sergeant J.D. Byrne in "The Rip" (Warrick Page/Netflix)

"The Rip" is a new low for mindlessness

Coleman Spilde
Cardamom pods (Peter Meade/Getty)

Cardamom, the spice you're missing

Joy Saha
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This photo illustration displays a post by Donald Trump on Truth Social, with a map of Greenland in the background. (Photo illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty Images)

A fake presidency, with real fascism

Andrew O'Hehir
Former special counsel Jack Smith testifies before the House Judiciary Committee about his investigations into President Donald Trump on Jan. 22, 2026. ( SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

Jack Smith lays it all out about Trump

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

Do Americans want a dictator? Maybe

Chauncey DeVega
Elle Fanning at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes on January 11, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. (Christopher Polk/2026GG/Penske Media via Getty Images)

Fanning's Oscar nom undersells her year

Coleman Spilde
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President Donald Trump on Christmas Eve at Mar-a-Lago. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

The guardrails against Trump don't work

Sophia A. McClennen
Ralph Fiennes as Dr Ian Kelson in "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" (Columbia Sony Pictures Entertainment)

In a rage apocalypse, art can be a cure

Melanie McFarland
Wunmi Mosaku as Annie in "Sinners" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

How the viewers changed the Oscar race

Coleman Spilde
American actors Adam West as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Burt Ward as Dick Grayson/Robin in the TV series 'Batman', circa 1966. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The resistance has a "Batman" problem

Alex Galbraith
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President Donald Trump during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, 2026. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump lurches further into delusion

Brian Karem
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Harassment at work can now go unpunished

Sara Estep, Haley Norris
Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark speak onstage during the 2025 iHeartPodcast Awards on March 10, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images)

"My Favorite Murder," a girl-power trap

Andi Zeisler
Victims from Iran's uprisings are remembered at a vigil in Paris on Jan. 18, 2026. (Siavosh Hosseini/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The new Iranian revolution isn't over

Farshad Askari
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Don't buy MAGA's baby boom hype

Amanda Marcotte
MTV (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Naivete isn’t a media literacy flaw

Melanie McFarland
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. waits to enter a meeting with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Capitol Hill on January 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

RFK Jr. set back by resistance

Sophia Tesfaye
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, speaks in Dallas on Dec. 19, 2025. (Omar Vega/Getty Images)

Jasmine Crockett and authenticity

Maya Rupert
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