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Correspondents gather for Trevor Noah's final episode of "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" (Comedy Central)

Thoughts on a Trevor Noah successor

Melanie McFarland
Kal Penn (Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images)

Kal Penn comes out, reveals engagement

Kylie Cheung
Ned as Martin and Allison Tolman as Nan in "Downward Dog" (ABC/Craig Sjodin)

On a break from Friends? Try these shows

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Kal Penn on "Salon Talks" ("Salon Talks")

Kal Penn on why Democrats are losing

D. Watkins
Louis CK and Al Franken (Ben Gabbe/Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

When Salon loved all the wrong men

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Folake Olowofoyeku in "Bob Hearts Abishola" and Kal Penn in "Sunnyside" (Michael Yarish/CBS and Colleen Hayes/NBC)

Sitcoms are telling the immigrant's tale

Melanie McFarland
Billy Gardell as Bob and Folake Olowofoyeku as Abishola in "Bob Hearts Abishola" (Sonja Flemming/CBS)

Smart Watch: 12 new looks for fall

Melanie McFarland
"Trigger Warning with Killer Mike;" "This Giant Beast That Is the Global Economy" (Netflix/Amazon Prime Video)

Killer Mike and Kal Penn explain it all

Melanie McFarland
Hari Kondabolu in "The Problem With Apu" (TruTV)

Confronting "The Problem with Apu"

Melanie McFarland
(Getty/Drew Angerer)

Trump arts council resigns

Gabriel Bell
Kal Penn i (CBS/Sonja Felmming)

Love to laugh at Fox News?

Anna Silman
Kal Penn i (CBS/Sonja Felmming)

Daniel D'Addario
(Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

10 surprising second acts

Prachi Gupta
The author in the hospital, after being shot.

What I learned from being shot

Brian Beutler
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