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Uzo Aduba as Cordelia Cupp in "The Residence" (Jessica Brooks/Netflix)

It's only murder in this White House

Melanie McFarland
Aaron Sorkin (Getty/Emma McIntyre)

Aaron Sorkin mulls "West Wing" reboot

Alex Galbraith
Aaron Sorkin (AP/Taylor Jewell)

Why Sorkin started reading Breitbart

Andrew O'Hehir
Melania Trump visits children at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC, on December 13, 2018. (Getty/Jim Watson)

Melania Trump's poll ratings are tanking

Shira Tarlo
Sarah Huckabee Sanders (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Sanders wants to be remembered as honest

Shira Tarlo
Darla and Bill Shine (Getty/Dimitrios Kambouris)

"I'm a sexist!": Shine's wife a problem?

Shira Tarlo
"Queer Eye;" "RBG;" "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" (Netflix/Magnolia Pictures/Focus Features)

A feel-good cheat sheet to survive 2018

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Markus Heinrich - The Globalist
Kiefer Sutherland in "Designated Survivor" (ABC)

Our outsider POTUS fantasy

Melanie McFarland
Rob Lowe (Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)

Lowe thinks he's Sam Seaborn

Scott Timberg
Aaron Sorkin (AP/John Shearer/Invision)

Sorkin on the election

Anna Silman
(Reuters/Mario Anzuoni/AP/Lennox McLendon/Wikimedia/Rowland Scherman)

Songwriting's laziest rhyme

Marc Spitz
Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys in "The Americans" (FX/Patrick Harbron)

A chat with Thomas Schlamme

Sonia Saraiya
Katherine Heigl as Charleston Tucker of "State of Affairs" (NBC/Nino Munoz)

NBC's frankenshow

Sonia Saraiya

The Art of The Sorkin Parody

Anna Silman
Jeff Daniels in "The Newsroom" (HBO/Melissa Moseley)

"The Newsroom" returns

Sonia Saraiya

The Weekly Feed
Rob Lowe

Rob Lowe spills his secrets

Rob Lowe
Andrew Garfield, Joseph Mazzello, Jesse Eisenberg and Patrick Maple in "The Social Network."

Aaron Sorkin's sexist universe

Daniel D'Addario
Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer in "The Newsroom" (HBO)

Daniel D'Addario
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Sarah Carlson
(HBO/Lacey Terrell)

How "Veep" nailed our politics

David Sirota

Stop everything. Watch Borgen

Willa Paskin
Lawrence O'Donnell (AP/Chris Pizzello)

O'Donnell: I don't get TV news

Daniel D'Addario
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