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Alex Galbraith

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Alex Galbraith is a senior writer at Salon, covering the intersection of culture and politics. He has spent the last decade on that beat for Complex, Uproxx, various alt-weeklies and Salon’s morning newsletter, Crash Course. His work has appeared in SPIN, Bandcamp and other publications. He is based in New Orleans.

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a ceremony at the Pentagon commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks. (Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

MAGA just wants to watch people die

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Broadway star Michael Crawford receives the Kennedy Center Honors medal from President Donald Trump at the White House on Dec. 6, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s 40-year love affair with “The Phantom of the Opera”

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Ben Shapiro speaks during the Conference European Jewish Association at DoubleTree by Hilton in Krakow. (Grzegorz Wajda/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The Daily Wire is too mad to make a movie

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(L-R) Steve Zahn, Tom Everett Scott, Johnathon Schaech, Liv Tyler and Ethan Embry in "That Thing You Do!" (20th Century Fox / Everett Collection)

At 30, “That Thing You Do!” is the perfect fake one-hit wonder

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The late wrestler Pac, who died Sept. 27 at 40, enters the ring during SummerSlam at Barclays Center on Aug. 20, 2017. (John Giamundo/WWE via Getty Images)

AEW wrestler Pac’s death exposes pro wrestling’s labor problem

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President Donald Trump looks to Louisiana's Republican Gov. Jeff Landry as he delivers remarks on the Ratepayer Protection Pledge during a roundtable at the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters on July 23, 2026. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

We’ll never know the art of Jeff Landry’s Meta, SpaceX deals

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(Photo illustration by Salon/Getty images)

Trump TV’s intentional brainrot

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A Wendy's burger is seen in Ohio on Aug. 4, 2026. (Marcin Golba/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The private equity backlash could start at the drive-thru

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There is often a gap between educational idealism and the hyper-competitive reality of schooling. (Getty Images)

Wanting the best school for your kid doesn’t make you a hypocrite

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Vice President JD Vance speaks during an event at the FBI Field Office in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sept. 14, 2026. (Mark Schiefelbein-Pool/Getty Images)

Vance’s “Frankenstein” AI defense is a blueprint for 2028

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks to reporters outside of his Capitol office on Sept. 16, 2026. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Mike Johnson’s is the GOP’s top scaredy-cat

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Ed Sheeran performs at TD Garden in Boston, Dec. 14, 2025. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)

Ed Sheeran’s being a coward on Gaza. Can you blame him?

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There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of Silicon Valley's warnings of A.I.-induced doom (Getty Images)

If AI kills us, don’t blame the machine

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People walk through the Sept. 11 Memorial site a day before commemorations to mark the 25th anniversary of the attacks. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Can America ever move past 9/11?

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Actor Casper Van Dien on the set of "Starship Troopers" (TriStar Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

Space Force’s new uniforms scream fascist supervillain

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Actor Terry Crews of "Idiocracy" reprises his role as President Camacho at SXSW Film Festival on March 12, 2023, in Austin, Texas. (Robby Klein/Getty Images)

“Idiocracy” is still a worthless artifact 20 years later

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Mark Zuckerberg (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Zuckerberg says AI is “for everyone.” So why the secrecy?

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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic nominee for the US Senate, speaks at the Democratic Nominating Convention in Lansing MI, on August 29th, 2026. (Katie McTiernan/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Abdul El-Sayed answered 9/11 question honestly. CBS attacked him

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Lena Dunham attends the New York premiere of the sixth and final season of "Girls" on Feb. 2, 2017. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

What defines millennial television? Just ask Lena Dunham

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Rahm Emanuel, Taylor Swift, Enes Kanter Freedom, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris (Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Shannon Finney / Win McNamee / Christian Bruna / Jared Siskin / Patrick McMullan / Jamie McCarthy)

Why don’t celebrities go away anymore?

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Dolly Parton performs during halftime in the game between the Washington Commanders and the Dallas Cowboys on Nov. 23, 2023. (Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images)

Dolly Parton blazed a path that modern country stars can’t follow

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After losing internet third spaces due to social media, there is now an effort to bring them back. (Richard Drury/Getty Images)

The internet is losing its third places

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Pearl Jam spoke out against Columbia House's practices in the 1990s (Getty Images)

Columbia House closure sparks nostalgia for a bygone music scam

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Chief Justice John Roberts attends President Donald Trump’s State of the Union on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

John Roberts is still in the tank for Trump

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