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Andi Zeisler is a Senior Culture Writer at Salon. Find her on Bluesky at @andizeisler.bsky.social

Beyoncé performs during the “RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR” on June 27, 2023, in Warsaw, Poland. (Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Parkwood/Getty Images)

The spectacle fans demand from pop stars comes at a high price

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A collection of some of our staff picks. (Photo illustration by Salon / Courtesy of Netflix, Apple TV+, Darren Vargas, Penguin Random House)

The best of 2025 . . . so far

Kelly McClure, Natalie Moore, Coleman Spilde, Melanie McFarland, Hanh Nguyen, Erin Keane, Andi Zeisler, Amanda Marcotte, Bennett Taren, Alex Galbraith, Ashlie D. Stevens
Cat reading a book (Jordan Lye/Getty Images)

Book bans are getting weirder, targeting cats, dogs and civic-minded grandmas

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A copy of "The Onion," a satirical newspaper, is seen on a lamppost in downtown Washington, DC on November 14, 2024. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

When fake news is dead serious

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Author and cartoonist Alison Bechdel (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

Alison Bechdel faces her sellout fears

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People take part in the "No Kings" protest on June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The cringe-ification of protest

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French bulldog sleeping with a pacifier (damedeeso/getty images)

Poop is poop: It’s time to legitimize pet parents

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Author Joan Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, captured in candid moments (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Lauri Gaffin / Frank Edwards)

“Notes to John” gives Joan Didion a worthy opponent: herself

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An em dash in a gold frame. (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images /fotograzia/PATSTOCK)

AI can’t have my em dash

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Beyonce, Laverne Cox, Emily Watson (Reuters/Andrew Kelly/Lucy Nicholson/AP/Matilde Campodonico)

Feminism’s strange 2014: What we want to see happen next year

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Emily Mortimer and Jeff Daniels in "The Newsroom"; the amphitheater at the University of Virginia (HBO/Melissa Moseley/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-978674p1.html'>American Spirit</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Photo montage by Salon)

Rape, justice and the Internet: What Rolling Stone and “The Newsroom” reveal about us

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(AP/Steve Helber)

How sexual abusers hide in plain sight: What Rolling Stone’s blockbuster UVA rape exposé really tells us

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-286756p1.html'>auremar</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

NYT trend pieces’ biggest blind spot: Why the Times can’t get motherhood narratives right

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(AP/Todd Williamson/Showtime)

The toxic lure of “he said/she said”: Why we’re disgusted by Jian Ghomeshi but love the “The Affair”

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Kill the “Sexiest Woman Alive”: Close-reading the magazine world’s weirdest canon

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Shonda Rhimes, Lena Dunham, Lana Del Rey (AP/Richard Shotwell/Andy Kropa)

Stop telling women not to “take things personally”: Ed Champion and the plague of gendered criticism

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Kira Kazantsev (Reuters/Adrees Latif)

Miss America, Janay Rice and our long history of conflating glamour and violence

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Jennifer Lawrence, Beyonce, Anita Sarkeesian (Reuters/Eric Thayer/Kevork Djansezian/YouTube/feministfrequency/Salon)

The post-VMAs pop cultural comedown: How did we go from “FEMINIST” to the “Fappening”?

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(Reuters/Zoran Milich/Carlo Allegri/Salon)

The crisis of “bad feminism” is worse than you think

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John Legend, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ryan Gosling (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-564025p1.html'>Helga Esteb</a>, <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1092671p1.html'>Jaguar PS</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/AP/Eric Charbonneau)

Let’s not fawn over male celebrity feminists: Making stars weigh in on women’s rights is hurting the cause

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Worst sales pitch ever: The ad industry’s shameless history of using feminism to sell products

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Betty Friedan

Does “The Feminine Mystique” still matter?

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