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Andi Zeisler

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

Gwyneth Paltrow (Lexie Moreland/WWD via Getty Images)

Gwyneth Paltrow was always going to be a villain

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Donald Trump reacts to Taylor Swift publicly endorsing Kamala Harris (Anna Barclay/Getty Images)

Trump wants the stars to shine for him

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"Skin-loving" cosmetics (Mininyx Doodle/Getty Images)

What the hell are skin-loving cosmetics?

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(American Eagle)

Sydney Sweeney knows exactly what she’s doing

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Woman working with Artificial Intelligence technology (Vithun Khamsong/Getty Images)

Why women are wary of the AI rush

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A fan holds up a sign during a kiss cam segment in the game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Angels at Citizens Bank Park on July 18, 2025 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Images)

The Coldplay kiss-cam drama is about more than morality

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(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Tasos Katopodis / Iuliia Pilipeichenko)

What a sugar-cookie recipe taught me about quiet resistance

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Lena Dunham in "Too Much" (Netflix)

You can stop blaming Lena Dunham now

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Unity Mitford; Diana Mitford (Mrs Bryan Guinness, later Lady Diana Mosley) and writer Nancy Mitford, 1932 (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Glamorizing fascists isn’t “Outrageous” — it’s gross

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Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone in "Basic Instinct" (Salon / Getty / Columbia TriStar)

Michael Douglas’ roles foresaw the man crisis

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A dog catching some sun (Nando Martinez/Getty Images)

It’s too hot, dog

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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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