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Salonby Coleman Spilde27 Aug 2026
Historians like to claim that the pre-millennium monoculture is dead. Really, it’s just blurred. Smartphones have fooled us into thinking that we curate what our screens show us.
Salonby Kelly McClure27 Aug 2026
There are two scenes in Jane Schoenbrun‘s “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” that I hope will be among the first things to flash through my mind at the hour of my death, somewhere right after...
Salonby Alex Galbraith27 Aug 2026
Dolly Parton made a lot of things across her 60-plus-year career: massive hit songs, a theme park, a children’s literacy initiative that gave away over 300 million books, movies of both the...
Salonby Sophia Tesfaye27 Aug 2026
With less than two weeks before some states begin mailing ballots for the 2026 midterms, there is plenty to worry about.
Salonby Ashlie D. Stevens27 Aug 2026
One of the things I have always loved about “Bob’s Burgers” is the bittersweet certainty that the Belchers may get ahead, but never by very much.
Salonby Jessica Kutz27 Aug 2026
This story was originally reported by Jessica Kutz of The 19th. Meet Jessica and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy.
Salonby Troy Farah26 Aug 2026
Earlier this week, CIA director John Ratcliffe made a surprise visit to Moscow. It was Ratcliffe’s first publicly known trip to the Russian capital and the first time an acting CIA director went...
Salonby Melanie McFarland26 Aug 2026
The seduction of sin was only theoretical to me until I fell for Tim Curry’s performance in “Legend.” That title may be unknown to many, although the British actor’s talent for prompting debauched...
Salonby Coleman Spilde26 Aug 2026
There comes a time in every English-speaker’s life when they learn the meaning of the French phrase “la petite mort,” an adage that, translated literally, means “the little death,” and typically...
Salonby Jason Kyle Howard26 Aug 2026
My cousin tells a story: Several years before I was born, she was sitting on our great-grandmother’s lap at her modest home in a hollow in Eastern Kentucky.
Salonby Amanda Marcotte26 Aug 2026
Having kids is easy, and anyone who says otherwise is an ugly feminist trying to scare other women out of their only true source of joy and fulfillment: This is the narrative that has grown up in...
Salonby Melanie McFarland26 Aug 2026
Funnily enough, when Dolly Parton made her debut on “The Porter Wagoner Show,” she wasn’t wearing any rhinestones.
Salonby Andi Zeisler25 Aug 2026
American icon Dolly Parton, whose career as a country singer, songwriter, actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist spanned six decades, has died at age 80.
Salonby Caryn Rose25 Aug 2026
Greg Dulli and his Afghan Whigs are back with “Soft Control.” The new Whigs record is a strong collection of material that stands solidly amongst the existing catalog of v2 Whigs albums, with big...
Salonby Heather Digby Parton25 Aug 2026
The lead-up to the Iran war seemed so abrupt that it’s easy to forget that there was a brief stab at diplomacy led by President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff.
Salonby Jeremy Kohler25 Aug 2026
Two years ago, abortion opponents in Missouri tried to defeat Amendment 3, a ballot initiative to enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution, by falsely telling voters that it would...
Salonby Amanda Marcotte24 Aug 2026
Pete Hegseth may be the most hated man in Washington. According to a recent polling analysis by CNN’s Harry Enten, the defense secretary’s approval ratings have fallen below even the basement-level...
Salonby Susan Shapiro24 Aug 2026
I was not surprised by recent news that online classes have become swamped by artificial intelligence cheating, eroding academic integrity.
Salonby Gabby Birenbaum24 Aug 2026
For over a generation, Texas Republicans have owned the politics of the southern border. Now the Trump administration’s latest border project has them cornered, stuck between constituents outraged...
Salonby CK Smith23 Aug 2026
President Donald Trump‘s summer-long celebration of America’s 250th birthday ended Sunday the only way it possibly could: with race cars, fighter jets, a presidential limousine, an operatic tenor...
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