At the US Open, tennis itself fights for the attention
Salonby CK Smith·5 Sept 2026
The U.S. Open has become one of New York’s hottest places to see and be seen. But the tennis players and tennis fans would occasionally like people to watch the tennis.
Isaac Mizrahi's "Unzipped" shows why flawed artists matter
Salonby Coleman Spilde·5 Sept 2026
On a cold November morning, designer Isaac Mizrahi gets up, leaves his apartment, and trudges to the corner newsstand to pick up a copy of Women’s Wear Daily.
Strip clubs, closet duty and Trump’s former Labor Secretary
Salonby CK Smith·5 Sept 2026
Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer oversaw a workplace described by employees as “toxic, intimidating and humiliating,” according to a new watchdog report that includes allegations of...
Samuel Alito is complicit in climate disaster
Salonby Troy Farah·5 Sept 2026
Thanks to his majority opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which destroyed the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S., or his weird flag-waving during the “Stop the...
Maria Bartiromo’s Fox exit exposes breakdown of Trump’s media machine
Salonby Sophia Tesfaye·5 Sept 2026
As usual, anything Donald Trump touches eventually becomes a test of institutional loyalty. This time the institution being tested is Fox News, and the latest casualty is Maria Bartiromo, one of...
Ken Paxton’s financial disclosures appear to violate federal ethics law, experts say
Salonby Kayla Guo·5 Sept 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have violated federal ethics law in significant ways when filing recent disclosures of his assets and liabilities, creating confusion about his net...
Judge declares Lindsay Clancy case a mistrial
Salonby Troy Farah·4 Sept 2026
Following seven days of deliberations, the judge in the Lindsay Clancy trial has been declared a mistrial.
This Agatha Christie show proves great chemistry never gets old
Salonby Melanie McFarland·4 Sept 2026
Formally speaking, the fall TV season hasn’t existed for years. Not that I’m complaining about our year-round release carousel — I mean, look over your shoulder at this summertime’s TV bounty.
It's time for Trump to fire Pete Hegseth
Salonby Brian Karem·4 Sept 2026
In no small part, the United States’ continued safety and stability have been made possible by two things: the peaceful transfer of power and stable military leadership.
JD Vance's chivalry to his wife Usha fools no one
Salonby Amanda Marcotte·4 Sept 2026
The most embarrassing aspect of Vice President JD Vance’s tough guy schtick is that he really does seem to think he’s selling it. His recent jabs at Dr.
Zuckerberg says AI is "for everyone." So why the secrecy?
Salonby Alex Galbraith·4 Sept 2026
If you remember anything at all, you remember the skeletons. Though Jason and his Argonauts get top billing in the 1963 B-movie classic, it’s Ray Harryhausen’s sword-wielding troop of the undead...
Trump’s DOJ blocked serious ICE shooting charge over federal prosecutor’s “strongest” objections
Salonby Andy Mannix·4 Sept 2026
Over the “strongest possible” objections from the federal prosecutor handling the case, leaders at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against...
JD Vance denies Iran war is even a war at all
Salonby Troy Farah·3 Sept 2026
On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance held a White House press briefing, the first since former press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s departure last month, in which he defended the energy costs of data...
Gloria Steinem, equal rights revolutionary, dies at 92
Salonby Melanie McFarland·3 Sept 2026
Journalist and feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem, who co-founded Ms. magazine and spent her life working toward a more equitable world for women and girls, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. She was 92.
Women's rage is in season again
Salonby Melanie McFarland·3 Sept 2026
The ancient Greeks had three distinct words for anger. Until “Furious,” I had no idea this was the case – but then, I’m not a “nut about mythology,” as FBI agent Nora Washington (Quincy Tyler...
Trump's cruelest act yet: Haitians are being deported into total chaos
Salonby Heather Digby Parton·3 Sept 2026
The State Department has the nation of Haiti under a “Level 4 – Do not travel” advisory, due to the relatively high risk of “crime, kidnapping, Reuters reported just last week that at least 47...
Laura Loomer is MAGA’s last woman standing
Salonby Sophia Tesfaye·3 Sept 2026
Over the years, the MAGA movement has littered its path with the political carcasses of ambitious women who believed their public self-abasement would insulate them from the inevitable backlash.
New mail voting rules moved forward despite USPS officials’ concerns about mass disenfranchisement
Salonby Jen Fifield·3 Sept 2026
Top U.S. Postal Service officials tasked with issuing new regulations on mail voting expressed concerns in internal meetings about how the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from...
COVID vaccines are back. Just don’t expect the CDC to tell you that
Salonby Troy Farah·2 Sept 2026
As school starts up again and temperatures (hopefully) start to drop, with it comes the annual rise in airborne sickness — but luckily there’s also a crop of updated vaccines to prevent sickness...
Netflix's "Death of the Pastor's Wife" casts doubt
Salonby Coleman Spilde·2 Sept 2026
The dead don’t rest anymore, at least not until someone’s turned their stories into content. A bit of a nihilistic viewpoint? Maybe.
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