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MAGA has entered its arcade era
The White House has found a new way to promote President Donald Trump’s agenda: retro video games. There is, unfortunately for the administration, already a boss battle. The White House launched an online arcade this week featuring five games based…
Isaac Mizrahi’s “Unzipped” shows why flawed artists matter
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. It’s the day after Mizrahi’s Spring/Summer 1994 show, and the ink on…
Samuel Alito is complicit in climate disaster
A version of this essay first appeared in Crash Course, Salon’s free morning newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this, plus more of Salon’s bold journalism on how policies, movements and culture wars affect real people. Thanks to his…
This disarming Agatha Christie show has great chemistry
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. “Ted Lasso” came back! So did “House of the…
Gloria Steinem, equal rights revolutionary, dies at 92
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. As one of the most consequential figures of…
Ripley burns it all down: On “Aliens” and the dangers of dismissing women’s rage
Every time I watch the 1986 action-horror classic “Aliens,” a film I’ve seen so many times I’ve lost count, it takes on new meaning. I’ve long argued its merits as a metaphor for a woman enduring sexism in the workplace,…
Women’s rage is in season again
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 Bernstine) describes herself. Nora explains…
Senator calls for criminal investigation into RFK Jr.’s lies to Congress over vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. allegedly lied to Congress last year during his confirmation hearings, according to a new report from The Guardian and The Associated Press. Now a senior Democrat is calling for an investigation into the Health and Human…
COVID vaccines are back. Just don’t expect the CDC to tell you that
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, hospitalization and death. This year is no…
“Death of the Pastor’s Wife” casts doubt on true crime
The dead don’t rest anymore, at least not until someone’s turned their stories into content. A bit of a nihilistic viewpoint? Maybe. But my experience with the new Netflix docuseries, “Death of the Pastor’s Wife,” came only a day after…