Saturday Night Live” returns with “Natalie Harp”: “If you hurt him, I will end you
“Saturday Night Live” kicked off its 52nd season with a familiar Donald Trump impression, an increasingly familiar presidential friendship and…
The Monkees was our first boy band
Confession: I was never a Beatles girl. Put away your pitchforks, people – a lack of love doesn’t preclude appreciation.…
Tim Tebow sold trust. Life Surge borrowed it
When Tim Tebow announced Friday that he was pausing his relationship with Christian wealth-building company Life Surge, the former football…
“Primetime” isn’t Chris Hansen’s story — it’s ours
In the mid-2000s, “Dateline NBC” correspondent Chris Hansen became a national sensation for his hidden-camera sting show, “To Catch a…
Fat Bear Week should be every week
A version of this essay first appeared in Crash Course, Salon’s free morning newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like…
How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war
In November 2021, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened an exhibit called “The Electric Dr. Franklin,” describing “Benjamin…
How Bill Cosby, America’s dad, used TV to betray us
Through the medium of television Bill Cosby has been intimately influencing American perspectives on race, class, how we think about…
“Dear White People” visits the “Big Brother” Cookout via a pointed parody of reality show racism
“Dear White People” could not have asked for a better concluding coincidence than the parallel between this season’s show-within-a-show “Big…
Wanting the best school for your kid doesn’t make you a hypocrite
Digital journalism is as subject to fads as any other medium. Snarky fisking — responding to an article line-by-line — gave…
A homecoming for “A Different World”
Five episodes into Netflix’s “A Different World” sequel, Hillman gets a bomb threat. This is a very real part of…