TV never left “The Twilight Zone”
12:00pm By Melanie McFarland
Author Alan Sepinwall tells Salon how the show's creator, Rod Serling, changed entertainmentTrump: I should have 8 Nobel Peace Prizes
10:47am By CK SmithTrump mourns losing the Nobel, criticizes winner Navi Pillay, a South African lawyer for her work with human rightsTrump gets richer while gas prices soar
9:00am By Troy FarahThe Iran war and energy crisis aren’t problems for the president. They’re a business modelTrump’s “Camp Donald” grift is designed to outlast his presidency
6:30am By Heather Digby PartonTrump's plan to turn his Florida golf club into an official presidential retreat — and reap the benefitsArizona House candidate said she was raped while fixing campaign signs
6:00am By Jasmine Mithani, The 19thBernadette Greene-Placentia initially hesitated before reporting the attack a decision many survivors struggle withMeet Katie Zacharia, Trump’s new White House press secretary
Fri 5:48pm By Troy FarahShe will replace the controversial Karoline Leavitt, who resigned in AugustJosh Hartnett turned heartthrob fame into a career of risks
Fri 12:00pm By Coleman Spilde
In "Verity," Hartnett once again subverts expectations in a way Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise can’t manageLeave the Greenland sharks alone
Fri 10:30am By Troy FarahA bounty on 1,000 fish hearts is as barbaric as it soundsWhat will Trump do after the midterms, with nothing left to lose?
Fri 9:05am By Brian KaremExpect lies, threats and empty bluster. He's becoming politically insignificant — but still dangerousWhat Cornell says about universities’ MAGA complicity
Fri 6:45am By Amanda MarcotteWhite House attacks on DEI gave colleges cover to abandon women and minority studentsTrump’s 40-year love affair with “The Phantom of the Opera”
Fri 6:30am By Alex GalbraithLike Andrew Lloyd Webber's masked outcast, Trump is willing to bring the whole house downThese prosecutors saw how the justice system failed women. Now they’re running for Congress
Fri 6:00am By Mel Leonor Barclay
From Epstein to Cornell, voters' angst over corruption and sex abuse is at a high point just before the midtermsTech leaders embrace Trump’s “super intelligence” as he calls critics “the enemy”
Thu 7:06pm By Troy FarahThe president's rebrand of AI is brilliant, according to Silicon Valley billionairesThe rock critic who inspired “Saturday Night Fever” always preferred pop
Thu 12:00pm By Kenneth WomackNik Cohn’s new book "Corner Boy" reveals the godfather of rock criticism as music’s contrarianWhat to expect at the polling place amid uncertainty over federal agents
Thu 11:22am By Alexander Shur, VotebeatFederal officials have sent conflicting signals about law enforcement at the polls. Here’s what the law saysA health reform both parties can get behind
Thu 9:00am By Howard DeanHolding insurers accountable could be a point of agreement in a divided WashingtonAbdul El-Sayed is the Democrat who keeps dominating Fox News
Thu 6:45am By Sophia TesfayeThe Michigan Senate candidate masterfully baits Donald Trump after leaving Fox hosts swooningMichael Shannon’s R.E.M. tribute reminded me why I love the band
Wed 12:00pm By Caryn RoseThe actor’s show with Jason Narducy is more than nostalgia — it celebrates the band’s artistryTrump’s tariffs may kill free chips and salsa
Wed 9:35am By Ashlie D. StevensTariffs on tomatoes could turn one of dining's smallest gestures of hospitality into a line itemThe Daily Wire is too mad to make a movie
Wed 9:15am By Alex GalbraithBen Shapiro's studio still hasn't learned that owning the libs isn't a plotPete Hegseth’s holy war on “weirdos” targets most Americans
Wed 6:45am By Amanda MarcotteForget Iran — the defense secretary is focused on forcing his religion on everyone elseAre Trump’s claims the 2020 election was stolen losing steam?
Wed 6:00am By Dion Nissenbaum, VotebeatA shrinking pool of candidates who agree with the president may suggest a shiftWhite House denies Trump wants to let Iran bomb California cities
Tue 6:04pm By Troy FarahThe president's comments sparked a posting war, outraging even some RepublicansWe’ve tracked $80M of spending on almost 170 AI‑generated political ads this year – it’s weird
Tue 6:00am By Travis N. Ridout
Thanks to a patchwork of state legislation, many of these ads do not disclose the use of AI at allTrump says U.S. is “looking strongly” at alleged Russian plague case
Mon 7:21pm By Troy FarahA 28-year-old lab technician's could be a highly fatal disease but a cause of death has yet to be releasedThere’s no solving a problem like Tom Cruise’s “Digger”
Mon 9:00am By Coleman Spilde
Alejandro G. Iñárritu's film indicts its audience when it should point the finger at itselfManchester City’s cheating scandal isn’t really about soccer
Sun 6:30am By Andrew O'Hehir
It's a tangled tale of global corruption and cynicism, and we're all complicitWe’re reporters, not teachers. We were able to start private schools anyway
Sun 6:00am By Jennifer Smith RichardsOur reporting has shown how easily people have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and moreNetflix’s “East of Eden” asks if we’ve misread its monster
Oct 3, 2026, 9:00 am By Melanie McFarland
Zoe Kazan's adaptation of Steinbeck's classic asks us to rethink what leads to evilThe Monkees was our first boy band
Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 pm By Melanie McFarland
Hey hey, Boomers and Gen X after-school TV kids: this one's for you
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