The president’s snub of Tom Hanks is a badge of honor

Who wants to be fêted by an authoritarian administration?

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Courageous women, craven president

Epstein survivors aren’t intimidated by Trump calling government files on the convicted sex offender a “hoax.”

sunday 10

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No amount of hand makeup can cover up concerns about Trump’s health

Even the president's reemergence at the White House could not deter the continuing alarm over America’s political gerontocracy.

04.09.2025 4

Renée Graham

The Trump administration is dangerous to your health

RFK Jr. is a lying, science-denying chaos monster dragging the once-respected CDC to hell, and there’s no indication when or how it will find its...

03.09.2025 7

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Snoop Dogg is back in the doghouse

A rant about lesbian moms in a kids’ movie by your grandma’s favorite rapper has eyes rolling again.

31.08.2025 30

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Seventy years later, America has yet to reckon with Emmett Till’s murder

History isn’t that many yesterdays ago.

28.08.2025 7

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Mayor Wu is a social media clapback maven

In defense of Boston, the city she wants to continue to lead, Wu is challenging the Trump administration across various platforms.

27.08.2025 10

Renée Graham

Gloria Gaynor betrays the communities that helped her career survive

The "I Will Survive" singer is scheduled to be an lifetime achievement honoree at the Trump-controlled Kennedy Center this year.

24.08.2025 10

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Remembering Danielle Spencer, the child star who made a meaningful life beyond the spotlight

Success isn’t only defined by red carpet arrivals, shiny trophies, and hit movies and TV shows.

21.08.2025 5

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Why Trump continues to lie about the 2020 presidential election

For the president, his falsehoods around that losing outcome remain his most potent weapon in his fight against fair elections.

19.08.2025 3

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Same-sex marriage is no threat to religious liberty

A Kentucky woman who once denied a marriage license to a gay couple wants the Supreme Court to overturn its landmark same-sex marriage decision.

17.08.2025 30

Renée Graham

Trump is too soft to handle America’s hard truths

History is neither positive or negative — it just is. And it should be presented without fear, favor, or Trump’s white supremacist vision.

14.08.2025 4

Renée Graham

Throwing sex toys during WNBA games isn’t a joke. It’s sexual harassment.

Hostile men — not trans women — are the biggest threat to women’s sports.

12.08.2025 2

Renée Graham

A brief history of Trump pretending not to know things

For the president, pleading ignorance equals innocence.

10.08.2025 10

Renée Graham

Leave Labubu lovers alone

People need even fleeting solace and escape, and buying and cuddling a Labubu or 10 seems pretty harmless.

08.08.2025 20

Renée Graham

Is Trump trying to sanitize his political legacy at the Smithsonian?

A museum exhibit about the presidency has removed mention of Trump’s first-term impeachments.

05.08.2025 2

Renée Graham

Trump seems suspiciously open to a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell

Trump hasn’t ruled out a pardon for the woman who was an accomplice of his former pal, the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

03.08.2025 30

Renée Graham

A columnist walks into another columnist’s newsletter…

This is what we came up with so that our readers can get to know us a little better.

31.07.2025 6

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How Gen Z made Fleetwood Mac the hottest band in America

Fifty years later, "Silver Springs" remains a breakup ballad for the ages.

29.07.2025 6

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Trump’s latest Epstein distraction — falsely accusing Obama of ‘treason’

He’s smearing the former president to shift focus from the self-inflicted crisis consuming his administration.

27.07.2025 9

Renée Graham

How Ozzy Osbourne helped me navigate my grief

Ozzy was a middle-aged dad befuddled by his kids, his wife, the passage of time and, mostly, himself — a lot like my father.

24.07.2025 4

Renée Graham

A ‘kiss cam,’ a cheating couple, and a needed helping of accountability

Oh look — people held responsible for their reckless actions. More, please.

22.07.2025 4

Renée Graham

Remember the real victims of Jeffrey Epstein

The focus shouldn't be on Trump's latest attempt to shield himself from responsibility. It should be on inching closer to justice for the...

17.07.2025 3

Renée Graham

Does pop music need a retirement age?

For better — or worse — artists in their 70s, 80s, and beyond keep touring for adoring fans.

15.07.2025 4

Renée Graham

MAGA comes for one of its own: Pam Bondi

The attorney general once claimed she had Jeffrey Epstein’s client list. Now she says it doesn’t exist.

13.07.2025 10

Renée Graham

Trump’s authoritarian manipulation of language

Trump wants his reach, even down to our usage of words that sound like his own, to be absolute in his obscenity of a presidency.

11.07.2025 4

Renée Graham

DOGE and the damage done in Texas

Nature’s fury — possibly aided by the Trump administration’s reckless cuts — proves lethal as flash floods kill more than 100 people.

08.07.2025 5

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Despite the Combs verdict, Cassie Ventura gets a modicum of accountability

By revealing the truth about the man behind the curated image, she lifted other domestic violence survivors who suffer in silence.

06.07.2025 10

Renée Graham

It’s time to retire the term ‘tomboy’

Then and now, restrictive gender labels ostracize kids who only want to express who they are.

03.07.2025 5

Renée Graham

To avoid a Trump-orchestrated primary challenge, a defiant Senator Tillis chose to forgo reelection

But if Trump’s bill was a test for Republicans, the vast majority of them again failed miserably.

01.07.2025 3

Renée Graham

With Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York, voters spoke. Is the Democratic establishment listening?

The winner of NYC's Democratic mayoral primary offers his party a path out of its funk.

29.06.2025 8

Renée Graham

The hideous legacy of the conservative Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade

On June 17, Adriana Smith was removed from a ventilator, ending another sorrowful chapter in the Republican war against women’s bodies.

26.06.2025 10

Renée Graham

In bombing Iran, Trump gets his big-boy military show

True to form, the president is exaggerating the damage done and ignoring potential long-term consequences.

24.06.2025 4

Renée Graham

For LGBTQ veterans, the Trump administration brings fear and uncertainty

People enlisting in the military today might be wise to keep their sexual orientation and gender identity to themselves.

22.06.2025 20

Renée Graham

Stop tone policing protesters

When Republicans try to criminalize any demonstration counter to the Trump administration’s ugly agenda, they’re purposely ignoring that waving a...

19.06.2025 10

Renée Graham

A decade of Trump, a decade of political violence

Even after two attempts on his life, the president has refused to tamp down his incendiary rhetoric.

18.06.2025 10

Renée Graham

Gavin Newsom stands up to President Trump

In challenging “the rule of Don,” the ambitious Democratic California governor seizes a reputation-mending opportunity.

15.06.2025 10

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Sly Stone and the sound of Black freedom

The utopian joy of progress and its possibilities was reflected in Stone’s music and the band itself.

12.06.2025 4

Renée Graham

Is Trump’s troop deployment in LA a prelude to martial law?

To shut down anti-ICE protests in California, the president has deployed the American military against American citizens and others.

11.06.2025 3

Renée Graham

A different kind of Trump Derangement Syndrome

Trump supporters knew what was coming and voted for all of it.

05.06.2025 3

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From MAGA to ‘TACO’

Trump, the troller-in-chief, gets trolled with a jokey implication that he “chickens out” on tariffs.

03.06.2025 5

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To end the war in Ukraine, Trump should treat Putin the way he’s treating Harvard

When the Kremlin flexes, the White House blinks.

01.06.2025 9

Renée Graham

House Republicans ignore those who saved their lives during the Jan. 6 insurrection

Every Republican should be reminded of what happened in the Capitol — and how their complicity is fostering Trump’s ongoing insurrection against...

29.05.2025 4

Renée Graham

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is the defendant. Cassie Ventura is not on trial.

But her actions are being scrutinized as closely as those of her former boyfriend.

27.05.2025 4

Renée Graham

Limiting COVID vaccines endangers everyone

The people who hated mandates are now instituting one of their own.

25.05.2025 10

Renée Graham

A train, a tie, and a small win for humanity

At a time of state-sanctioned cruelties, summoning our humanity has become more important than ever.

23.05.2025 10

Renée Graham

Trump has lots to say about Biden’s health. His own? Not so much.

The public deserves to know more about the president’s health.

21.05.2025 10

Renée Graham

A man checked out 100 library books. Then he burned them.

When democracy is at risk, history shows that book purges can lead to book bonfires.

18.05.2025 10

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Pete Rose doesn’t belong in baseball’s Hall of Fame

Rose believed that his own selfish pursuits were more important than protecting the integrity of the game.

15.05.2025 6

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Trump loves immigrants — so long as they’re white

The administration is fast-tracking white South Africans on the path to citizenship. People of color need not apply.

13.05.2025 4

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