2021: SALON (364)

JANUARY

“Doctor Who” gifts us with Captain Jack

How letting go of a grudge healed me

Did 2020 kill yoga?

Will Biden rise to the economic moment?

Georgia runoffs reveal depth of GOP rot

Capitol in chaos as Trump mob invades

Why did Capitol security collapse?

GOP lawmakers caught helping the coup

What is the “true America”?

Hope for halting climate change

GOP now gaslighting about Trump’s coup

No “paralysis,” Trump did it on purpose

Trump impeachment 2.0: What happens now?

There’s no unity without accountability

“One Night in Miami” makes icons human

A failure of Andrew Yang’s imagination

Raising children without autonomy

My grandfather’s Nazi complicity

Can the cult of Trump be saved?

Now what?

I kicked Lindell’s MyPillows out of bed

After Trump overdose, media must refocus

The not-so-famous Emily Dickinson

The biochemist who saved the world

TakingCaraMAGA: My baby gurus a Trumper

Larry King, conversationalist influencer

“Harry Potter” & the problematic creator

Can we exit the dystopian train already?

Oscar winner go noir in “Little Things”

I shaved my legs like I found love

Will Phoenix become uninhabitable?

FEBRUARY

HBO’s tru crime meets bleak Scandi noir

Is it safe to use public restrooms?

Extremism is no joke on “The Expanse”

Quarantine is making us more awkward

The feminist body horror of “Saint Maud”

The all of “y’all”

Why life may have started on Mars

The accuracy of SNL’s sexy Zillow sketch

Dems drop the ball on impeachment

Trump uses impeachment as his last laugh

Trump duped his rioters and GOP Senate

Trump’s team barely shows up, GOP swoon

Not guilty: Senate GOP let Trump off

The lovely con of “The Luminaries”

Stop telling autists to be “normal”

The Rock’s presidential campaign comedy

GOP try to troll their way past Trump

An abusive reckoning for “Buffy”

Good grief, laugh tracks can be so wrong

Interracial romance and crige TV

The author of “Want Me” opens up

Student debt’s mental health crisis

“Intelligence failure” or racism?

What would Martian life look like?

New York has its own virus strain now

Audra Day brilliantly channels Lady Day

A letter to the produce I haven’t picked

Why chefs are reaching for Japanese mayo

MARCH

CPAC shows GOP fascism deeper than Trump

Would you, could you, cancel Dr. Seuss?

“Punky Brewster” is still a survivor

Why mystics say Trump is a “lightworker”

How the Boss should reclaim patriotism

It’s time to confront casual racism

It’s time for progressives to celebrate

We must move past Trump to defeat COVID

One of Trump’s “bigger legal nightmares”

“South ParQ” jabs at vaccines and QAnon

Why the left loves Scorsese right now

Italian-Americans & the language of food

Can QAnon followers be deprogrammed?

It’s time to cancel personality tests

Whitehouse: FBI probe of Kavanaugh faked

Atlanta shootings and the Capitol riot

TV shows us the toll of ignoring racism

“The Falcon & the Winter Soldier” soars

Evangelicals are false Christians

“The Simpsons” politics make no sense

How Chinatown changed American cuisine

Blame the NRA for a nation of sociopaths

Cal electoral politics save us?

The GOP turns their #1 issue into a joke

Netflix’s maddening Marriage or Mortgage

Silicon Valley’s puritanical war on sex

How late night got weird in the pandemic

Lil Nas X Successfully trolls the right

GOP on fascism: Liberals made us do it!

Gaetz tried to ruin Carlson on live TV

APRIL

In praise of Black performance in the US

Americans are giving up church

My mom & I haven’t talked about Atlanta

This is your brain on closed captions

Cancel culture warriors target Georgia

GOP delusion biggest danger to democracy

When was America great – and for whom?

GOP wages war against US children

Scare goes the neighborhood in “Them”

The value of “The Man Who Sold His Skin”

We are all germophobes now

A gentrified farewell to “Shameless”

Cruz, Hawley want to “break up” MLB

Cafishing on MySpace to solve a murder

“Made For Love” bugs out in the best way

America’s deadly minority rule problem

America isn’t on trial. Derek Chauvin is

The scientific case for literature

Death rate rises with anti-abortion laws

Guilty: Jury says Chauvin killed Floyd

Is the USPS reading your Instagram?

Being trans in “Walmart nation”

Joe Biden, don’t pull a Ned Stark

My 10-year carbonara journey

Giardiniera: Must-buy Italian pickles

Anti-Trump group gives McCarthy an F

Did Trump “sabotage” census?

WMD charges for Whitmer kidnap plotters

Feds probe White House “Havana attack”

Netflix’s stunning Black samurai anime

MAY

A spy in the house of my first love

One year left to save democracy

GOP sabotaged herd immunity at the start

A new Star Wars hero for lovers of Leia

Republicans suddenly defend slavery

Feel-good comedy “Girls5eva” sings

GOP blames Dems for dismal job report

Mom doesn’t need more chaos right now

Talking dogs are becoming self-aware

GOP makes its choice: Trump or democracy

An ex-Quiverfull wife speaks out

A fired showrunner’s “toxic” leadership

Palm Beach preps for Trump indictment

“Underground Railroad” is a masterpiece

We were American Girls

Tortilla espanola, mi carino

Reagan org: Take his pic off Trump bus

QAnon Shaman’s new excuse: autism

Can prosecuting Trump save democracy?

Duggar girls & the parentification trap

“Army of the Dead” is an action jackpot

Stalking and the “college experience”

A brilliant return for “Master of None”

Santorum, CNN and the GOP pundit paradox

ABC’s celebratory Mike Tyson apologia

Our brutal Handmaid’s Tale time loop

Can Friends be any more disappointing?

“Hacks” is a generational sucker punch

The GOP Rep. getting rich on legal weed

The food stories of “Mare of Easttown”

How catfishers exploit basic neurology

JUNE

Naomi Osaka boldly rejects exploitation

Mj Rodriguez bids farewell to “Pose”

“Six Feet Under” lessons, 20 years later

The interminable dread of Lisey’s Story

Simeon finds comfort in Hawai’ian food

#Reinstate Trump: Dumbass or dangerous?

James Patterson on Trump’s lying game

“Sweet Tooth” critiques eco-fascism

“Loki” feels smaller than a god deserves

“Hacks” & Jean Smart’s killer final act

Is understanding villains wrong?

Trump’s army of God hasn’t backed down

Mint sauce gets a summer glow-up

Rosy TV “copaganda” fails survivors

The pandemic-opioid vortex

Can food halls diversify the industry?

“Pure insanity”: Where’s accountability?

“Atlanta” show how to co-opt Juneteenth

My first lunch out with my daughter

Kevin Can F**k Himself breaks the sitcom

The science of changing someone’s mind

Chef Abra Berens’ summer squash epiphany

A red-tinted strawberry moon rises

Spears highlights the dark side of IUDs

“Sex/Life” is fifty shades of oy vey

It’s a “Samurai Gourmet” summer

“Kevin” can’t do that finances himself

D.L. Hughley: “Politicians are tools”

Zola’s sex scenes “feel consensual”

The key to impossibly crisp chicken parm

JULY

Some scientists skeptical of Dragon Man

Sharks are having a PR crisis

Steve Raichlen on grilling vegetables

Make the soy-salted coconut caramel

The dangers of befriending white girls

Republicans sabotaged Biden’s vax plan

No, billionaires won’t “escape” to space

“Gossip Girl”: New look, same tired show

Do multiverses exist in the real world?

This Nutella puff pastry is ready in 15

CPAC confusion over rogue Gaetz event

Trumpers: In on the con but still duped

End the filibuster – save bipartisanship

Democrats’ spending surge won’t save us

Bourdain’s “flaws were his superpowers”

Black Widow’s reproductive rebuttal

Will Subway’s attempted comeback work?

Who says sitcom women must have friends?

Trump’s fake Arizona “audit” is working

Inside the world of pro coffee tasting

Life expectancy drop not just from COVID

Media falls for McCarthy’s Jan. 6 stunt

Panpsychism: Is everything alive?

Christian nationalists go stealth-mode

The power of “Evil” compels us

Fencer accused of assault controversy

Masks are the wrong mandate for MAGAland

GOP answers Jan 6 hearing with gaslight

A perfect dessert, or breakfast

CDC fears the worst from delta: report

How does the pandemic end now?

AUGUST

Who needs “Kevin” anymore anyway? Not us

Biden must bring back the eviction ban

GOP’s anti-vaccine strategy backfires

Why Tucker’s trip to Hungary is trouble

Fox News fools the media – again

GOP, feeling heat on COVID, go racist

The loneliness of our “summer of joy”

Why are little dogs so annoying?

Why women play along with sexist men

Why Facebook is stonewalling Biden

Why the GOP caved on infrastructure

The awkward “Brooklyn 99” copaganda

Skirting the law to get COVID boosters

The biggest of Republican Big Lies

How Buffalo sauce made the chicken wing

Media learned nothing from Afghanistan

Biden’s task: Make America Grow Up

GOP already bored with Afghanistan

Proud Boys push unvaccinated terrorism

Can the vaccinated get long Covid?

“Everyone around me was terrified”

Mike Lindell has a new prediction

About that bonkers twist in “Sweet Girl”

In defense of Stiegl Radler

Trump’s SCOTUS just took off its mask

Biden’s pandemic grace period is over

Only court-packing can save us

Pygmalion and the teenage dream

Why drumming is good for your health

Mandate protests: A menace to society?

GOP looks to impeach as Trump’s payback

SEPTEMBER

How civilizations thwart extinction

Texas and SCOTUS veto women’s personhood

Why the spotted lanternfly must die

Ex-Nazi: Tucker Carlson sounds like me

Leftover beer? Make beer cheese spread

Surrender to this Harry & Meghan movie

Where was the cheeseburger invented?

Don’t mock Abbott’s “dumb” abortion quip

Chillable red wines, ease us into fall

Defining “terrorism” 20 years after 9/11

9/11 and the birth of the Big Lie

How Germany adopted curry ketchup

Biden makes GOP pick: death over dollars

CA recall: Win or lose, GOP gains

A new quarrel over an “alien” asteroid

Farewell to the “Brooklyn 99” hero cops

Occupy Wall Street made the GOP worse

“Blue Bayou” is an untold adoptee story

“Muhammad Ali” is a winner by knockout

COVID, not vaccines, causes infertility

Make Democrats fear their base again

Let’s face it: Democrats are trapped

How COVID is changing Trump country

Inoculating against “mind parasites”

Exclusive: Tigrayan kids held in camps

Burns: Muhammad Ali “an avatar of love”

Y: The Last Man’s patriarchal hangover

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is speeding up

Why the “skinny bill” must be voted down

Healthcare system on brink of collapse

OCTOBER

Biden befuddles media playing hardball

The allure of Netflix’s grim Squid Game

Defending Scenes from a Marriage’s wife

Individualistic societies fail on COVID

A planet orbiting three stars?

How the mu variant died off

Blocked: SCOTUS’ backdoor abortion ban

Did COVID secretly unite us?

Chappelle & transphobes’ self-victimhood

The women in “Squib Game” deserve better

The problem with James Bond villains

Building the ideal breakfast sandwich

New COVID pill could be a “game-changer”

The brain implant that zaps bad thoughts

Democrats hit the panic button

The joy of the Great British Baking Show

Hail to the Roys: “Succession” returns

A mysterious repeating chirp from space

For the love of good coffee

A glimpse into our solar system’s future

Is Havana syndrome real? Probably not

Why The View can’t find the “right” hook

Did Trump’s social network steal code?

Higher education vs. white supremacy

ADHD manifests in dogs, too

The right’s anti-trans hysteria blows up

How serious is the delta plus variant?

Perhaps dark matter doesn’t exist at all

Why Zuckerberg has nothing to fear

My affair with witchcraft

Fall guys: ‘Tis the season for old men

NOVEMBER

Stop downplaying the GOP’s war on speech

GOP sharpens its abortion ban defense

Doctors are depressed and traumatized

The pediatric COVID vaccine, explained

Who decides what’s “mentally healthy”?

“The Morning Show finds its toxic magic

“Dexter” takes another stab at closure

The album that expanded Garbage’s sound

Why Trumpers are willing to die of COVID

Media longs for “post-Trump” GOP: Ha, no

Earth’s growing space junk problem

Steve Bannon indicted

We all need to relearn how to breathe

Ina Garten’s bacon is the best bacon

A decadent $400 Thanksgiving menu for 4

The moon has an icy secret

A “next-gen” COVID vaccine is in the tests

There’s gold in them thar black holes

Rittenhouse verdict: Not guilty

Mills talks REM’s standalone road album

The injustice done to Janet Jackson

“Trigger the libs” or “pull the trigger”

How the octopus got so smart

Space junk will give Earth a ring

The science of red-fleshed apples

I need “Rogers: The Musical” to be real

Handshakes all around for “Bake Off”

You need salty, sweet coconut chips now

GOP now bribing people to spread COVID

Fake feminism is no defense strategy

DECEMBER

SCOTUS shows off its contempt for women

How classrooms became a battlefield

GOP may get rid of Roe – not abortions

How birds see time differently than us

CNN’s “Epic News Bro” fail

Meet the MAGA moms raising monsters

My husband, 65, puts clubbing above me

U.S. polarized to the point of no return

Why some workers miss the office

Deconstructing the myths of race

Pennsylvania deserves better than Dr. Oz

Why the war on Christmas never ends

The plan after Roe? Pop an abortion pill

America is experiencing a mass psychosis

Fox News passes Trump’s loyalty test

Glacier collapse could raise sea levels

A rapturous & twisty “Nightmare Alley”

Anti-vaxxers co-opt “my body, my choice”

Where the depressed are not welcome

Squirrel privilege is real

Omicron’s perplexing origin story

Fauci reveals the right’s insecurities

Why omiron may mark the pandemic’s end

In “Don’t Look Up” comedy dies on impact

Culture war: How left and right united

How Schizophrenia made me a Republican

Boosters seem to stop omicron dead

Double vaxxed, double boosted?

Salon’s 2021 spicy take awards

Fascism is coming: Americans don’t care

My grandfather’s Nazi complicity

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