2023: SALON (365)

JANUARY

2023: A year to build democracy

Can oceanic movies shift our land bias?

Youth diabetes predicted to rise sharply

How variant XBB.1.5 took over the U.S.

What happens when you restrict abortion

What FDA’s abortion pill changes mean

“Mr. Republican” and the Nazis

“Copaganda”: The epidemic spreads

Time for Senate Democrats to step up

Does cinnamon actually belong in chili?

Don’t look away: Ron DeSantis is coming

Another year, no child tax credit

How US media favored Harry the “Spare”

Football’s big problem is … football

Here’s how to fix the Supreme Court

How ‘M3GAN” weaponizes music

Fascists in the House: Danger is real

Will GOP blow up the world’s economy?

Is Biden in trouble? Not exactly

Prince Harry’s cloistered childhood

Biden’s documents: Media falls for it

It’s Oliver’s time on “Only Murders”

Trump’s rivals line up to take him on

COVID’s worrying back-and-forth spread

Biden 2024: Let the voters decide

Jones on Hulu’s powerful 1619 Project

A new COVID-19 booster each fall?

Repairing our online public squares

The moms of doomed NYT drama “She Said”

Pregnant and misinformed

Chuck D on hip-hop’s power, 50 years on

FEBRUARY

These old asteroids are indestructible

We’re living in a Groundhog Day universe

Biden eager to shut down ’24 challenge

How the right’s reboot got us here

Doomsday Clock: The danger is real

Baby chiropractors: A dangerous trend?

A very bad week for ovaries

The planet down the block is a lot

Harley Quinn’s V-day raunch and romance

Why we see ghosts in our TV machines

Diversity, “wokeness” and oppression

Tyre Nichols and Black masculinity

GOP use Hunter to distract from Kushner

Social media’s real crisis: Not Twitter

Prepping for a new post-Roe reality

Where David Cross draws the comedy line

My preschooler’s first police stop

So much for “efficient” dictatorships

Jimmy Carter’s lasting Cold War legacy

Grading Joe from “You” as a professor

Ukraine and ICBMs: Apocalypse now?

Should I be afraid of this chemical?

Biden shows us courage: Will it matter?

The Ukraine economic war: Who’s winning?

War and the battle for young minds

Putin, Biden, Ukraine and … Trotsky?

The sexual thrill of “Company You Keep”

“Rhetorical judo” with Mehdi Hasan

MARCH

DeSantis is the second coming of Nixon

Right spreading misinfo on wind power

Tourists could ruin Cali “superbloom”

America’s looming “hunger cliff”

Why California is still a drought

The cost of the Ozempic craze

Comedy isn’t black or white – it’s green

Nanoplastics pose threat to fetuses

Have we hit Peak Trauma?

Daylight Savings Time hates parents

CPAC ’23: Kari Lake declares war

Why scientists are pro Standard Time

Hollywood should’ve listened to Goonies

The “Return to Oz” long COVID connection

Water existed before the Sun, study says

Long COVID patients left behind

MAGA replaces Reaganism

Girlboss Keeley comes to Ted Lasso

Our Iraq legacy: 20 years of hypocrisy

Trump’s career of evasion: Finally over

The GOP validates Trump’s incitement

The X chromosome’s superpower

NYT whitewashes MAGA’s new attack dog

Why Donald Trump is going to Waco

Is democracy turning the tide?

Is war with China inevitable?

How to reverse a cannabis overdose

How to help kids recover after a tragedy

Trump’s ominous attacks won’t save him

The soothing Goop of Gwyneth’s ski trial

Indicted Trump: Too irresistible for GOP

APRIL

White supremacy and abortion politics

Maybe we just elect bad people

The Roy family’s loveless karaoke night

Of course #MeToo catches up to Trump

Sad day for Trump, good day for America

Waco siege spawned MAGA: I was there

Travel changed Top Chef Kristen Kish

Right-wing story hour: chapter 1

What TV gets wrong about dyslexia

The case against Donald Trump is sound

Jay Pharaoh on why comics make us cry

What makes “Beef” so seductive?

“Mandalorian” shows how societies fall

Why did violence drop in Calif. schools?

What Daniel Ellsberg has taught us

Right-wing story hour: Libs of TikTok

The centrist plan to sabotage Biden

Medication abortions still in limbo

Maisel’s refreshing abortion story

Fox lessons: Time to break up Big Media

Star on Mexican reimagining of “Carmen”

On strike: To make college great again

Just say it: Second Amendment must go

Is long COVID a ticking time bomb?

Twitter’s muddled blue checkpocalypse

Harry Belafonte’s song of rebellion

Start planning now for the 2024 eclipse

What Jerry Springer bequeathed us

America’s problem isn’t’ “polarization”

Tucker falls – but Dark Brandon endures

MAY

On “Succession” Living+ beats surviving

We can’t keep up with COVID’s mutations

Sunny Hostin elevates the beach read

DeSantis’ office occupied by protesters

We’re all weirdos in “Anxious Nation”

right-wing story hour with Sean Spicer

Udoing Undue hate

On “Succession,” wins, losses & regrets

Mass shootings: America’s slow civil war

Lilly Singh’s movin’ on with The Muppets

Do we need this take on Cleopatra?

The online baby sleep boom

The news media is blowing Trump coverage

A short guide to Trump’s many legal woes

“Succession”: Beware the idiot who Gregs

Is it pink eye, allergies… or COVID?

Massive auroras in another solar system

Boebert’s divorce exposes GOP women

Want to protect nature? Pay people.

Here’s why Ron DeSantis is already toast

Healthcare is failing us on menopause

“Succession” mourns the Roy family way

The new Daughter of the Confederacy

DeSantis and Twitter: Two second choices

Joe Biden: On the brink of doom

Trump and the Saudis: Does anyone care?

Russ Vought: GOP’s far-right mastermind

The week’s wildest tech moments

Did anybody really win “Succession”?

Plastic causing “ecological disruption”

Scientists pop tech execs’ AI fear hype

JUNE

Leslie Bibb on “fearless” comedy costars

Jemima Kirke on “Girls” & “City on Fire”

Has America been seduced by war again?

Reflecting on ‘Barry’s” wishful ending

Reclaiming rice cakes and finding joy

No one buys the “protect the kids” lie

Hollywood’s “list of excuses is endless”

Trump has fallen and he can’t get up

The legal dominoes finally begin to fall

Bursting of the dam: Ukraine marches on

AI, the tech elite and “extinction”

GOP: Cracker Barrel is now “woke”

Last chance to avoid the “End Times”

The MAGA defense falls apart

Cormac McCarthy didn’t write Westerns

Trump tries to flip it all on Biden

Christian right’s dark new crusade

Silvio Berlusconi: Trump before Trump?

Vietnam and “alternative facts”

GOP’s big Biden faux scandal goes bust

Jermaine Fowler on Black horror survival

“The Bear” levels up its game

Star Trek boldly goes to a bigotry trial

John Eastman’s downfall: Just beginning

Finding hope in “End Times”

Trump’s messianic appeal can’t be copied

Fox News is testing the Watters

Amazon union boss: “We want a contract”

KBJ torches affirmative action ruling

Billionaires’ SCOTUS investment pays off

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