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As McDonald's automates and Chick-fil-A sticks with people, hospitality is up for grabs.
A mass uprising against neoliberal budget cuts captures the world's attention — and fuels right-wing paranoia.
Author Alan Sepinwall tells Salon how the show's creator, Rod Serling, changed entertainment.
The Iran war and energy crisis aren’t problems for the president. They’re a business model.
Trump's plan to turn his Florida golf club into an official presidential retreat — and reap the benefits.
Trump mourns losing the Nobel, criticizes winner Navi Pillay, a South African lawyer for her work with human rights.
She will replace the controversial Karoline Leavitt, who resigned in August.
A Democrat and a Republican, both doctors, say there’s one health care fix Congress can agree on: reining in insurers’ prior authorization denials.
Pete Hegseth says the military has no room for “weirdos.” By his definition, that’s most Americans.
“El-Sayed is not merely surviving Fox News hits. He is dominating them, and the hosts know it — and Donald Trump definitely knows it.”
In "Verity," Hartnett once again subverts expectations in a way Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise can’t manage.
A bounty on 1,000 fish hearts is as barbaric as it sounds.
Like Andrew Lloyd Webber's masked outcast, Trump is willing to bring the whole house down.
White House attacks on DEI gave colleges cover to abandon women and minority students.
Expect lies, threats and empty bluster. He's becoming politically insignificant — but still dangerous.
The president's rebrand of AI is brilliant, according to Silicon Valley billionaires.
Nik Cohn’s new book "Corner Boy" reveals the godfather of rock criticism as music’s contrarian.
Holding insurers accountable could be a point of agreement in a divided Washington.
The Michigan Senate candidate masterfully baits Donald Trump after leaving Fox hosts swooning.
Tom Cruise needed six hours of prosthetics for "Digger." Alejandro G. Iñárritu's satire asks the viewer to endure a lot more.