Jessica Karl, Columnist

The Have-Nots and the Never-Beens Agree on the Met Gala

This year, the online consensus seemed to be that the best way to protest inequality was to skip the fashion event altogether.

Would an empty carpet have been better?

Photographer: Gilbert Flores/Variety

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It feels like this photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was taken a thousand years ago, but really it was only five: