The most controversial U.S. magazine covers of 2025

The most controversial U.S. magazine covers this year hit on such hot button issues as artificial intelligence, racial politics and the second term of President Donald Trump. Others were controversial just because of the ick factor.

Time magazine pissed off liberals by choosing the billionaire tech executives behind the AI megatrend as its Persons of the Year. They included Tesla leader Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta Platforms head Mark Zuckerberg. Time dubbed them the “Architects of AI.”
The magazine cover photo illustration put the AI executives on a steel beam like the famous 1932 photograph “Lunch atop a Skyscraper.”
“Nothing says ‘person of the year’ like replacing Depression-era workers with the billionaires making our skills obsolete,” writer Rhea Nayyar said in an article for Hyperallergic.
Time’s cover image “feel like a desecration of history,” Creative Bloq said.
Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel tore into Time magazine’s 2025 Person of the Year cover, calling the eight-person lineup of tech CEOs “the eight dorks of the apocalypse.” (See articles by New York Post and Fox News.)
Wired magazine did a similar cover with AI executives this year but chose to imitate a different well-known work of art: “Dogs Playing Poker” by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.

In January, critics slammed New York Magazine for its cover image, which cropped black people out of a photo of a pro-Trump party to go with a story that claimed the crowd was almost entirely white.
See articles by New York Post, Daily Mail, the Hollywood Reporter, Fox News and SMU’s the Daily Campus.

Time magazine (again) stirred up controversy with its Feb. 24 cover showing tech entrepreneur Elon Musk sitting behind the U.S. president’s desk. The cover story was designed to imply that Musk had undue influence over Trump.
The Root said “Time Magazine’s new Elon Musk cover should scare the hell out of us.”
See other articles by CNN, NBC News and Mediaite.

Time magazine (yet again) angered Trump with its Oct. 10 cover photo, which “disappeared” his hair. It also drew attention to his wrinkled neck. In a social media post, Trump said the picture might be “the Worst of All Time.” (See articles by USA Today, the Hill, Fox News, People, Daily Beast and New York Post.)
After the uproar, Time changed the cover to a more flattering photo. (See articles by Deadline, TMZ, the Independent and Daily Beast.)

Miami-based rapper JT got fans talking with the cover photo for CultedXO magazine. She was photographed sporting ridiculously large lips. The concept for her photo spread was to send a message: “The story is f*ck how people view me,” she said.
(See articles by The Shade Room, Pink World Station and Instagram.)

In the yuck category of magazine covers was a digital cover for Sound Advice from the March issue of Interview magazine. It featured a photo of American record producer Benny Blanco with two feet in his face. The feet presumably belonged to his then-fiancé, now wife, singer Selena Gomez.
(See article by Parade.)

A different kind of ick was a September cover of Us magazine that featured 73-year-old football coach Bill Belichick and his 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson.
(See articles by Marca, Awful Announcing and the Spun.)

Actress Sadie Sink raised eyebrows with her eyebrows and strange look on the cover of Teen Vogue. (See article by Parade.)

The Hollywood Reporter faced criticism for its magazine cover depicting actress Blake Lively slinging a mobile phone at director Justin Baldoni. The two are embroiled in a bitter legal battle. Lively’s spokesperson called the cover image and accompanying story “sexist” and “offensive.”
(See articles by the Daily Mail, GB News, the Independent and the Daily Mail again.)

And finally Vogue faced a backlash for its June cover featuring Lauren Sánchez in her bridal dress for her wedding to Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos. Haters complained about celebrating the nuptials of the ultrawealthy.
(See articles by Radar and Daily Beast.)

The most controversial foreign magazine covers of 2025

Trump derangement syndrome, or TDS, played a role in some of the most controversial foreign magazine covers of 2025.

The Indian government reportedly tried to block the distribution of an issue of Indian weekly magazine Vikatan, which featured an unflattering cover of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The cover was a cartoon of Modi in handcuffs alongside U.S. President Donald Trump. The cover was a response to reports that Indians were being deported from the U.S. in handcuffs.
See article by the Daily Cartoonist.

British satirical magazine Private Eye went viral with a cover that took aim Trump’s supposed adulation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
See article by HuffPost.

The Economist cover about Trump’s first 100 days of his second term also went viral. It featured an image of a wounded and bandaged symbolic eagle under the headline “Only 1,361 Days To Go.” The magazine is counting down the days until Trump leaves office.
See articles by BuzzFeed and HuffPost.

In May, the Vietmanese government banned an issue of the Economist that featured an illustration of Vietnam’s top leader, Communist party General Secretary To Lam, on its cover.
The image showed Lam with stars on his eyes, alongside the headline “The man with a plan for Vietnam,” with the subhead: “A Communist party hard man has to rescue Asia’s great success story.”
See articles by the Guardian and Reuters.

An Irish government-funded magazine, Comhar, sparked outrage with its July cover. The cover image showed a presumably Israeli couple in swimwear lying on a beach next to a bloodied amputee with barbed wire dividing them. Jewish symbols dotted the wire that split the amputee from the bathers, prompting backlash from Jewish community groups. The article comes amid the armed conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
See article by the Jewish Chronicle.

And finally, Glamour UK caused controversy when it named nine males with transgender identities among its “women of the year.”
British political commentator Piers Morgan said in a post on X that the issue was “beyond parody even by ludicrous woke virtue-signaling standards.”
See articles by Fox News and the Sunday Times.

The most provocative nude and skin-baring magazine covers of 2025

This year saw its usual share of attention-grabbing magazine covers featuring scantily clad or naked models, actresses and singers. What follows is a rundown of the notable nude and skin-baring magazine covers in 2025.

Singer Sabrina Carpenter wore nothing but thigh-high stockings and butt-grazing blond hair extensions while gracing the cover of Rolling Stone’s Summer Double Issue in June.
See articles by Page Six, People and Cosmopolitan.

Model Angelina Kendall wore just red pumps and red shades for the M magazine cover in March.
See article by Le Monde.

Socialite Kim Kardashian wore body paint for her ample top along with a pair of dark trousers for the Re-Edition winter 2025-26 issue in November.
See article in The Sporting News.

Influencer Bhad Bhabie was mostly naked on the cover of King Kong magazine in October.
See article by Perez Hilton.

Actress Zoe Saldana wore a sheer dress that exposed her nipples on the cover of the February issue of Harper's Bazaar.
See articles by Harper’s Bazaar and The Zoe Report.

Blackpink singer Jennie covered her bare breasts with white floral props for the cover of HOMME Girls in April.
See articles by Koreaboo and Times Now News.

Model Laiza de Moura was pictured wearing a revealing top on the cover of Vogue Portugal in March.
See article by Anne of Carversville and Cover Junkie.

Singer Miley Cyrus posed naked for the cover of Perfect magazine in August.
See articles by Fox News, Parade and InStyle.

Not to be outdone, Miley’s sister Noah Cyrus wore a revealing sheer outfit for the cover of Shadowplay Magazine in September.
See article by Parade.

Singer Doja Cat suffered a nip slip on the digital cover of V magazine issue 155 in June.
See articles by V magazine and Fashion Gone Rogue.

And finally ageless supermodel Elle Macpherson showed off some side boob on the cover of Maxim magazine’s summer 2025 issue in June.
See article by Maxim.

Funny Christmas porn movie titles – all new!

The perverts in the adult video industry can take a wholesome, innocent thing like Christmas and turn it into a raunchy sex fest. Just check out this list of real porn movie titles compiled for your amusement mostly from the Internet Adult Film Database.
The last time I assembled such a list was December 2021. These are all new.

12 Girls of Christmas (2018)
All I Want for Christmas is a Revenge Bang (2014)
All I Want For Christmas Is My Friend’s Dad Up My Ass (2018)
All I Want for Christmas is Pussy (2014)
Can’t Wait For Santa to Cum (2020)
Christmas Spunknog (2014)
Cockin' Around The Christmas Tree (2021)
Filthy Santa and the Ho Ho Hoes (2019)
Have Yourself A Merry Cock – Mrs. Santa Fucked At Christmas Eve (2014)
Hoe Hoe Hoe – Santa Is Cumming (2024)
How The Dick Stole Christmas (2022)
How The Grinch Fucked Xmas (2008)
I’ll Be Hole for Christmas (2022)
Jingle Bell Cuck (2024)
Jingle My Bells – A Christmas Threesome (2023)
Mom’s Christmas Stuffing (2015)
Santa’s Cumming Down Her Chimney (2019)
Santa’s Twerkshop (2017)
Shopping for Xmas Trees and Gets a Huge Oak (2017)
Sucking Santa’s Candy Cane (2022)
Sweet Christmas Pie (2023)
Taste My Christmas Cookie (2020)
The Tits That Saved XXX-mas (2003)
Tits the Season (2024)
Twat The Night Before Christmas (2021)

Previous articles in series:

Funniest Christmas porn movie titles (Dec. 11, 2018)

Top 30 funniest Christmas porn movie titles (Dec. 7, 2010)

Post-apocalyptic TV series alive and well

To date, there have been 91 post-apocalyptic TV series and miniseries. Of those, nine are still in production.
This year brought “The Eternaut” on Netflix and “Pluribus” on Apple TV.
“The Eternaut” from Argentina takes place after a mysterious snowfall kills most of the population. It turns out to be the first wave of an attack by extraterrestrial invaders.
“Pluribus” is set after an alien virus transforms most of humanity into a peaceful and content hive mind that nevertheless seeks to assimilate those with immunity.
Meanwhile, the second season of “Fallout” will premiere on Dec. 17 on Amazon Prime Video. It has been renewed for a third season and its creators think it could last five or six seasons.

Related article:

Comprehensive list of live-action post-apocalyptic TV series (Updated Dec. 14, 2025)

The difficulty of making a clean list of notable post-apocalyptic movies

I’ve been a fan of post-apocalyptic movies since seeing the original “Planet of the Apes” movie as a child. And back in 2019, I started to compile a list of such movies. But it hasn’t been easy.
The main reason why is the different ways that people define post-apocalyptic settings.
Many lists you find on Internet Movie Database (IMDb) and Letterboxd are cluttered with movies that take place before or during apocalyptic events. They also add movies that occur in dystopian futures where there may have been a world war or other cataclysm many years before but society has recovered to a large degree.
I think of post-apocalyptic movies as those depicting people struggling to survive after Earth has been devastated by world-altering events. That includes environmental disasters, nuclear war, pandemics, alien invasions, flesh-eating zombies and more.
With some movies, it is hard to tell if the events are isolated to a region or are worldwide in nature.
On my list, I leave out movies that take place in space or in post-apocalyptic settings on other planets. I also ignore those that take place in fantasy worlds.
I focus on full-length, live-action movies. So I don’t include short films or animated movies.
A list of post-apocalyptic movies would be easier to compile if it focused solely on U.S. theatrical films. But with the rise of streaming video services, consumers have access to many more productions. That includes made-for-TV movies, international films and those produced for streaming services like Netflix.
A lot of those movies are little-seen or poorly reviewed. Some cheapo productions, mostly rip-offs of the Mad Max franchise, have their cult followings. But many are just plain awful.
My main list of notable post-apocalyptic movies currently includes 250 titles. (See below.) Even among those, some are questionable. I focused on those notable enough to have reviews on Rotten Tomatoes or Wikipedia pages.
However, I’ve tallied 556 other movies that didn’t meet my qualifications of post-apocalyptic cinema. A lot of those are junky films that clutter up Amazon Prime Video and other streaming services.

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The complete post-apocalyptic movie list (Updated Dec. 3, 2025)

Photos: A selection of little-known post-apocalyptic movies: “Road Wars - Max Fury” (2024), “Mad Sheila” (2016, China) and “Apocalypse Z - The Beginning of the End” (2024, Spain).