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Dylan’s baffling social media experiment

Dylan’s baffling social media experiment

Dylan's cryptic content has turned his Instagram and Patreon into a captivating puzzle, fueling endless speculation

Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a speech at Coin Street Community Centre in London, May 11, 2026. (Carl Court/Getty Images)

Starmer is doomed. Who wants his job?

Starmer is doomed. Who wants his job?

Britain’s PM can't contain the damage after disastrous election. But ousting him will create a huge mess

Refrigerator (Ashlie Stevens )

Five meals, one fridge clean-out

Ashlie D. Stevens

A no-spend week of pastina, shakshuka and pantry alchemy

President Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

What's a bored Donald Trump to do?

Heather Digby Parton

As U.S. surveillance flights over the island increase, the president could be betting on action to regain his mojo

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Paul McCartney (Jim Dyson/Getty Images)

Paul McCartney turns memory into melody

"This was a lot of memories of Liverpool for me," he remarked in a recent Abbey Road Studios listening session

Resolving the nation's democracy crisis will require convincing urban and rural Americans alike that they have more in common than what divides them (Getty Images)

Healing democracy through dialogue

Chauncey DeVega

The U.S. seems hopelessly divided. These Americans think otherwise

California voters deciding whether to approve Proposition 50, a measure that would replace the stateâs current congressional district map with new, legislature-drawn lines from 2026 through 2030. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The GOP still has a voter problem

Legal wins won’t matter if Republicans can’t get people to vote for them

Where's the party? (Hill Street Studios/Getty Images)

Have we forgotten how to party?

"Party Coach" Evan Cudworth wants to get us off our phones, out of our grinds, and back into fun for fun’s sake

The dark purpose behind Trump's Washington makeover

The dark purpose of Trump’s DC makeover

Jason Kyle Howard

The president's grand plans for the nation's capital aren't just personal monuments. They are rooted in erasure

I read the right-wing women's magazine sex issue so you don't have to

MAGA's sad effort to make "trad" sexy

Amanda Marcotte

Evie magazine, conservatism's answer to Cosmo, tried to make "trad" sexy. It failed

Trump’s “affordability hoax” may doom him

"Affordability hoax" could doom Trump

Heather Digby Parton

A stagnant economy and a crisis in Iran doomed one president. Donald Trump could be next

Neil Gorsuch’s right-wing book tour blows up in his face

Gorsuch’s book tour angers the right

Supreme Court justice’s interviews with friendly media get a cold reception from conservatives

When Canvas crashed, colleges had no backup plan

Colleges had no backup for cyber attack

The nationwide cybersecurity incident exposed how fragile our increasingly digital campuses are during finals week

Not even Nixon would stoop so low

Not even Nixon would stoop so low

Donald Trump's graphic display in front of children in the Oval Office should be the GOP's wake-up call

NEWS & POLITICS

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2018, has found himself on the hot seat in recent interviews about his new children's book (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Gorsuch’s book tour angers the right

Supreme Court justice’s interviews with friendly media get a cold reception from conservatives

President Donald Trump (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's war on wokeness is not new

Heather Digby Parton

Only the acronyms have changed in the fight to purge the National Endowment for the Humanities and "woke" education

The first passengers from the MV Hondius depart for Tenerife Airport aboard a Spanish Military Emergency Unit bus, escorted by a member of SpainÃ¢s External Health Service, after disembarking at Granadilla Port in Tenerife, Canary Islands, on May 10, 2026. (Photo by Andres Gutierrez/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Hantavirus is a warning. We must listen

The Dutch cruise ship incident probably isn’t the next pandemic. That doesn’t mean we’re risk-free from outbreaks

A security camera is seen on McAllister Street in San Francisco, California, (Photo by Gabrielle Lurie/Getty Images)

AI can lead to false arrests

Maria Lungu, Steven L. Johnson - The Conversation

AI algorithms such as facial recognition systems produce probabilities, not facts

Prime Minister Keir Starmer reacts to the local Council Election results in London, May 9, 2026. (Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

UK in chaos: A warning for Dems?

UK in chaos: A warning for Dems?

Two years after the British Labour Party’s “landslide” win, a crushing defeat threatens its future

Data suggests that women are charging ahead in part thanks to childcare support that became more readily available during the Covid-19 pandemic â that has now expired (Getty Images)

The American workforce is a matriarchy

As moms are driving the growth in America's labor market, it's time for major investments in early childcare

Trump: Baby vaccines should be smaller

The president thinks "smaller shots" will tamp down anti-vax paranoia and offer "much better results with autism"

Where is the Trump Mobile gold phone?

Trump-branded phone launched with patriotic fanfare, but shifting timelines and limited updates fuel uncertainty

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Steve Carell and Charly Clive in "Rooster" (Katrina Marcinowski/HBO)

"Rooster" ends with women in the lead

Melanie McFarland

"Rooster" ends with women in the lead

Melanie McFarland

Bill Lawrence's latest comedy closes by kicking male wish fulfillment to the curb to spotlight what women want

Julianne Moore as Havana Segrand in "Maps to the Stars" (Focus World)

What makes an actress "mother"?

"Mother" escaped its ballroom roots and proliferated Hollywood over the last 10 years. Time to pump the brakes

"SNL": Kavanaugh, Hegseth walk into bar

The sketch show had Matt Damon and Aziz Ansari play MAGA members meeting at a DC watering hole

Stolen WW2 art still waiting to go home

Musée d’Orsay’s new permanent gallery exposes the unfinished search for justice decades after World War II

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in "Casablanca" (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

A one-time cinematic vandal, vindicated

Melanie McFarland

Turner shocked Hollywood by colorizing classic film gems. Founding Turner Classic Movies cleaned the slate

Tiffany (Mike Prior/Redferns/Getty Images)

Tiffany's "Pop Life" is tasty nostalgia

The '80s icon dishes with "Everything Fab Four" on her musical roots and her culinary second act

Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly and Stanley Tucci as Nigel Kipling in "The Devil Wears Prada 2" (Macall Polay/20th Century Studios)

The "Devil Wears Prada 2" wake-up call

At the Met Gala and beyond, consumers must reconcile the same choices as the Miranda Priestlys of the world

Sarah Paulson attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at Metropolitan Museum of Art (Taylor Hill/Getty Images))

11 wild (or mild) Met Gala looks

Andi Zeisler, Coleman Spilde, Natalie Moore, Hanh Nguyen, Kelly McClure

Sarah Paulson and Emma Chamberlain understood the theme, while others looked like prom chaperones

The conflict in the Middle East has hit the global fuel and fertilizer markets that, in turn, have increased farmers' costs right as planting season begins. (Mark Mirko/Connecticut Public via Getty Images)

Farm aid can't outrun Trump's war

With rising costs of fuel and fertilizer, and tariffs still in place, the outlook for 2026 is bleak

Pistachios (Getty Images/Laura Rosina)

The pistachio trend has some history

Benefiting off viral trends, like Dubai chocolate, has been actually decades in the making

The bag drop and customer service counters at the departures terminal for Spirit airlines sit empty as operations ceased for the company at Logan Airport in Boston. Low-cost US carrier Spirit Airlines said on Saturday that all of its flights have been cancelled as it started an "orderly wind-down of operations," citing spiking fuel prices in recent weeks as a key factor. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / Getty Images)

Spirit collapses after failed bailout

The shutdown of Spirit marks end of a major low-cost carrier and raises questions about budget air travel in future

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Private prisons cash in on ICE crackdown

Over 90 percent of detained immigrants languish in prisons that aren't actually run by the government

Data suggests that women are charging ahead in part thanks to childcare support that became more readily available during the Covid-19 pandemic â that has now expired (Getty Images)

The American workforce is a matriarchy

The American workforce is a matriarchy

As moms are driving the growth in America's labor market, it's time for major investments in early childcare

President Donald Trump takes the stage during a rally with U.S. Army troops on June 10, 2025 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump wants $1.5 trillion for military

Massive cuts to domestic programs, with higher state taxes, would bolster the spending increase

A no-spend week, starting in the kitchen

Ashlie D. Stevens

How planning meals, stretching ingredients and baking something sweet can make a no-spend week feel generous

Colleges had no backup for cyber attack

The nationwide cybersecurity incident exposed how fragile our increasingly digital campuses are during finals week

SCIENCE & HEALTH

The toll of Florida's abortion ban

The number of Florida residents who traveled out of state nearly tripled between 2023 and 2024

Hantavirus is a warning. We must listen

The Dutch cruise ship incident probably isn’t the next pandemic. That doesn’t mean we’re risk-free from outbreaks

RFK Jr. supports tanning beds for minors

Public health officials warn the decision fits a growing pattern of deregulation across youth health policy

Trump's Silicon Valley bet on science

Jim O'Neill, a longevity enthusiast and vaccine skeptic, is Trump's pick to head the National Science Foundation

Trump: Baby vaccines should be smaller

The president thinks "smaller shots" will tamp down anti-vax paranoia and offer "much better results with autism"

A Congolese Army soldier holds a baby chimpanzee while manning a checkpoint in the entrance to the provincial capital of Goma, Congo on November 6, 2008. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images)

What the chimp "civil war" says about us

What the chimp "civil war" says about us

Outbreaks of violence between chimpanzees have sparked fierce debate online about the origins of war in humans

A fact sheet for measles sits on a table at a mobile clinic offering free vaccinations on February 6, 2026 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The clinic offered free MMR vaccinations as the South Carolina Department of Health reported 876 cases of measles earlier in the week, most centered in Spartanburg County. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Measles outbreaks are here to stay

Normalization and apathy from the Trump admin is making health experts less hopeful measles can be contained

Elon Musk on stage before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY on Sunday, October 27, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Should we give Musk control of the sun?

We’re sleepwalking into ecocide. Like it or not, Starlink may one day be our last resort

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The resilience of uchche, bitter melon

Madhushree Ghosh

The resilience of uchche, bitter melon

Madhushree Ghosh

A bitter melon vine in San Diego becomes a lifeline to family, memory and the complicated meaning of home

Enough with the “-maxxing”

The Gen Z-coined suffix has infiltrated lifestyle and dietary spaces, encouraging us to obsess over what we eat

For Delta flyers, snack time is over

Will I get a free Biscoff? How about some pretzels? Not on Delta's short-haul flights, says the airline

A gentle 15-minute kitchen reset

Ashlie D. Stevens

Not a deep clean. Not a weekend project. Just a reset that helps you start again

The cult of New England Chinese food

A fiercely loyal regional cuisine — sweet, saucy, nostalgic — shaped by immigrants and beloved beyond New England

7 ways to use up that can of black beans

Francesca Giangiulio

From salads to brownies, smart, low-effort ways to turn pantry black beans into meals, snacks and sweets

Spaghetti with sweet green peas (SMarina / Getty Images)

This is the ultimate spring pasta

Lemon juice and freshly grated Parmesan cheese help elevate a simple dish into a seasonal classic

Ingredients for Bite favorites (Ashlie Stevens )

The 7 recipes "Bite" readers love most

Ashlie D. Stevens

The recipes readers have loved most — easy, reliable, worth making again

The author and his daughter (Photo courtesy of author)

Fatherhood, fear and our family gifts

"You turned out fine, right?" my mother said when I wanted to confront my own father. But had I?

Lozano Car Wash (Photo courtesy of Natalie Jabbar)

Magic half-hours at Lozano Car Wash

Under the distinctive green arches of this Bay Area landmark, before he left us, my father once doted on me

Desk with a medical stethoscope, a book and a cup of coffee (iStock/Getty Images)

My father, the disapproving doctor

My father said my confessional writing humiliated him. We got along best when I had an ailment he could fix

Dear Father... (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"Dear Father" letters and DNA tests

Brittany Penner

Fathers have always been prickly territory for me, a Métis child of the Sixties Scoop adopted by Mennonites

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