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AI can lead to false arrests

Maria Lungu, Steven L. Johnson - The Conversation

AI can lead to false arrests

Maria Lungu, Steven L. Johnson - The Conversation

AI algorithms such as facial recognition systems produce probabilities, not facts
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The first passengers from the MV Hondius depart for Tenerife Airport aboard a Spanish Military Emergency Unit bus, escorted by a member of Spainâs 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

Troy Farah

The Dutch cruise ship incident probably isn’t the next pandemic. That doesn’t mean we’re risk-free from outbreaks
Julianne Moore as Havana Segrand in "Maps to the Stars" (Focus World)

What makes an actress "mother"?

Coleman Spilde

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

Andrew O'Hehir

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 — that has now expired (Getty Images)

The American workforce is a matriarchy

Sara Estep

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

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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

When Canvas crashed, colleges had no backup plan

Colleges had no backup for cyber attack

CK Smith

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

Brian Karem

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

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

Gorsuch’s book tour angers the right

Sophia Tesfaye

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

NEWS & POLITICS

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press aboard Air Force One on January 11, 2026. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/Getty Images)

Trump: Baby vaccines should be smaller

Alex Galbraith

The president thinks "smaller shots" will tamp down anti-vax paranoia and offer "much better results with autism"
In June 2025, Trump Mobile began pre-orders for their new "patriotic" gold phone. Almost a year later, customers are still waiting for their orders. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

Where is the Trump Mobile gold phone?

CK Smith

Trump-branded phone launched with patriotic fanfare, but shifting timelines and limited updates fuel uncertainty
The golf course at Trump National Doral now features a 22-foot golden statue of its namesake. (Ben Jared / PGA TOUR / Getty Images)

Trump's latest "golden calf" statue

CK Smith

Trump’s fascination with gold aesthetics fuels criticism from religious observers uneasy with his imagery, branding
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Axios’ Iran reporting under scrutiny

Sophia Tesfaye

Journalist Barak Ravid draws range of criticism from Wall Street to Marjorie Taylor Greene
Donald Trump and Richard Nixon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Not even Nixon would stoop so low

Brian Karem

Not even Nixon would stoop so low

Brian Karem

Donald Trump's graphic display in front of children in the Oval Office should be the GOP's wake-up call
Much of Evie Magazine's new "Sex" issue rests upon the assumption that sex is a service women perform for men out of duty — and to protect their status as wives (Kladyk/Getty Images)

MAGA's sad effort to make "trad" sexy

Amanda Marcotte

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

This was John Roberts' plan all along

David Daley

The chief justice has declared that the Court is not political. The facts — and his own history — say otherwise

We're drowning in euphemism

Troy Farah

Social media openly longs for the death of an individual who is hardly ever named
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CULTURE

Colin Jost as Pete Hegseth and Matt Damon as Brett Kavanaugh during the “Kavanaugh Hegseth Patel” Cold Open on Saturday, May 9, 2026. (Photo by Caro Scarimbolo/NBC)

"SNL": Kavanaugh, Hegseth walk into bar

Alex Galbraith

"SNL": Kavanaugh, Hegseth walk into bar

Alex Galbraith

The sketch show had Matt Damon and Aziz Ansari play MAGA members meeting at a DC watering hole
Museums across Europe are wrestling with how to review and restore art stolen by Nazis during World War II. The latest exhibit at Paris' Musee D'Orsay features many of those unclaimed artworks. (ARND WIEGMANN / Getty Images))

Stolen WW2 art still waiting to go home

CK Smith

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

A one-time cinematic vandal, vindicated

Melanie McFarland

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

Tiffany's "Pop Life" is tasty nostalgia

Nicole Michael

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

Coleman Spilde

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
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In America, the body is the hustle

Melanie McFarland

OnlyFans is just one of the gigs featured on two shows that depict how capitalism extracts its dues from our flesh
"Animal Farm" (Angel Studios)

Something's off about "Animal Farm"

Coleman Spilde

Distributed by the studio behind "Sound of Freedom," this take on George Orwell's classic is uniquely insidious
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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

Garrett Owen

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

Jelinda Montes

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

CK Smith

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

Nicholas Liu

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 — that has now expired (Getty Images)

The American workforce is a matriarchy

Sara Estep

The American workforce is a matriarchy

Sara Estep

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

Garrett Owen

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

CK Smith

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

The toll of Florida's abortion ban

Nicole Karlis

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

Hantavirus is a warning. We must listen

Troy Farah

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

CK Smith

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

Trump's Silicon Valley bet on science

Garrett Owen

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

Alex Galbraith

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

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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

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Fatherhood, fear and our family gifts

Kuang Lee

"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

Natalie Jabbar

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

Susan Shapiro

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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