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Teddy Thompson's "Never Be the Same" is easily one of the year's best albums (Photos by Ethan Covey/Royal Potato Family)

Teddy Thompson, music's best-kept secret

Jason Kyle Howard

Teddy Thompson, music's best-kept secret

Jason Kyle Howard

A longtime critical darling, the singer-songwriter’s latest album “Never Be the Same” deserves to be widely heard

Insurers frequently deny or delay cancer care to patients, including breakthrough immunotherapies like Keytruda (Shivansh Gupta/PA Images via Getty Images)

Lower drug prices won't fix cancer care

Kenneth E. Thorpe

Lower drug prices won't fix cancer care

Kenneth E. Thorpe

As breakthrough drugs offer critical hope to patients, lawmakers should focus on shoring up the social safety net

The Christian right and the GOP are seeking to reframe America as a Christian nation (Getty Images/Javier Art Photography)

Christian right hijacks America's 250th

Amanda Marcotte

Trump's Rededicate 250 event erases the U.S.'s secular history

An aerial view shows Alan Montag, a third-generation Iowa farmer, planting soybeans on farmland he leases on May 06, 2026 near West Bend, Iowa. As the spring planting season moves into full swing, farmers are facing big spikes in fuel and fertilizers costs overs last spring due to the war with Iran. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump's war pushes farmer to the brink

Skyrocketing costs, unfair markets, and poor policy are pressuring farmers thanks to the ongoing conflict

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In this photo illustration, packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. (Photo illustration by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

SCOTUS overrides abortion pill mail ban

The ruling came after weeks of uncertainty over mail order mifepristone's legal status

Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in "Michael" (Glen Wilson/Lionsgate)

Pop culture's guilt trip is over

Melanie McFarland

"Michael" and the Potterverse are booming. Apparently, we're done feeling bad about what that means

President Donald Trump with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping (Kenny HOLSTON / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump goes to China — for help

Heather Digby Parton

The president, smarting from setbacks in war and tariffs, visits Ji Xinping ready to make deals

U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) speaks alongside former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) (R) during a news conference on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. (Heather Diehl / Getty Images)

Trump's real test in the Massie primary

A Massie victory, Republican strategists say, would speak more to the district than to Trump’s influence

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

Bob 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

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

This was John Roberts' plan all along

This was John Roberts' plan all along

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

UK politics descends into chaos: Is there a lesson for Democrats?

UK in chaos: A warning for Dems?

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

The resilience of uchche, bitter melon

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

NEWS & POLITICS

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during a hearing with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Why is RFK Jr. worried about sperm?

Mariel Padilla, Jennifer Gerson - The 19th

Experts weigh in on Kennedy’s claims about sperm and fertility

Florida's new high school history course presents the nation's founders as opposed to slavery (Getty Images)

Florida sanitizes slavery's history

Chauncey DeVega

A rival Advanced Placement curriculum is offering a dangerous view of the Constitution and America's founders

"The View" cohosts Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin (Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images)

ABC stops bending the knee

ABC is finally fighting back against censorship and pressure from the Federal Communications Commission

President Donald Trump (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Assassination conspiracies? Blame Trump

Amanda Marcotte

False flag stories reveal a deeper truth about Trump’s failing presidency

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

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents are seen working as passengers wait in long lines outside of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on March 23, 2026. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

CBP detains woman for voting

Jen Fifield - ProPublica

The permanent resident told authorities that a DMV worker said she could vote

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

The GOP still has a voter problem

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

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Joy Jar (anamariategzes/Getty Images)

Stop trying to make joy jars a thing

Stop trying to make joy jars a thing

The container of affirmations — or is it a glass of grievances? — sums up the emptiness of algorithm-driven content

Bob Dylan (Gary Miller/Getty Images)

Dylan’s baffling social media experiment

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

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

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

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

"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

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

"SNL": Kavanaugh, Hegseth walk into bar

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

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

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

Lower drug prices won't fix cancer care

Kenneth E. Thorpe

As breakthrough drugs offer critical hope to patients, lawmakers should focus on shoring up the social safety net

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

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

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

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

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Refrigerator (Ashlie Stevens )

Five meals, one fridge clean-out

Ashlie D. Stevens

Five meals, one fridge clean-out

Ashlie D. Stevens

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

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

Oven-baked black bean tacos (Cavan Images / Dorene Hookey / Getty Images)

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

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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