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TV talk show host Tammy Faye Bakker Messner applying mascara to eyelashes in mirror in dressing room (John Storey/Getty Images)

Under all the makeup who was Tammy Faye?

John Wigger - The Conversation

Faye's unabashed TV persona separated her from other evangelicals, who were often portrayed as fundamentalists

In "Ted Lasso," Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt) wears New Balance shoes, subtle product placement (until he later props his feet on a desk) (Apple TV+)

Why some product placement works better

Beth L. Fossen - The Conversation

Research shows that advertisers need to engage in a delicate dance with viewers to effectively influence them

Pug (Getty Images/mlorenzphotography)

Flat-faced dogs are quietly suffering

Matthew Rozsa

A century of inbreeding is destroying flat-faced canines like bulldogs. Is it time to stop breeding them?

Saucy: Pumpkin Hot Sauce (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Fall into spice with a pumpkin hot sauce

Ashlie D. Stevens

I'm addicted to dried chiles. This autumn-inspired hot sauce lets them shine

(Joe Baur / Food52)

Matzo ball ramen: A comforting fusion

Joe Baur - Food52

A gift from the diaspora, perfect to break the fast

Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Graham told Trump he "f'd up" presidency

Brett Bachman

The anecdote comes courtesy of veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward's new book, "Peril"

Muhammad Ali stands over fallen Sonny Liston, shouting and gesturing shortly after dropping Liston with a short hard right to the jaw in Lewiston, Maine. May 25, 1965 (John Rooney/AP Images via PBS)

Burns: Muhammad Ali "an avatar of love"

Melanie McFarland

The filmmaker spoke with Salon about his four-part tribute to The Greatest and what Muhammad Ali symbolizes to us

Sandy Russo, Ry Russo-Young, Tom Steel, Cade Russo-Young, Robin Young in "Nuclear Family" (HBO)

HBO's "Nuclear Family" vs sperm donor

Kylie Cheung

Ry Russo-Young had an idyllic childhood with her sister and two lesbian moms until a bombshell paternity lawsuit

Trash in the ocean water (Getty Images/Juan Camilo Bernal)

How to reduce marine dead zones

Tara Lohan

Wetlands can help remove nutrient pollution causing low-oxygen “dead zones." But placement matters, a study says

Woman making the loser sign while wearing a medical face mask (Getty Images/Egoitz Bengoetxea Iguaran)

Our schadenfreude epidemic

Matthew Rozsa

Media scolds are lambasting a forum that celebrates COVID skeptics getting COVID. That's missing the bigger picture

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, left, and a border patrol agent on horseback menacing a Haitian migrant. (Salon illustration via Fox News/Getty Images)

Abbott endorses border horsemen tactics

Brett Bachman

Abbott offered to staff his own armed force on the border with employees Biden fires for inappropriate conduct

(Bobbi Lin / Food52)

9 egg substitutes in cooking and baking

Emma Laperruque - Food52

Here's how to use every egg substitute in your favorite sweet and savory recipes

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Xinhua/Liu Jie via Getty Images)

Obama alums not happy with Zuckerberg

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

When the crowd began a chant of "lock him up" at Zuckerberg, Trump replied: "They should be looking at that"

Danielle Webster receiving a Covid-19 booster vaccination at Midland House, Derby | A medical health worker injects the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to a woman as they visit door-to-door to deliver the vaccines to people who live far from health facilities in Siaya, Kenya (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Joe Giddens/Brian Ongoro)

A prescription for saving democracy

Paul Rosenberg

"Public health" doesn't sound sexy — but in the wake of this pandemic, it offers a pathway to redeeming democracy

Former president Donald J Trump holds a Save America rally in Perry, GA, United States on September 25, 2021. (Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump settles scores during dark speech

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

Trump spent a long time describing America as a dystopian hellscape under President Joe Biden

Steve Martin and Martin Short in "Only Murders in the Building" (Hulu)

"Only Murders" makes me miss elder pals

Alison Stine

The show reminds me of rich friendships that I had with gregarious elderly folks who encouraged me to live boldly

Singapore President Tony Tan Keng Yam (R) shakes hands with Professor Pericles Lewis (C), president of Yale-NUS college after officiating the inauguration ceremony to mark the start of the Yale-NUS College while other officials look on in SIngapore on August 27, 2013. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Yale's Singapore venture failed

Jim Sleeper

Like America's Afghan war, Yale's "new community of learning" in Singapore was fatally flawed from the start

View of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine vials (Niels Wenstedt/BSR Agency/Getty Images))

Big Pharma's specious vaccine patent war

Charlotte Kilpatrick

Millions of lives are poised to be sacrificed at the altar of profit by the pharmaceutical industry

Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

A scientist’s life in the treetops

Sarah Boon - Undark

Only in recent decades have researchers systematically explored the rainforest canopies high above our heads

Steve Carell in "The Morning Show" (Apple TV+)

The Morning Show's abuser lives it up

Kylie Cheung

This season, Steve Carell's Mitch Kessler is an ousted abuser ... who's enjoying the lap of luxury in Italy

Joe Biden, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

FDR purged "moderates" — should Biden?

Matthew Rozsa

Roosevelt sought to drive out a passel of conservative Democrats in 1938. Spoiler: It didn't go as planned

Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021. - Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the a 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Jan. 6 got pro-Trump web host in trouble

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

"This is like the mother of all data lodes because Epik was at the center of so many extremist websites"

Anti-vaccine protesters hold signs, including one which reads "Freedom! My body, my choice." (Getty Images)

"Pureblood": New anti-vax meme emerges

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet

Social media companies are still struggling to limit the spread of harmful medical misinformation

Faucet with Water Drip (Getty Images)

A California city's new climate pledge

Yvette Cabrera - Grist

After a climate emergency in Santa Ana, California, the city pleged to protect residents from lead contamination

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