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(L to R) Mia Threapleton as Liesl, Benicio Del Toro as Zsa-Zsa Korda and Michael Cera as Bjorn in director Wes Anderson's "The Phoenician Scheme" (Courtesy of TPS Productions/Focus Features)

Wes Anderson's perfection leaves us cold

Coleman Spilde
Published 1 month ago

Anderson's third film in five years is too precise to sink into. Maybe that's by design

Tomatoes on a tablecloth (Catherine Falls Commercial/ Getty Images )

Two words: Tomato. Butter

Ashlie D. Stevens
Published 1 month ago

Tomato butter is sweet, spiced and sun-drunk — a fleeting summer thrill in a jar

Ana de Armas at the premiere of "Ballerina" (Olga Gasnier / Getty Images )

Ana de Armas reveals her ideal last meal

Joy Saha
Published 1 month ago

The actor also revealed the one thing she hated doing in Ron Howard’s “Eden"

Rachel Cohen, a third-year law associate who resigned over a deal she says her high-powered law firm Skadden Law reached with the Trump administration, speaks during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Building on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

The rule of law is on the ropes

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Published 1 month ago

Rachel Cohen, who quit her law firm to protest its capitulation to Trump, says now is the time for resistance

Law enforcement officials are on scene to investigate an attack on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado on June 1, 2025. (Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Flamethrower used in Boulder attack

Charles R. Davis
Published 1 month ago

Police have detained a suspect in Sunday's attack on a vigil for Israeli hostages

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally at First Horizon Coliseum on November 02, 2024 in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The hidden agenda of America first

Heather Digby Parton
Published 1 month ago

The president stops the investments that made America wealthy in recent years

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts before the State of the Union address in the House chamber on February 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Leah Millis-Pool/Getty Images)

Owning the libs is now policy

Austin Sarat
Published 1 month ago

The perils of opposition party politics come back to bite

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp watch as the jury leave the courtroom for a lunch break at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 16, 2022 (STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Johnny Depp's trial predicted Trump 2.0

Amanda Marcotte
Published 1 month ago

The trial was permission to believe men are the real victims — regardless of facts

Woman waving a "Born this Way" rainbow flag over the dancing crowd in front of the San Francisco Federal Building, at the Gay Pride Festival. (Getty Images/Tristan Savatier)

Pride is good for you, science says

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Published 1 month ago

Shame, discrimination and stigma have been linked to adverse health outcomes — and pride could be the antidote

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks onstage during the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) on September 23, 2024 in New York City. (Alex Kent/Getty Images)

Clinton denies Biden decline

Alex Galbraith
Published 1 month ago

The former president said he saw no reason to be concerned about Biden's mental state

Sally Hawkins in "Bring Her Back" (Ingvar Kenne/A24)

The horror of loving too much

Coleman Spilde
Published 1 month ago

The sophomore feature from horror's star siblings is a haunting journey into deeply personal, aching sadness

CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on February 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Musk asks CBS to stick to "spaceships"

Alex Galbraith
Published 1 month ago

The former head of DOGE didn't want to reflect on his time in the Trump administration

Fancy ranch (Studio Alcott / Getty Images )

The best salad dressing? Fancy ranch

Ashlie D. Stevens
Published 1 month ago

A creamy, tangy love letter to the most misunderstood dressing

Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump: Biden is a clone

Alex Galbraith
Published 1 month ago

The president shared a post late Saturday night suggesting Biden had been "executed" and replaced

Brian Johnson, also known as the Liver King, is the subject of Netflix's "UNTOLD: The Liver King" (Netflix)

The alpha male era is on its way out

Melanie McFarland
Published 1 month ago

The right’s “masculinity crisis” has popular culture in a bear hug. But it may be nearer to tapping out

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for a photograph during their meeting in Beijing, on February 4, 2022. (ALEXEI DRUZHININ/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Does Trump want to carve up the world?

Andrew O'Hehir
Published 1 month ago

Trump longs to revive the imperialist "Great Game" alongside Xi and Putin. There's a problem: He's too dumb

A memorial and mural that honors George Floyd at the Scott Food Mart corner store in Houston's Third Ward where Mr. Floyd grew up on June 8, 2020 in Houston, Texas (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Minneapolis isn't sorry

Taylor Carik
Published 1 month ago

Five years after the historic murder and civil rights uprising, not much in the city has changed

Virus (Getty Images / Yuichiro Chino)

Viruses are in us. And are us. It's ok.

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Published 1 month ago

Viruses are in us. They're even part of us. Now researchers want to map the human virome

Female friends taking selfie with smart phone while sitting at bar (Getty Images/Thomas Barwick)

FOMO is putting Gen Zers in debt

Cara Michelle Smith
Published 1 month ago

The pressure to document the most interesting parts of their lives comes with a price tag

An executive order axed funding for PBS and its popular kids shows like Sesame Street. Now, PBS is fighting back. (Kris Connor / Getty Images)

PBS challenges executive overreach

CK Smith
Published 1 month ago

The network says Trump’s order to cut funds was unconstitutional and undermines public media

James Blunt, here in concert in March, celebrates his 20th anniversary of the song that put him on the map by reminding fans that it's not a love song at all. (Mark Wieland / Redferns / Getty Images)

Blunt: It’s not a love song

CK Smith
Published 1 month ago

20 years later, James Blunt says his mega-hit wasn’t romantic. Just weird, high and wildly misread

Light Wire perform on "America's Got Talent" (Trae Patton/NBC)

Reality TV's lies about our meritocracy

Melanie McFarland
Published 1 month ago

Think you're watching a contest to find the next Terry Fator? You could be seeing a justification for Elon Musk

Broadway’s full of drama onstage and off. Now, one icon’s words have the whole industry choosing sides. (Cavan Images/Getty Images)

Broadway calls out Patti LuPone

CK Smith
Published 1 month ago

500+ theater pros demand accountability after LuPone’s comments on Audra McDonald, Kecia Lewis

Peaches (Getty Images/lehcim)

Fruit salads don't have to be sweet

Michael La Corte
Published 1 month ago

Think briny, crisp, and bright — not sticky-sweet — when building a fruit salad

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