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Close-up of Trader Joe's grocery store sign on building facade (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

10 Trader Joe’s treats that scream fall

Joy Saha

Pumpkin waffles, apple cider donuts, cheesy pasta — these Trader Joe’s fall finds are cozy season in a box

Ghostly woman at Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana. (wanderluster/Getty Images)

Ghost tourism profits on death’s denial

Andi Zeisler

America’s booming ghost-tourism industry is a bizarre inversion of its discomfort with death

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Sept. 4, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

RFK Jr.'s Tylenol attack insults women

Amanda Marcotte

Kennedy's tactics are straight out of the anti-abortion movement's playbook

Activists display signs during a press conference inside the rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol Building on September 10, 2025 in Jefferson City, Missouri. (Michael Thomas/Getty Images)

DNC backs gerrymandering referendum

Russell Payne

The Democratic National Committee said it's supporting an effort to put the Missouri GOP's new map up for a vote

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) talks with journalists in Atlanta, Ga on Thursday, June 27, 2024. (Kevin D. Liles for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Ga. Medicaid reform spends more on admin

Margaret Coker - ProPublica

GOP cites Georgia's program as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements set to take effect in 2027

"Alice in Borderland" Joker card banner (Netflix)

Alice in Borderland fools us in the end

Hanh Nguyen

The specter of the Joker loomed over the death game show's third season, which offered an answer of sorts

A Mormon church and its community are in ashes after a man drove into the building and started shooting parishoners. 1 person was killed, 9 injuried, and the shooter is also deceased. (Bill Pugliano / Getty Images)

Truck, gunfire, flames: Church shooting

CK Smith

One killed, nine hurt in Sunday assault on Mormon church as community mourns loss of longtime LDS leader

This photo from early 1992 was displayed on the site of the murders of 4 teenage girls. It offers a reward for information Fast forward over 30 years and an HBO documentar, DNA officially closed the case, linking a now-dead serial rapist to the crimes. (Mark Perlstein / Getty Images)

DNA cracks 1991 Austin murders

CK Smith

Serial killer Robert Brashers identified through DNA, finally closing the decades-old case that inspired an HBO doc

After the Department of Education strips sex-ed curriculum, it recently threatened 46 states who they feel didn't comply. Now 16 of them are pushing back. (SimpleImages / Getty Images)

16 states sue over sex-ed crackdown

CK Smith

Legal action by 16 states challenges federal pressure to cut school grants for inclusive sex-ed programs

Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob Ferguson in "One Battle After Another" (Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures)

Every day is "One Battle After Another"

Coleman Spilde

In their epic drama, Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio map a way through our uniquely absurd reality

Joe Rogan is known for his controversial and right-leaning politics. In a recent podcast, his guest helped clarify the fallacies around recent Tylenol claims. "It's about the dose," they agree, supporting not Trump but science. (Michael S. Schwartz / Getty Images)

Rogan supports science over MAHA claims

CK Smith

Rogan criticized TikTok Tylenol protests yet agreed it is safe in normal doses, despite political framing

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, speak at the U.S. Capitol on April 8, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Democrats seem to have grown a spine

Heather Digby Parton

Party unity has broken out in the face of shutdown threats

(Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Bettmann / Alexi J. Rosenfeld / Apic)

Trump at the UN: Yeah, that was historic

Andrew O'Hehir

His speech was humiliating and terrifying — but at least it showed the world how damaged America is now

A color guard during the memorial service for Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, Sept. 21, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The creation of a political martyr

Mike Lofgren

Charlie Kirk is not the first — totalitarian regimes have long understood how to build myths on violence

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delivers remarks to staff at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Manuel Balce Ceneta-Pool/Getty Images)

Noem sped up aid after donor intervened

Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliot, Alex Mierjeski - ProPublica

Emails show one way to get around Kristi Noem's slowdown of aid: have one of her big donors make the ask

The Supreme Court may decide to end birthright citizenship at President Trump's asking. The cost could be more detrimental for generations of US residents as people question the legitimacy of such an action to repeal the 14th Amendment. (Chris Hackett / Tetra Images / Getty Images)

Born in the US? That might not be enough

CK Smith

Ending birthright citizenship means legal limbo for many U.S.-born residents

Former Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco now works for Microsoft. But President Trump's grudge over her investigation of 2020 election interference and classified documents has him continuing his threats to corporations over his perceived critics. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

Trump to Microsoft: “Fire her now”

CK Smith

Firing threats continue as Trump singles out Lisa Monaco, others question political influence on corporations

The FBI worked with local and federal authorities during the 2020 protests in reponse to George Floyd's murder. Now, FBI agents who knelt in solidarity are now losing their jobs for being "political". (Yasin Ozturk / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images)

FBI fires agents from 2020 protest pic

CK Smith

Agents fired for kneeling at 2020 George Floyd protests, fueling debate on agency rules and personal expression

Clafoutis in a baking dish (Albina Yalunina/Getty Images)

A Julia Child classic, remixed for fall

Ashlie D. Stevens

A buttery custard, tender apples — and apple butter swirls — make this fall-ready clafoutis irresistible

ICE protests continue this week. In Iowa's largest school district, the people are protesting against the detention of Dr. Ian Roberts, the distinguished superintendent and former Olympic runner. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

ICE detains Iowa superintendent

CK Smith

Roberts worked in US schools for decades. Now ICE says he was never authorized to work, Iowans are protesting

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance after Trump signed an executive order on TikTok. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's TikTok deal is not what it seems

Sophia Tesfaye

If successful, the transaction will cement Silicon Valley's right-wing shift

President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on Sept. 23, 2025. (pencer Platt/Getty Images)

An Ugly American berates the UN

Chauncey DeVega

Trump's angry speech before the General Assembly was "coarse absurdist theater"

A pair of UXOLao technicians walk down a new road built atop the old Ho Chi Minh Trail. 

After spending the day finding buried explosives, A pair of UXOLao technicians walk down a new road built atop the old Ho Chi Minh Trail in Phu Vong, Attapeu, Laos. (Jerry Redfern/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The war beneath our feet

Danae Hendrickson

With unexploded bombs, wars never really end — even after the fighting stops

Items are displayed in the makeshift memorial for Charlie Kirk outside the headquarters of Turning Point USA on September 18, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The making of an AI-generated martyr

Art Jipson - The Conversation

Within hours of his assassination, memes appeared of Kirk draped in an American flag, being carried by Jesus

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