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A for sale sign is displayed outside of a home for sale on August 16, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Home sellers are getting desperate

Vanessa McGrady
Published 2 months ago

Buyers are getting price cuts on everything from HOA fees and new roofs to interest rate buydowns

Insect design integrated with microchip. (Getty Images / Chayanan)

Cyborg bugs are here: Are they ethical?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Published 2 months ago

Findings about animal consciousness should give us pause before we turn them into our robot servants

Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd in "Friendship" (Courtesy of A24/Spencer Pazer)

"Friendship" shouldn't be this stressful

Coleman Spilde
Published 2 months ago

In Andrew DeYoung's debut film, Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd hysterically grapple with the male friendship recession

Jeffrey Wright's Isaac Dixon on 'The Last of Us' season 2, episode 4. (Liane Hentscher/HBO)

In the apocalypse, good taste dies last

Ashlie D. Stevens
Published 2 months ago

Pleasure survives the end of the world, sometimes in the shape of a perfect saucepan

A view of the CoreCivic Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, California, United States on February 07, 2025. (Carlos Moreno/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The prison industry is booming

Russell Payne
Published 2 months ago

CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger told investors that he expects big business in the coming months

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller speaks to reporters outside the White House, April 18, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Stephen Miller is ready for a long war

Heather Digby Parton
Published 2 months ago

Donald Trump's most trusted adviser still wants to deport millions — and doesn't intend to let courts stop him

Teenage girls dressed in costumes with colorful school lockers in the background (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / AntonioSolano / Westend61)

Now the GOP wants to ban dress-up

Amanda Marcotte
Published 2 months ago

Lone Star Republicans propose ban on "non-human behavior" in school — it's another stealth attack on LGBTQ rights

Attorney General Pam Bondi listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Don't ignore Bondi's disturbing policy

James Thornton Harris
Published 2 months ago

AG's policy could suppress reporting by seeking journalists' phone records and forcing their testimony

A Pacific giant octopus crawls over a colorful anemone filled bottom. (Getty Images / Mauricio Handler)

Maybe don't anthropomorphize octopuses

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Published 2 months ago

Seeing ourselves in animals could limit what we find out about them. Not seeing ourselves in them could, too

Woman holding credit card and typing on laptop at home. (Getty Images/Sergey Mironov)

We're pausing before purchasing

Daria Solovieva
Published 2 months ago

Shoppers are staying online — and some are spending less — amid Trump's erratic policies

The silhouette of a commercial airplane flies over skyscrapers (Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Flight disruptions could spread in U.S.

Natalie Chandler
Published 2 months ago

Sean Duffy told "Meet the Press" that delays and cancellations at Newark's airport might happen at others

Georgina Campbell as Tess in "Barbarian" (Courtesy of 20th Century Studios)

A not-so-likely Mother's Day classic

Coleman Spilde
Published 2 months ago

Zach Cregger's 2022 film is a flawed Mother's Day classic for viewers with prickly parent relationships

US President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida on February 19, 2025. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Qatar is giving Trump a luxury jet

Natalie Chandler
Published 2 months ago

The Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet is set to be used as Air Force One and for travel after Trump leaves office

Variety of burlap and fabric reusable tote bags at Trader Joes supermarket, Queens, New York. (Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How many Trader Joe’s totes is too many?

Joy Saha
Published 2 months ago

More than a year after its first release, the California-based retailer has dropped pastel, spring-themed tote bags

DJ Próvaí of Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap performs during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, April 11, 2025. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)

Irish rappers turned Fox News villains

Andrew O'Hehir
Published 2 months ago

Belfast rap trio Kneecap made global headlines at Coachella — and right-wing enemies. It's a classic Irish story

Make America Great Again Hats on Ground (Getty/David McNew)

MAGA remorse is real: It saved me

Rich Logis
Published 2 months ago

Many Trump voters have doubts. There will be a gradual, and then sudden, awakening. We must be ready to help

A framed vulture surrounded by beautiful flowers (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / milanosss / 500px / Eduardo R / Tomekbudujedomek / Sergey Ryumin)

Your mom's so ugly

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Published 2 months ago

The animal kingdom proves mother love doesn't always need a pretty face

The author with his grandmother, Gertrude Sheft. (Photo courtesy Bob Brody)

Nana bailed me out and I'm still ashamed

Bob Brody
Published 2 months ago

Years later, I realize that being spared the disgrace of bankruptcy was a blessing and a curse

Stephen Miller, former White House senior advisor for policy, speaks to reporters in the spin room at the McCamish Pavilion on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024, after President Joe Biden debated former US President and Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump. (CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump to bypass courts on due process

Natalie Chandler
Published 2 months ago

Trump's mass deportation plans have been thwarted by the courts, so he's looking at ways to bypass them

John Malkovich in "The New Pope" (Gianni Fiorito/HBO)

Blessed be the memes and "The New Pope"

Melanie McFarland
Published 2 months ago

Before we met Pope Leo XIV, shows like "The New Pope" and "The Young Pope" mythologized the Vatican to the masses

Harry, Duke of Sussex, surrounded by members of the royal family (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images /James Manning - PA Images / WPA Pool / DrPixel )

Harry's estrangement is all too common

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Published 2 months ago

Prince Harry's emotional admission of estrangement reveals the challenge of fixing a common family conflict

Herbs, eggplant, cucumbers, strawberries, tomatoes, radicchio, watermelon radishes, peppers, eggs, carrots, and asparagus on blue wood surface (Getty Images)

2 perfect appetizers for spring

Bibi Hutchings
Published 2 months ago

"Salads, lightness, fresh vinaigrettes, citrus, honey — it all makes me want to pack a picnic"

Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark speaks to the press near ICE agents at a demonstration outside an immigrant detention centre in Elizabeth, New Jersey May 7, 2025. (Getty Images/Timothy A. Clary)

NJ mayor arrested at ICE protest

Natalie Chandler
Published 2 months ago

Ras Baraka was taken into custody after Homeland Security officials accused him of trespassing

Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Kamala Harris (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Democrats are stuck in the past

Paul Rosenberg
Published 2 months ago

Democrats were once the party of progress — but in the 21st century, they seem paralyzed. Let me explain

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