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Creamy cucumber salad (Mary Elizabeth Williams)

The cucumber salad of your dreams

Mary Elizabeth Williams

You'll be eating Sheela Prakash's cucumber salad all summer long

Silvio Berlusconi holds a press conference announcing his debut in politics at the foreign press conference room on November 26, 1993 in Rome, Italy. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

Silvio Berlusconi: Trump before Trump?

Marina Catucci

Berlusconi was a fake outsider selling fake populism and a path toward fascism — but still, there are differences

D Watkin and his daughter (Photo illustration by Salon/Photos courtesy of D Watkins/Getty Images)

The memories my father has forgotten

D. Watkins

The most powerful thing a father can leave his child is a collection of good times, memories and transferable love

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The rise of the older dad

Nicole Karlis

Male celebrities make it seem like men don’t have a biological clock. That’s not the case, experts say

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Tom Papa (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Tom Papa wants you to give dad nothing

Mary Elizabeth Williams

The comedian weighs in on who's really being canceled, "the McCarthyism of the left" and how we're all a mess

A construction crew works on a section of privately built border wall funded by hardline immigration group We Build The Wall on December 11, 2019 near Mission, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Climate migration news spurs border fear

Kate Yoder - Grist

A study suggests that learning about the subject can trigger a close-the-borders response

Armenian parents and their supporters protesting a Pride assembly are met by LGBTQ+ advocates at Saticoy Elementary School in North Hollywood on Friday, June 2, 2023. Tensions were heightened last week when a Pride flag was burned at the school. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

Muslims and the anti-LGBTQ right

Kathryn Joyce

Conservatives exult in a new culture-war coalition — but how long can right-wing Christians and Muslims coexist?

The author and his daughter (Photo courtesy of author)

Fatherhood, fear and our family gifts

Kuang Lee

"You turned out fine, right?" my mother said when I wanted to confront my own father. But had I?

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Caesar Salad prepared tableside at Dakota restaurant at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. (Ricardo DeAratanha/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Tableside service deserves a renaissance

Michael La Corte

Because we all deserve something special when we go out to eat

Opioid settlement payouts made public

Aneri Pattani - KFF Health News

Opioid settlement funds have been doled out. In some cases, it's not clear how they're being spent

A Wrinkle in Time (Disney)

Grief is a distant planet: Sci-fi & dad

Meaghan Mulholland

From Madeleine L'Engle to Ray Bradbury, sci-fi favorites from childhood help me make sense of my sorrowful present

Danielle Vitalis as Fatima and Leila Farzad as Mona in "Black Mirror" (Nick Wall/Netflix)

Black Mirror: AI maps Netflix's self-own

Melanie McFarland

"Joan Is Awful" presents the peril posed by artificial intelligence with brisk humor that can't be generated

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Conceptual illustration of inflammation of the brain caused by a virus (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

More evidence COVID-19 changes brain

Nicole Karlis

A new study using an updated imaging technique finds white matter abnormalities following COVID infection

Shopping carts are lined up at a Trader Joe's (Getty Images/RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

How did TJ's become the king of snacks?

Joy Saha

Their snacks are so popular that any threat of discontinuation is met with petitions to get them back on the shelf

The Boxmasters (Photo by Kyle Stevens)

Beatles' influence on Billy Bob Thornton

Nicole Michael

In this episode of "Everything Fab Four," Ken talks to The Boxmasters about their '60s-inspired songs

A statue modeled after the Statue of Liberty holds up a cross instead of a torch with "America Return to Christ" outside of World Overcomers Church in Memphis, Tennessee, United States on January 07, 2018. (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Christian right's dark new crusade

Frederick Clarkson

Rising far-right Christian movement linked to GOP calls for "kingdom revolution" led by an "army of believers"

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Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule (Shervin Lainez)

Gov't Mule: Peace, protest & Pink Floyd

David Masciotra

Guitarist Warren Haynes discusses new album's complex song arrangements, touring and "Dark Side of the Mule"

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on April 27, 2023 in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Trump wants 20 Republicans primaried

Kelly McClure

"There are plenty of great candidates out there," Trump said in a push to replace Republicans who disagree with him

An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank crew with Company A, 4th Tank Battalion, fires its 120 mm main gun during the company’s pre-qualification tank gunnery at Range 500, Aug. 4, 2015. The live-fire exercise tests tank crews on their ability to work together on target acquisition and accuracy. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Julio McGraw/Released)

Ukraine gets depleted uranium munitions

Kathryn Higley - The Conversation

Depleted uranium is about 40% less radioactive than natural uranium, but it's still toxic

Rusting tanks inside the now derelict Union Carbide factory compound. These tanks used to store methyl isocyanide, the toxic chemical that leaked on December 23, 1984 killing at least 5,000 people in the following 72 hours and many thousands more subsequently. (Satish Bate/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

The '80s disaster still destroying lives

Matthew Rozsa

A study published in the medical journal BMJ explored how children grew up after being exposed to methyl isocyanate

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Special Counsel Jack Smith makes a statement from the Special Counsel office in Washington on Thursday, June 9, 2023. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Jack Smith is no hero

Chauncey DeVega

The special prosecutor is a professional doing his job — and that is exactly why Trump fears him

Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch, addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference held in the Hyatt Regency on February 28, 2021 in Orlando, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Tom Fitton's advice got Trump arrested

Areeba Shah

Trump could have avoided charges if he listened to his lawyers. He trusted Judicial Watch activist instead

Hotel housekeeping changing bedding. (Helen King/Getty Images)

Undocumented women earn the least

Jack Ross - Capital & Main

A new study shows how the kinds of jobs undocumented women hold and the states they live in drive pay disparities

A woman holding a cell phone in front of the Google logo displayed on a computer screen. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Google profits off fake abortion clinics

Julia Conley - Common Dreams

"Google is a willing participant and supporter of the fake clinic industry," according to a new report

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