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A poster depicting leaders of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Oman and Lebanon alongside President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2025. (Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)

There is no "two-state solution"

Andrew O'Hehir

No meaningful Palestinian state will exist anytime in the foreseeable future. Facing that truth is crucial

President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are greeted by 18th Airborne Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Gregory Anderson on June 10, 2025 at Fort Bragg, N.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Our ailing, failing empire lashes out

William J. Astore - TomDispatch.com

To fight Trump, tyranny and war, America must have profiles in courage — not cowardice

Doctors walking outside. (RUNSTUDIO/Getty Images)

Veterans' care at risk under Trump

David Armstrong, Eric Umansky, Vernal Coleman - ProPublica

Nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down

From Paris Fashion Week to TikTok stars, Labubus are the toy craze of the moment and raking in thousands of dollars to retailers and resellers. Enough for some criminals to steal $7,000 worth of them. (Edward Berthelot / Getty Images)

Labubu toy craze turns criminal

CK Smith

From Cabbage Patch to Labubu: history repeats as toy theft fuels shopping frenzy

Outspoken Trump supporter Dean Cain announced he will join ICE now that they've removed the age cap. He'll also get a $50,000 signing bonus. And Hollywood has thoughts. (DOMINIC GWINN / Contributor / Getty Images)

Dean Cain signs up with ICE

CK Smith

The former Superman star’s enlistment comes as ICE drops age limits, offers bonuses and faces gender gap criticism

Jen Pawol makes her debut Saturday as the first female umpire to work a regular season MLB game. (Brandon Sloter / Getty Images)

First female MLB umpire takes the field

CK Smith

A first for MLB history, a woman will umpire a regular-season game when Jen Pawol takes the field Saturday

Martha Stewart attends the Footwear News Achievement Awards (FNAAs) 2024 in New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Footwear News via Getty Images)

The search for the next Martha Stewart

Joy Saha

Martha set the bar high. Is anyone today prepared to claim the lifestyle crown?

Jim Lovell died this week at age 97. The former astronaut is most well-known as the cool-headed commander of the storied and problematic Apollo 13 mission. He was a lifelong promoter of space exploration. (Bettmann / Contributor / Getty Images)

Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell dies at age 97

CK Smith

Astronaut Jim Lovell, whose Apollo 13 mission became a story of courage under pressure, dies at age 97

President Donald Trump speaks in the newly decorated Oval Office on April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

How in God's name did we get here?

Mike Lofgren

Our culture turned on itself, stagnated and went rancid — that's how

New poll says 3 of 4 Americans believe democracy is at risk and trust their political leaders even less. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP / Getty Images)

Trump escalates his racist attacks

Chauncey DeVega

Failure to connect his comments to our worsening democratic crisis is an act of complicity

Greg Gutfeld (left) and Stephen Colbert (right) on the sets of their respective shows. (Photo illustration by Salon / Roy Rochlin / Getty Images / Scott Kowalchyk / CBS )

Greg Gutfeld will never outshine Colbert

Sophia A. McClennen

Fox News tries to credit Gutfeld's show for Colbert's cancellation — but the facts tell a different story

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (L) and Texas Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (R) listen as Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu speaks to reporters during a press conference at the DuPage County Democratic Party headquarters on August 03, 2025 in Carol Stream, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Texas Dems may lose but have bigger plan

Kayla Guo - The Texas Tribune

Democrats concede there’s only so much they can do to keep Texas from redrawing its maps

1956: Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

The Colonel wasn't Elvis' villain

Kenneth Womack

"The Colonel and the King" reveals a complex, often misunderstood figure whose ambitions mirrored Presley's

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press after signing two executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump order authorizes cartel strikes

Blaise Malley

Order raises possibility of "direct military operations at sea and on foreign soil against cartels,” NYT reports

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth meets with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) at the U.S. Capitol on December 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Hegseth boosts Christian nationalist

Garrett Owen

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promoted a CNN interview with Doug Wilson, who argues the US should be a theocracy

Julia Garner in "Weapons" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

"Weapons" succumbs to its worst instinct

Coleman Spilde

The "Barbarian" filmmaker fumbles summer's most mysterious movie by revealing both too much and not enough

President Donald Trump boarding Air Force One (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

America is in our rearview mirror

Brian Karem

Republicans in Congress have capitulated to a circus boss who is no longer running the show

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters near Air Force One on August 03, 2025 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump betrays MAGA by reneging on IVF

Amanda Marcotte

Instead of treatment, Project 2025 proposes shaming patients for premarital sex

A person, who declined to be named, views a U.S. Congressional District map as the Senate Special Committee on Congressional Redistricting meets to hear invited testimony on Congressional plan C2308 at the Texas State Capitol on August 6, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Redistricting war puts critics in a bind

Russell Payne

Good government groups say they oppose redistricting in Democratic states, even if Republicans do it first

A firefighter surveys a field near the Riverside Fire on September 13, 2020 in Glen Avon, Oregon. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

GOP misinfo kills Oregon wildfire map

Rob Davis - ProPublica

Lawmakers' attempt to help people most at risk drew accusations that they were trying to "depopulate rural areas"

Kash Patel, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), arrives to testify during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

GOP "weaponizing" FBI against Texas Dems

Blaise Malley

Sen. John Cornyn claimed the FBI will help find Democrats who fled Texas, but it's not clear what that might entail

Sodas (Getty Images / ContemporAd)

"MAHA" soda ban gains momentum

Joy Saha

Trump’s USDA is letting states ban soda and candy from SNAP. Six more have just signed on

Trader Joe’s paper shopping bag (Michael Buckner/Penske Media via Getty Images)

Win the potluck, Trader Joe’s-style

Joy Saha

Skip the stress — these Trader Joe’s favorites are all you need to pull off a flawless summer potluck

Early morning at New Fulton Fish Market (Lochlain Healy)

Trump could gut NYC's seafood supply

Lochlain Healy

Imported seafood powers New York’s kitchens. New Trump tariffs could make it scarcer — and much more expensive

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