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Harry Styles performs "Aperture" on stage during The BRIT Awards (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Harry Styles lets joy take over

Kenneth Womack

"Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally" trades sleek sensuality for a daring, sonic feast of happiness

Quinn Hughes, Megan Keller, Connor Storrie, Hilary Knight and Jack Hughes on "Saturday Night Live" (Will Heath/NBC)

"SNL"'s middle ground problem

Melanie McFarland

The Olympic hockey cameos offered a reminder that the show’s nonpartisan jokes often drift into false equivalence

Ghostface in "Scream 7" (Paramount Pictures)

Film is — and always will be — political

Coleman Spilde

With studios merging and slashers becoming controversy catalysts, cinema needs to be considered a political tool

President Donald Trump (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

With Iran, confusion is the point

Brian Karem

The Trump administration's jumbled reasoning for war with Iran is part of the strategy

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After a chaotic tenure as Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem was fired by Donald Trump on March 5, 2026 (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Mar-a-Lago face couldn't save Noem

Amanda Marcotte

The former DHS secretary's firing shows women are disposable to Trump — no matter how hard they try to please him

Redlining Neighborhood Concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The problem with demolishing empty homes

Nicholas Liu

Disinvestment and white flight have led to swathes of empty buildings, but demolition has fueled more problems

Iran's former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei adjusts his eyeglasses during a press conference after casting his ballot for the parliamentary runoff elections in Tehran on May 10, 2024. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Who picks Iran's supreme leader?

Eric Lob - The Conversation

A look into the process for selecting Khamenei's successor

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem as she speaks during a news conference in the National Response Coordination Center at FEMA headquarters on January 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)

Kristi Noem out at DHS as chaos worsens

Russell Payne

Trump fires colorful symbol of his immigration crackdown after high-profile killings and alleged affair

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Brian McGinnis, a protester dressed in a military uniform, gets stuck in a door, injuring his arm, as Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) (R) and U.S. Capitol Police officers attempt to remove him from a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill on March 4, 2026 in Washington, DC. The protester has been identified as Brian McGinnis from North Carolina. The Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support is holding a hearing to examine the current readiness of the Joint Force. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Sheehy removes anti-war veteran

Jelinda Montes

Brain McGinnis' arm was broken as Sheehy and police removed him from the Capitol

Newborns attended to by a nurse (Visual Studies Workshop/Getty Images)

The quiet coercion of maternity homes

Andi Zeisler

Kate Schatz’s "Where the Girls Were" revisits an era of secrecy, shame and girls pressured to give up their babies

Brownies (Ashlie Stevens)

Brownies, made better

Ashlie D. Stevens

Fudgy, bittersweet and finished with salt — with that thin, shiny crinkle top

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard talks to reporters at the White House on July 23, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tulsi Gabbard's conflict of interest

Jesselyn Radack

The director of national intelligence has mismanaged a whistleblower complaint involving Jared Kushner and Iran

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A close-up of a spoon filled with colorful, loop-shaped cereal is surrounded by more vibrant cereal pieces. (Getty Images / Stefania Pelfini, La Waziya Photography)

Target fades out synthetic cereal dyes

Joy Saha

The big-box retailer joins others in removing foods with artificial dyes from its grocery shelves by the end of May

Donald Trump takes questions at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 22, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's latest Iran plan will backfire

Heather Digby Parton

As the administration reportedly prepares to arm Kurds, history shows the risks of using militias for regime change

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters ahead of a briefing by Trump administration officials to members of the Senate on U.S. strikes on Iran, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on March 3, 2026. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Voters sidelined over Middle East policy

Russell Payne

Republicans and Democrats have both carved out unpopular positions on America’s role in the Middle East

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 misled Congress about Lewandowski

Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott - ProPublica

Testifying before the Senate, Noem denied that Corey Lewandowski had any role in approving contracts

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is under fire for her chaotic management of the agency (Al Drago/Getty Images)

Noem under fire for more than just ICE

Jelinda Montes

The DHS secretary is facing accusations of hindering other departments of the sprawling agency she leads

Signs point the way to measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District across from Wigwam Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Seminole, Texas. ((Photo by Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images))

US measles status review delayed

Garrett Owen

Over 1100 measles cases have been reported in the US in 2026

A plume of smoke rises after an explosion on March 2, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was confirmed killed after the United States and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran on February 28. Iran retaliated by firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel, and targeting U.S. allies in the region. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

Iran strikes leave US travelers in lurch

Garrett Owen

Over a thousand Americans have requested State Department assistance to leave the region

Bruce Springsteen ( Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for AFI)

The Neverland fantasy of "Born to Run"

Carlee Migliorisi

Springsteen reveals how a childhood love of Peter and Wendy led to a time-honored hit

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An undated photograph of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein (Democrats on the House Oversight Committee)

DOJ admits to removing Epstein files

Jelinda Montes

The files, including allegations against Trump, are expected to be returned to the database after review

The various couples of "Bridgerton" and "Heated Rivalry" (Photo illustration by Salon / Netflix / HBO Max / Crave)

"Bridgerton" in a "Heated Rivalry" world

Melanie McFarland

In refreshingly different ways, these lusty pleasures have freed TV's hero romances from straight expectations

Some of MAGA podcaster Candace Owens' conspiracy theories surrounding Charlie Kirk's death involve Erika Kirk (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Candace Owens can't be stopped

Sophia Tesfaye

Erika Kirk’s defense of herself gets drowned out by “Bride of Charlie” documentary

Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will advance to a May 26 run-off to determine the Lone Star State's GOP Senate nominee (Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Danielle Villasana / Richard Rodriguez)

Texas primary shows MAGA loves a villain

Amanda Marcotte

Ken Paxton’s scandals helped him undermine John Cornyn as the GOP Senate primary goes to a runoff

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