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President Donald Trump speaks with members of the Joint Chiefs of staff before delivering his State of the Union address on February 24, 2026 amid a U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf threatening Iran. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Why Congress tried to dodge Iran vote

Russell Payne

Iran hawks are maneuvering to have their war without their fingerprints on it

Voters fill out their ballots at a polling station in New York City on Election Day, November 5, 2024. (LEONARDO MUNOZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Voter roll tool keeps making mistakes

Jen Fifield, Zach Despart - ProPublica

An expanded federal tool for identifying noncitizens on voter rolls is making persistent mistakes

Congressman Seth Moulton speaks during a Veterans Day town hall event in Marblehead, MA on November 11, 2024. (Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Moulton: ICE agents must be "prosecuted"

Alex Galbraith

The Mass. Democrat called for criminal prosecution against ICE's lawlessness in a new interview

Hillary Clinton speaks after a screening of "ZURWSKI v Texas" at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2024 in Telluride, Colorado. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images)

Clinton bashes DOJ, GOP on Epstein files

Alex Galbraith

The former Secretary of State said Republicans had turned the case into a political stunt

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Sarah Chalke as Elliot Reid, Zach Braff as John “J.D.” Dorian and Donald Faison as Christopher Turk in "Scrubs" (Disney/Brian Bowen Smith)

The uplifting medicine of "Scrubs"

Melanie McFarland

For some, this sitcom's jabbing satire is easier to swallow than the cutting realism of "The Pitt"

President Donald Trump has talked of military intervention in Mexico (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Mexico could be Trump's forever war

Heather Digby Parton

Even after the killing of El Mencho, Trump wants Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to do more to fight drugs

Cacio E Pepe (Getty Images/Ekaterina Fedotova)

Too tired to chop? Cook this instead

Joy Saha

Embrace lazy cooking to its fullest with these five recipes from a professional chef

Shopping carts are lined up in front of a Costco store on February 25, 2021 in Inglewood, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Costco's chicken is in a legal broiler

Joy Saha

The dinner deal is the subject of two class-action suits tied to ingredients and possible Salmonella contamination

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Donald Trump | The U.S. Supreme Court Building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump says he is the law

Chauncey DeVega

The president views the nation's highest court as a rubber stamp, not a co-equal branch of government

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a visit to Sierra Space in Louisville, Colorado on Monday, February 23, 2026. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Hegseth issues threat over killer AI

Russell Payne

In the conflict with Anthropic, Hegseth is once again taking a special interest in the problem of illegal orders

Election signs decorate the sidewalk at the Ben Hur Shrine polling place in Austin as early voting begins for the March primary elections in Texas, Feb. 17, 2026. Voters can cast their ballots to decide who represents Republicans and Democrats in the November midterm elections. (Sara Diggins/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)

Dem turnout breaking records in Texas

Paul Cobler - The Texas Tribune

Turnout during the first week of voting exceeded the same period for the past two presidential elections

US Representatives Ilhan Omar, Democrat from Minnesota, and Rashida Tlaib, Democrat from Michigan, look on as President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2026. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)

Trump: Omar, Tlaib are "lunatics"

Alex Galbraith

The president said the progressive pair had the "bulging eyes of crazy people" during his State of the Union speech

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Former Treasury Secretary & White House Economic Advisor Larry Summers. (Robin Marchant/Getty Images)

Summers to resign from Harvard

Alex Galbraith

The former Treasury secretary has faced intense scrutiny since appearing in the Epstein files

Donald Trump's State of the Union dazzled right-wing media, but it also exposed the limits of his MAGA vision (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump woos MAGA media with bigoted SOTU

Sophia Tesfaye

MAGA media outlets declare the president's 107-minute address the best in history

Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies as Jeffrey Epstein survivors stand in the background, during the House Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice,” in Rayburn building on Wednesday, February 11, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)

Democrats call for Bondi investigation

Jelinda Montes

Lawmakers says Bondi perjured herself on Trump’s involvement in Epstein files

Democrats were divided in their responses to Trump's State of the Union (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

SOTU exposes Democrats' biggest problem

Jason Kyle Howard

Both inside and outside the House chamber, Democrats showed they still don't know how to effectively counter Trump

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Peter Claffey in "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" (Steffan Hill/HBO)

In Westeros, the soul outweighs the body

Nicholas Liu

"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" shows that true knighthood is supreme grace, not an invented tradition

Sunday reset cleaning (SeventyFour/Getty Images)

Why we’re watching strangers tidy up

Andi Zeisler

From “Sunday resets” to “house burping,” mundane chores are being rebranded as aspirational lifestyle content

President Donald J. Trump delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, February 24, 2026. (Pool photo by Kenny Holston/The New York Times.) (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump hides in plain sight at the SOTU

Amanda Marcotte

The president waited until most viewers had tuned out to reveal his worst impulses

A Palestinian youth stands on a street strewn with rubble following an explosion in the Saftawi neighbourhood, west of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 25, 2025. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP via Getty Images)

How the Gaza war changed America

Nicholas Liu

Historian Bruce Robbins argues Gaza has shifted the debate over how and when the label is used

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Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Gonzales asked for explicit photos

Eleanor Klibanoff - The Texas Tribune

His aide, Regina Santos-Aviles, later set herself on fire

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger waits to speak at a canvass launch event on November 02, 2025 in Lake Ridge, Virginia. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Spanberger slams Trump on affordability

Alex Galbraith

The Virginia governor's State of the Union response was "laser-focused" on kitchen table issues

US President Donald Trump concludes his remarks during the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2026. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/GETTY IMAGES)

Trump attacks "crazy" Dems in SOTU

Alex Galbraith

The president used the annual address to air his grievances with Democrats, the Supreme Court

U.S. Rep. Al Green (D-TX) protests as President Donald Trump arrives to deliver the State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress at the Capitol on February 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. Trump delivered his address days after the Supreme Court struck down the administration's tariff strategy, and amid a U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf threatening Iran. (Photo by Kenny Holston/Getty Images)

Green protests Trump ape clip at SOTU

Alex Galbraith

The Texas rep. held a sign up that said "Black people aren't apes"

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