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Noah Wyle attends the Los Angeles Red Carpet Premiere of Max Original Drama Series THE PITT at DGA Theater Complex on January 07, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images)

Wyle PSA roasts RFK Jr.

Garrett Owen

The TV doctor floats wild conspiracy theories in a send-up of the Trump administration

Emily Bader as Poppy in "People We Meet on Vacation" (Haide Costa/Netflix)

What "People We Meet" gets right

Angelina Mazza

"The heart of the film is pulled straight from the book," says author Emily Henry

President Donald Trump speaks as he signs a series of executive Orders in the Oval Office at the White House on August 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

MAGA craves praise for shoddy work

Alex Galbraith

Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem all want "attaboys" despite their poor performance

The Washington Post Building at One Franklin Square Building on June 5, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

FBI raids WaPo journalist’s home

Jelinda Montes

The journalist was not the subject of the investigation that lead to the search

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US and Qatari troops and staff await US President Donald Trump at the Al-Udeid air base southwest of Doha on May 15, 2025. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

US pulls troops as Iran strike looms

Garrett Owen

European officials say a U.S. strike could come within the next 24 hours

American Civil rights activist Claudette Colvin, 7th April 1998.  On March 2, 1955, at the age of fifteen, Colvin was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama. This predated the arrest of Rosa Parks and the the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott by nine months.  (Photo by Dudley M. Brooks/The The Washington Post via Getty Images) (Photo by Dudley M. Brooks/Getty Images)

Claudette Colvin dies at 86

Jelinda Montes

Before Rosa Parks made civil rights history, a defiant teen refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus

ICE Police watch as Rep. Ilhan Omar, center, U.S. Representative Kelly Morrison, left, and U.S. Representative Angie Craig, (not shown) on right, make their way into the the entrance of the Whipple Federal Building in Fort Snelling, MN on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. (Elizabeth Flores / Getty Images)

Tribe president walks back ICE claims

Garrett Owen

President Frank Star Comes Out called the tribe's sovereignty "not conditional"

Bob Weir accepts the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year award on January 31, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Bob Weir was the boomer who did it best

Andi Zeisler

The Grateful Dead guitarist held the band together in its prime and steered it through a storied afterlife

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A protester in Manhattan's  Grand Army Plaza following the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ( Jason Alpert-Wisnia / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images)

Who's thwarting Trump's civil rights war

Sophia Tesfaye

As Trump attempts to implement a white nationalist agenda, liberal white women are fighting back

Businesses boarded up in Minneapolis display posters of Renee Nicole Good following her fatal shooting by an ICE agent. (Kerem YUCEL / AFP via Getty Images)

Resistance moms will save us

Amanda Marcotte

Renee Good's courage shows our single best hope lies with ordinary people

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 07: An onlooker holds a sign that reads "Shame" as members of law enforcement work the scene following a suspected shooting by an ICE agent during federal law enforcement operations on January 07, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to federal officials, the agent, “fearing for his life” killed a woman during a confrontation in south Minneapolis. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

ICE treating Minneapolis as a “war zone"

Russell Payne

The killing of Renee Good has left a chill across the Twin Cities

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Special Response Team Police and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) agents detain a demonstrator during a protest outside an ICE processing center in Broadview, Illinois, on September 19, 2025. US President Donald Trump ordered increased federal law enforcement presence in Illinois and stepped-up immigration enforcement actions by the Department of Homeland Security. (Photo by Octavio Jones/Getty Images)

Immigration agents keep using chokeholds

Nicole Foy, McKenzie Funk - ProPublica

There is a federal ban on chokeholds and similar tactics. But there's no sign of punishment for officers use them

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Bill O'Reilly (Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images)

O’Reilly to ICE: Tone it down

Jelinda Montes

The conservative pundit said DHS has to de-escalate in the wake of Renee Good's killing

Scott Adams, cartoonist and author and creator of "Dilbert", poses for a portrait in his home office on Monday, January 6, 2014  in Pleasanton, Calif. (Photo By Lea Suzuki/Getty Images)

"Dilbert" comic creator dies

Jelinda Montes

Scott Adams’ extremely successful newspaper comic fell out of favor following racist comments from the cartoonist

Michael B. Jordan and Julia Roberts at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes held at The Beverly Hilton on January 11, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. (Michael Buckner/2026GG/Penske Media via Getty Images)

The Golden Globes don't care about film

Coleman Spilde

The show itself was a mess, but seeing artists champion their work provided rare, vital bright spots

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 02: U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (R) looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting of his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House on December 02, 2025 in Washington, DC. A bipartisan Congressional investigation has begun regarding Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's role in ordering U.S. military strikes on small boats in the waters off Venezuela that have killed scores of people, which Hegseth said are intended "to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats and kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people.” (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Plane disguised in strike a "war crime"

Jelinda Montes

The US may have committed a crime by using an aircraft disguised as a civilian plane in Caribbean boat strike

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Justin Townes Earle (Da Capo)

Music books that tell the hard parts

Caryn Rose

From radio legend Mary Lucia to Justin Townes Earle, these books examine the price worth paying for a creative life

Fried chicken at His Place Eatery (Jodyann Morgan)

The pleasure of eating in Indianapolis

Chaya Milchtein

From perfect fried chicken to white-tablecloth tasting menus, a slow week spent eating and playing in Indianapolis

All I've been craving recently are old-school hippie bowls (Ashlie Stevens )

You deserve better than a slop bowl

Ashlie D. Stevens

Bright grains, spiced chickpeas, fresh greens — a bowl that tastes like someone cared

An "ICE Out for Good" protest in Charlotte, North Carolina, following the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. (Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images)

ICE's threat was there from the start

Heather Digby Parton

"Homeland security" has become the repressive domestic police force we were warned about

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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s hall of mirrors presidency

Chauncey DeVega

From Jan. 6 to Venezuela, Trump has created his own reality and it threatens to subsume our own

A Palestinian man walks on his crutches to the Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic, in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on new year's Eve, December 31, 2025. Israel has said 37 aid organisations will be banned from operating in Gaza from January 1, 2026, unless they comply with guidelines requiring detailed information on Palestinian staff, drawing criticism from the United Nations and the European Union. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Gaza aid groups work amid Israel's ban

Nicholas Liu

If aid groups don't submit detailed lists of their staff members by March, they will be evicted — perhaps violently

U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) speaks during the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree lighting ceremony on the west front of the U.S. Capitol on December 03, 2024 in Washington, DC.  This year's tree is an 80-foot Sitka spruce from the Wrangell District Region in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Can Mary Peltola flip Alaska?

Grace Panetta - The 19th

Peltola was the first Alaska Native elected to Congress. She's challenging GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan

U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., speaks to press before the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Kelly sues Hegseth, Pentagon

Alex Galbraith

The senator and veteran asked a judge to block a possible punishment from the Department of Defense

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