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"South Park" (Comedy Central)

“South Park” & the price of free speech

Melanie McFarland

With our First Amendment rights under attack, those in the best position to defend them also happen to be rich

A view of a military cemetery amid Russia-Ukraine war in Dnipro, Ukraine on February 25, 2023. (Adri Salido/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Witkoff: US troops in Ukraine possible

Alex Galbraith

The envoy didn't say "no" to the idea of direct American military involvement in the Russia-Ukraine war

Burnt grilled cheese a la Nate's creation from "The Devil Wears Prada" (Karl Tapales / Getty Images)

Cinema's most toxic grilled cheese

Francesca Giangiulio

How one sandwich in "The Devil Wears Prada" revealed the film's real villain

Bill Maher visits The Megyn Kelly Show at the SiriusXM Studios on May 20, 2024 in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Maher roasts ICE recruitment campaign

Alex Galbraith

The "Real Time" lampooned the agency with a series of fake posters

David Byrne visits SiriusXM Studios on July 09, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

Byrne: Heads reunion a "fool's errand"

Alex Galbraith

The legendary frontman advised against trying to recapture your youth.

President Donald Trump greets Russian President Vladimir Putin as he arrives at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, Aug. 15, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump grovels — worse yet, it's bad TV

Andrew O'Hehir

Trump gave Putin everything and got nothing back — but that's not why the media felt so betrayed

Members of the National Guard patrol near the Capitol and Union Station on Aug. 14, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump's DC actions scratch an old itch

Sabrina Haake

He's running the Central Park Five playbook on a massive scale

A Florida prison corridor is lined with jail cells (Getty Images)

Florida's cruel and unusual punishment

Tanya Rey

It's not just at Alligator Alcatraz. Horrific conditions exist throughout the Sunshine State's prisons

Solar panels and wind turbines (Getty Images/zf L)

Lone activist stalls green Oregon push

Tony Schick - ProPublica

Irene Gilbert has filed more challenges to energy projects — 15 in all — than anyone in the state

Crossing the border has been a hotspot for ICE, and many people have been caught up in their broad net without due process, including a Washington resident and her son. (ANDREJ IVANOV / Getty Images)

Mother, son freed after ICE detention

CK Smith

Legal US resident and 6-year-old son detained for weeks after visa paperwork issue, now released from ICE custody

Air Canada passengers face long delays and cancellations while the cabin crew strikes. This is causing over 130,000 passengers to find new flights in, out and around Canada. (ANDREJ IVANOV / Getty Images)

Crew strike halts Air Canada flights

CK Smith

Air Canada flight attendants strike over pay, grounding hundreds of daily flights and affecting 130,000 travelers

Contestants from the hit extreme weight loss reality TV show (2004-2016) celebrate their weight loss by running a half-marathon. But a new documentary gives a behind the scenes look that all might not be as picture perfect as seen on TV. (Andy Kropa / Getty Images)

Biggest Loser’s dark legacy revealed

CK Smith

New doc shines light on The Biggest Loser’s grueling challenges and long-term impact on participants

Yellow organic butter stick in a golden foil pack (Dorin Puha / Getty Images )

When did butter become so luxe?

Joy Saha

From TikTok pasta memes to $20 compound sticks, butter’s gone from pantry staple to posh indulgence

Trump and Putin meet in Alaska for supposed peace talks. No resolution, a brief no-question press conference, and maybe Moscow next time. Zelenskyy noticeably absent and uninvited to meet Trump next week. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

Trump, Putin meet — no deal

CK Smith

Trump-Putin Alaska talks conclude with no resolution, Zelenskyy to meet Trump next week

Horacio Romero of Toledo, Ohio, looks at algae in Lake Erie at Maumee Bay State Park on Aug. 4, 2014. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

Toxic algae are back. We're all at risk

Patrick Wensink

Climate change and funding cuts are putting our drinking water, ecosystems and lives at risk

Randy Villegas at HEAT Ultra Lounge on May 30, 2025 in Anaheim, California. (Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Connor Treacy)

Top Dems don't think a liberal can win

Russell Payne

Democrats think they can flip California's 22nd District and take back the House, but they can't agree on how

The USAID logo on a machine that processes recycled plastic into construction blocks at the Pasig Eco Hub, Metro Manila, Philippines. (Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

How Trump is making America look weak

William deBuys - TomDispatch.com

Demolishing USAID is a humanitarian disaster — and will damage America's reputation forever

Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu speaks during a press conference in Marquette Park on August 13, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. (Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Texas Dems signal end of gerrymander war

Russell Payne

"We are about to suffer the blunt force of Governor Abbott's weakness,” state lawmaker says

The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium, New York on 15th August 1965. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

The night The Beatles filled Shea

Kenneth Womack

In 1965, a risky Shea Stadium show cemented Beatlemania and changed the scale of rock concerts forever

Pam Bondi speaks after being sworn in as US Attorney General in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

DC sues over Bondi's "hostile takeover"

Blaise Malley

The district's attorney general called the attempt to remove the police chief “an affront to the dignity”

President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi, announces his takeover of Washington, D.C. on Aug. 11, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's "American Hell" is everywhere

Brian Karem

His declining reality show mentality is destroying the fabric of our nation — and the press is complicit

US conservative author Candace Owens speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2022 (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida on February 25, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Candace Owens can't quit trans lying

Amanda Marcotte

The Brigitte Macron conspiracy theory helps MAGA cope with their own contradictory gender ideology

Sarah Jessica Parker in "And Just Like That" (Craig Blankenhorn/Max)

A woman alone at the end of her story

Melanie McFarland

Carrie Bradshaw leaves us with a question, and answer, that should have been the start of something wonderful

A protester draped with a combined US-Mexican flag kneels in front of a police line while demonstrating against the Trump administration during the "No Kings" national rally in downtown Austin, Texas. (Photo by Sergio Flores/ Getty Images)

Census plan could shrink Texas influence

Owen Dahlkamp - The Texas Tribune

Trump's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants could have unforeseen consequences in border states

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