Why do we drink champagne on NYE?
360 million glasses of sparkling wine are consumed in the United States each New Year’s Eve
2022 was the year of the heroic dirtbag
This year, from "Stranger Things" to space, the dirtbag answered the call
What to watch on Netflix in January
New year, new stuff to binge
Why we celebrate winter vegetables
From a consumer perspective, winter vegetables are under-appreciated
Newly-discovered organisms eat viruses
Meet the "virovores," microbes that get their nutrients from consuming viruses
Can we get rid of single-use packaging?
Consumers are interested in moving away from plastic — they just need better options
Secret abortions for conservative women
My middle-class evangelical peers quietly took advantage of abortion rights, while publicly advocating against them
Why the world needs climate justice
Real climate justice is bad news for ExxonMobil, says philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò — but good news for the rest of us
A "Borderland" role model for survival
Chishiya is smug, only moves as much as he must and exploits others – but his cold calculation is admirable
Why we can't admit loving Emily in Paris
At best Emily is something of an embarrassment. At worst she's the living embodiment of cultural imperialism
COVID-19 testing fraud rampant
Lack of regulation and fraud meant that Medicare’s COVID-19 testing costs exceeded $2 billion in 2022
Barbara Walters dead at 93
Known for her frank and intimate interviewing style, Walters paved the way for women in broadcast journalism
Why do guys like Santos and my dad lie?
My dad never ran for Congress, but he did "embellish" his life story which got passed down to his kids when he died
What does "heart rate variability" mean?
Lots of fitness trackers measure this biometric. How much does it matter?
10 surprisingly good things from 2022
Lula beat Bolsonaro, the Ethiopian civil war ended and U.S. voters pushed back fascism — just for starters
Melania's privacy worries in White House
“She hated when people would come to the residence,” Stephanie Grisham says
Ginni Thomas saw no evidence of fraud
"I was just hearing it from news reports and friends on the ground," Thomas admitted to the J6 committee
The year's most powerful nudity in film
From Emma Thompson's liberation to Viking confrontations, cinema revealed skin in artful, deliberate ways in 2022
The year butter ruled supreme
Crunch time — this year, we couldn't get enough garlic bread or onion rings
Why does "Jeopardy!" still haunt me?
The day I became a "Jeopardy!" champ was perfect. It wasn’t until I got home that I started having trouble sleeping
Trump's tax returns, revealed at last
After years-long battle, House releases thousands of pages of the former president's byzantine financial data
Facing the horrors of fine dining
2022's fictional and nonfiction works interrogated the unsavory underbelly of restaurants. But will things change?
Lauren Graham wants to "tell the story"
On "Salon Talks," the actor discusses her new book, being roommates with Connie Britton, "Gilmore Girls" and more
Elon's net worth fell $206B in 2022
In just one year, Twitter's new proprietor lost a sum greater than the gross national product of Greece