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Dianne Wiest and Johnny Depp on the set of "Edward Scissorhands" (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corpo/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

Edward and the burden of exceptionality

Kristen Lopez
Cher (Marco Piraccini/Archivio Marco Piraccini/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

The outfit that defined a career

Annie Zaleski
Volunteers offering food to help the homeless. (kuarmungadd / Getty Images)

Altruism is a great survival strategy

Nicole Karlis
Onstage rehearsing at an awards show whose set I don’t recognize. Proof that they are all a little bit alike (Courtesy of Bruce Vilanch)

Bruce Vilanch reflects on Oscars chaos

Bruce Vilanch
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This photo of Babb alone was taken by her husband, James Wong Howe. (Courtesy of Joanne Dearcopp, literary executor of the Babb estate)

Steinbeck plundered her work for "Wrath"

Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Orange cat in New Delhi (Andrew Marttila)

The cats of Delhi: A quiet revolution

Hannah Shaw, Andrew Marttila
Sylvia Plath seated in front of a bookshelf (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Reading Plath and my friend's Instagram

Lilly Dancyger
Exterior view of a Walmart store (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress via Getty Images)

Walmart: Hidden costs, public burden

Austin Frerick
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The Sopranos (Courtesy of HBO)

"The Sopranos" made Journey hot again

David Hamilton Golland
A table set with Indian food , Nann, Biryani, Tandoori Chicken, Gobi Manchurian, Mutton Curry and sauces. (Getty Images/Chanda Hopkins)

When Taco Bell met Kiran Palace

Raj Tawney
Assortment of Seafood (Getty Images/Comstock Images)

The seafood salad that healed my family

Raj Tawney
Slaves at Smith's Plantation, South Carolina, ca. 1862. (Library of Congress/Digiital Public Library of America)

Hidden history of the Monroe Doctrine

Benjamin Weber
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Protestors makie their opinions known and join crowds gathering outside a Glendale Unified School District meeting where parents and activists differ over teaching sexual identity to kids at Glendale Unified School District in Burbank Tuesday, June 6, 2023. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Parents' Rights is Christian nationalism

Andra Watkins
Bill Murray walks a red carpet during the 14th Rome Film Festival on October 19, 2019 in Rome, Italy (Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for RFF)

Hollywood's "list of excuses is endless"

Maureen Ryan
Alghero, Sardinia (Courtesy of Jeff Biggers)

Death in Sardinia: A murder mystery

Jeff Biggers
Pasta Amatriciana (Getty Images/Alexander Spatari)

How the discovery of pasta shaped Italy

Luca Cesari
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The Proud Boys outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

January 6 was planned in broad daylight

Rita Katz
Waiter's shadow at cafe (Getty Images/Grant Faint)

Survival tips from a waiter in Paris

Edward Chisholm
Man climbing up the mountain at Mt. Everest (Getty Images/Kenneth Koh/Adventure Nomad)

A Mount Everest mystery cover-up?

Mark Synnott
Julia demonstrates the stuffing of sausages. (Getty Images/Bettmann)

How "The French Chef" came to be

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
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I take to drinking

Sarah M. Wells
An activists from Extinction Rebellion NYC holding a sign at a climate march. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Workers, scholars unite against Big Ag

Daniel O'Connell, Scott Peters
"Stuck Nation: Can the United States Change Course on Our History of Choosing Profits Over People?" by Bob Hennelly (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Democracy at Work)

Welcome to "Stuck Nation": America now

Bob Hennelly
Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Oxford University Press)

Welfare fraud is actually rare

Mark Robert Rank, Lawrence M. Eppard, Heather E. Bullock
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