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Close-up of signs listing prices at Costco food court, including the price for Costco's hot dog and fountain soda combination, Danville, California, July 3, 2022. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

New soda at Costco. Same $1.50 dog?

Francesca Giangiulio
An illustration featuring various birds found in New York City. (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Lori Van Buren / Bruce Bennett / Jon G. Fuller / Sebastian Willnow / Universal Images Group)

Birding is punk

Lucy Levinson
Caregivers with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) rally against Medicaid cuts outside the Capitol on June 26, 2025. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for SEIU)

Trump doesn't care for health caregivers

Danilyn Rutherford
A boy strokes the neck of a donkey as they stand amidst rubble following overnight Israeli bombardment in the southern Gaza Strip on July 28, 2025. (AFP via Getty Images)

US, Israel share blame for Gaza

Norman Solomon
Eva Victor in "Sorry, Baby" (A24)

"Sorry, Baby" is why we go to the movies

Coleman Spilde
Woman working with Artificial Intelligence technology (Vithun Khamsong/Getty Images)

Why women are wary of the AI rush

Andi Zeisler
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard talks to reporters at the White House on July 23, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Gabbard's Epstein diversions didn't flop

Sophia Tesfaye
Protestors gather in Boston, Massachusetts during hearings for Harvard University's lawsuit against the Trump administration. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Democracy at stake in Harvard vs. Trump

Sabrina Haake
Marcello Hernandez, Adam Sandler and Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio in "Happy Gilmore 2" (Scott Yamano/Netflix)

Adam Sandler's comedy is showing its age

Coleman Spilde
A Luckin Coffee shop in Huai 'an City, Jiangsu Province, China (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Luckin takes on Starbucks in NYC

Joy Saha
Hulk Hogan takes the stage during a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The world Hulk Hogan — and Trump — made

Chauncey DeVega
Ozzy Osbourne, recording a Black Sabbath track (Chris Walter/WireImage/Getty Images)

Ozzy, a Beatles fan who raised hell

Annie Zaleski
Independent Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks to supporters while hosting Cesar Chavez Day at the iconic Old Ticket Concourse at Union Station in Los Angeles on March 30, 2024. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

RFK Jr. prefers french fries to US farms

Ashlie D. Stevens
Former President Barack Obama speaks with President-elect Donald Trump before the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter at the Washington National Cathedral on January 9, 2025. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's Obama threats are very real

Chauncey DeVega
New York Times columnist David Brooks, seen in Washington, D.C., in 2011. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

David Brooks flunks history

Mike Lofgren
Julia Garner as Shalla-Bal/Silver Surfer in "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" (20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios)

We've reached peak Marvel mess

Coleman Spilde
Housing and prison activist Malik Rahim, a resident of Algiers Point on the West Bank of New Orleans (National Geographic)

Katrina warned us. We haven't learned

Melanie McFarland
Paper coffee cup (Emilija Manevska / Getty Images)

How much to tip for 1 coffee, delivered?

Joy Saha
From left, American real estate developer Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

Will Maxwell come through for Trump?

Heather Digby Parton
"The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" (left) and "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" (right) (Photo illustration by Salon / Bettmann / Getty Images / Scott Kowalchyk / CBS )

Colbert wasn’t CBS’s first sacrifice

Sophia A. McClennen
Logan Lerman and Molly Gordon in "Oh, Hi!" (Sony Pictures Classics)

"Oh, Hi!" destroys cinema's worst trope

Coleman Spilde
Kelly Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne and Jack Osbourne (KMazur/WireImage/Getty Images)

How "The Osbournes" derailed reality

Melanie McFarland
A fan holds up a sign during a kiss cam segment in the game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Angels at Citizens Bank Park on July 18, 2025 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Images)

Yes, you can enjoy the kiss-cam scandal

Andi Zeisler
U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on February 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump’s superpower is no longer working

Brian Karem
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