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Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show." Photo: Scott Kowalchyk ©2026 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.

What we lose when "The Late Show" ends

Melanie McFarland
Drake performs live on stage during day one of Wireless Festival 2025 at Finsbury Park on July 11, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Simone Joyner/Getty Images)

Drake wins, whether we like it or not

Alex Galbraith
A Ukrainian Emergency Ministry rescuer attends an exercise in Zaporizhzhia in August 2022 to prepare for a possible nuclear incident at the nearby nuclear power plant, which was seized by Russian forces in March 2022. (DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

AI data center push fuels nuclear threat

Rachel Bronson
President Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

America's emerging anti-war consensus

Heather Digby Parton
Ella Bruccoleri as Mary Bennet, Ruth Jones as Mrs Bennet, Richard E. Grant as Mr Bennet, Poppy Gilbert as Lizzie Bennet, Molly Wright as Kitty Bennet, Grace Hogg-Robinson as Lydia Bennet and Maddie Close as Jane Bennet in "The Other Bennet Sister." Credit: BBC/Bad Wolf/James Pardon (BBC/Bad Wolf/James Pardon)

Perks of being Jane Austen’s wallflower

Melanie McFarland
A health worker, wearing single-use protective clothing and a surgical cap, stands at a checkpoint where she oversees hand washing and temperature screening for all visitors and patients entering Kyeshero Hospital, as part of Ebola prevention measures in Goma on May 18, 2026. (Photo by Jospin Mwisha / AFP via Getty Images)

Ebola outbreak is a US failure

Troy Farah
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters next to the site of his proposed White House ballroom (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

White House ballroom symbolizes failure

Amanda Marcotte
Kara Young (left) and Mallori Johnson in "Is God Is." (Patti Perret/Amazon Content Services LLC)

"Is God Is" makes revenge a religion

Coleman Spilde
President Donald Trump (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

DOJ gifts Trump with slush fund

Heather Digby Parton
CBS "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS)

You can't cancel satire

Sophia A. McClennen
The U.S. Capitol Building, June 21, 2025. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

We can still restore democracy — maybe

Mike Lofgren
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The real reason RFK Jr. hates SSRIs

Amanda Marcotte
Photo credit: Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios © 2026 Amazon Content Services LLC. All Rights Reserved. (Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios © 2026 Amazon Content Services LLC. All Rights Reserved.)

An urgent message in sheep's clothing

Melanie McFarland
Dried fruit and nuts (Westend61 / Getty Images )

A big problem with those tiny snack tins

Joy Saha
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping tour Zhongnanhai Garden in Beijing, May 15, 2026. (Evan Vucci-Pool/Getty Images)

Donald Trump: Making China great again

Andrew O'Hehir
TPUSA Faith's Make Heaven Crowded tour masks a right-wing political agenda

TPUSA's revival tour is a disaster

Amanda Marcotte
Will Sharpe in "Amadeus." (Starz)

Why every great artist needs a nemesis

Melanie McFarland
President Donald Trump (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Donald Trump: Green energy's savior?

Sabrina Haake
Insurers frequently deny or delay cancer care to patients, including breakthrough immunotherapies like Keytruda (Shivansh Gupta/PA Images via Getty Images)

Lower drug prices won't fix cancer care

Kenneth E. Thorpe
The Christian right and the GOP are seeking to reframe America as a Christian nation (Getty Images/Javier Art Photography)

Christian right hijacks America's 250th

Amanda Marcotte
Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in "Michael" (Glen Wilson/Lionsgate)

Pop culture's guilt trip is over

Melanie McFarland
President Donald Trump with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping (Kenny HOLSTON / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump goes to China — for help

Heather Digby Parton
Florida's new high school history course presents the nation's founders as opposed to slavery (Getty Images)

Florida sanitizes slavery's history

Chauncey DeVega
Joy Jar (anamariategzes/Getty Images)

Stop trying to make joy jars a thing

Andi Zeisler
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