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Topic: Memorial Day

On May 26, 2025, President Trump honors Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery just hours after posting an all-caps rant on Truth Social. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Grief shouldn't be a campaign stop

CK Smith
Some families remember their fallen loved ones. Others are on the hunt for the best deals. (John Hudson Photography / Getty Images)

Memories for sale

CK Smith
The sign many tourists will see as the begin their summer vacation in record-high temperatures. (iStock / Getty Images Plus)

Florida is hotter than your vacation

CK Smith
People walk through a Bridgeland neighborhood as families begin cleaning up storm damage, Sunday, May 19, 2024, in Cypress, Texas. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

America's storms clear a path for hope

Lucian K. Truscott IV
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Army General Mark Milley looks on after a briefing from senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room at the White House on October 7, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Trump taints Memorial Day

Brian Karem
A small vigil set up across the street from a Tops grocery store on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo, where a heavily armed 18-year-old White man entered the store in a predominantly Black neighborhood and shot 13 people, killing ten, Saturday, May 14, 2022. (Matt Burkhartt for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Hope and loss on Memorial Day

Chauncey DeVega
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Memorial Day: 23 simple dessert recipes

Ella Quittner - Food52
Capitol Hill police hold back protesters as crowds gather outside the U.S. Capitol for the "Stop the Steal" rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Our first Memorial Day since the coup

Chauncey DeVega
(Julia Gartland / Food52)

Here's how to properly shut down a grill

William Widmaier - Food52
Burgers Cooking On A Grill (Getty Images)

5 essential Memorial Day cookout recipes

Ashlie D. Stevens
Security personnel arrived at the site of a deadly suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2018. (AP/Salon)

Memorial Day is killing us

Erik Edstrom - TomDispatch.com
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8 ways COVID pandemic threatens veterans

Jamie Rowen - The Conversation
(Joseph Neese)

Make potato salad with fewer ingredients

Joseph Neese
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Getty/Drew Angerer)

AOC opens up about death threats

Matthew Rozsa
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Getty/Mandel Ngan)

AOC was smeared as an "enemy of freedom"

Alex Henderson - Alternet
A US Army carry team moves a transfer case with the remains of US Army Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene from a C-17 cargo plane during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base August 7, 2014 in Delaware. (Getty/Brendan SMIALOWSKI)

Memorial Day is for other people now

Bob Hennelly
(Getty/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

On parade at West Point 50 years later

Lucian K. Truscott IV
President Donald Trump speaks to Air Force personnel during an event September 15, 2017 at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. (Getty/Alex Wong)

Trump's pardons dishonor the troops

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump; Mathew Golsteyn (Getty/Mark Wilson/YouTube/NBC News)

Trump plans to pardon war criminals

Heather Digby Parton
(AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump's Memorial Day message offends

Taylor Link
Pedestrians walk past a light display of a U.S. flag in Times Square in New York on Saturday, May 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) (AP)

The forgotten history of Memorial Day

Richard Gardiner - The Conversation
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Memorial Day, tradition and potato salad

Hannah Howard
A man walks out of a job fair for military veterans and other unemployed people in Los Angeles, California, October 7, 2010. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS) (© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)

vets getting opportunities

Eileen Trauth - The Conversation
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Army of one: Soldiers undone

Kathleen Kilcup
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