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The resilience of uchche, bitter melon - Madhushree Ghosh - The resilience of uchche, bitter melon - Madhushree Ghosh - A bitter melon vine in San Diego becomes a lifeline to family, memory and the complicated meaning of home

15 hours ago

Axios' Iran reporting under scrutiny - Sophia Tesfaye - Axios' Iran reporting under scrutiny - Sophia Tesfaye - Journalist Barak Ravid draws range of criticism from Wall Street to Marjorie Taylor Greene

18 hours ago

This was John Roberts' plan all along - David Daley - The chief justice has declared that the Court is not political. The facts — and his own history — say otherwise

15 hours ago

Trump pays to cut energy amid shortage - Christopher Niezrecki, Ben Link, Zoe Getman-Pickering - The Conversation - These politically motivated moves are costing Americans far more than just the buyouts

15 hours ago

Stolen WW2 art still waiting to go home -- CK Smith -- Musée d'Orsay's new permanent gallery exposes the unfinished search for justice decades after World War II

12 hours ago

RFK Jr. supports tanning beds for minors -- CK Smith -- Public health officials warn the decision fits a growing pattern of deregulation across youth health policy

13 hours ago

Experts breaks down hantavirus outbreak - Daniel Pastula - The Conversation - The worry on the cruise ship is human-to-human transmission

20 hours ago

We're drowning in euphemism -- Troy Farah -- Social media openly longs for the death of an individual who is hardly ever named

21 hours ago

The dark purpose behind Trump's Washington makeover -- The dark purpose of Trump's DC makeover -- Jason Kyle Howard -- The president's grand plans for the nation's capital aren't just personal monuments. They are rooted in erasure

1 day ago

Young men's religious revival is a myth -- Amanda Marcotte -- New polling suggests the recent "converts" care more about gender than Jesus

5 days ago

Trump is bleeding his 2024 voters, but not fast enough for the midterms -- Trump's 2024 coalition is crumbling -- Russell Payne -- Once confined to commentary, dissatisfaction with Trump is breaking containment among GOP voters

4 days ago

Colleges had no backup for cyber attack -- CK Smith -- The nationwide cybersecurity incident exposed how fragile our increasingly digital campuses are during finals week

16 hours ago

Not even Nixon would stoop so low -- Brian Karem -- Donald Trump's graphic display in front of children in the Oval Office should be the GOP's wake-up call

1 day ago

MAGA's sad effort to make "trad" sexy -- Amanda Marcotte -- Evie magazine, conservatism's answer to Cosmo, tried to make "trad" sexy. It failed

1 day ago

Trump wants $1.5T military budget: Why? -- Russell Payne -- Trump's proposed military spending surge could come at the cost of future healthcare funding

1 day ago

"Affordability hoax" could doom Trump -- Heather Digby Parton -- A stagnant economy and a crisis in Iran doomed one president. Donald Trump could be next

2 days ago

Trump's Silicon Valley bet on science -- Garrett Owen -- Jim O'Neill, a longevity enthusiast and vaccine skeptic, is Trump's pick to head the National Science Foundation

2 days ago

What fuels internet hate groups? Yu-Ru Lin - The Conversation - Studying the types of messages hate groups spew online helps researchers understand the groups' persistence

1 day ago

A one-time cinematic vandal, vindicated -- Melanie McFarland -- A one-time cinematic vandal, vindicated -- Melanie McFarland -- Turner shocked Hollywood by colorizing classic film gems. Founding Turner Classic Movies cleaned the slate

13 hours ago

Tiffany's "Pop Life" is tasty nostalgia -- Nicole Michael -- The '80s icon dishes with "Everything Fab Four" on her musical roots and her culinary second act

2 days ago

The "Devil Wears Prada 2" wake-up call -- Coleman Spilde -- At the Met Gala and beyond, consumers must reconcile the same choices as the Miranda Priestlys of the world

2 days ago

11 wild (or mild) Met Gala looks -- Andi Zeisler, Coleman Spilde, Natalie Moore, Hanh Nguyen, Kelly McClure -- Sarah Paulson and Emma Chamberlain understood the theme, while others looked like prom chaperones

4 days ago

In America, the body is the hustle -- Melanie McFarland -- OnlyFans is just one of the gigs featured on two shows that depict how capitalism extracts its dues from our flesh

4 days ago

Something's off about "Animal Farm" -- Coleman Spilde -- Distributed by the studio behind "Sound of Freedom," this take on George Orwell's classic is uniquely insidious

5 days ago

How I gave in to Tori Amos -- Andi Zeisler -- "In Times of Dragons" is a confrontation with America — and a reckoning with my own learned misogyny

6 days ago

Bob Ross helps us paint a better world -- Melanie McFarland -- The public television icon's legacy is still one of pop culture's happiest accidents

6 days ago

Spirit collapses after failed bailout -- CK Smith -- The shutdown of Spirit marks end of a major low-cost carrier and raises questions about budget air travel in future

7 days ago

Private prisons cash in on ICE crackdown -- Nicholas Liu -- Over 90 percent of detained immigrants languish in prisons that aren't actually run by the government

18 days ago

Social media has changed how we spend -- Melanie Lockert -- It's a marketer's world and we're all just living in it

1 month ago

Trump wants $1.5 trillion for military -- Garrett Owen -- Massive cuts to domestic programs, with higher state taxes, would bolster the spending increase

18 days ago

A no-spend week, starting in the kitchen -- Ashlie D. Stevens -- A no-spend week, starting in the kitchen -- Ashlie D. Stevens -- How planning meals, stretching ingredients and baking something sweet can make a no-spend week feel generous

6 days ago

My parents died and left me 34 fish -- Becky Robison -- "My Parents Are Dead: What Now?" is a darkly funny guide to navigating grief and the paperwork that follows

6 days ago

We can't shop our way out of fear -- Andi Zeisler -- Social media's endless sales pitches make us buy more, get less, and rarely feel satisfied

18 days ago

Why Gen Z is investing in Le Creuset -- Joy Saha -- The French cookware brand is making collectors out of a new generation of home cooks

18 days ago

Should we give Musk control of the sun? -- Troy Farah -- We're sleepwalking into ecocide. Like it or not, Starlink may one day be our last resort

18 days ago

Measles outbreaks are here to stay -- Nicole Karlis -- Normalization and apathy from the Trump admin is making health experts less hopeful measles can be contained

1 month ago

Trump is weaponizing climate change -- Troy Farah -- The Iran war shows how fossil fuels, conflict and planetary crisis are now inseparable

1 month ago

Trump isn't helping America's fertility -- Nicole Karlis -- Conservatives says the "problem" is fewer teen pregnancies. But the solution is actually fixing childcare

21 days ago

Trump's pro-birth agenda failing moms -- Nicole Karlis -- As the Trump admin urges folks to have more kids, new data shows early pregnancy care moving in the wrong direction

2 months ago

Is ChatGPT Health the new WebMD? Nicole Karlis - Is ChatGPT Health the new WebMD? Nicole Karlis - OpenAI's new chatbot aims to bolster users' health decisions — but risks fueling confusion and anxiety

1 month ago

Can psychedelics treat narcissism? -- Rich Haridy -- Psychedelics have a reputation for humbling people, but "hallucinogenic elitism" is also common. What gives?

18 days ago

Getting high on Turkish "mad honey" -- Niko Vorobyov -- The grayanotoxin-infused honey purportedly issues a pleasant high — if you can find the good stuff

18 days ago

Enough with the "-maxxing" -- Joy Saha -- Enough with the "-maxxing" -- Joy Saha -- The Gen Z-coined suffix has infiltrated lifestyle and dietary spaces, encouraging us to obsess over what we eat

19 hours ago

For Delta flyers, snack time is over -- Joy Saha -- Will I get a free Biscoff? How about some pretzels? Not on Delta's short-haul flights, says the airline

19 hours ago

A gentle 15-minute kitchen reset -- Ashlie D. Stevens -- Not a deep clean. Not a weekend project. Just a reset that helps you start again

4 days ago

The cult of New England Chinese food -- Katie Lockhart -- A fiercely loyal regional cuisine — sweet, saucy, nostalgic — shaped by immigrants and beloved beyond New England

5 days ago

7 WAYS TO USE UP THAT CAN OF BLACK BEANS -- Francesca Giangiulio -- From salads to brownies, smart, low-effort ways to turn pantry black beans into meals, snacks and sweets

4 days ago

This is the ultimate spring pasta -- Joy Saha -- Lemon juice and freshly grated Parmesan cheese help elevate a simple dish into a seasonal classic

8 days ago

One chicken, one week of good meals -- Ashlie D. Stevens -- From crisp-skinned Sunday dinner to weekday lunches and stock, here's how to make one bird go further

13 days ago

Everybody wants the kids menu -- Francesca Giangiulio -- What caviar chicken nuggets and gourmet pizza pockets say about how American adults are coping right now

13 days ago

I understand my mother's tough love now -- Randall Horton -- "You and your mother are just alike," my father would tell me

18 days ago

It's my mom's fault I stole her letters -- Michèle Dawson Haber -- The box of letters was where I had left it, untouched. She preferred to close things up and never think about them

18 days ago

Becoming a mother at 50 -- Amy Speace -- I had big dreams and plans that didn't include being a mother. Then something inside me shifted

18 days ago

My mother, the debutante Communist -- Andrew O'Hehir -- Her life was like a slowly unfolding, densely plotted thriller whose unfinished story we're all still inside

18 days ago