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Healing democracy through conversations - Chauncey DeVega - Healing democracy through conversations - Chauncey DeVega - The U.S. seems hopelessly divided. These Americans think otherwise

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The GOP still has a voter problem - Russell Payne - The GOP still has a voter problem - Russell Payne - Legal wins won't matter if Republicans can't get people to vote for them

58 minutes ago

AI can lead to false arrests - Maria Lungu, Steven L. Johnson - The Conversation - AI algorithms such as facial recognition systems produce probabilities, not facts

47 minutes ago

Have we forgotten how to party? Andi Zeisler - "Party Coach" Evan Cudworth wants to get us off our phones, out of our grinds, and back into fun for fun's sake

47 minutes ago

Hantavirus is a warning. We must listen -- Troy Farah -- The Dutch cruise ship incident probably isn't the next pandemic. That doesn't mean we're risk-free from outbreaks

21 hours ago

What makes an actress "mother"? -- Coleman Spilde -- "Mother" escaped its ballroom roots and proliferated Hollywood over the last 10 years. Time to pump the brakes

1 day ago

UK in chaos: A warning for Dems? -- Andrew O'Hehir -- Two years after the British Labour Party's "landslide" win, a crushing defeat threatens its future

1 day ago

The American workforce is a matriarchy -- Sara Estep -- As moms are driving the growth in America's labor market, it's time for major investments in early childcare

1 day 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

4 days ago

Trump's "affordability hoax" may doom him -- "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

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

3 days ago

Neil Gorsuch's right-wing book tour blows up in his face -- Gorsuch's book tour angers the right -- Sophia Tesfaye -- Supreme Court justice's interviews with friendly media get a cold reception from conservatives

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Trump: Baby vaccines should be smaller -- Alex Galbraith -- The president thinks "smaller shots" will tamp down anti-vax paranoia and offer "much better results with autism"

1 day ago

Where is the Trump Mobile gold phone? -- CK Smith -- Trump-branded phone launched with patriotic fanfare, but shifting timelines and limited updates fuel uncertainty

1 day ago

Trump's latest "golden calf" statue -- CK Smith -- Trump's fascination with gold aesthetics fuels criticism from religious observers uneasy with his imagery, branding

1 day ago

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

2 days 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

3 days 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

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

"SNL": Kavanaugh, Hegseth walk into bar -- Alex Galbraith -- "SNL": Kavanaugh, Hegseth walk into bar -- Alex Galbraith -- The sketch show had Matt Damon and Aziz Ansari play MAGA members meeting at a DC watering hole

22 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

2 days ago

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

3 days 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

4 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

5 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

6 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

7 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

8 days ago

Farm aid can't outrun Trump's war -- Garrett Owen -- With rising costs of fuel and fertilizer, and tariffs still in place, the outlook for 2026 is bleak

16 days ago

The pistachio trend has some history -- Jelinda Montes -- Benefiting off viral trends, like Dubai chocolate, has been actually decades in the making

5 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

9 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

20 days ago

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

20 days ago

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

20 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

2 days ago

The toll of Florida's abortion ban -- Nicole Karlis -- The number of Florida residents who traveled out of state nearly tripled between 2023 and 2024

6 days 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

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

4 days ago

What the chimp "civil war" says about us - Troy Farah - What the chimp "civil war" says about us - Troy Farah - Outbreaks of violence between chimpanzees have sparked fierce debate online about the origins of war in humans

19 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

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

20 days ago

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

1 day ago

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

4 days 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

2 days 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

6 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

8 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

6 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

10 days ago

The 7 recipes "Bite" readers love most -- Ashlie D. Stevens -- The recipes readers have loved most — easy, reliable, worth making again

13 days ago

Fatherhood, fear and our family gifts -- Kuang Lee -- "You turned out fine, right?" my mother said when I wanted to confront my own father. But had I?

19 hours ago

Magic half-hours at Lozano Car Wash -- Natalie Jabbar -- Under the distinctive green arches of this Bay Area landmark, before he left us, my father once doted on me

19 hours ago

My father, the disapproving doctor -- Susan Shapiro -- My father said my confessional writing humiliated him. We got along best when I had an ailment he could fix

19 hours ago

"Dear Father" letters and DNA tests -- Brittany Penner -- Fathers have always been prickly territory for me, a Métis child of the Sixties Scoop adopted by Mennonites

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