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Delete your food delivery apps - Joy Saha - Delete your food delivery apps - Joy Saha - I recently bid farewell to every single food delivery app on my phone. My overall well-being thanked me

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Trump's foreign policy has no rules - Heather Digby Parton - Trump's foreign policy has no rules - Heather Digby Parton - The president's war with Iran proves that talk of a "Donroe Doctrine" was fiction

8 hours ago

The staying power of mass deportations -- Chauncey DeVega -- Polls show that tens of millions of Americans still support ICE and the president's mass deportations

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Texas primary could rewrite Dem playbook -- Russell Payne -- Both Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico have a theory of politics to test

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Trump: Favored Iran successors are dead -- Alex Galbraith -- The president admitted that his administration's first choices to lead Iran had been killed in airstrikes

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MN launches probes into Bovino, DHS -- Garrett Owen -- The Department of Homeland Security called the investigations "unlawful"

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Mainstream media rallies for war, again -- Sophia Tesfaye -- Why Donald Trump isn't bothering to make the case for war against Iran

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Epstein files are conspiracy-pilling us -- Andi Zeisler -- The deliberately opaque releases and redactions are bringing America's biggest conspiracy theories back

11 hours ago

Trump sends Supreme Court clear message: I am the law -- Trump says he is the law -- Chauncey DeVega -- The president views the nation's highest court as a rubber stamp, not a co-equal branch of government

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Trump is swift boating the midterms -- Heather Digby Parton -- POTUS is considering an executive order declaring a voting emergency. Its main instigator helped sink John Kerry

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The State of the Union keeps exposing Democrats' biggest problem -- SOTU exposes Democrats' biggest problem -- Jason Kyle Howard -- Both inside and outside the House chamber, Democrats showed they still don't know how to effectively counter Trump

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Trump hides in plain sight at the State of the Union -- Trump hides in plain sight at the SOTU -- Amanda Marcotte -- The president waited until most viewers had tuned out to reveal his worst impulses

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GOP's Hillary crusade collapses under friendly fire -- MAGA undercuts GOP on Hillary -- Sophia Tesfaye -- How Lauren Boebert and Benny Johnson ruined James Comer's big shot

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Historians fight Trump policing the past -- Chauncey DeVega -- Attempts to reshape the Smithsonian reflect a broader campaign to control public memory and what Americans learn

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RFK Jr.'s glyphosate reversal -- Garrett Owen -- The herbicide has been called "a probable human carcinogen" associated with cancers, heart and liver disease

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Trump officials attended Flynn summit - Doug Bock Clark - ProPublica - Attendees called for Trump to declare a national emergency and take over the midterms

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Sanders, Khanna float billionaire tax -- Garrett Owen -- The tax revenue could result in direct payments to Americans making less than $150,000 a year

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Trump's Iran war, and the world's shame -- Andrew O'Hehir -- Trump's Iran war, and the world's shame -- Andrew O'Hehir -- Trump's attack on Iran is an act of vanity and desperation, fueled by America's collective moral blindness

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Hegseth: Iran isn't another forever war -- Garrett Owen -- Recent U.S. strikes in Iran have split public opinion and Congress

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GOP meddling roils Texas Dem primary - Patrick Svitek, Gabby Birenbaum - The Texas Tribune - A super PAC supporting James Talarico is running ads online warning that the GOP is "boosting" Jasmine Crockett

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We're arguing over the wrong words -- Melanie McFarland -- We're arguing over the wrong words -- Melanie McFarland -- Assigning guilt over a slur yelled at the British Academy Film Awards ignores the real issues: impact and intent

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In "Industry," queerness is capital -- Coleman Spilde -- The gripping HBO drama is gayer than ever, but don't expect its backstabbing characters to make a fuss about it

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Justice for the "Pretty in Pink" women -- Coleman Spilde -- Forty years on, it's time to admit John Hughes' film is worse off for dulling Andie and Iona's shine

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Everyone should live like Miss Piggy -- Melanie McFarland -- Celebrated in a culture that teaches girls to shrink themselves, Miss Piggy has long stood as a glittering rebuttal

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Punch deserves better. And we do too -- Andi Zeisler -- His viral stardom and the scramble for stuffed orangutans show how quickly — and cravenly — trauma becomes trend

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The uplifting medicine of "Scrubs" -- Melanie McFarland -- For some, this sitcom's jabbing satire is easier to swallow than the cutting realism of "The Pitt"

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The risky reinvention of Paul McCartney -- Kenneth Womack -- Filmmaker Morgan Neville explores Paul McCartney's most human chapter in "Man on the Run"

3 days ago

Why we're watching strangers tidy up -- Andi Zeisler -- From "Sunday resets" to "house burping," mundane chores are being rebranded as aspirational lifestyle content

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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

1 month ago

Is it wrong to have too much money? Jackson Trager - The Conversation - Your answer may depend on deep-seated values – and your country's economy

27 days ago

Why personal budgets don't work -- Dana Miranda -- You can keep tabs on your financial situation without planning for every dollar or restricting spending

27 days ago

They beat cancer. Then came the bills -- Zina Kumok -- Treatment takes more than a physical toll on patients — it often empties their wallets

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Nana bailed me out and I'm still ashamed -- Bob Brody -- Nana bailed me out and I'm still ashamed -- Bob Brody -- Years later, I realize that being spared the disgrace of bankruptcy was a blessing and a curse

27 days ago

FOMO is putting Gen Zers in debt -- Cara Michelle Smith -- The pressure to document the most interesting parts of their lives comes with a price tag

27 days ago

When the tourists go, hunger moves in -- Francesca Giangiulio -- As summer crowds disappear, the workers who kept them fed face rising costs, scarce housing and bare pantries

1 month ago

Welcome to the club. That'll be $200K -- Esther Luz -- Fees can cost six figures, and the waitlists stretch for months. But the exclusivity keeps them humming

3 months 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

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RFK Jr's risky attacks on HPV vaccines -- Nicole Karlis -- The HPV vaccine has significantly reduced rates of cervical cancer across the world, yet the CDC insists on review

9 days ago

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

Trump's new foreign aid ban -- Nicole Karlis -- Experts say the Trump administration is using foreign aid to impose anti-human rights ideology globally

1 month ago

Reinventing public health under Trump -- Nicole Karlis -- California, New York and others are forming health alliances, marking an uncharted chapter in public health

27 days ago

S.C. measles outbreak breaks record - Jelinda Montes - S.C. measles outbreak breaks record - Jelinda Montes - This is largest measles outbreak since the United States declared measles eliminated in 2000.

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RFK Jr. encourages "moderate drinking" -- CK Smith -- Again, health experts warn new guidance may blur science with personal choice, fueling confusion and debate

1 month ago

The overdose crisis is turning around -- Libby Jones -- More people are around for the holidays because of treatment options. That success is at risk unless Congress acts

2 months ago

The tiny season we forget to eat -- Ashlie D. Stevens -- The tiny season we forget to eat -- Ashlie D. Stevens -- In the thaw between winter and spring, abundance gives way to overlap — and a different kind of beauty

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Salmon is the real Traitors power player -- Francesca Giangiulio -- On the cutthroat reality show, the players' favorite breakfast harbors its own secrets

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Chicken so good I texted my dad -- Ashlie D. Stevens -- A nostalgic weeknight chicken, reengineered — creamy beans, winter greens and crumbs toasted just shy of too dark

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The real reason cabbage is everywhere -- Joy Saha -- The leafy, cruciferous vegetable's newfound popularity expands beyond just social media, culture and fashion

9 days ago

Too tired to chop? Cook this instead -- Joy Saha -- Embrace lazy cooking to its fullest with these five recipes from a professional chef

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Costco's chicken is in a legal broiler -- Joy Saha -- The dinner deal is the subject of two class-action suits tied to ingredients and possible Salmonella contamination

5 days ago

Lazy ways to eat more vegetables -- Ashlie D. Stevens -- Simple, forgiving ways to add vegetables without overhauling your life — or your fridge

13 days ago

In "Heated Rivalry," food is vulnerable -- Francesca Giangiulio -- In a genre that treats food as foreplay, the year's hottest romance makes a tuna melt a symbol of deeper intimacy

15 days ago

A love affair in life's last act -- Alice Bingham Gorman -- The odds are stacked against women in their 80s finding true love. Was it possible for me, I wondered?

27 days ago

The song that left me speechless -- Randall Horton -- The student who said she "didn't know no beautiful" created a track that became our flagship of creative excellence

27 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

27 days ago

Taylor Swift, grief therapist? -- Molly Saint-James -- My husband bonded with our daughters over her music. Now that he's gone, I've found solace in her work, too

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