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Charlie Kirk speaks during a Turning Point USA Believers Summit conference. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Charlie Kirk's racist religious revival

Amanda Marcotte

The "debate me" bro reveres a minister who claimed God cursed Black people to be "servile"

Sydney Sweeney attends the premiere of "Eden" during the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on September 07, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Emma McIntyre/WireImage/Getty Images)

Sydney Sweeney, registered Republican

Alex Galbraith

The actress affiliated with the Republican Party in the lead-up to last year's presidential election

Former Treasury Secretary & White House Economic Advisor Larry Summers is interviewed by FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo at FOX Studios on May 24, 2017 in New York City. (Robin Marchant/Getty Images)

Summers: Trump worse than Nixon

Alex Galbraith

The former treasury secretary said Trump's purges of federal employees are "really scary stuff."

Former President Joe Biden speaks at the National Bar Association gala in Chicago on July 31, 2025, warning that the nation faces “dark days” under Donald Trump’s leadership. Biden urged Black judges and lawyers to defend democracy, civil rights and judicial independence. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

Biden warns of “dark days” ahead

CK Smith

Former president tells legal leaders the nation faces its gravest test of freedoms in generations

YouTube influencers MrBeast and Mark Rober are pooling their efforts to help raise $40m for clean water projects. (Noam Galai / Getty Images)

Viral Fame Meets Global Need

CK Smith

Top YouTubers launch #TeamWater, a $40m drive to bring clean drinking water to two million people worldwide

Trump paved over the lawn in the Rose Garden this Spring and has plans for a $200m ballroom expanding the White House. (JIM WATSON / AFP / Getty Images)

Ballroom Politics at the White House

CK Smith

$200M event hall and redesigned Rose Garden spark debate over tradition vs. transformation

US President Donald Trump delivers the commencement address at the 2025 US Military Academy Graduation Ceremony at West Point, New York, on May 24, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump bashes Charlamagne as "low IQ"

Alex Galbraith

The president raged over an interview the radio host gave to his daughter-in-law

"Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross" (Roku )

Tracee Ellis Ross wants us to fly solo

Melanie McFarland

"Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross" proves that vacationing alone is glorious

In-N-Out Burgers (Tom_Young67 / Getty Images)

When fast food runs to red states

Ashlie D. Stevens

Big food brands are quietly relocating to states like Texas and Tennessee. It’s not always just about the taxes

U.S. President Donald Trump looks up at the new flag on the south lawn of the White House. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Trump's biggest deal: Global disaster

Andrew O'Hehir

Donald Trump's tariff policies reveal a coherent theory of global power: F**k everybody else

Nate Silver, Donald Trump (MSNBC/Reuters/Brian Snyder/Photo montage by Salon)

No, Nate Silver: Epstein's no Russiagate

Sophia Tesfaye

The numbers show the scandal is worse for Trump than you think

Elected officials gather on stage in Houston, Texas, for a rally against a GOP gerrymandering plan. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Desperate Dems consider a new old weapon

Heather Digby Parton

Gerrymandering in blue states would fight fire with fire

A boy strokes the neck of a donkey as they stand amidst rubble following overnight Israeli bombardment in the southern Gaza Strip on July 28, 2025. (AFP via Getty Images)

Children die, and the world does nothing

Henry A. Giroux

Mass death in Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis — it's a seismic rupture in our moral universe

U.S. Rep. Jolanda Jones (D-TX) looks at a map during the Texas State Representatives redistricting committee meeting on August 01, 2025 in Austin, Texas. The House Select committee on Congressional Redistricting holds its first hearing since Texas Republicans redrew their congressional map. The redrawn congressional maps came on the heels of a push from President Donald Trump ahead of next year’s midterms. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Texas map makes primaries awkward

Gabby Birenbaum - The Texas Tribune

Democratic members have been packed into blue districts in Austin, Dallas and Houston to make way for GOP seats

A coordinated search is underway as police hunt for the suspect, a troubled Army and National Guard veteran, responsible for the deadly Montana bar shooting. (csfotoimages / Getty Images)

Veteran sought after 4 killed in MT bar

CK Smith

The tragedy spotlights gaps in rural mental health care and firearm access for veterans

Individuals in ICE custody walk toward a deportation plane. A White House video featuring similar images and viral audio from a Jet2 ad sparked backlash. (Daniel Gonzalez / Anadolu / Getty Images)

Deportation video ignites outrage

CK Smith

Critics slam White House for using a lighthearted Jet2 holiday meme in a video showing ICE deportation flights

Despite protests and public outcry, Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced that it will be ending operations by the end of the year. (John Lazenby / UCG / Getty Images)

Public media’s long goodbye

CK Smith

After 60 years funding NPR, PBS and local stations, CPB will shut down, erasing news and culture for millions

Charlie Zakkour and Riley Burruss on "Next Gen NYC" (Jocelyn Prescod/Bravo)

Gen Z finally has a great reality show

Coleman Spilde

"Summer by Bravo" used to mean something, and thanks to this crew of 20-somethings, it finally does again

The joy of ugly cakes (Paper Boat Creative / Getty Images )

The joy of ugly cakes

Joy Saha

Once dismissed as gaudy, maximalist cakes are now a marker of whimsy, nostalgia — and a small business revolution

An American Eagle store window features the brand’s “Great Jeans” campaign with Sydney Sweeney, which has drawn both praise and criticism online. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)

AE stands by Sydney Sweeney ad

CK Smith

American Eagle says its "Great Jeans" ad is about denim, not genetics, after a week of online controversy

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine hold a joint press conference at the Pentagon press briefing room in Washington DC, United States on June 26, 2025. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Hegseth bleeds staff. But he's the issue

Jesselyn Radack

As the defense secretary flirts with a run for Tennessee governor, it's clear he can't lead

Zohran Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, speaks at an endorsement event from the union DC 37 on July 15, 2025, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

"Vote blue," unless it's Mamdani?

Russell Payne

Some supporters of Zohran Mamdani are wondering whatever happened to rallying behind the Democratic nominee

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump speak to reporters before touring a migrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Florida is MAGA's autocracy laboratory

Chauncey DeVega

Journalist Robert W. Fieseler on his new book "American Scare" and how "we’re all Floridians now"

Malaysian protesters display placards during a demonstration against the US envoy nominee Nick Adams outside the US embassy in Kuala Lumpur on July 18, 2025 (Photo by Mohd Rasfan/Getty Images)

Amb. Adams isn't fit for Malaysia

Meredith Weiss - The Conversation

The brash influencer has raised eyebrows in the conservative country in southeast Asia

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