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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard talks to reporters at the White House on July 23, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tulsi blindsides CIA after Putin meeting

Blaise Malley

Gabbard also outed a CIA agent who had been working undercover, according to reports

Dorm life (nadia_bormotova/Getty Images)

Your kid's dorm room is not about you

Andi Zeisler

Moms are going all in on viral dorm room redesign, but who's the effort really for?

Police Car Emergency Services (Getty Images/JasonDoiy)

GOPer drugged granddaughters: police

Garrett Owen

James Yokeley has been barred from seeing his granddaughters after being caught on tape

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., talks with the media in the Capitol Visitor Center. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

GOPers blame trans issues for shooting

Blaise Malley

Those using the shooting to villainize trans people have "lost their sense of common humanity," says Jacob Frey

Cracker Barrel exterior (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Don't buy the Cracker Barrel fallacy

Ashlie D. Stevens

Online petitions and viral outrage give the illusion of influence — but real power lies elsewhere

John Cena, Danielle Brooks and Jennifer Holland in "Peacemaker" (Erin Sintoes/HBO Max)

The heroic queerness of "Peacemaker"

Melanie McFarland

The sexuality of John Cena's traumatized hero amounts to more than simple signaling

Susan Monarez takes part in a hearing on her nomination for Director of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday June 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

CDC director rejects White House firing

Garrett Owen

Lawyers for Director Susan Monarez accused the Trump administration of "weaponizing public health"

Donald Trump | A supporter of President Donald Trump prays outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Trump keeps talking about heaven

Chauncey DeVega

Even if he's not quite a humble sinner in search of grace, it's still smart politics

Taylor Swift kisses Travis Kelce after Kansas City defeated the Buffalo Bills to win the AFC Championship Game on Jan. 26, 2025. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Taylor Swift is not your tradwife

Amanda Marcotte

MAGA influencers can't be normal about anything

Protesters outside Trump Tower in New York, July 4, 2025. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

GOP can't hide from their budget bill

Russell Payne

Republicans delayed many of the worst cuts until after the 2026 midterms — but the voters aren't fooled

Andrew Bailey during the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference the Gaylord National Convention Center in Fort Washington, Maryland, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. (Photo by Dominic Gwinn/Getty Images)

Trump's latest FBI pick targeted Dems

Jeremy Kohler - ProPublica

Andrew Bailey’s targeting of Democrats is legally questionable, experts say, but it’s helped to further his career

Susan Monarez, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on June 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Monarez is a health scientist with a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology who previously served as the Deputy Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Monarez out at CDC

Alex Galbraith

She was followed out the door by several other top-level CDC officials

Fox News host Jesse Watters appears on air on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

Watters crows over Fox's effect on Trump

Alex Galbraith

Watters said Trump only threw in against the restaurant because of his network

A protester holds a "stop the steal" placard during a pro-Trump demonstration. (Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

2020 election denier in at DHS

Doug Bock Clark - ProPublica

Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security

Trey Gowdy is seen outside Manhattan Criminal Courthouse for the Donald Trump hush-money trial on May 30, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by James Devaney/Getty Images)

Fox News hosts call for gun control

Alex Galbraith

Following the shooting, multiple hosts at the conservative network wondered if the time has come for stricter laws

Members of the National Guard patrol near the Capitol and Union Station on Aug. 14, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

DC declines to indict sandwich-thrower

Garrett Owen

A grand jury in the capital refused to indict a man for throwing a sandwich at a federal agent

Parents await news of their children's status after shooting at Annunciation Church on Wednesday morning, Aug. 27, 2025 in Minneapolis. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Minn school shooting: 2 dead, 17 injured

Garrett Owen

The Catholic school shooter was reported to be a male in his early 20s who used three different weapons

Iowa flag (Getty Images/Manuel Augusto Moreno)

Iowa Dem win breaks GOP supermajority

Garrett Owen

Democrat Catelin Drey won an upset victory in a district Donald Trump carried by 23 points

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in "With Love, Meghan" (Jake Rosenberg/Netflix)

The familiar fury at “With Love, Meghan”

Melanie McFarland

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is only the latest in a line of lifestyle TV hosts people love to hate

President Donald Trump answers questions while departing the White House on July 11, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Fox News jumps the shark

Sophia Tesfaye

“Who’s telling the truth?”: Fox plays proof Trump lied and then asks viewers to decide

Donald Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell attend Anand Jon Fashion Show on Sept. 18, 2000, in New York City. (Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Maxwell serves Trump as she did Epstein

Amanda Marcotte

She's using her gender to dupe a man's targets into compliance

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, talks to a reporter during a campaign stop in Cleveland, Oct. 30, 2024. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Sherrod Brown's comeback: Labor says yes

Tatyana Tandanpolie

He lost his Senate seat last year, but union members are all-in on veteran Democrat's new campaign

A barbell being lifted to start a bench press. (Photo via Getty Images)

When fitness clubs recruit for racists

Art Jipson - The Conversation

Active Clubs are a new and booming recruitment tool for white supremacists

Signs point the way to measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District across from Wigwam Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Seminole, Texas. (Photo by Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images)

CDC was silent during measles outbreak

Amy Maxmen - KFF Health News

Emails show overwhelmed West Texas officials asking the CDC how to respond to the explosive outbreak

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