Where's _why?

In March 2009, Golan Levin, the director of Carnegie Mellon University’s interdisciplinary STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, invited an enigmatic and famed ... | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

Why it’s so hard to fix banking: An interview with Simple’s exiting CEO

Founder Josh Reich had a plan. Plans change. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

Federal Judge Accused ICE of Making Up Evidence to Prove That Dreamer Was ‘Gang-Affiliated’

Daniel Ramirez Medina, the Dreamer, will now be allowed to stay in the U.S. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

Who will clean self-driving vehicles?

The future is being picked up by an autonomous taxi with a used condom on the floor. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

Twitter will start hiding tweets that “detract from the conversation.”

The company is trying out a new way to stop trolls from ruining your mentions. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

Homeland Security Pick Wanted to Suspend Habeas Corpus, Jail One Million

This seems relevant. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. visited president-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower on Monday. Clarke is reportedly unde ... | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

Why it's so hard to figure out whether health apps work

We need a sugar-pill equivalent for digital health. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

How Augmented Reality Is Going to Change Google Maps

Walking directions are getting a major upgrade. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

Maggie Haberman on Michelle Wolf, Sarah Sanders, Twitter, and Trump.

“It’s an utterly toxic swamp that nonetheless I engage in more than I probably should.” | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

Why is the YMCA Retirement Fund classified as a charity?

Here’s how it became a 501(c)(3). | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

Why dumb recruits cost the Army, big-time

Three months ago, I wrote that the war in Iraq was wrecking the U.S. Army, and since then the evidence has only mounted, steeply. Faced with repeated f ... | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

Introducing the Slate 90: A dive into the multibillion-dollar nonprofit sector

An assessment of the enormous tax-free economy. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

Klout Is Shutting Down Just in Time to Not Reveal How Much It Knew About Us

Remember Klout? Well, now you can forget about it again. Just don’t expect its parent company to forget anything about you. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

Bari Weiss is not glorifying the “dark web.”

Her piece is about the challenges of policing a forum without gatekeepers. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

Why Was California’s Radical Housing Bill So Unpopular?

One mayor called it “a declaration of war against our neighborhoods.” | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

This Is Not the Article Elon Musk Doesn’t Want Me to Write

I definitely won’t mention the fatal accidents, and I promise not to bring up the misleading statistics you’ve cited to defend your technology. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

I Am Pro-Paywall, but the Bloomberg Paywall Does Not Make Sense

Save your $420 for some outlet that needs it. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

New York City Street Parking Is Preposterously Corrupt

Illegal parking isn’t just an annoyance. It’s a business. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

Two philosophers on memory transfer

The story of your life wouldn’t be worth anything if it were merely kept on a hard drive and transferred into someone else’s brain. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

George Mason University's Robin Hanson Might Be America’s Creepiest Economist

He seems to believe that men are owed sex, that women are devious about it, and that it's OK to lightly toy with questions about rape. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

The Media Narrative Around Amazon Is Out of Control

The company’s impact is overstated and its value overblown. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

“Cry Closets” Really Are a Good Idea

This is one college campus idea that has legs. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

They Saved Hitler’s Skull. Or Did They?

Does a jawbone found in a cigarillo box in the Soviet archives really belong to the leader of the Third Reich? | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

The Man Who Perfected the Laugh Track

Charlie Douglass was a virtuoso of laughter. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

What we know about Apple’s AR and VR headset plans

It wouldn’t debut until 2020—so there’s still time for plans to change or fall apart. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

There is a telling moment at the end of the first episode of Occupied, the highly entertaining new Norwegian TV political thriller, now available in th ... | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago

Stop talking about race and IQ. Take it from someone who did

Framing genetic arguments in racial terms isn’t scientific. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 years ago