Abortion rights are on swing-state ballots Tuesday. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 4 months ago

The Newspapers Were Never Going to Save Us. | Continue reading


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What's preventing Harris from crushing Trump is shockingly simple. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 4 months ago

Trump election interference trial: Jack Smith's big new Jan. 6 brief is a major indictment of the Supreme Court. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 5 months ago

If Trump is GOP anomaly, why are the denunciations from Republican leaders so soft and mealy-mouthed? | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 months ago

The voting rights situation in some swing states is quite alarming. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 months ago

Kamala Harris compared with Hillary Clinton: Her presidential run is operating on very different terms from her predecessor. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 6 months ago

Netanyahu’s Congress address is already a debacle. So glad this backfired. Hopefully Israel will get up the gumption to retire him. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 7 months ago

Apple: How the company’s 100 Best Albums list proves it’s lost its way. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 9 months ago

NPR: The public broadcaster’s problems are deeper than “wokeness.” | Continue reading


@slate.com | 11 months ago

Elon Musk realized he created a badge of shame with blue checks on X. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 11 months ago

Sam Bankman-Fried 25-year sentence: Why the judge sentenced the founder of FTX so harshly. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 11 months ago

NYC legal weed: Why legal stores are few and far between. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 12 months ago

Supreme Court metadata reveals last-minute change in Trump ballot case. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 1 year ago

Trump immunity case: SCOTUS’ delay is not based on legal procedure, it’s to help Trump. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 1 year ago

When Media Outlets Shutter, Why Are the Websites Wiped, Too? | Continue reading


@slate.com | 1 year ago

Why Quora isn’t useful anymore

a failure of content moderation, SEO spam, bad financial incentives, and a hard pivot to AI, its shutdown is only a matter of time # | Continue reading


@slate.com | 1 year ago

The ’90s art collective that smuggled subversive art into episodes of Melrose Place

Decoder Ring's podcast version of this story is also great # | Continue reading


@slate.com | 1 year ago

Tim Scott 2024 presidential campaign: Will the senator's Christian virgin past help or harm him? | Continue reading


@slate.com | 1 year ago

Netflix’s The Ultimatum: Queer Love is the trashy, marriage-defiling reality show gays have been waiting for. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 1 year ago

OpenAI hearing: Sam Altman charmed Congress but made one slip-up. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 1 year ago

Google’s new generative-AI search engine should terrify the media. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 1 year ago

Supreme Court scandals: John Roberts’ refusal to do anything is the move of a monarchist. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 1 year ago

Facebook recruiters were given nothing to do, and then were laid off. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 1 year ago

Clarence Thomas’ mom still lives in the house the billionaire Harlan Crow bought. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 1 year ago

Twitter Inc. has been merged with X Corp. and “no longer exists,” Elon Musk’s company says in a court filing. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 1 year ago

Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell, are reviving a 1980s tactic for breaking democracy. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 1 year ago

Father wants relationship like dog: parenting advice from Care and Feeding. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

Spare Me the Joe Biden-Jon Meacham Speechwriting Bromance!

The presidential speechwriter is a delicate, hybrid creature. Torn between desire for glory, as promised by The West Wing, and the anonymity required by the job, their ambition is perpetually sublimated. Not only will they never receive spontaneous applause upon entering a room, … | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

Trump Judge James Ho fights lonely battle against censorship in Texas. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

A single judge could outlaw the abortion pill nationwide next week. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

It’s all a game to him—but, actually, it’s also a game with no outcome that matters. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

Clarence Thomas conflict of interest: How the other justices could stop the violations. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

Women voted on abortion. The media got it wrong. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

A Tech Lobbying Group Is Trying to Terrify Parents

It’s a rather desperate move. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

Eight Days on the Gone Girl Cruise

How does this exist? Why is Gillian Flynn involved? Who is going on cruises right now? The answers awaited. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

What Happened to Rod McKuen?

He sold 60 million books and 100 million records. Then he disappeared. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

It appears that some major journalists know very little about disabilities and accommodations. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

Are BAYC nonfungible tokens securities?

A new SEC investigation is just part of a broader crypto crackdown. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

What’s really going on with Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, and Donald Trump

The network does what its viewers want, not vice versa. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

Wikipedia’s Fox News Problem

Wikipedia just finished another round of debate on whether Fox News should be a permitted source for science and politics. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

When an MMORPG has a stronger currency than your country

“There are times I simply can’t bear the sight of the game,” says a Venezuelan who performs tasks for other players around the world. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

A Sweeping Plan to Fix Everything Still Wrong with Student Debt

President Joe Biden’s loan plan doesn’t reform a cruel and senseless system. This will. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

I stopped reading where they say developers “fetishize” interop. Ufgh. No, people EXPECT interop. Imagine an Apple car that could only drive on Apple streets. Interop is as basic as “first do no harm” is to doctors. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

You Are Now a Guardian of Liberty (2016)

The hackers we meet in popular fiction tend to be heroes: countercultural underdogs and self-styled freedom fighters typing furiously on their laptops... | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

A Home Depot “merchant” knew we all needed a $300 set of supersize bones

How a Home Depot “merchant” knew we all needed a $300 set of supersize bones. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

San Marino: The World’s Oldest Republic

In Part 1 of "Big Man, Little Countries," Josh Levin visits the smuggler's paradise of Andorra. In Part 2, he surveys the fast cars and rich folks... | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago

American Spaceflight Entered Its Era of Compromise

Looking back, it makes sense how much Nixon was involved. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 2 years ago