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We Have a New Fixation After Mass Shootings. It Won’t Save Us.

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Dear Prudence

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Mark O’Connell

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Slate Staff

The New Kavanaugh Documentary Changes Nothing

It will do one thing, and it will not be pleasant.

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Poker Face Is Knives Out Meets Columbo Meets Natasha Lyonne

The guy behind Glass Onion is back with another smart, snackable mystery.

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Culture

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Sundance’s Brett Kavanaugh Documentary Doesn’t Drop Any Bombshells, but It Does Something Just as Important

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Not even the top-secret film’s makers could agree on what it’s supposed to achieve.

The Banshees of Inisherin’s Writer-Director Has Made a Career of “Irishness.” It’s All a Load of Blarney.

Mark O’Connell

How the Internet Turned a Boomer TV Cop Into an Unlikely Sex Symbol

Cameron Gorman

Women Are Talking, but Is the Academy Listening?

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Tech & Business

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Into the Sparkly Heart of Zazzle’s Font War

Heather Tal Murphy

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Jenée Desmond-Harris

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The Banshees of Inisherin’s Creator Has Made a Career of “Irishness.” It’s All a Load of Blarney.

It’s Only January, but We Already Have One of the Best Movies of 2023

Dear Prudence

My Father Pushed Me Into Sports to Cover Up an Affair With My Coach

Pay Dirt

Watching My Husband Work From Home Made Me Lose All Respect For Him

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She’ll often complain about students who need accommodation, or recently, students who were in a legitimate house fire.

Help! I Wrote to Prudie for Advice and Slate Got One of Its Favorite Directors to Answer Me Instead.

Help! My Father Pushed Me Into Sports to Cover Up an Affair With My Coach.

Help! The Older Librarian at Work Is Out to Get Me.

Help! My Mother-in-Law Wants to Wear Her Wedding Dress to My Wedding

My Adult Daughter and Her Boyfriend Are Mooching off My Pension

It’s Only January, but We Already Have One of the Best Movies of 2023

One of Writers Behind Our Parenting Advice

Help! I Wrote to Prudie for Advice and Slate Got One of Its Favorite Directors to Answer Me Instead.

Help! My Father Pushed Me Into Sports to Cover Up an Affair With My Coach.

My Neighbor’s “Free-Range Parenting” Approach Is Getting Way Out of Hand

Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Associate Writer? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

The Banshees of Inisherin’s Writer-Director Has Made a Career of “Irishness.” It’s All a Load of Blarney.

Watching My Husband Work From Home Made Me Lose All Respect For Him

The New Kavanaugh Documentary Changes Nothing

Poker Face Is Knives Out Meets Columbo Meets Natasha Lyonne

Sundance’s Brett Kavanaugh Documentary Doesn’t Drop Any Bombshells, but It Does Something Just as Important

It’s Only January, but We Already Have One of the Best Movies of 2023

The World Is Done With Hot Teen Werewolves. So Why Does TV Keep Giving Us More?

2023’s First Great Comedy Is Knives Out Meets Columbo Meets Natasha Lyonne

The Banshees of Inisherin’s Writer-Director Has Made a Career of “Irishness.” It’s All a Load of Blarney.

How the Internet Turned a Boomer TV Cop Into an Unlikely Sex Symbol

Women Are Talking, but Is the Academy Listening?

Into the Sparkly Heart of Zazzle’s Font War

The “Menswear Guy” Who’s Gone Viral on Twitter Is Confused About the Whole Thing, Too

An Interview With One of Our Personal Finance Advice Writers

The Unlikely Alliance Between Tech Bros and Radical Environmentalists

Donald Trump Can Go Back on Facebook, but Not With a Big-Boy Account

The Most Brutal Layoffs in Tech Right Now

My Husband Has Astronomical Medical Bills—but We’ve Conjured a Scheme to Avoid Them

Watching My Husband Work From Home Made Me Lose All Respect For Him

My Dad’s Death Improved My Sex Life

I’m In A Straight Passing Monogamous Marriage, But I Feel Queer. Am I A Fraud?

One of Writers Behind Our Parenting Advice

Help! I Wrote to Prudie for Advice and Slate Got One of Its Favorite Directors to Answer Me Instead.

Help! My Father Pushed Me Into Sports to Cover Up an Affair With My Coach.

My Neighbor’s “Free-Range Parenting” Approach Is Getting Way Out of Hand

There’s a Reason You Can Remember Only a Single Dish From The Menu

Three Factors That Could Decide the Already Wild Arizona Senate Race

We’re About to See How Kevin McCarthy’s Most Audacious Concession Plays Out

We Have a New Fixation After Mass Shootings. It Won’t Save Us.

Tyre Nichols, Keenan Anderson, and Police Violence, Post “Reckoning”

Police Charged With Murder in Tyre Nichols’ Death

Critical Race Censorship Comes to Campus

The New Kavanaugh Documentary Will Do One Thing. It’s Not Enough.

Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Associate Writer? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.