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Woodward’s Latest Book Seems to Misunderstand Trump’s Central Motivation

Lil Nas X Is a Visionary. That Doesn’t Mean He’s a Great Musician.

You Can Kill Single-Family Zoning, but You Can’t Kill the Suburbs

Even Republicans Don’t Believe Their Arguments Against Biden’s Vaccine Mandate

Gavin Newsom’s Super Easy Advice for Winning an Election

Controversies

A Guide to the Country’s Most Incomprehensible Current Crime Story

The Uproar Over the “Ultimate American Bible”

What the Critical Race Theory Panic Was Really About (and the Data to Prove It)

Norm Macdonald

Only Now Is It Clear What His Memoir Was Really About

Macdonald Never Stopped Bulls––tting

Advice

I Inherited Some Land With a Disturbing History

I Found a Woman With an Incredible Sexual Talent. I’m Worried About What I’m Really Doing to Her.

My Daughter’s Saying Some Worrying Things About Her Mom’s Boyfriend

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

Pandemic

Unvaccinated People Are Not Criminals

Why Is Nicki Minaj Doing This? There Are Some Dark Theories.

The Horror Movie Whose Monster Is a COVID Denier

He's told me that he ‘doesn't know what he'll do’ if I get vaccinated.

Help! We’re Friends With Another Married Couple. I Think the Other Man Wants Me.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: “Ambivalent IVFer”

Help! My Daughter and Her Fiancé Refuse to Pay Rent or Move Out.

Help! My Friends Hid Their Breakup From Me for Two Years.

My Partner and I Are at Financial War Over Iced Tea

You Can Kill Single-Family Zoning, but You Can’t Kill the Suburbs

Lil Nas X Is a Visionary. That Doesn’t Mean He’s a Great Musician.

Woodward’s Latest Book Seems to Misunderstand Trump’s Central Motivation

Dear Care and Feeding: My Daughter’s Saying Some Worrying Things About Her Mom’s Boyfriend

Dear Care and Feeding: My Nephew Threw a Fit Over a Gift I Gave His Brother

I Found a Woman With an Incredible Sexual Talent—but I’m Worried About What I’m Really Doing to Her

Let Me Say This With As Much Sensitivity As I Can: Wow, That’s a Lot of Dead People and Crime

Why Is Nicki Minaj Doing This? There Are Some Dark Theories.

Norm Macdonald Never Stopped Bulls–tting

I Inherited Some Land With a Disturbing History

Charli D’Amelio Has Girlbossed Her Way Too Close to the Sun

Lil Nas X Is a Visionary. That Doesn’t Mean He’s a Great Musician.

Woodward’s Latest Book Seems to Misunderstand Trump’s Central Motivation

Shang-Chi Opens a New Door to the Ever-Expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe

Norm Macdonald’s Memoir Was Mostly Lies, but One Part Rings True

What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Impeachment’s Episode About the Clinton–Lewinsky Affair

The Eyes of Tammy Faye Will Change the Way You Think of Jessica Chastain

“Men’s Rights Asians” Think This Is Their Moment

We Need to Treat Those With COVID Like People—Not Criminals

The Missing Link in Biden’s Revolutionary Solar Energy Plan

I Inherited Some Land With a Disturbing History

The Liberation of Paris From Cars Is Working

The Megadrought Is Forcing Ranchers to Slaughter Far More Animals

What COVID and the Vaccine Really Do to the Penis

You Can Kill Single-Family Zoning, but You Can’t Kill the Suburbs

The Uproar Over the “Ultimate American Bible”

Dear Care and Feeding: My Daughter’s Saying Some Worrying Things About Her Mom’s Boyfriend

Dear Care and Feeding: My Nephew Threw a Fit Over a Gift I Gave His Brother

I Found a Woman With an Incredible Sexual Talent—but I’m Worried About What I’m Really Doing to Her

My Husband Is Grossed Out by My Body Hair

Help! We’re Friends With Another Married Couple. I Think the Other Man Wants Me.

Why Is Nicki Minaj Doing This? There Are Some Dark Theories.

Larry Elder Is Not Going Anywhere

Even Republicans Don’t Believe Their Arguments Against Biden’s Vaccine Mandate

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

Gavin Newsom’s Super Easy Advice for Winning an Election

Let Me Say This With As Much Sensitivity As I Can: Wow, That’s a Lot of Dead People and Crime

What the Critical Race Theory Panic Was Really About (and the Data to Prove It)

There’s No Right to Infect Your Co-Workers

Besties, Buddies, Baes: Black Friends Don’t Mean You’re Not Racist