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A Thanksgiving-Themed Dear Prudence

Jamelle Bouie

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I Bought Thanksgiving Turkeys From Popeyes and Bojangles’. It Was a Good Decision.

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I’m Spending Thanksgiving Alone, and I’m Thrilled

Bella DePaulo

Chief Justice Roberts Issues Extraordinary Thanksgiving Rebuke of Trump

Elliot Hannon

Money

What the World’s Most Enraging Personal Finance Diary Says About Capitalism

Jordan Weissmann

Why Has Bitcoin’s Price Fallen So Sharply This Week?

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Wu-Tang Clan’s ODB Is Getting a Cryptocurrency

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Social Media

Facebook’s Ex–Security Head Responds to That Damning NYT Report

Will Oremus

Ariana Grande and Her Mom Got Into a Fight With Piers Morgan on Twitter

Matthew Dessem

Weather

Houston Sprawl May Have Slowed Harvey—and Made It Worse

Henry Grabar

The Conversation Starts Here

The CEO of Cuyana on why Meghan Markle loves her leather totes.

How to Make Fashion Fit for Royalty

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“The First Time I Killed a Man, I Just Could Not Reconcile That”

Rachelle Hampton

An 81-year-old Vietnam vet reflects on his service—and what he’s thankful for.

Movies

The Princess Bride You Don’t Know

Marissa Martinelli

William Goldman’s novel—the basis for his beloved screenplay—is also a thoughtful examination of his craft.

The Surprising Piece of Mexican and American History at the Center of Roma

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“Your husband is underreacting to the point of seeming comatose.”

Help! My Dad Is Making Brisket for Thanksgiving and I Don’t Know What to Bring as a Side.

Help! There’s Another Woman in My Boyfriend’s Life—His Twin Sister.

Dear Prudence Podcast: Help! My Fiancé’s Family Forced Us to Call Off Our Wedding, but I Still Love Him.

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The Surprising Piece of Mexican (and American) History at the Center of Roma

Isabel Torrealba

The Corpus Christi massacre—and the United States’ alleged involvement—explained.

Ariana Grande and Her Mom Got Into a Fight With Piers Morgan on Twitter and We. Are. Screaming!

Matthew Dessem

How to Survive a Thanksgiving Conversation With That Uncle Who Keeps Demanding to Watch an Action Movie Trailer Starring a Wax Statue of Jimmy Carter

Matthew Dessem

The Princess Bride You Don’t Know, but Should

Marissa Martinelli

Wu-Tang Clan’s Ol’ Dirty Bastard Is Getting His Own Cryptocurrency

Isabel Torrealba

Michael B. Jordan Punches Jimmy Kimmel on Late Night

Hailey Gavin

Widows Sneaks Big Ideas Into Genre-Film Form

Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner

Technology

How it’s changing us

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Living on the Edge

James B. Meigs

Just as coastal communities must learn to live with hurricanes, communities that edge up against forests are going to have to learn to live with fire.

Why Has Bitcoin’s Price Fallen So Sharply This Week?

Aaron Mak

Future Tense Newsletter: Privacy’s New Colossus

Anthony Nguyen

How Good Are Amazon’s Black Friday Deals?

Aaron Mak

The Keystone XL Pipeline Is Finally Dead, Thanks to a Court Ruling and a Wanting Environmental Assessment

Jonathan Thompson

Facebook’s Former Security Chief Reflects on What Went Wrong

April Glaser and Will Oremus

The 1951 British Comedy That Anticipated Our Fears About Nanotechnology

Andrew Maynard

What Facebook’s Former Security Chief Says About That Damning Report in the New York Times

Will Oremus

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An honest guide to modern life

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My Ex-Husband Lets Our Daughters Watch Game of Thrones

Nicole Cliffe

How do I get him to stop?

Help! My Husband Wants Us to Host His Violent and Voyeuristic Brother for the Holidays.

Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Is It Wrong to Take My Kids on Vacation When School Is in Session?

Carrie Bauer, Matthew Dicks, Brandon Hersey, and Amy Scott

Interview With an Old Person: John Noble, 81, on Vietnam, Family, and Public Service

Rachelle Hampton

Help! My Dad Is Making Brisket for Thanksgiving and I Don’t Know What to Bring as a Side.

Jamelle Bouie

Why Do Children Love This Terrifying Stuffed Animal They Have to Hatch From an Egg?

Heather Schwedel

Help! There’s Another Woman in My Boyfriend’s Life—His Twin Sister.

Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Business

Where the money goes

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Do New Yorkers Even Want Amazon’s 25,000 Jobs?

Henry Grabar

Even in prosperous times, the city is getting harder to live in—and it’s not clear how HQ2 will help.

What the World’s Most Enraging Personal Finance Diary Tells Us About Capitalism

Jordan Weissmann

What It’s Like to Run One of New York’s Busiest Soup Kitchens on Thanksgiving

Jordan Weissmann

Here Are Four Ways to Handle Debt Forgiveness That Even Mushy Centrists Might Like

Jordan Weissmann

How to Build a Brand for Average Women—and Literal Royalty

Seth Stevenson

Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn Arrested for Underreporting Salary

Aaron Mak

How to Build a Brand for the Average Woman—and Literal Royalty

Seth Stevenson

Houston’s Sprawl May Have Slowed Down Hurricane Harvey—and Made It Worse

Henry Grabar

News & Politics

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Democrats Have Made One Thing Very Clear About 2020: They’re Over White Men

Jamelle Bouie

Or, why Kamala Harris looks like a likely nominee.

Raking the Forest and Other Harmful Disaster Gaffes of the Trump Administration

León Krauze

Fat Shaming Is Inexcusable, Especially When Obesity Is Driven By Social Forces

Mike Pesca

Chief Justice Roberts Issues Extraordinary Thanksgiving Rebuke of Trump’s Attacks on the Judiciary

Elliot Hannon

The 1950s Were Trash. The 1950s Were Good. 2018 Is Much the Same.

Slate Copy Desk

What Happened When the Government and a White Separatist Family Faced Off for 11 Days

Ruth Graham

What Is Robert Mueller Up To?

Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz