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The Last Days of May

June Thomas

The prime minister’s departure won’t solve the Brexit quagmire.

Josh Hawley Now Rivals Ted Cruz as America’s Least Principled Senator

Mark Joseph Stern

I, for One, Am Displeased About Having to Pay for Trump’s New $16 Billion Farmer Bailout

Jordan Weissmann

Hackers Are Holding Much of Baltimore’s Infrastructure Hostage. The City Should Not Pay Their Ransom.

Josephine Wolff

Endless War

There’s Momentum to Repeal the Law That’s Justified Every Military Action Since 9/11

Fred Kaplan

#MeToo

Harvey Weinstein Offers to Pay Millions to Victims in Sexual Misconduct Settlement

Molly Olmstead

Our President

Trump Pushing GOP Donor’s Firm for a Huge Contract to Build the Wall

Elliot Hannon

Weird, Mueller Hoax/Witch Hunt Led to Another Indictment

Ben Mathis-Lilley

How to Do It

I Get Super Turned On by Something That Mortifies Most Men. How Do I Ask for It in Bed?

Stoya and Rich Juzwiak

The Conversation Starts Here

John Walker Lindh’s case kept Americans in the dark about state-sanctioned torture.

The “American Taliban” Goes Free

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Cover Story

My Daughter Doesn’t Know She Has Dyslexia

Care and Feeding

Should I tell her? I don’t want her to feel more different than she already does.

Think You’re Smarter Than Josh Levin?

Ray Hamel

Find out with this week’s news quiz.

Movies

How the New Aladdin Improves on the Original

Inkoo Kang

The live-action version is not overtly racist! It’s pretty fun.

Booksmart Is More Than Just a Gender-Flipped Superbad

Dana Stevens

New Terminator Movie Says “Hasta la Vista” to the Awful Sequels

Natalia Winkelman

She burst into tears and said that we didn’t care about her broken heart.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: The Sister’s Breakup

Help! My Dad Won’t Stand Up to My Homophobic Mom. Should I Invite Him to My Gay Wedding?

Dear Prudence Podcast: Help! My Mother Disapproves of My Big, Expensive Wedding.

Help! I Told a Joke So Bad It Cost Me All My Friends.

Care and Feeding

I’m Gentle With Our Infant Twins. My Husband Is Not. How Do I Correct Him?

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June Thomas

Theresa May’s Departure Won’t Get Britain Out of Its Brexit Mess

11m ago

Molly Olmstead

Weinstein Reaches Tentative $44 Million Settlement Over Sexual Misconduct

4h ago

Strategist Editors

The Antimicrobial Sponge That Tells Me When It’s Time to Throw It Away

4h ago

Nicole Cliffe

Dear Care and Feeding: Should I Tell My Daughter About Her Dyslexia?

4h ago

Ray Hamel

Think You’re Smarter Than Josh Levin? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

5h ago

Mary Harris

What if John Walker Lindh Had Gone on Trial? What More Would We Know?

Washington Post Discovers That Elizabeth Warren Was Paid a Reasonable Fee for Providing Legal Services to Unobjectionable Clients

Jordan Weissmann

Mueller’s Illegitimate Hoax Investigation Somehow Just Led to Another Indictment Involving the Trump Campaign

Ben Mathis-Lilley

My Child’s Terrible Teacher Wants to Know What I Think of Her

Should I be honest?

Carrie Bauer, Matthew Dicks, Katie Holbrook, and Cassy Sarnell

I Get Super Turned On by Something That Mortifies Most Men

How do I ask for it in bed?

Stoya and Rich Juzwiak

Culture

What’s worth your time

View all Culture

What It’s Like to Write a Finale Your Fans Hate

Sam Adams

Battlestar Galactica showrunner Ronald D. Moore has some advice for the writers of Game of Thrones.

Theater Magic

Studio 360

The Live-Action Aladdin Improves in Many Ways on the Original

Inkoo Kang

The Trailer for the Next Star Trek Show Is Mostly Just Picard Chilling in a Vineyard

Marissa Martinelli

Booksmart Is More Than Just a Queer, Gender-Flipped Superbad

Dana Stevens

Game of Thrones TV Club: The Show That Was Promised

Sam Adams, Lili Loofbourow, and Willa Paskin

Terminator: Dark Fate Trailer Says “Hasta la Vista, Baby” to Those Awful Sequels, Reboots

Natalia Winkelman

Technology

How it’s changing us

View all Technology

So You Want to Break Up Facebook

April Glaser

Could you really?

What 3D-Printed Virtual Reality Sushi Might Foretell for the High-Tech Future of Eating

Sophie Haigney

Baltimore Is in the Midst of a Ransomware Attack. The City Shouldn’t Pay the Ransom.

Josephine Wolff

Human Interest

An honest guide to modern life

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What It Felt Like

Rebecca Onion

If “living history” role-plays in the classroom can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning them?

The Antimicrobial Sponge That Tells Me When It’s Time to Throw It Away

Strategist Editors

Dear Care and Feeding: Should I Tell My Daughter About Her Dyslexia?

Nicole Cliffe

I Get Super Turned On by Something That Mortifies Most Men. How Do I Ask for It in Bed?

Stoya and Rich Juzwiak

My Violent Kitten Has Me Living in Terror. How Can I Calm Him?

Nick Greene

By Censoring Arthur’s Same-Sex Wedding, Alabama Public Television Betrayed Mr. Rogers’ Legacy

Ronald Krotoszynski

My Kids Have Fallen Under the Spell of a Narcissistic Theater Teacher

Gabriel Roth

Business

Where the money goes

View all Business

Should the U.S. Trash Capitalism?

Jordan Weissmann

After reading The Socialist Manifesto, I’d have to say no.

Washington Post Discovers That Elizabeth Warren Was Paid a Reasonable Fee for Providing Legal Services to Unobjectionable Clients

Jordan Weissmann

That Astonishing Gift to Morehouse Students Will Teach Us Valuable Things About Debt Forgiveness

Jordan Weissmann

What’s the Difference Between Talking to Donors and Politicians?

Allison Benedikt

How Does the Comedy Cellar’s Outside Steve Do His Job?

Laura Bennett

The Backwardation Edition

Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Anna Szymanski

Where Rich People Don’t Own Cars, Mapped

Henry Grabar

I, for One, Am Displeased About Having to Pay for Trump’s New $16 Billion Farmer Bailout

Jordan Weissmann

News & Politics

What really matters

View all News & Politics

Barr Is an Accomplice in Trump’s “Witch Hunt” Smears

William Saletan

There’s no way to reconcile the attorney general’s behavior with prosecutorial integrity.

Theresa May’s Departure Won’t Get Britain Out of Its Brexit Mess

June Thomas

Weinstein Reaches Tentative $44 Million Settlement Over Sexual Misconduct

Molly Olmstead

Think You’re Smarter Than Josh Levin? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

Ray Hamel

What if John Walker Lindh Had Gone on Trial? What More Would We Know?

Mary Harris

Trump Reportedly Keeps Pushing GOP Donor’s Construction Firm for Billion-Dollar Contract to Build Border Wall

Elliot Hannon

17 New Counts of Violating the Espionage Act Ratchet Up Stakes in Case Against Julian Assange

Elliot Hannon

Notable topics

The Last Days of May

Josh Hawley Now Rivals Ted Cruz as America’s Least Principled Senator

I, for One, Am Displeased About Having to Pay for Trump’s New $16 Billion Farmer Bailout

Hackers Are Holding Much of Baltimore’s Infrastructure Hostage. The City Should Not Pay Their Ransom.

Endless War

There’s Momentum to Repeal the Law That’s Justified Every Military Action Since 9/11

#MeToo

Harvey Weinstein Offers to Pay Millions to Victims in Sexual Misconduct Settlement

Our President

Trump Pushing GOP Donor’s Firm for a Huge Contract to Build the Wall

Weird, Mueller Hoax/Witch Hunt Led to Another Indictment

How to Do It

I Get Super Turned On by Something That Mortifies Most Men. How Do I Ask for It in Bed?

John Walker Lindh’s case kept Americans in the dark about state-sanctioned torture.

My Daughter Doesn’t Know She Has Dyslexia

Think You’re Smarter Than Josh Levin?

Movies

How the New Aladdin Improves on the Original

Booksmart Is More Than Just a Gender-Flipped Superbad

New Terminator Movie Says “Hasta la Vista” to the Awful Sequels

She burst into tears and said that we didn’t care about her broken heart.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: The Sister’s Breakup

Help! My Dad Won’t Stand Up to My Homophobic Mom. Should I Invite Him to My Gay Wedding?

Dear Prudence Podcast: Help! My Mother Disapproves of My Big, Expensive Wedding.

Help! I Told a Joke So Bad It Cost Me All My Friends.

I’m Gentle With Our Infant Twins. My Husband Is Not. How Do I Correct Him?

Theresa May’s Departure Won’t Get Britain Out of Its Brexit Mess

Weinstein Reaches Tentative $44 Million Settlement Over Sexual Misconduct

The Antimicrobial Sponge That Tells Me When It’s Time to Throw It Away

Dear Care and Feeding: Should I Tell My Daughter About Her Dyslexia?

Think You’re Smarter Than Josh Levin? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

What if John Walker Lindh Had Gone on Trial? What More Would We Know?

Washington Post Discovers That Elizabeth Warren Was Paid a Reasonable Fee for Providing Legal Services to Unobjectionable Clients

Mueller’s Illegitimate Hoax Investigation Somehow Just Led to Another Indictment Involving the Trump Campaign

My Child’s Terrible Teacher Wants to Know What I Think of Her

I Get Super Turned On by Something That Mortifies Most Men

Support Slate’s Journalism

What It’s Like to Write a Finale Your Fans Hate

Theater Magic

The Live-Action Aladdin Improves in Many Ways on the Original

The Trailer for the Next Star Trek Show Is Mostly Just Picard Chilling in a Vineyard

Booksmart Is More Than Just a Queer, Gender-Flipped Superbad

Game of Thrones TV Club: The Show That Was Promised

Terminator: Dark Fate Trailer Says “Hasta la Vista, Baby” to Those Awful Sequels, Reboots

So You Want to Break Up Facebook

The Difficulty of Treating a Child Who Has Been Separated From Her Mother

The World’s Measurement System Changed and You Weren’t Supposed to Notice

Why It’s So Hard to Live in California

Future Tense Newsletter: “Undue Risk of Sabotage”

The Whitney Houston of the 3D Hologram Tour Will Be Neither 3D nor a Hologram

What 3D-Printed Virtual Reality Sushi Might Foretell for the High-Tech Future of Eating

Baltimore Is in the Midst of a Ransomware Attack. The City Shouldn’t Pay the Ransom.

What It Felt Like

The Antimicrobial Sponge That Tells Me When It’s Time to Throw It Away

Dear Care and Feeding: Should I Tell My Daughter About Her Dyslexia?

I Get Super Turned On by Something That Mortifies Most Men. How Do I Ask for It in Bed?

My Violent Kitten Has Me Living in Terror. How Can I Calm Him?

By Censoring Arthur’s Same-Sex Wedding, Alabama Public Television Betrayed Mr. Rogers’ Legacy

My Kids Have Fallen Under the Spell of a Narcissistic Theater Teacher

Should the U.S. Trash Capitalism?

Washington Post Discovers That Elizabeth Warren Was Paid a Reasonable Fee for Providing Legal Services to Unobjectionable Clients

That Astonishing Gift to Morehouse Students Will Teach Us Valuable Things About Debt Forgiveness

What’s the Difference Between Talking to Donors and Politicians?

How Does the Comedy Cellar’s Outside Steve Do His Job?

The Backwardation Edition

Where Rich People Don’t Own Cars, Mapped

I, for One, Am Displeased About Having to Pay for Trump’s New $16 Billion Farmer Bailout

Barr Is an Accomplice in Trump’s “Witch Hunt” Smears

Theresa May’s Departure Won’t Get Britain Out of Its Brexit Mess

Weinstein Reaches Tentative $44 Million Settlement Over Sexual Misconduct

Think You’re Smarter Than Josh Levin? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

What if John Walker Lindh Had Gone on Trial? What More Would We Know?

Trump Reportedly Keeps Pushing GOP Donor’s Construction Firm for Billion-Dollar Contract to Build Border Wall

17 New Counts of Violating the Espionage Act Ratchet Up Stakes in Case Against Julian Assange

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