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Heather Schwedel

Jim Newell

Trump Is Telling Us How He’ll Respond to Future Indictments

Norman L. Eisen and Trevor Morrison

Who Is Matt Rife, the “ProbleMATTic” Comedian Who Just Sent Ticketmaster Into a Meltdown?

Nadira Goffe

Joel Anderson

Money

The Government Is Strangling Crypto

Nitish Pahwa

The Feds Are Going After Binance. It Looks Like FTX but Worse.

Nitish Pahwa

Sports

The PGA Tour’s Grim, Blockbuster Merger

Alex Kirshner

What Went Wrong for U.S. Men’s Tennis at the French Open?

Henry Grabar

2024

What Lane Does Mike Pence Think He’s Driving In, Exactly?

Ben Mathis-Lilley

Beauty

There’s a Perfect Term for What Women Have Known About Their Hair for Years

Heather Schwedel

How to Do It

We Thought Opening Our Relationship Would Be the Hard Part. Not Even Close.

Jessica Stoya

Ben & Jerry’s Is the Anti-Starbucks

Terri Gerstein

My Controversial Workout Habit Makes Exercise Way More Fun

Luke Winkie

Pride

Hungry for Queer Community? Find (or Organize!) Yourself a Potluck.

Maura Ryan

How I Overcame the Idea That Queerness Was a “White Thing”

Amanda Machado

Meet Lou Sullivan, the Pioneer Who Taught the World That Trans Men Can Be Gay

Crispin Long

I feel terrible because my actions are putting someone out of his home, but I also don’t know how to help.

Help! My Friend Kept Up the Same Infuriating Habit for Years. Now She Wants Another Chance.

Help! My Husband Had a Child With Another Woman, Then Died. Everyone Has Opinions On What I Should Do.

Help! My Parents Are Going to Bankrupt Themselves Trying to Pay for My Wedding.

Help! My Boyfriend Doesn’t Know Why He Loves Me.

Care and Feeding

We Want to Take a Family Trip to Disneyland … and Leave One Kid at Home

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Emily McCombs

My Family’s Entire Life Is Based Around Video Games. I Can’t Take It Anymore.

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Jenée Desmond-Harris

Help! My Friend Kept Up the Same Infuriating Habit for Years. Now She Wants Another Chance.

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Emily McCombs

I Wish My Son Weren’t So Freakishly Smart

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Jenée Desmond-Harris

Help! My Husband Had a Child With Another Woman, Then Died. Everyone Has Opinions On What I Should Do.

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Jenée Desmond-Harris

Help! I Accidentally Got My Longtime Neighbor Evicted.

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Jim Newell

Say What You Will About Chris Christie, He’ll Be the Life of the Primary

The Feds Are Going After Binance. It Looks Like FTX but Worse.

Nitish Pahwa

What Lane Does Mike Pence Think He’s Driving In, Exactly?

Ben Mathis-Lilley

Hair Math

The ingenious term that explains what women have known about their hair for years.

Heather Schwedel

The PGA Tour’s Grim, Blockbuster Merger

Getting married to LIV Golf is just business—and a betrayal.

Alex Kirshner

Culture

What it all means

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The PGA Tour’s Grim, Blockbuster Merger

Alex Kirshner

Getting married to LIV Golf is just business—and a betrayal.

The Spider-Verse Proliferates

Culture Gabfest

The Short-Lived, Very Controversial Healy-Swift Affair

ICYMI

Who Is Matt Rife, the “ProbleMATTic” Comedian Who Just Sent Ticketmaster Into a Meltdown?

Nadira Goffe

Tech & Business

Where we’re headed

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Actors Are Already Selling Digital Clones of Themselves for $500. Are Stars Next?

Heather Tal Murphy

I’ve seen the future that terrifies Hollywood actors. Here’s what the tech can really do.

The Government Is Strangling Crypto

Nitish Pahwa

How to Turn Kindergartners Into Fact-Checkers

Kari Kivinen

The Feds Are Going After Binance. It Looks Like FTX but Worse.

Nitish Pahwa

New York Could Ban One of the Most Chilling Tools of Police Surveillance

Albert Fox Cahn and Nina Loshkajian

I Helped Lead the Movement Against “Fake News.” I Have a Big Regret.

Claire Wardle

Apple Is Doing Something Steve Jobs Never Would Have Done

Alex Kantrowitz

Ben & Jerry’s Is the Anti-Starbucks

Terri Gerstein

Human Interest

An honest guide to modern life

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The Mysterious Origins of Modern Yoga’s Go-To Move

Lucy Greeves

Or, why a sun salute feels so much like a burpee.

My Family’s Entire Life Is Based Around Video Games. I Can’t Take It Anymore.

Emily McCombs

Help! My Friend Kept Up the Same Infuriating Habit for Years. Now She Wants Another Chance.

Jenée Desmond-Harris

I Wish My Son Weren’t So Freakishly Smart

Emily McCombs

Help! My Husband Had a Child With Another Woman, Then Died. Everyone Has Opinions On What I Should Do.

Jenée Desmond-Harris

Help! I Accidentally Got My Longtime Neighbor Evicted.

Jenée Desmond-Harris

More Than Marriage

Outward

News & Politics

What really matters

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Trump Blew an Enormous Hole in His Classified Documents Defense

Dennis Aftergut

Say What You Will About Chris Christie, He’ll Be the Life of the Primary

Jim Newell

Trump Is Telling Us How He’ll Respond to Future Indictments

Norman L. Eisen and Trevor Morrison

How Putin’s Chef Became Putin’s Butcher

What Next

June 6: What Lane Does Mike Pence Think He’s Driving In, Exactly?

Slate Staff

Why the L.A. Dodgers Are Somehow Still Enraging the Catholic Right

Molly Olmstead

What Lane Does Mike Pence Think He’s Driving In, Exactly?

Ben Mathis-Lilley

Did Clarence Thomas Benefit From Affirmative Action or Did It Hold Him Back?

Slow Burn

Trump Is Telling Us How He’ll Respond to Future Indictments

Who Is Matt Rife, the “ProbleMATTic” Comedian Who Just Sent Ticketmaster Into a Meltdown?

Money

The Government Is Strangling Crypto

The Feds Are Going After Binance. It Looks Like FTX but Worse.

Sports

The PGA Tour’s Grim, Blockbuster Merger

What Went Wrong for U.S. Men’s Tennis at the French Open?

2024

What Lane Does Mike Pence Think He’s Driving In, Exactly?

Beauty

There’s a Perfect Term for What Women Have Known About Their Hair for Years

How to Do It

We Thought Opening Our Relationship Would Be the Hard Part. Not Even Close.

Podcast

Hi-Phi Nation

A philosophy podcast that turns stories into ideas.

The Digital Future of Grief

If you create an A.I. version of a dying loved one, do you ever really grieve?

Ben & Jerry’s Is the Anti-Starbucks

My Controversial Workout Habit Makes Exercise Way More Fun

Pride

Hungry for Queer Community? Find (or Organize!) Yourself a Potluck.

How I Overcame the Idea That Queerness Was a “White Thing”

Meet Lou Sullivan, the Pioneer Who Taught the World That Trans Men Can Be Gay

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I feel terrible because my actions are putting someone out of his home, but I also don’t know how to help.

Help! My Friend Kept Up the Same Infuriating Habit for Years. Now She Wants Another Chance.

Help! My Husband Had a Child With Another Woman, Then Died. Everyone Has Opinions On What I Should Do.

Help! My Parents Are Going to Bankrupt Themselves Trying to Pay for My Wedding.

Help! My Boyfriend Doesn’t Know Why He Loves Me.

We Want to Take a Family Trip to Disneyland … and Leave One Kid at Home

My Family’s Entire Life Is Based Around Video Games. I Can’t Take It Anymore.

Help! My Friend Kept Up the Same Infuriating Habit for Years. Now She Wants Another Chance.

I Wish My Son Weren’t So Freakishly Smart

Help! My Husband Had a Child With Another Woman, Then Died. Everyone Has Opinions On What I Should Do.

Help! I Accidentally Got My Longtime Neighbor Evicted.

Say What You Will About Chris Christie, He’ll Be the Life of the Primary

The Feds Are Going After Binance. It Looks Like FTX but Worse.

What Lane Does Mike Pence Think He’s Driving In, Exactly?

Hair Math

The PGA Tour’s Grim, Blockbuster Merger

The PGA Tour’s Grim, Blockbuster Merger

The Spider-Verse Proliferates

The Short-Lived, Very Controversial Healy-Swift Affair

Who Is Matt Rife, the “ProbleMATTic” Comedian Who Just Sent Ticketmaster Into a Meltdown?

What Went Wrong for U.S. Men’s Tennis at the French Open?

The Mascot That Changed American Sports

Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Your Friend

Actors Are Already Selling Digital Clones of Themselves for $500. Are Stars Next?

The Government Is Strangling Crypto

How to Turn Kindergartners Into Fact-Checkers

The Feds Are Going After Binance. It Looks Like FTX but Worse.

New York Could Ban One of the Most Chilling Tools of Police Surveillance

I Helped Lead the Movement Against “Fake News.” I Have a Big Regret.

Apple Is Doing Something Steve Jobs Never Would Have Done

Ben & Jerry’s Is the Anti-Starbucks

The Mysterious Origins of Modern Yoga’s Go-To Move

My Family’s Entire Life Is Based Around Video Games. I Can’t Take It Anymore.

Help! My Friend Kept Up the Same Infuriating Habit for Years. Now She Wants Another Chance.

I Wish My Son Weren’t So Freakishly Smart

Help! My Husband Had a Child With Another Woman, Then Died. Everyone Has Opinions On What I Should Do.

Help! I Accidentally Got My Longtime Neighbor Evicted.

More Than Marriage

Trump Blew an Enormous Hole in His Classified Documents Defense

Say What You Will About Chris Christie, He’ll Be the Life of the Primary

Trump Is Telling Us How He’ll Respond to Future Indictments

How Putin’s Chef Became Putin’s Butcher

June 6: What Lane Does Mike Pence Think He’s Driving In, Exactly?

Why the L.A. Dodgers Are Somehow Still Enraging the Catholic Right

What Lane Does Mike Pence Think He’s Driving In, Exactly?

Did Clarence Thomas Benefit From Affirmative Action or Did It Hold Him Back?