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Donald Trump Is Bad for the Jews

Dahlia Lithwick

The Bogus Study About Google Manipulating Votes Is a Powerful Weapon for the Right

April Glaser

Paul Ryan Is Sick of Middle America and Moving Back to D.C.

Ben Mathis-Lilley

How the Right Dragged U.S. History Into the Culture Wars

Rebecca Onion

The World

The Grim Worldview Fueling Unrest in the U.S., Hong Kong, and Kashmir

Joshua Keating

El Salvador Court Clears Woman Serving 30 Years for Teenage Stillbirth

Elliot Hannon

Impeach-O-Meter

What the No. 4 House Dem’s Support for an Impeachment Inquiry Means

Ben Mathis-Lilley

Big Tech

Why Did Amazon File a Patent to Put Employees in Cages?

Rose Eveleth

How to Do It

I Found Out My Wife Cheated on Me. Do I Have to Bring It Up?

Stoya

How To Uproot Your Life

Can a professional poker player help a woman decide if she should move her family across the world?

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My Husband Lets Our Kids Watch TV All Day, Every Day

Care and Feeding

This has to stop.

Pose Took a Leap in Season 2

Inkoo Kang

The FX series started as a security blanket. Now it’s a rallying cry.

MOVIES

None of his other friendships with women have ever bothered me like this.

Help! I’m Glad My Awful Husband Is Dead.

Help! I’m Sick of Over-the-Top Grieving From People Who Hardly Knew My Dead Friend.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: The Daughter’s Therapy

Help! My Friend Won’t Stop Demanding I Get Pregnant.

How to Do It

The Moment We Got Married, My Wife Stopped Touching Me. It’s Been 19 Years.

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Matthew Dessem

Spider-Man Exits the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Talks Between Marvel and Sony Collapse

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April Glaser

Why the Bogus Study About Google Manipulating Votes Is a Powerful Weapon for the Right

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Mike Pesca

After 9/11, The CIA’s Brutal Tactics Worked. That Doesn’t Mean It Should Ever Use Them Again.

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Dahlia Lithwick

Donald Trump Is Bad for the Jews

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Rebecca Onion

When Did the Right Become Unable to Deal With the Complexity of American History?

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Marissa Martinelli

A Fourth Matrix Movie Is Real (or Soon Will Be)

The Conservative Backlash Against the New York Times’ 1619 Project

Ashley Feinberg

My Stay-at-Home Husband Is Just Plopping the Kids in Front of the TV All Summer

Rumaan Alam

I Just Found Out My Wife Cheated on Me

Do I have to bring it up?

Stoya

Paul Ryan, Already Tired of the Boring Heartland and Its Dumb Values, Is Moving Back to the Beltway

Ben Mathis-Lilley

Culture

What’s worth your time

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Taylor Swift Is Challenging Saturday Night Live for Custody of “Lover”

Heather Schwedel

“Lover” has squicked us out for generations. Can Taylor bring it back?

Spider-Man Exits the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Talks Between Marvel and Sony Collapse

Matthew Dessem

A Fourth Matrix Movie Is Real (or Soon Will Be)

Marissa Martinelli

Midsommar’s Director’s Cut Draws More (Metaphorical) Blood

Daniel Schroeder

In Season 2, Pose Became One of TV’s Most Urgent Dramas

Inkoo Kang

There Are Two Sides—and Two Trailers—to Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story

Marissa Martinelli

In the New Last Blood Trailer, Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo Is Ready to Harvest Some Human Lives

Rhodes Murphy

Technology

How it’s changing us

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Epstein’s Broken Hyoid Bone Doesn’t Tell Us Much

Jeremy Samuel Faust

It’s still much, much more likely that he died by suicide than that he was murdered.

Why Do Tech Companies File So Many Weird, Alarming Patents?

Rose Eveleth

Mario Maker II Isn’t Just a Preposterously Fun Game. It’s a Whole Language.

Evan Urquhart

A New HUD Rule Would Basically Permit Discrimination by Algorithm

Andrew D. Selbst

Join Us to Peer Through The Optimist’s Telescope

What I Learned by Printing Thousands of Pages of My Facebook Data

Katie Day Good

You Don’t Have to Boycott CVS Over the Birth Control Debacle

Elena Botella

Why the Bogus Study About Google Manipulating Votes Is a Powerful Weapon for the Right

April Glaser

Human Interest

An honest guide to modern life

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A Turn of the Tide

Christina Cauterucci

Period underwear offers girls more than a method of managing menstruation.

I Found Out My Wife Cheated on Me. Do I Have to Bring It Up?

Stoya

This Family Speaks 1,200 Languages

John H. McWhorter

My Fresh Produce Stays Fresh in This Enamel Bowl

Strategist Editors

Can a Professional Poker Player Help a Woman Decide if She Should Move Her Family Across the World?

Charles Duhigg

Help! My Husband Is Prioritizing His “Innocent” Friendship With Another Woman Over Me.

Daniel Mallory Ortberg

My Stay-at-Home Husband Is Just Plopping the Kids in Front of the TV All Summer

Rumaan Alam

Business

Where the money goes

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Who Are These Characters?

Edmund Lee, Emily Peck, and Felix Salmon

Introducing Slate’s Succession recap podcast.

How Much Is Succession’s Vaulter Like Vice News?

Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Ryan McCarthy

Slate Money: The India Edition

Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Anna Szymanski

It Is Criminal That We Aren’t Borrowing Trillions to Fix the Country and Save the Planet Right Now

Jordan Weissmann

Someone Should Probably Step In and Stop the Economy From Tumbling Into a Recession

Jordan Weissmann

Trump Is Delaying Some of His China Tariffs Because of Christmas

Jordan Weissmann

Canadians Don’t Want Americans to Steal Their Prescription Drugs, Apparently

Jordan Weissmann

What’s It Like to Be Hasbro’s “Queen of Monopoly”?

Jordan Weissmann

News & Politics

What really matters

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What Ronald Reagan Can Teach Us About How an … Absent-Minded Joe Biden Might Handle Being President

Ben Mathis-Lilley

Lessons from the last oldest chief executive.

After 9/11, The CIA’s Brutal Tactics Worked. That Doesn’t Mean It Should Ever Use Them Again.

Mike Pesca

Donald Trump Is Bad for the Jews

Dahlia Lithwick

When Did the Right Become Unable to Deal With the Complexity of American History?

Rebecca Onion

The Angle: The Justice Department Is Attacking Progressive Reformers

Slate Copy Desk

Paul Ryan, Already Tired of the Boring Heartland and Its Dumb Values, Is Moving Back to the Beltway

Ben Mathis-Lilley

The Trump Administration Is Coming for Progressive Prosecutors

Maura Ewing

Donald Trump Is Bad for the Jews

The Bogus Study About Google Manipulating Votes Is a Powerful Weapon for the Right

Paul Ryan Is Sick of Middle America and Moving Back to D.C.

How the Right Dragged U.S. History Into the Culture Wars

The World

The Grim Worldview Fueling Unrest in the U.S., Hong Kong, and Kashmir

El Salvador Court Clears Woman Serving 30 Years for Teenage Stillbirth

Impeach-O-Meter

What the No. 4 House Dem’s Support for an Impeachment Inquiry Means

Big Tech

Why Did Amazon File a Patent to Put Employees in Cages?

How to Do It

I Found Out My Wife Cheated on Me. Do I Have to Bring It Up?

How To Uproot Your Life

My Husband Lets Our Kids Watch TV All Day, Every Day

Pose Took a Leap in Season 2

MOVIES

Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story Has Two Sides—and Two Trailers

A Fourth Matrix Movie Is Real (or Soon Will Be)

Midsommar’s Director’s Cut Draws More (Metaphorical) Blood

None of his other friendships with women have ever bothered me like this.

Help! I’m Glad My Awful Husband Is Dead.

Help! I’m Sick of Over-the-Top Grieving From People Who Hardly Knew My Dead Friend.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: The Daughter’s Therapy

Help! My Friend Won’t Stop Demanding I Get Pregnant.

The Moment We Got Married, My Wife Stopped Touching Me. It’s Been 19 Years.

Spider-Man Exits the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Talks Between Marvel and Sony Collapse

Why the Bogus Study About Google Manipulating Votes Is a Powerful Weapon for the Right

Podcast Episode After 9/11, The CIA’s Brutal Tactics Worked. That Doesn’t Mean It Should Ever Use Them Again.

Donald Trump Is Bad for the Jews

When Did the Right Become Unable to Deal With the Complexity of American History?

A Fourth Matrix Movie Is Real (or Soon Will Be)

The Conservative Backlash Against the New York Times’ 1619 Project

My Stay-at-Home Husband Is Just Plopping the Kids in Front of the TV All Summer

I Just Found Out My Wife Cheated on Me

Paul Ryan, Already Tired of the Boring Heartland and Its Dumb Values, Is Moving Back to the Beltway

If You Love Slate, Support It

Taylor Swift Is Challenging Saturday Night Live for Custody of “Lover”

Spider-Man Exits the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Talks Between Marvel and Sony Collapse

A Fourth Matrix Movie Is Real (or Soon Will Be)

Midsommar’s Director’s Cut Draws More (Metaphorical) Blood

In Season 2, Pose Became One of TV’s Most Urgent Dramas

There Are Two Sides—and Two Trailers—to Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story

In the New Last Blood Trailer, Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo Is Ready to Harvest Some Human Lives

Epstein’s Broken Hyoid Bone Doesn’t Tell Us Much

Why Do Tech Companies File So Many Weird, Alarming Patents?

Mario Maker II Isn’t Just a Preposterously Fun Game. It’s a Whole Language.

A New HUD Rule Would Basically Permit Discrimination by Algorithm

Join Us to Peer Through The Optimist’s Telescope

What I Learned by Printing Thousands of Pages of My Facebook Data

You Don’t Have to Boycott CVS Over the Birth Control Debacle

Why the Bogus Study About Google Manipulating Votes Is a Powerful Weapon for the Right

A Turn of the Tide

I Found Out My Wife Cheated on Me. Do I Have to Bring It Up?

Podcast Episode This Family Speaks 1,200 Languages

My Fresh Produce Stays Fresh in This Enamel Bowl

Podcast Episode Can a Professional Poker Player Help a Woman Decide if She Should Move Her Family Across the World?

Help! My Husband Is Prioritizing His “Innocent” Friendship With Another Woman Over Me.

My Stay-at-Home Husband Is Just Plopping the Kids in Front of the TV All Summer

Who Are These Characters?

Podcast Episode How Much Is Succession’s Vaulter Like Vice News?

Podcast Episode Slate Money: The India Edition

It Is Criminal That We Aren’t Borrowing Trillions to Fix the Country and Save the Planet Right Now

Someone Should Probably Step In and Stop the Economy From Tumbling Into a Recession

Trump Is Delaying Some of His China Tariffs Because of Christmas

Canadians Don’t Want Americans to Steal Their Prescription Drugs, Apparently

Podcast Episode What’s It Like to Be Hasbro’s “Queen of Monopoly”?

What Ronald Reagan Can Teach Us About How an … Absent-Minded Joe Biden Might Handle Being President

Podcast Episode After 9/11, The CIA’s Brutal Tactics Worked. That Doesn’t Mean It Should Ever Use Them Again.

Donald Trump Is Bad for the Jews

When Did the Right Become Unable to Deal With the Complexity of American History?

The Angle: The Justice Department Is Attacking Progressive Reformers

Paul Ryan, Already Tired of the Boring Heartland and Its Dumb Values, Is Moving Back to the Beltway

The Trump Administration Is Coming for Progressive Prosecutors

We Need to Talk About Your Ad Blocker

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After 9/11, The CIA’s Brutal Tactics Worked. That Doesn’t Mean It Should Ever Use Them Again.

This Family Speaks 1,200 Languages

Can a Professional Poker Player Help a Woman Decide if She Should Move Her Family Across the World?

How Much Is Succession’s Vaulter Like Vice News?

Slate Money: The India Edition

What’s It Like to Be Hasbro’s “Queen of Monopoly”?

After 9/11, The CIA’s Brutal Tactics Worked. That Doesn’t Mean It Should Ever Use Them Again.