The Best Jokes of 2016

Slate Staff

Dec 22, 2016 11:00 AM

La La Land May Be a Great Movie About Dreams, but About Jazz, It’s a Muddle of Clichés

Ben Ratliff

Dec 15, 2016 12:09 PM

The Most Notable Words and Phrases of 2016

Slate Staff

Dec 09, 2016 9:06 AM

Artists Have Never Had Less Power in American Life. What Should They Do in the Age of Trump?

Adam Kirsch

Dec 06, 2016 9:30 AM

How Daryl Morey Used Behavioral Economics to Revolutionize the Art of NBA Draft Picks

Michael Lewis

Dec 06, 2016 9:01 AM

How Jackie Uses Historical Footage and Re-enactment to Tell a New Assassination Story

Aniko Bodroghkozy

Dec 01, 2016 11:44 AM

Do Video Games Make Us More Cruel?

Laura Miller

Nov 30, 2016 10:12 AM

How We Flouted Copyright Law and Brought the Genius of Company to Our Junior High School

Jordana Williams

Nov 25, 2016 5:45 AM

Why It Was Such a High Wire Act for Late-Night Comedians to Cover Trump’s Win

Andrew Kahn

Nov 23, 2016 11:22 AM

How Moana Uses Polynesian Myths to Create a Prototypical Disney Story

Nate Chinen

Nov 22, 2016 3:26 PM

Four Poems for the Election

Robert Pinsky

Nov 17, 2016 11:33 AM

Prince Hal, Hamilton, and the Art of the Political Compromise

Isaac Butler

Nov 07, 2016 10:56 AM

How I Fell in Love With Horror Movies, and What Their Terrors Taught Me

Donald Fagen

Oct 28, 2016 9:47 AM

The Many Small Successes—and One Large Failure—of the Smithsonian’s African American Museum

Dan Kois

Oct 04, 2016 1:31 PM

Is Your McMansion Haunted? Probably.

Colin Dickey

Oct 03, 2016 5:57 AM

Photos From the Early Days of the Beatlemania

Juliana Jiménez Jaramillo

Sept 28, 2016 4:38 PM

Somehow, Three Seasons in, Transparent Keeps Finding Ways to Get Better

Willa Paskin

Sept 22, 2016 9:45 AM

Why American Girl’s First Black Doll Had to Be Born a Slave

Aisha Harris

Sept 21, 2016 8:30 PM

By the Sea Proves Why It’s Always a Bad Idea for Celebrity Couples to Co-Star in a Movie

Jeffrey Bloomer

Sept 21, 2016 1:03 PM

How Jackie and Barry Both Shore Up and Subvert the Important Person Biopic Template

Sam Adams

Sept 21, 2016 9:15 AM