In an Oct. 25 Politics, Scaachi Koul misstated that Usha Vance addressed her husband’s “childless cat lady” comments in an Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson in August. The interview was ...

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My Single Friend Just Confided in Me About What She’s Doing With a Married Co-Worker. I’m Stunned by Her Excuses.

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“Have you any experience with patients who suddenly understood something,” writes Jenny Slate in her new essay collection, Lifeform (Little, Brown), “and then even though they had other ...

With the upcoming presidential election so close, both sides are looking to motivate voters who otherwise might sit out the Trump-Harris contest to come to their respective side. Some of these ...

In our fourth Slate Plus bonus episode from Slow Burn Season 10, host Josh Levin talks with Ian McCaleb, who worked for CNN in the late ‘90s and early 2000s—then left to become a producer at ...

It all started with an Instagram post. On a Monday in October 2023, Jade Hurley was looking for a way to acknowledge Indigenous Peoples Day, an alternative to Columbus Day celebrated by those who ...

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It has been one year since Hamas terrorists smashed through Gaza’s northern border and killed 1,200 Israelis, mainly civilians, and kidnapped 251 more, setting off the deadliest war in the ...

No One Cared More About Storytelling Than This Writer. After His Death, a New Book Assembles the Wisdom He Collected.