I Almost Joined Big Law. I Always Knew What It Would Do When Trump Came Calling.
The legal profession is not resisting authoritarianism. It is formatting it. Coaching it. Polishing it for public consumption ...
Why Elon Musk’s Attempt to Play the Media Backfired This Time
Musk did indeed grab attention, and it does seem to have influenced the election—just not in the way he wanted.
Dear Prudence Uncensored: I Think My Friend Would Highly Benefit from Plastic Surgery—And It’s My Duty to Tell Her.
Each week in Dear Prudence Uncensored, Prudie discusses a tricky letter with a fellow Slate colleague. This week, they dig ...
What Elon Musk Won in Wisconsin
Thanks to our opaque campaign finance rules, he’ll be able to funnel as much money as he wants to help the next Brad Schimel ...
Opinion
The Supreme Court Precedent That Should Free Mahmoud Khalil
Khalil's best hope going forward is to rely on a Supreme Court decision won by radical New York lawyer Carol Weiss King.
Slate’s Mistakes for the Week of March 31
In a March 30 Video Games, Imogen West-Knights misstated that Sondheim’s New York magazine cryptics ran in the mid-1960s. They ran in the late ’60s. She also misstated that the cryptic answer REGRET ...
My Son Is Exhibiting Some Pretty Weird Behavior Toward His Little Sister. I Think This Needs to Stop.
My husband and I have a 9-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter. My son is a very responsible kid and has always wanted to ...
I Reported My Colleague to HR. Somehow It Made Every Single Person at Work Turn on Me.
It’s starting to feel like they’re escalating their dislike of me. Since no one talks to me, no one answers my emails, and I ...
A Few Takeaways From Elon Musk’s Utter Humiliation in Wisconsin
But one of the first and most obvious lessons to draw from Musk’s Wisconsin fiasco is that there are real, tangible limits to ...
Who Gets to Be an American This Week?
As the battle between the judiciary and the president continues, we've started a new tracker to understand what's really ...
My Parent Friends Are All Completely Oblivious to the Danger They’re Putting Me In
In the last few years, quite a lot of my friends have had children. I’m 28 and don’t plan to have children, but I like kids ...
Congress Could Stop Trump’s Tariffs if It Wanted To
Why is President Donald Trump declaring tariffs left and right? You can listen to the reasons he and his team provide: to ...