"We're talented and bright/ We're lonely and uptight/ We've found some lovely ways/ To disappoint" — The Weakerthans Here's an eye-opening bit of data: The percent of U.S. college students...
When St. Joseph's Home for the Aged, a brown-brick nursing home in Richmond, Virginia, was put up for sale, in October, 2019, the waiting list for a room was three...
In the weeks after the FBI's Mar-a-Lago raid, former President Donald Trump repeatedly made a simple-sounding but extraordinary ask: he wanted his lawyers to get "my documents" back from federal...
Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users' personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive whistleblower...
On January 6, 2021, from a parking garage under the Capitol Visitor Center, then–Vice President Mike Pence ordered the military to defend the Capitol against a violent insurrection. According to...
As part of the Vatican's war on "modernism" in 1899, Pope Leo XIII condemned as heresy the set of principles known as "Americanism." But, by 1965, at the Second Vatican Council, the Church had begun t
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Y ou walk into a room, but can't remember what you came in for. Or you bump into an old acquaintance at work, and forget their name. Most of us have had momentary memory lapses like this, but in middl
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We have generational trauma . We are living through a global pandemic . We are literally neurodivergent and a minor . We are riddled with climate grief . We are, for one reason or another, unable to c
There's a popular saying among religious apologists: Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything. Bi
You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about so
A review of this week's Better Call Saul , "Waterworks," coming up just as soon as I call this a fish taco, legally… "This guy? Any good?" —Jesse "When I knew him, he was." —Kim In a different world,
In the summer of 2017, after just half a year in the White House, Donald Trump flew to Paris for Bastille Day celebrations thrown by Emmanuel Macron, the new French President. Macron staged a spectacu
As a therapist for children who are being processed through the American immigration system, Cynthia Quintana has a routine that she repeats each time she meets a new patient in her office in Grand Ra
Jobs aplenty. Sizzling demand. If the United States is headed into a recession, it is taking an unusual route, with many markers of a boom. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift ar
I t has taken 30 years for an adaptation of The Sandman (Netflix), Neil Gaiman 's celebrated comic-book series, to make it to the screen, and little wonder. It is a big, bold story of gods and demons,
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images and Dmitrii Kniaginichev/iStock/Getty Images Plus. After the 2016 election, I was hanging out with a group of friends discussing how b
Last Friday AMD surpassed Intel in market capitalization: This was the second time in history this happened — the first was earlier this year — and it may stick this time; AMD, in stark contrast to In
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes I've always thought about my career and my business in 2-3 year "eras." The first era of Forte Labs was from 2013 to 2015, which I call "The Research Era." I entered
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