In L.A., We’re Breathing the Ashes of Other People’s Homes
It’s for this reason that in L.A., the fires aren’t “over.” The flames may have subsided (at least in some urban areas; at ...
I’m a Marine. I Can’t Get One Part of the Pete Hegseth Hearing Out of My Head.
I am not saying this will happen. What I’m pointing out is simply that Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense ...
My Wife’s Tendency to Blow Things Out of Proportion Just Reached a Wild New Level
I often volunteer in my daughter’s classroom for holiday parties, and the response from the kids is invariably something ...
Why Nonalcoholic Cocktails Should Cost As Much As Cocktails
What customers are paying for when they order a nonalcoholic cocktail is a combination of service, bartending skill, and high ...
Trump’s Biggest Political Liability Is Hiding in Plain Sight
The Los Angeles Times’ billionaire owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, declared on X that “the Mayor cut LA Fire Department’s budget ...
The Oracle
No one ever was, or ever will be, like David Lynch.
What’s Going On With Fluoride and Children’s IQs?
The new paper is a systematic review and meta-analysis. This is a type of study in which researchers comb the literature on a ...
I Told My Husband How His Favorite Sex Position Makes Me Feel. His Reaction Is Ridiculous.
How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do ...
My Mother Has Made a Ridiculously Unreasonable Demand About Her Visits With My Toddler
My husband and I have a 1.5-year-old daughter, “Erin.” My mother has hypersensitive hearing. When I was a kid, I had to keep ...
The MAGA Mosquito Out for Elon Musk’s Blood
The cracks between the tech broligarchs who are now flocking around Trump and the populist MAGA movement that launched him ...
I wouldn’t wish his fatal flaw on anyone.
Something happened to my brother: I don’t know what it was, and he won’t talk about it. When I left for college, my brother ...
Slate’s Mistakes for the Week of Jan. 13
In a Jan. 15 Politics, Timothy Soseki Kudo misstated that the M1 Garand is a bolt-action rifle. It is a semiautomatic weapon. In a Jan. 15 Politics, Fred Kaplan misstated that Jack Reed is a senator ...