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Slate’s parenting podcast interviews award-winning journalist, Dashka Slater, on her new book, Accountable.

How the changing financial incentives of the internet make loud and unabashed thirst more fraught.

There's been a rise in high-end pet food, marketed as a healthy, environmentally-friendly option for our pets. The reality is much more complicated.

How the divisive TikTok star shocked us with a bop-filled EP

A book provides a dozen ways to help the world’s poorest people. Will they work?

Inside the draft of a deal between ByteDance and the U.S. to keep TikTok in the states.

Critical Role is an unvarnished success. But what does it mean for the rest of the D&D community?

Is the ghost of your online life destined to haunt your friends and family?

What Lil Tay’s death rumors signal about the child influencer economy.

Why sex workers turned to crypto, and how crypto turned on them.

How an underdog spinoff won back fans of a problematic franchise

Slate’s parenting podcast on the moral panic over screen time.

Richard Hanania exposes ugly truths about the power and politics of the tech industry.

Is it too late for the Worldwide Leader in Sports to get into gambling?

How a viral girl group is using global influences to smash Billboard charts and get stuck in our heads

Is a gun only you can shoot really safer than a regular firearm?

How the internet’s pop star is attacking and losing her fandom

COVID infections are up this summer - again. But it's hard to tell just how bad it is.

An episode of Slate’s Decoder Ring on the etiquette, science, and enduring appeal of a concertgoing ritual.

Elon Musk’s most recent scandal may upend the way we think of an electric future.

With his scouting days long over, a Slate producer enlists his dad for one last merit badge.

AI-generated covers of Spongebob Squarepants singing R&B oldies might be a harbinger of something darker.

Three officials say UFOs aren’t just real; in the military, they’re an open secret.

What happens to those offices when employees don’t “return to work?”