At a time when lawmakers operate from wildly different standards of children’s “safety”, who can be trusted to regulate the internet?

The U.S. claims that Google monopolized search. Google claims that competition is just “a click away.”

Slate’s parenting podcast on helping kids grow up in public.

Burger patties with earrings. Michael Jordan. And so much rapping.

How wellness brands like Bloom are making green powders go viral on TikTok

Between COVID and now wildfire smoke, the case for improving school ventilation makes itself. So what’s the hold-up?

Coco Krumme joins Slate Money to discuss the false promise of optimization.

A Silicon Valley start-up promised to modernize school transportation. Instead, it stranded thousands of students.

Bama Rush Tok has blow up, but there’s something very familiar about these girls…and what they’re promoting.

Tory Lanez was sentenced for shooting Megan, but he’s not the only “Toronto Mans” to do her dirty.

Jho Low stole billions and funded a Leonardo DiCaprio movie.

When it comes to natural disasters, getting the latest news via Twitter or Facebook is, well, disastrous.

Slate Money checks in on the status of work ahead of Labor Day

How TikTok’s e-commerce feature is ruining the app and small businesses

On this month’s episode of Future Tense Fiction, Janelle Shane discusses her short story “The Skeleton Crew.”

She sees every unmarried woman as competition. Is there anything that can be done?

Personal posts, influencers, and cultural cachet, all in a surprising place.

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?