Some patients claim it "quiets their brain." Researchers have been studying its effect on addiction for years. Does it actually work?

A year after SCOTUS overturned Roe v Wade and wrought suffering and death, Democrats are still really bad at talking about Supreme Court politics.

Slate Money gets an update on college athletics after two years with Name, Image and Likeness rules

Gwen Herzig went to the Arkansas legislature to share her medical expertise. What came next was humiliating.

In the June episode of Future Tense Fiction, Matt Bell discusses his short story “Empathy Hour.”

The Titanic-bound missing vessel that gripped the world and ended in tragedy

Does Amazon make canceling a Prime subscription unnecessarily difficult? The FTC thinks so.

We’ve been friends for more than a decade and I’m hurt to discover our friendship is way more one-sided than what I thought.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. takes his presidential campaign online; Hunter Biden agrees to a plea deal; and Arkansas’s ban on medical care for transgender children is overturned while New York creates a shield for abortion-pill providers. Join Maryland Governor Wes Moore and us for Political Gabfest Live in Washington, D.C., Wednesday June 28, 7:30 p.m., Sixth & I. In-person and livestream tickets on sale now!

Slate’s parenting podcast on when to share the past with kids in the present.

A year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, we ask the head of the nation’s largest abortion provider – now what?

Since the 2022 Dobbs decision ending the right to an abortion, a lot has happened. And it’s worse than we predicted.

Pre-butting his bought-and-paid-for Alaskan fishing adventure story in the Wall Street Journal is… A choice!

What if Anita Hill hadn’t been the only woman who testified against Clarence Thomas?

As the rich flee New York City for the summer, so do their content-making chefs.

We always knew that rainbow-washing was bogus. So why do we miss it?

A new Texas law requires every public school to have an armed officer on campus. But will they really prevent school shootings?

Dana is joined by Slate’s Candice Lim, Sam Adams, and Cheyna Roth to discuss Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, the sixth season of Black Mirror, and the ethics of true crime, inspired by The Atlantic piece, “The Gross Spectacle of Murder Fandom.”

with guest Sequoia B. Holmes, host of podcast Black People Love Paramore

Being stuck in the past might not help us make progress.

One year after a massive sex abuse scandal, America’s largest Protestant denomination has a different concern: women in church leadership.

Leila Dunbar on the true value of memorabilia and memories.