Gender is a verb, and the system it creates is keeping (almost) everyone down.

After a month of fights, strikes, censures, and name-calling, can Kevin McCarthy control his House?

Samantha Clarke on finding fulfillment through balance

On Friday, a mercenary leader began a coup against Vladimir Putin. By Saturday, it was over. But experts say the ramifications - will last a lot longer.

Author Desiree Cooper on the joys and challenges of raising her grandkids.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.”

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?