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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

Police shooting survivor Leon Ford hated cops. Now he works with them.

Life imitates prestige television for George Soros, his sons, and—because of their billions—politics across the world.

Slate Money talks the decline in global economic inequality, tacky beach pictures, and what happened to the Instant Pot.

Justice Alito’s opinion in Sackett clears the way for filling in. paving over, and otherwise threatening millions of acres of wetlands.

Donald Trump is arraigned in federal court and Judge Aileen Cannon is assigned to his case – again; Atlanta’s Cop City is approved; and Elizabeth Gilbert’s book is delayed.

The site wants to monetize its data, but what’s it going to cost?

What week two of not getting punched in the face by SCOTUS tells us about what’s going on at the High Court.

A religious community in Missouri steps up to defend their trans neighbors—and family.

How cultural embarrassment around periods is hurting menstruating people, with author Kate Clancy.

To understand who Clarence Thomas was in the 1980s, you need to hear from the women who knew him best.

How the rhetoric of Christian homeschooling has taken over conservative politics.

The case against the former President is “airtight”, but is that enough?