Has Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover boosted disinformation, or just fear?

Is the most aggressive antitrust team in decades capable of reining in Silicon Valley?

Slate Money talks about Disney’s CEO swap, shrinkflation and SBF’s media tour

Hulu’s new series, Fleishman Is In Trouble, uncovers how mid-life crisis and divorce are different for women.

Why isn’t the left talking about 303 Creative - a case that could set civil rights back by decades?

Trump elevates proud antisemites Ye and Fuentes; protestors challenge China’s authoritarian regime, and Congress protects marriage equality.

Elon's Twitter had its first test against bad actors from a foreign country. It didn't go well.

Three years of intense lockdowns is proving to be too much—for the people and the party.

As Russia and Ukraine settle into a winter stalemate, they still aren’t ready to try diplomacy.

Law schools are leading the exodus from U.S. News & World Report’s “beauty contest.”

Progressives hoping for a big shift from the Pelosi era shouldn’t hold their breath.

They're billed as a safe alternative to credit cards. But only if you use it responsibly.

Slate Money talks with Fleishman is in Trouble author Taffy Brodesser-Akner about wealth and class.

The future of Twitter, a ghoulish World Cup, and Justice Alito is accused of a pre-Dobbs leak.

The problem isn’t the leaks, it’s the stench

The trouble with Ticketmaster began long before the Eras Tour, with a grunge band’s defiance and a controversial decision from the U.S. Department of Justice.

State ballot initiatives took aim at an exemption written right into the 13th Amendment.

The problem has little to do with illegal immigration.

After decades of growth, tech companies are now focusing on profits.

Building Black love for soccer at the World Cup.

Slate Money talks about FTX and how to gauge the scope of a scandal

Author Gabrielle Blair has a new way of thinking about abortion, and it starts and ends with men taking responsibility for their sperm.

Candidate Trump, election denying candidates lose, and a crypto firm’s implosion shakes the Effective Altruism movement.

There’s a great moral argument. Practically, it falls apart.

Whether it's allowed or not, partisan politics—and all the money that entails—have come to judicial races.

Brackeen v. Haaland could impact everything from child adoption to tribal land rights to native sovereignty.

The road to potentially losing the House of Representatives started with an overreaching redistricting map of the Empire State.

Palestinians in Israel brace as Benjamin Netanyahu returns to lead a hard-right coalition government.

While Wakanda Forever honors Chadwick Bosman, writers are inventing Wakanda’s future.

How will the demise of the second-largest crypto exchange affect the industry?

Slate Money talks about the colossal downfall of FTX

The actresses’s new audio book Inside Voice will make you rethink how you sound.

Midterm surprises; what the midterm results might mean for governance in the U.S.; and the challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act at the Supreme Court

Why he asked the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to review Saudi Arabia's considerable stake in Twitter.

Republicans made gains in the midterms but fell well short of expectations. Why?

When Governor Abbott directed the state to investigate gender-affirming care as child abuse, trans kids and their families had to decide if Texas could still be home. Many left.

What’s put Congress and their families in the crosshairs, and what can be done?

In a state Trump won handily, Democrat Tim Ryan may have found a base.

The podcast, A Tradition of Violence, probes charges of deputy gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Some politicians really understand how to be online, but most don’t.

Georgia & the midterms, the potential for more political violence, and affirmative action at the Supreme Court.

The MAGA celebrity is back in politics and we all have questions.

Brutal inflation, a transient population, and Vegas' powerful hospitality union may tilt the balance of power in Washington.

Colorado may now be a deep blue state.

With three Trump appointees on the court, the end might be near for race-conscious admissions.

What lower test scores are telling us—and what they can’t.

A special episode of the Political Gabfest on the midterm races in Pennsylvania.

COVID may be an inflection point in the relationship between the surveillance state and the surveilled.

By Hands Now Known: Resurrecting stories of segregation’s brutality.

The final midterm sprint; Adrian Wooldridge on the UK’s latest Prime Minister; and Trump’s legal troubles.

The Sanderson Sisters are back, but our reaction to witches has evolved.

No matter what Elon Musk does, Twitter will never be the same

How a lack of due process makes an already-stressful situation worse.

Rishi Sunak is inheriting a party and country that can only manage the decline.

The problems with “push up contest” politics.

The governor’s new map obliterated a majority Black district and triggered a wave of lawsuits, but it’s still in place for the midterms.

Advances towards an effective drug therapy have been uneven and unclear, but there are promising developments.

GOP-backed laws aim to discourage Black voters. Can activists fight back?

Some dire polls for Dems; women demand human rights in Iran; and Arkansas’ law targeting trans kids goes on trial.

Elissa Bassist, the author of Hysterical, explains how society became conditioned to find women’s voices annoying.

If it draws on data from landlords and tells them what others are charging, when does it become price-fixing?

The superstar rapper, now known as Ye, has found a comfortable spot in high-powered conservative circles.

Republicans dismiss America’s cities as “cesspools”—and their legislation is starting to match the rhetoric.

What has changed and what hasn’t, in Hollywood and beyond.

Why one volunteer doctor keeps going back into countries wrecked by Russian bombs.

Talking about the intersection of technology and the social sciences with Ruha Benjamin.

How a bunch of environmentalists want to disrupt the American death industry.

A special episode of the Political Gabfest on the midterm races in Michigan and Arizona.

LA’s racism & redistricting scandal, the Andy Warhol copyright case at the Supreme Court, and Anne Applebaum on Ukraine.

In Paisley Currah’s new book Sex Is As Sex Does, he asks: why do we classify people based on their sexual identity?

Why labor’s success in Staten Island has been so difficult to replicate.

Fed chairman Jerome Powell’s going after inflation aggressively—what’s it going to cost us?

Are voters desensitized to all this dirty laundry?

Hearings will likely reopen with evidence from a Danish documentary on—and personal text messages from—the longtime GOP operator.

Inside the voting rights arguments at the High Court

Interview With the Vampire actor Jacob Anderson sinks his teeth into an iconic role.

A look at the rise of accountability apps in churches.

From real queens to fictional ones, we just can’t seem to get enough.

Section 230 has made it to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court tees up another radical term; Herschel Walker’s abortion lies; and the legal mess Dobbs created for doctors providing abortion via telemedicine.

Why the latest phase of Russia’s war in Ukraine could make him act rashly.

Why House Democrats whiffed on a popular bill to restrict members of Congress from owning and trading stock.

Regulators were told of concerns at a major manufacturing hub months before they took action.

A fifth of Venezuela’s population has fled the country in the last decade. Many are seeking asylum in the U.S.

Critical race theory isn’t taught in public schools. Should it be?

A deep dive into longtermism.

Maybe it’s time to rethink the great separation in sports.

Potential polling pitfalls; Brett Favre and the greater scandal of states misusing federal welfare funds; and Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Italy’s neo-fascist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

As Justice Jackson takes her seat, a court gone wild gets back to work

How a mandatory buyout program in Harris County is upending a decades-old community.

Owners who act badly can expect sympathetic treatment and a departure that’s more or less on their terms.

In years past, Iran’s ruling elite have shrugged off protests as a result of economic hardships imposed by the west. Will this time be different, as demonstrators set their hijab on fire, striking at a core pillar of Iran’s repressive regime?

Warnings for the midterms from a chaotic primary in Otero County, New Mexico.

The war in Ukraine and climate change are forcing countries to rethink their stance on nuclear power.

The documentary Defining US spotlights hard work and hope in diverse schools.

Britney Spears has been released from her conservatorship, but not the public spotlight.

New York alleges massive fraud by the Trumps; Ron DeSantis trafficks asylum seekers; and Dahlia Lithwick’s Lady Justice.

How laws in Texas and Florida take aim at social media companies and how they moderate content.

Five years ago, Hurricane Maria devastated the island's fragile infrastructure. In the aftermath of Fiona, little seems to have changed.

How inaction on climate, curriculum, and right-wing extremism drove one 18-year-old to unseat an incumbent.