The Supreme Court Sapping Black Voting Power Was Not an Accident

There is a particular kind of violence the court’s majority prefers because the justices can deny it while it is happening.

Inside the $10,000-a-Ticket Conference Where Billionaires Fund the People Trying to Save Us From … Billionaires

She’s 28 now—it’s been more than a decade since she wrote I Am Malala, about speaking out against the Taliban as a teenager ...

So What Exactly Is Going On With the Iran Peace Talks Now?

The continued impasse was predictable. President Donald Trump appears all too desperate for an end to the war. The commanders ...

I Tried to Tell My Husband That Only One of Our Daughters Wanted to Play Soccer. He Didn’t Listen, and Now I’m in a Tough Spot.

This is a newsletter bonus question. Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and ...

My Mother-in-Law Generously Paid for My Daughter’s Gymnastics Class. Then I Learned the Cruel Reason Why.

I thought it was incredibly kind, and we accepted. Delia has been having a great time and already has made several friends.

I Accidentally Opened My Girlfriend’s Tax Return. I Learned She’s Been Lying to Me for Years.

My partner and I have been together for eight years. We are committed to each other, but neither of us wants to get married.

Trump Is in His Ozymandias Era

Everybody knows about President Donald Trump’s ballroom. We saw the bulldozers tear down the East Wing of the White House, ...

My Neighbors All Make My Life Dangerous. They Have No Idea. So I’ve Come Up With a Radical, Silent Solution.

Letter writer, I have lung issues that make it imperative to avoid smoke. I live much of the year in a place where some ...

Does John Roberts’ Whites-Only Childhood Home Explain the Supreme Court’s Callais Ruling?

While John Lewis was beaten in Selma, while Freedom Riders died registering voters in Mississippi, and while President Lyndon ...

Slate’s Mistakes for the Week of May 4

In a May 6 School, Ethan Ris misstated that the annual closure of seven of the 3,227 nonprofit colleges and universities in the U.S. is a rate of 0.02 percent. It is a rate of 0.2 percent. In an April ...

Why Democrats Stand No Chance in the Gerrymandering Wars

Ultimately, the Callais decision is only going to amp up the redistricting wars that were already begun by President Donald ...

What’s It Like to Spend Your Life in the Internet’s Craziest Corners? Ask Will Sommer.

His encyclopedic knowledge of murky right-wing media networks requires a dedication to the canon that few are willing to ...