- So Is Pete Hegseth a War Criminal?
- What Term Is Used in Scrabble for a Word That Uses All Seven Letter Tiles?
- Want to Know How the 2026 Midterms Will Go? Look at Tennessee Today.
- A Textbook Example of an Unlawful Order
- Are Leonard Leo and Donald Trump Fighting Again, or Just Pretend Fighting Again?
- What Word Is Used for Chinese Astronauts?
- There’s Always Been an Official Story About One of America’s Most Notorious Murders. One Man Knew Otherwise. He Finally Told Me Everything.
- What Kids Aren’t Learning About US History
- Is This Just MAGA’s New Deal?
- The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access
- Haloclasty Is a Type of Physical Weathering Caused by Which Substance?
- MAGA Factions Fracture as Leaders Excuse the Inexcusable
- A Stunning Leak Just Shed New Light on How Cozy the Trump Admin Really Is With Russia
- Why Did a State Supreme Court Justice Put a Fake SCOTUS Quote in a Major Dissent?
- Who Held the Post of U.S. Secretary of State for a Record 11 Years?
- Why You Can’t Avoid Wicked
- The Most Humiliating Failure of the New Trump Administration Has Come to a Sad, Fitting Close
- The GOP Planned Its Midterm Strategy Around Mamdani. Then He Met With Trump.
- According to Friedrich Nietzsche, Which Was “God’s Second Mistake”?
- Could We Get Peace In Ukraine?
- It Turns Out Lindsey Halligan Was a Fake Prosecutor All Along
- Todd Blanche Keeps Humiliating the Department of Justice
- Trump Has Turned the Ukraine Peace Process into a Clown Show
- Dear JAG: What Do I Do if I Get Unlawful Orders to Blow Up Civilian Boats
- Everyone’s Missing the Biggest New Offense From the Epstein Emails
- Which Girl’s Name Can Mean a Sudden Charge Against the Enemy?
- How Planned Parenthood Got Defunded
- We Need More Women in Office—Even if They’re Terrible
- The Prosecutorial Malpractice Coming From Pam Bondi’s DOJ Is Getting Harder to Hide.
- What to Make of Trump’s Insane Suggestion About Hanging Democrats for “Treason”
- Trump’s Border Chief Framed Protesters for Violence. Then the Bodycam Footage Came Out.
- Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Is Basically an Early Christmas Gift for Putin
- Bonus: SchadenFriday: Are You Fitter Than an ICE Applicant?
- Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Culture Writer? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
- South Carolina Tried to Pass a Bill Jailing Women for Abortion. No Republican Voted Against It.
- The Justice Department Unravels: It’s “10 Times Worse” Than We Thought
- This Dissent From a Reagan Judge Is One of the Most Unhinged Judicial Opinions in U.S. History
- Trump Just Issued a Shocking New Pardon. It Won’t Work as Intended.
- Trump’s Foreign Policy Is About One Thing
- His Job Was to Make Elite Greed Look Like a Virtue. His Ties to Epstein Have Made that Impossible.
- Rachel Carson Documented the Detrimental Use of the DDT in Which 1962 Book?
- The Worst Humanitarian Crisis in the World Is Going Mostly Ignored
- Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump Is a Big Deal—but Not for the Reason You Think
- Who Killed the Penny? She Did.
- It’s a Landmark Trial on the Use of Starvation as a Weapon of War. It’s Also Not What You Think.
- She Fights Fascism in the Place Where It’s Scariest. Here’s What She Has Learned.
- Which Imperial House Reigned Over Russia From 1613 to 1917?
- I Went to See the Future of the Democratic Party. I Found Something Far More Entertaining.
- Sudan on the Brink
- This Federal Judge Saw Nixon’s and Trump’s Abuses Up Close. Only One Caused Him to Retire.
- Trump’s Scheme to Gift the GOP Extra House Seats Just Blew Up in His Face
- Republicans Are Suing to Kill California’s Pro-Democratic Gerrymander. They Have a Huge Problem.
- What One Attorney General Learned From Suing Trump 46 Times
- What Is Added to Coffee to Create “Proffee”?
- Have the Epstein Files Broken MAGA?
- Michael Wolff Is All Over the Epstein Emails. He Isn’t Sorry.
- The Duke of Wellington and Russian Noble Pavel Stroganov Have Loaned Their Names to Dishes Made With Which Meat?
- The National Guard Is Asking Questions
- Why It Matters That Trump’s DOJ Got Caught by a Judge Blatantly Lying—Again
- In the ’90s, a Prolific Bank Robber Stumped the FBI. There’s Still One Thing About Her That No One Can Figure Out.
- The Judge Who Quit the Bench to Save the Law
- The Hidden Message Inside Epstein’s Emails About Trump
- The New Epstein Emails Humiliate One Trump Official More Than Most
- Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Website Developer? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
- Republicans Are Ripping a New Giant Hole in the Social Safety Net
- The Democrats Were Winning, But Trump’s Cruelty Forced Their Hand
- There’s a Reason This Time Feels Different With Epstein and Trump. It’s Right There in the Letters.
- The Fight Against Authoritarian Creep Gets Great News From an Unlikely State
- The Highest Point of a Wave Is the Crest. Which Is the Lowest Point?
- One of America’s Most Beloved Restaurants Is on the Brink. People Forget About the Time It Almost Changed the World.
- Wikipedia Enters the Culture Wars
- So Why Exactly Did Democrats Cave on the Shutdown?
- Tucker Carlson’s Latest Conspiracy Theory Takes Things to a Whole New Level
- Democrats Are About to Go All In on Epstein. Will It Work?
- The Battle of Pittsburg Landing Is Also Known by Which Other Name?
- He Chased Mamdani for Months. Here’s How He Knew He Was Going to Win.
- No, Women Didn’t Ruin the Workplace
- Trump’s Biggest Voting Bugaboo Reached the Supreme Court. Should We Be Worried?
- In Music Notation, Which Note Is on the Third Line of a Treble Clef?
- The New Argument Against Birth Control That Could Appeal Directly to RFK Jr.
- How To Lose a Government Shutdown
- How the Supreme Court Exposed the Most Obvious Hidden Truth About Trump’s Tariffs
- The Real Reason Kim Davis Never Stood a Chance at the Supreme Court
- What Color Takes Its Name From the French Word for “Chestnut”?
- Is Special Ed Getting Left Behind?
- An Expert on Hamas Explains Why the Group Isn’t Going Anywhere
- DOJ Had Its First Big Hearing in a “Trump Enemy’’ Prosecution. The Judge Was Not Pleased.
- The Supreme Court’s Anti-Trans Passport Decision Is Both Mystifying and Malicious
- Federal Judge Uses Trump’s Own Words To Prove DOJ Was Defying His Court Order
- Pete Hegseth Takes On the Military-Industrial Complex. (Guess Who’s Likely to Win?)
- The Supreme Court Might Actually…Say No to Trump?
- The Sandwich Guy’s Verdict Sent Exactly the Right Message to Trump
- Bonus: SchadenFriday | Muslim, Millennial, Mr. Mayor Mamdani
- This Progressive Group Was Declared Dead Last Year. It Racked Up Wins on Tuesday.
- Nancy Pelosi Represented the Best of the Democratic Party—and Also Came to Embody Its Two Giant Flaws
- Think You’re Smarter Than a Senior Producer for What Next? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
- Voters Repudiate Trump Administration in Resounding Fashion
- Gavin Newsom Just Proved It: Voters Want Democrats to Fight Fire With Fire
- What Is the Common Name for Magnesium Sulfate?
- Her Husband Claimed She Was Murdered by the Mob. Hollywood Made a Hit Film About It. The Truth Was Far Darker.
- Trump’s Tariffs Have a Constitution Problem
- MAGA’s Reaction to Mamdani’s Win Is a Dark Sign of What’s to Come
- The Supreme Court’s Tariffs Arguments Were a Bloodbath for Trump
- Democrats Just Won Big in Races Across the Country. What Does That Mean for the Midterms?
- Zohran Mamdani Won. I Spent the Evening With the People Angriest About It.
- I Watched Mamdani’s Win from His Favorite Restaurant. What I Saw Was Revealing—and Inspiring.
- Americans Fought in the Battle of Palo Alto During Which War?
- The Andrew Formerly Known as a Prince
- Republicans Just Lost a Statewide Election in Pennsylvania. What Does That Mean for the Future?
- It Turns Out You Can Fantasize About Your Colleague’s Kids Getting Shot and Still Win An Election
- Goodbye and Good Riddance, Andrew Cuomo
- Where Things Really Went Wrong for Dick Cheney
- The Key Filing in the Supreme Court Tariff Case Could Have Been Written by Trump Himself
- She Won Her Election. Mike Johnson Won’t Swear Her In.
- What Was the Surname of the Families on Wizards of Waverly Place and Blossom?
- I Regret to Inform You That I’m Coming Around on Gavin Newsom
- She Won the Election. The GOP Won’t Swear Her In.
- Trump Is Threatening to Run for a Third Term. Can the Courts Stop Him?
- This Mayoral Race Will Tell Us a Lot About the Future of the Democratic Party. No, It’s Not New York’s.
- An Eighth Grader Could Figure Out the Supreme Court Tariffs Case
- Semester Comes From a Latin Word Referring to Which Period of Time?
- Peace in Gaza May Now, Unfortunately, Come Down to Trump
- The Redistricting Arms Race Is On
- Never Before In American History Have Federal Courts Been Tested In This Way.
- The DOJ Lied Its Way to Victory in a Key Trump Case. It Just Got Caught in Court.
- Tucker Carlson Gave a Softball Interview to a Neo-Nazi. Republicans Are Having a Meltdown—but Not for the Reason You’d Think.
- Trump’s “Election Observers” Are a Sign of Something Much Worse on the Horizon
- Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Senior Editor? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
- The Greatest Threat to Election Day Is Also the Least Popular Policy in America
- Political Gabfest Celebrates 20 Years with Special Guest Rahm Emanuel
- The Supreme Court’s Surprise Move in Its Latest Trump Case Reveals Something Important
- What to Make of Trump’s Wild Nuclear Threat
- In Which Kitchen Device Are You Most Likely to Find a Magnetron?
- I Went to the Spot Where Charlie Kirk Was Killed. It Was a Haunting Vision of What’s Coming.
- How Will We Feed Our Neighbors?
- I Grew Up Muslim in New Jersey After 9/11. I Know Why Attacking Zohran Works.
- How Will You Know That America Has Become a Dictatorship? After 20 Years Living in One, I Can Tell You.
- The Castelo de São Jorge da Mina Played a Major Role in the Slave Trade in Which Country?
- He’s on Trump’s Enemies List. Now He’s Asking to Testify Before Congress.
- The Volunteers Taking on ICE
- Which Cartoon Character Appeared in Commercials for Owens Corning?
- Where Sports Betting Got Us
- Make No Mistake: This Is One of the Most Serious Developments of Trump’s Second Term
- In Which Room of Your House Would You Most Likely Use a Mezzaluna?
- I Went Door-to-Door With Zohran Canvassers. What People Said Surprised Me.
- Shutting Down and Finding Out
- These Judges Are Warning Us We’re on the Fast Track to Martial Law
- Demolition Man
- Trump’s $230 Million DOJ Shakedown Has One Absurd Twist
- There’s a New, Trump-Friendly Pentagon Press Corps. Let’s Have a Look at Their Greatest Hits.
- Bonus: The Scariest Halloween Costume
- Think You’re Smarter Than a What Next Producer? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
- Trump Demands $230 Million, Poops on Protestors, & Razes White House
- These Cases Prove It: The Castle Doctrine Is a Racist Lie
- Now Is Not the Time for Federal Judges to Be Removing ICE Skeptics From Jury Selection
- Every Now and Then, Trump Seems to Have a Flash of Insight About Putin
- Which Infection Is Also Known as “Kissing Bug” Disease?
- How Can Democrats Make Their Comeback? A Candidate Who Also Lost in 2024 Might Actually Have Some Answers.
- Is the Peanut Allergy Dead?
- Which Amendment in the Bill of Rights Addresses a Person’s Right to an Attorney?
- Do “No Kings” Protests Work in Places Where Trump Is Indeed King?
- Why So Many Racist Group Chats?
- Are You Confused About the Oysterman-Turned-Democratic Senate Candidate With a Nazi Tattoo? I’m Here to Help.
- Why Is the U.S. Sinking Boats Off Venezuela? There Are More Questions Than Answers.
- What Hamilton—and the Book It’s Based On—Missed About Eliza and Angelica Schuyler
- Trump’s Crackdown on Portland Is Bad Enough. One Judge Has a Plan to Make It Worse.
- This Former Supreme Court Justice Is Trying to Salvage His Legacy. It’s Too Late.
- Trump’s Most Reviled Voting Company Sold to a GOP Official. That’s Not the Worst of It.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Condemned the Novels Justine and Juliette by Which Author?
- How Trump Is Winking at the Anti-Abortion Movement While Seeming to Support IVF
- The Trump Doctrine in Latin America
- The Supreme Court Has a New Leading Moral Light on the Death Penalty
- Are Democrats Already Fumbling a Win?
- What Would You Do With a Charabanc?
- The Supreme Court’s Arrogance Is Creating Surprising Problems for Trump
- We Interviewed an Anti-Trump Inflatable Frog. It Made Some Great Points.
- The One Possible Bright Spot in the Supreme Court’s Massive Voting Rights Act Case
- Here’s What it Looks Like When Vladimir Putin Controls Your Child’s Classroom
- The Voting Rights Act Is in Brett Kavanaugh’s Hands. God Help Us.
- This Voting Rights Battle Is The Biggest Case Of The Term
- Trump Is Exploiting the Shutdown to Set Up Something Truly Terrifying
- Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Staff Writer? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
- America’s Top Gun-Control Group Is Teaching People How to Use Guns. Survivors Are Furious.
- Gaza Ceasefire Brings Relief and Uncertainty About Future Peace
- Democrats Have One Brutal Path to Survival if the Supreme Court Kills the Voting Rights Act
- Why Couldn’t Biden Get the Results Trump Just Did in the Middle East?
- What Is an Alternate Name for the Condition Called Hyperopia?
- It’s the Governor vs. the Oysterman, and Democrats’ Pick Will Tell Us a Lot About the Party’s Future
- He Wrote a Book in 2017. It Became the Reason He Had to Leave America in 2025.
- What Happens If Trump Gives the Military an Unlawful Order?
- Is It Cool to Say “I Love Hitler”? The Republican Party Is Trying to Decide.
- The Supreme Court Is Poised to Rule That It’s Racist to Remedy Racism
- Marjorie Taylor Greene Keeps Breaking With Her Party. What’s Going On?
- Which French King Was Known as “the Universal Spider”?
- He Fought Trump’s Texas Power Grab. Now He’s Defending Himself in Court.
- He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.
- Time for a Blue-State “Soft Secession”?
- Donald Trump May Have Already Sabotaged His Own DOJ Revenge Tour
- The Supreme Court Might Net Republicans 19 Congressional Seats in One Fell Swoop
- AOC Wants Us to Mock Stephen Miller’s Height. Is That a Good Idea?
- One of the Worst Cases of This Supreme Court Term Has Been Years in the Making
- The Hodag Is a Cryptozoological Creature Found in the Northern Region of Which U.S. state?
- A Heinous “Treatment” for LBGTQ+ Youth Is Poised for a Comeback—Thanks to the Supreme Court
- Everything’s Coming Up Bari
- The True Crime Stories You See on TV Are Leaving Out Something Big
- The Word Vaccine Is Derived From the Latin Word for Which Animal?
- Marjorie Taylor Greene, Welcome to the Resistance
- Trump Wants to Use American Cities as a “Training Ground.” It’s Becoming Clear Why.
- The Real Reason Trump Forced Netanyahu’s Hand on a Gaza Ceasefire
- Bonus: SchadenFriday: Portland Puts A Frog On It
- Trump’s Plan for a Secret Police Force Loyal to Him Alone Isn’t Playing Well in Court
- I Enforced Voting Rights for the DOJ. The Supreme Court and Trump Have Teamed Up to Level Them.
- Dear Jurisprudence: Wait, the Supreme Court Might Let Trump Fire Anyone He Wants?
- Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Senior Director of Podcast Operations? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
- Joe Biden Was Always Doomed
- It’s the Place for Immigrants Who Do Things “the Right Way.” ICE Has Turned It Into Hell.
- Trump Weighs Invoking Insurrection Act Over Protests He Doesn’t Like
- Brett Kavanaugh Is Leading the Supreme Court’s Embrace of Alternative Facts
- Dear Jurisprudence: I Thought Lawyers Weren’t Allowed to Lie in Court?
- Which Bird Is the Smallest Member of the Falcon Species in North America?
- Yes, Maybe Cutting Medicaid for Millions of People Will Result in Some Yelling
- The People Joining ICE
- Texas Has Scheduled the Execution of an Innocent Man in One Week. Will Anyone Stop It?
- The New York Prison System Is Facing a Potential Disaster “Unprecedented Since Attica”
- Which Country Was Governed by the Eldest Grandchild of England’s Queen Victoria?
- He Was Living Quietly in a Tent. Then Trump Made Him a Target.
- Inside the Portland “War Zone”
- Republicans Are Selling “Ethical IVF.” It’s a Scam.
- With One Damning Question, Ketanji Brown Jackson Defined the Supreme Court’s New Term
- The Supreme Court Is Being Tested on History Once Again
- Clarence Thomas Accidentally Laid the Groundwork for Reviving Affirmative Action
- Conservatives Love Him. Liberals Actually Listen to Him. How Does Ross Douthat … Do That?
- Which of the March Sisters in Little Women Was a Tomboy Who Challenged Conformity?
- The National Failure at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Story
- Is the Gaza Deal Real?
- It’s Hard to Overstate How Disturbing This Trump Directive Is
- The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake
- Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates Had a Good Talk. The Backlash Was Revealing.
- I Was Put on Death Row at 17 for a Crime I Didn’t Commit. Here’s the Story of My Trial.
- Which Shape Is a Piece of Art Referred to as a Tondo?
- Trump Keeps Winning at the Supreme Court. There Are Two Convincing Theories Why.
- It Feels as if Liberal Justices Are Powerless. But Their Dissents Can Actually Get Us Out of This.
- When You’re a Justice They Let You Do It
- Democrats’ Shutdown Strategy Might Actually Work Out
- SCOTUS Is About To Make Trump’s Dreams Come True
- MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.
- Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Director of Media Relations? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
- Hegseth & Trump Stage Awkward Display of Military Fealty for US Public
- One Man’s Story Shows Just How Out of Touch Brett Kavanaugh Is
- The Right Wanted a MAGA Pope. Let’s Check In on How That’s Going.
- Which Organ Is Divided Into a Head, Neck, Body, and Tail?
- The Supreme Court Will Do Four Things This Term That Tell You Everything You Need to Know
- Actually the Government Shut Down Months Ago
- What the Government Shutdown Is Really All About
- The Story of This Supreme Court Term Is Already on YouTube
- Twenty Thoughts on the Government Shutdown
- There’s a New Lawsuit Against “Kavanaugh Stops.” It’s Absolutely Devastating.
- Who Was the Last President of Germany’s Weimar Republic?
- This Is the Moment Christian Nationalists Have Been Waiting For
- The Shutdown Is Here. Will Democrats Be Blamed for It?
- The Department of War…From Within
- Money Talks: How Basquiat’s Art Became a Good Investment
- Trump Might Have Just Signaled a Momentous Change on Abortion
- Democrats Caved to Keep the Government Open in March. Now They’re Changing Their Tune.
- Trump Just Gave the Military an Extremely Sinister Mission
- Which Member of the Kennedy Clan Established the Special Olympics?
- Trump’s Revenge Tour Is Here
- Goodbye to Trump’s Most Embarrassing Flunky
- Trump Made It Sound as if He’s Secured Peace in Gaza. Not So Fast.
- How the Supreme Court Gave Cover to Stephen Miller’s Racist Agenda
- Why a U.S. Army Vet Joined the Gaza Flotilla
- Trump Just Promoted One of the Nation’s Cruelest Conspiracy Theories
- The Most Egregious Distortion in Amy Coney Barrett’s New Book
- The Gaza Flotilla That’s Under Attack
- The Adjective Lupine Refers to Which Kind of Animal?
- How SCOTUS’ Affirmative Action Decision Fundamentally Changed College Campuses.
- You’re Comparing Trump to the Wrong Fascist Dictator
- Trump Is Out for Revenge. His Former Legal Team Is Helping Him Get It.
- The Comey Indictment Is Just the Beginning
- The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Constitution to Give Trump Terrifying New Powers
- The Charges Against Jim Comey Are Even More Trumped Up Than You’d Imagine
- Bonus: The Senator Calling Trump’s Bluff
- This Poem Explains Why Jim Comey Got Indicted and Why None of Us Are Safe
- Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Associate Editor? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
- Trump Seemed to Change His Tune on Russia and Ukraine This Week. What’s Really Going On?
- Man with No Medical Expertise Gives Pregnant Women Pain Advice
- Trump’s Tylenol Guidance Marked a Terrifying Shift in American Public Health
- Which Brothers Launched the First Free-Flight Ascent of a Hot-Air Balloon Carrying Humans?
- Jimmy Kimmel Got His Job Back. She Didn’t.
- Trump Is Trying to Memory-Hole One of the Most Important Historical Images of Slavery
- Charlie Kirk’s Group Held Its First Post-Assassination Campus Tour Event. It Was Extreme—and Revealing.
- One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Was the Lighthouse in Which City?
- A Surgeon in Gaza’s “End Game”
- This Idea Threatened to Tear MAGA Apart. Trump Just Picked a Side.
- She Was a Charlie Kirk Disciple. She Knows How Democrats Can Win Back Young Republicans.
- The Leader Behind the “Biggest Plot Twist in History” Is About to Step on the U.N. Stage
- This Might Be Trump’s Most Bonkers Speech Yet
- Calaveras County Hosts an Annual Contest That Features Which Jumping Animal?
- Trump’s Attack on Visas
- The Supreme Court Just Knocked Down One of the Final Guardrails Against Dictatorship
- Nobody Wants to Talk About Charlie Kirk’s Actual Legacy
- She’s 23. She’s One of Gaza’s Most Influential Journalists. Now She’s Telling Her Own Story.
- The Supreme Court Says the Constitution Is Colorblind, Unless ICE Is Searching You
- Which Term Refers to an Exclusive Group of People With a Common Interest?
- How Big Media Obeys in Advance
- If the FCC Chairman Is the Story of the Week, Something Has Gone Really Wrong
- Trump’s State Media Is Bulldozing the First Amendment
- This Is the Most Withering Indictment of the Supreme Court Ever By a Sitting Judge
- The Biggest Difference Between the Trump Era and the Obama Era
- Think You’re Smarter Than Ben Mathis-Lilley? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
- Jimmy Kimmel Pulled Off Air as Government Intimidation Chills Speech
- MAGA Has a New Defense for Trump Trampling the First Amendment. Don’t Fall For It.
- No, the Supreme Court Did Not Give Trump a License to Silence Jimmy Kimmel
- If We Are Descending Into Fascism, This Little-Noticed Moment Will Prove Pivotal
- Which Type of Chemical Compound Exhibits Properties of Both an Acid and a Base?
- He’s the Democrats’ Latest Great Hope. But How Does He Fare in a Podcast Studio?
- Trump’s Getting His Economy. Yikes.
- If You Can Believe It, Senate Republicans Are Probing a Trump Scandal
- One Republican Has Been More Two-Faced About Charlie Kirk’s Critics Than Any Other
- Which Republican Was Named Time’s Man of the Year in 1944 and 1959?
- Can Kash Patel Survive This?
- He Was One of the First Swept Up in Donald Trump’s Darkest Agenda. If You Thought It Was Over, You Were Wrong.
- Trump Plan to Reduce “Fraud” in the Citizenship Test Will Actually Increase It
- Trump’s Doomed “Golden Dome” Isn’t Even Our Worst Military Boondoggle Right Now
- The Number 4 Is the First Digit of All Accounts Associated With Which Major Credit Card?
- Something Vital Is Missing From Our Discussions of Charlie Kirk’s Death
- Who’s Winning the War on Higher Education?
- J.D. Vance Said Some Pretty Serious Things on Charlie Kirk’s Podcast Today
- Ron DeSantis Plans to Execute an Intellectually Disabled Man This Week
- The Little-Discussed Reason Brett Kavanaugh Is Comfortable Greenlighting Racial Profiling
- There’s a Legal Loophole That Trump Can Wield Against Any Naturalized Citizen
- The Word Taboo Comes From Which Language?
- I Won a $5 Million Judgment Against the MyPillow Guy. Now I’m Taking Him to the Supreme Court.
- Hasan Piker Knew Charlie Kirk
- The Case for Retaining Faith in Courts That Trump Is Slowly Corrupting
- Florida’s Latest Death Penalty Innovation Is Absolutely Horrifying
- The Supreme Court Just Signaled Something Deeply Disturbing About the Next Term
- What Is the Meaning of the Word Sagacity?
- Was Democracy Voted Out?
- These Three Judges Might Just Restore Your Faith in the Courts
- Trump’s Official Trade Policy Is to Be As Incoherent As Possible
- A Federal Judge Just Called Out the Trump Administration for Lying to the Supreme Court
- The EPA Just Issued Its Most Damaging Climate Change Move Ever
- Bonus: When the French Bombed Greenpeace
- Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Politics Editor? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
- Elon Musk Pretty Much Has a Monopoly on Space. We Have Obama to Thank.
- RFK Jr.’s Movement Is Hurting Children. I See It Every Day at Work.
- The Gaza Humanitarian Crisis
- How Trump Made One of the Most Controversial Post-9/11 Policies the New Normal
- American Abortion Policy Will End Up in the Hands of This 34-Year-Old Trump Appointee
- Which Is the First and Shortest Geologic Period of the Mesozoic Era?
- Democrats Need a Plan. Instead They’re Running for President.
- How Elon Musk Colonized NASA
- Why Trump Hasn’t Been Able to End the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza
- Trump’s New Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship Would Put ICE in Maternity Wards
- Republicans Just Confirmed Trump’s Most Ghastly Nominee. Democrats Made It Possible.
- What Was the Nickname of President Andrew Jackson?
- He’s Backing Losers and Infuriating the DNC. It Might Be Exactly What Democrats Need.
- Why Are So Many Institutions Caving to Trump?
- A Federal Judge May Have Just Saved Planned Parenthood
- When I Worked at Donald Trump’s Casino, He Walked In With Jeffrey Epstein—and a Teenager Not Old Enough to Be There
- Which Band Was the First British Group to Score a No. 1 Song in the U.S.?
- This YouTube Channel Has Cracked the Code to Virality. But at What Cost?
- Trans and Shut Out in Trump’s America
- The Deep Irony of the Epstein Scandal Finally Coming Home to Roost
- The Dashcam Video of His Violent Arrest Has Gone Viral. Why He Decided to Record It.
- Which of the Following Is the Subject of Study in Anemology?
- Why The Shelves Aren’t Empty (Yet)
- Republicans May Come to Regret Trump’s Columbia Shakedown
- How Serious Is This Epstein Stuff for Teflon Trump? Here’s One Indicator.
- Bonus: Columbia’s Capitulation Starts a Disturbing New Chapter
- There’s a Playbook for Authoritarianism. Trump Is Speed-Running It.
- The Main Obstacle Keeping Congress From Getting Answers on Epstein
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- Millions of Americans Need These Drugs. RFK Jr.’s Minions Have Them in Their Crosshairs.
- Texas Republicans Redraw District Maps to Gain Seats in Congress
- Pete Hegseth Illustrates a Key Weakness of the Trump Administration
- Where Did Things Go So Wrong for Trump on the Epstein Story? We Can Pinpoint It Exactly!
- The Supreme Court Is Now Asking Judges to Do the Impossible
- Which Fabric Name Is Used for the Tissue That Grows on Deer Antlers?
- American Police Have Turned Away From This Terrifying, Chaotic Practice. ICE Is Embracing It.
- He Says Gaza Is a Genocide
- The Public Is Losing Patience With Trump on Immigration. Your Move, Congress.
- Donald Trump Might Have Just Made the Epstein Story a Hundred Times Worse
- What Trump and Pam Bondi Are Doing in New Jersey Is a Bigger Deal Than You Think
- Large Stone Carved Heads, Believed to Belong to the Olmecs, Are Found Across Which Country?
- How Dead Is the Department of Education?
- Could This Supreme Court Restrain Trump Even if It Wanted?
- What Is the Slang Term for the Final Card Turned Over in Texas Hold ‘Em?
- The Man Who Brought You Trump Bibles in Schools Is Truly Back at It Again
- In 1985, a Group of Spies Had a Target—and a Plan. It Turned Into One of the Most Sensationally Botched Crimes of the Century.
- On Epstein, Democrats Go Low
- Pam Bondi Knows Her Latest Epstein Move Will Fail
- All These Stories About Trump Making the Epstein Files a Winning Issue Have a Funny Thing in Common
- The Central Myth That the Supreme Court Wants You to Believe
- The True Purpose of Stephen Miller’s Reign of Terror
- The Word Rubric Comes From the Latin Word for Which Color?
- For One Brief and Shining Moment, Fashionable Women Faked Looking Pregnant
- Getting Anti-Vaxxers To Roll Up Their Sleeves
- Why Is Epstein the Deal-Breaker for Some of Trump’s Base? We Have a Theory.
- The SCOTUS Guide To Building A Police State
- SCOTUS Shadow Docket Greenlights Trump’s Lawlessness Again
- A Rising Democratic Star Just Became a New Anti–Death Penalty Hero
- Republicans Are Trying to Turn Biden’s Autopen Use Into a Huge Scandal. Here’s the Truth.
- In a Shocking Turn of Events, the White House Has Admitted There’s Something Wrong With Trump
- The Supreme Court and Trump Are Playing Chicken Over Jerome Powell. SCOTUS Will Lose.
- Bonus: A Muslim, a Dad, an American
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- Trump Can’t Get People to Stop Talking About Epstein
- A Former ICE Official Is Worried That the Agency Is About to Go on a Hiring Spree of Proud Boys
- What Do Scientists Call the Hypothetical Bubble of Large Icy Objects That Cocoon Our Solar System?
- For Decades, a Treaty Contained the Threat of Nuclear Weapons. Now That’s All at Risk.
- It Was at the Center of Endless Right-Wing Conspiracies. It Just Closed. Its Legacy Keeps Getting Darker.
- Can Trump Bully Russia?
- Trump, Cornered on Epstein Files, Invents Personal Connection to the Unabomber
- The Supreme Court Is Writing a Slow-Motion Eulogy for One of America’s Greatest Achievements
- Two-Thirds of Which Island Was Obliterated by a Massive 1883 Volcanic Eruption?
- Deported—To a Country You’ve Never Been To
- Trump Used the Epstein List to Get to the White House. Now He Wants Us All to Forget About It.
- The Supreme Court’s Latest Gift to Trump Is a Dark Turning Point
- Which Country Singer Played a Monster Hunter in the 1990 Cult Movie Tremors?
- Maybe You’re Hoping Elon Musk’s New Political Party Will Fracture the Republicans. About That.
- Behind the Democrats’ Losing Strategy
- Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Starting to Make the Supreme Court’s Puppeteers Nervous
- This Is the Most Inspiring Thing I’ve Heard About Democracy at the Supreme Court in Ages
- Trump’s “Major Announcement” on Russia Is Good News for Putin
- There’s a Single Objective Behind Everything Donald Trump Does. It’s a Problem for Democrats—and an Opportunity.
- Trump’s DOJ Won’t Let Go of One of His Biggest Losers in Court. I Know Why.
- Which Slang Term for a Daredevil Leap Came From a Man Who Claimed He Survived Jumping Off the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886?
- Who Is Trump Promoting For Life?
- The Supreme Court Limited Lower Courts’ Power to Stop Trump’s Lawlessness. A Judge Is Trying Another Way.
- Trump Is Once Again Threatening to Nuke the Economy
- The Call Is Coming From Inside The Court
- This Group’s Record in Front of the Roberts Court Is Mind-Boggling
- How a Bush-Appointed Judge Got Around SCOTUS to Protect Birthright Citizenship for All
- Trump Wants Revenge for the Russia Investigation. The Administration Is Going After a Familiar Face.
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- ICE Detained My 6-Year-Old Client With Cancer. Here’s What Freed Him.
- Could Trump Actually Deport Elon Musk? I Have Some Good News and Some Bad News.
- Elon Musk Attempts to Launch a Viable Third Party Via Social Media Post
- Elon Musk Attempts to Launch a Viable Third Party Via Social Media Post
- One MAGA Judge’s Campaign for the Supreme Court Keeps Leading to Humiliation
- A Supreme Court Justice Wrote the Greatest “No Kings” Essay in History
- We’re Living Through a Moment That Feels Disturbingly Similar to the Years Before the Civil War. Here’s What That Means.
- The Moon Goes Through How Many Distinct Phases?
- The Expensive, Seductive Strategy That Doomed the Democratic Party
- Stage Managing Sex in Hollywood
- This Supreme Court Decision Could Change the Lives of Millions of Students With Disabilities
- The Real Reason the Supreme Court Defines Anti-LGBTQ+ Beliefs as Religious
- Which U.S. President Had Wives Named Ellen and Edith?
- Can Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Take on History Be a Corrective to Amy Coney Barrett’s?
- The Supreme Court’s Liberals Have an Impossible Task. One of Them Is Charting the Way.
- Was the Flash Flooding in Texas Preventable?
- Trump’s Latest Ukraine Reversal Reveals a Disturbing Truth About the Administration
- The Supreme Court’s Super-Neutral Principle That Applies Only to Democratic Presidents
- Republicans Just Sold Out Their Own Supporters. One Senator’s Vote Shocks Me More Than Most.
- Bird’s Nest Soup Is Made Using the Nests of Which Bird?
- The Bleak Unifying Principle of This Supreme Court Term
- Is Trump Running the Fugitive Slave Act Playbook?
- The Message Trump’s Ukraine Weapons Pause Is Sending to Putin
- The Past Four Years at the Supreme Court Did Not Need to Be This Way
- Help! I’m a Teacher. What Books Will the Supreme Court Let Me Show My Students Now?
- Court Bends Space-Time Continuum to Shield Police From Liability
- What Does It Mean if Someone Is a Dab Hand?
- I Got to Fire a Trebuchet. It Was Even Greater Than I Ever Imagined.
- Republicans Are Talking About Deporting Mamdani. There’s Another Way They Could Really Hurt Him.
- The Spectacle of “Alligator Alcatraz” Is the Point
- A Surprise Target of Trump’s Cutbacks Is Devastating One Specific Population
- SCOTUS Just Unleashed A Whole New Kind of Book Ban On America’s Public Schools
- Bonus: When the Internet Stopped Being Fun
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- You Could Not Make Up Trump’s Latest Horrifying Immigration Court Case
- Here’s How You’ll Feel the Loss of Federal Workers
- Trump’s Budget Bill Helps the Rich at Expense of Ordinary Americans
- The Real Reason Diddy (Mostly) Beat the Rap
- The Supreme Court Might Be About to Turbocharge ICE Even More Than Trump’s Big Bill
- Ketanji Brown Jackson Did Something Brilliant and New in Her Biggest Dissent of the Term
- French Physician Pierre Fauchard Is Considered the Father of Which Branch of Medicine?
- Why ICE Officers Wearing Masks Is So Dangerous—Including for Them
- One Big Deeply Unpopular Bill
- The Pentagon Had a Budget Surplus. Guess What Trump Decided to Do With It.
- The Supreme Court Crafted a Heads-I-Win, Tails-You-Lose Rule for Republican Presidents
- A Brief History Lesson on Birthright Citizenship for the Supreme Court’s Originalists
- The “Big, Beautiful Bill” Is Not What America Asked For
- The White Revolution Was a Modernization Project Begun in the 1960s in Which Country?
- A Mystery Plaintiff Is Suing Law Reviews for Anti-White Discrimination. Thank the Supreme Court.
- Is This the End of NPR and PBS?
- Amy Coney Barrett Is Not The Centrist You Were Looking For.
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- Alito Cited One Precedent 45 Times in His Uncle Bobby Opinion. He Got It Totally Wrong.
- From Which Book of the Bible Do We Get the Saying “Man Proposes, but God Disposes”?
- The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump a Free Template to Win by Losing
- The Biggest Myth About Immigration That Even Well-Meaning Americans Believe
- We Need to Talk About the Supreme Court
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- Supreme Court Rules Some Americans Have a Constitutional Right to Insist on Theocracy
- What Is Meant by a Fait Accompli?
- A Clear Formula Is Emerging to Rehabilitate Certain Men of #MeToo
- Why Is ICE Masked Up?
- Why Did Mamdani Win the Mayoral Primary? It’s Probably Not That Complicated.
- The Power of The President Is About To Become Uncontainable.
- The Supreme Court Just Handed RFK Jr. New and Extraordinarily Frightening Power
- Sonia Sotomayor Puts It Clearly: None of Our Rights Are Safe
- The Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Ruling Gets History Achingly Wrong
- Samuel Alito’s “Pride Puppy” Ruling Is a Disgrace to the Supreme Court
- The Supreme Court Just Revived a Key Portion of Dred Scott
- The Supreme Court Just Handed Trump the Victory of His Dreams
- SCOTUS Just Assured That the U.S. Will Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness
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- This Is Samuel Alito’s Ugliest Dissent in Some Time
- Trump Brings US Into Israel’s War with Air Strikes on Iran
- Trump’s DOJ Launches Its Most Innovative and Menacing Assault on the Court System Yet
- Trump’s Lashing Out at the Media Over Iran. He Has Only Himself to Blame.
- The Supreme Court’s Attack on Planned Parenthood Is Even More Destructive Than It Sounds
- Zohran Mamdani Figured Out How to Engage Progressive—and Problematic—Bros. Thank God.
- Which Form of Acid Is Found in the Clouds of Venus?
- How Much Will the Supreme Court Let Trump Get Away With? We Got an Ominous Sign This Week.
- Zohran Mamdani’s Former Boss Weighs In
- I Saw Up Close Exactly Why Zohran Mamdani Won—and Why the Attacks Don’t Work on Him
- One of Trump’s Most Deranged Backers Lost His Defamation Trial. He’s Declaring Victory.
- The Supreme Court Just Revived One of the Worst Anti-Woman Rulings of All Time
- The Longest Battle in World War I Occurred Around Which French City?
- It Was the Mystery That Shocked America in 1990, From Prime-Time Shows to Congress. It’s Been All but Forgotten. It Shouldn’t Be.
- Inside The Senate During The Iran Attack
- The Most Tragic Unforeseen Consequence of the Supreme Court’s Reversal of Roe
- Trump Thinks He’s Secured Peace in the Middle East. It’s Not That Simple.
- The Seismic SCOTUS Decision That Slipped Out Without Explanation
- This Is the Worst Supreme Court Decision of Trump’s Second Term
- How Many Unpopular Policies Can a President Pursue at One Time? Trump Is Trying to Find Out.
- I Quit the DOJ’s “Crown Jewel” Along With 70 Percent of My Peers. Here’s Why.
- How Many Lines Does the Poetic Form Called a Villanelle Have?
- Trump Loves to Defend Women’s Sports. Apparently He Doesn’t Care About Paying Them.
- The Lawsuit Scaring Protesters
- They Were Two of the Court’s Strangest Bedfellows. Their Alliance Is Coming Undone.
- The U.S. Attack on Iran May Have Missed Its Mark. Trump and Hegseth Are Making It Worse.
- Something Described as Dendriform Is Shaped Like What?
- Yes, That Big Anti-Trans Ruling Is Terrible. There’s Also a Bigger Problem.
- Trump Bombed Iran. Are We at War?
- Trump’s Attack on Iran Is a Huge Gamble
- Why Are Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson Fighting? Buckle Up.
- The World Waits With Bated Breath to See Which Donald Trump Will Be in Charge Next Week
- What’s Elena Kagan’s Master Plan?
- Why Is Elena Kagan Suddenly Siding With the Conservatives?
- In a Stunning Critique, Ketanji Brown Jackson Nails One of This Court’s Worst Traits
- Bonus: The All New Electric … Hummer?
- Trump Isn’t Engaging In “Strategic Ambiguity” on Iran. It’s Something Much More Dangerous.
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- This May Be Trump’s Most Consequential Decision Yet
- Kristi Noem Has $60 Billion at Her Disposal. Congress Wants to Give Her More.
- Which Type of Creature Is the Massasauga?
- Trump Is Doubling Down on ICE Raids. It Might Come Back to Haunt Him.
- ICE Keeps Arresting Prominent Democrats. He Just Became One of Them. He Told Me Exactly What Happened.
- John Roberts’ Anti-Trans Opinion Is a Garbled Mess. It’s Easy to See Why.
- SCOTUS Just Declared Open Season on Trans Rights
- Amy Coney Barrett Doesn’t Think the Supreme Court’s Anti-Trans Ruling Went Far Enough
- Kristi Noem Understands the Assignment
- In 1910, Victor Berger Became the First Person Elected to the U.S. Congress From Which Party?
- A Disturbing Sign We’e Accepted a “New Normal” From Trump
- Trump’s Reversals Are Making Us Wonder Who Is in Charge Here
- It Really Looks Like the U.S. Is Headed for War With Iran
- The Minnesota Shootings Were Shocking. Then the Details Really Started Coming Out.
- Trump’s Judicial Nominees Can’t Say Whether Jan. 6 Happened. Where Are the Democrats?
- Which Fruit in the Video Game Ms. Pac-Man Is Worth 5,000 Points?
- This Country Deserves a Better Class of Cynical, Pandering Centrist Politician
- The War Netanyahu Always Wanted
- A Criminal Law Case So Messed Up It Brought Clarence Thomas and KBJ on the Same Side
- The Supreme Court Cleared Him at Oklahoma’s Behest. Now the State Wants to Try Him Again?
- This Weekend Clarified an Important Thing About Trump’s Place on the World Stage
- The Supreme Court Takes Aim at Abortion Protections in Blue States
- On Which Part of the Body Might One Wear Winklepickers?
- I Watched the Democrats Lose Muslim Support Last Election. This Gave Me Hope for 2026.
- Vaccine Skeptics Just Scored a Big Win
- An Iranian Explains What Happened This Week—And What the Country Must Do Now
- Even Donald Trump Is Starting to See the Absurdity of Stephen Miller’s Deportation Targets
- Which California Dem Did Trump More Successfully Bait This Week, Newsom or Padilla?
- “The Rubicon Has Been Crossed”
- SCOTUS Leaves The Door Open For Some Accountability For Feds. Like Maybe A Little Bit.
- There’s a Darker Purpose Behind Trump’s Latest Law Enforcement Against Political Foes
- How Liberal Judges Can Use a Roberts-Invented Judicial Tool to Curb Trump
- A Judge Smacked Down Trump’s National Guard Takeover in the Most Sweeping Way Possible
- Why Israel Attacked Iran Now and What It Might Mean for the United States
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- Trump Breaks the Seal on Domestic Military Deployment
- One Supreme Court Justice Just Keeps Sliding Further to the Right
- U.S. Senator Thrown Down, Handcuffed as DHS Secretary Announces “Liberation” of California
- Who Was the First American Woman in Space?
- Trump’s Brittle Authoritarianism
- There’s One Glaring Omission in Trump’s Remarks About His Military Parade
- In 1904, Which City Hosted Both the World’s Fair and the Summer Olympics?
- How the Democrats’ X Account Ended Up Posting a Cuck-Chair Joke About Stephen Miller
- Stephen Miller Is About to Secure the Policy Achievement of His Lifetime. Democrats Are Strangely Silent.
- Will Israel Starve Gaza Into Submission?
- Trump’s Deployment of the National Guard in L.A. Has Serious Legal Flaws
- Donald Trump Is Still Trying to Have It Both Ways on Abortion
- Excerpts From the Memoir of a Marine Deployed to Los Angeles in 2025
- By Sending the Marines Into L.A., Trump Is Creating a Perfect Recipe for Chaos. I Should Know.
- Which Alfred Hitchcock Movie Featured the Merry Widow Murderer?
- Corporate America Retreats From Pride
- Musk’s Government Business Is Too Vital for Trump to Cancel. There’s Still a Way He Could Punish Him.
- The Confusing Legal Maneuver Trump Pulled to Deploy the National Guard in L.A.
- The Criminal Case Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Highly Suspect
- John Roberts Gave the Game Away With This Quote
- What Does It Mean if Something Is Insuperable?
- The Democrats Who Think They Can Actually Beat Trump Had a Big Party. I Went—and Saw What They’re Really Doing.
- Trump Sends in the Troops
- Trump Reprises One of the Worst Things He Did in His First Term
- Two World-Historical Narcissists Finally Have Their Falling-Out
- How The Roberts Court Built the Foundations For The Trump-Musk Feud
- The Worst Part of the Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling Blocking a Lawsuit Against Gunmakers
- What’s Happening Inside This ICE Facility in Texas Should Shock Your Conscience
- I Can’t Help It: I’m on Trump’s Side in the Musk Rift
- Bonus: Main Character: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
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- Our Government Sent Him to D-Day to Make Art About the Invasion. It Changed His Life Forever.
- Moderate Medicaid Republicans, Fiscal Hawks, and now, Elon Musk
- What a Day in the Trump Administration!
- Why the Supreme Court Decision Protecting a “Majority” Plaintiff Was Really a Win for Civil Rights
- Guns, Religious Liberty, Discrimination… Unanimity???
- Why the Supreme Court’s Liberal Justices Are Playing So Nice Right Now
- The Most Dodgy of DOGE’s Cost-Cutting Calculations Has Gone Completely Under the Radar
- What Term Is Used for the Ultimate Merger of Man and Machine?
- America Wanted a Reckoning Over Racist Policing. Five Years Later, Here’s What Has Happened.
- She Was Tortured. America Shut Her Out.
- There Are Lots of Things to Dislike About Trump’s Big Bill. Elon Musk Picked the Most Vapid One.
- Trump Attacked One of His Top Allies Out of the Blue. We Know Why.
- Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Would Massively Expand Government Spending in One Area
- You Will Never See a More Vivid Example of What Is Running Through Republicans’ Heads Right Now Than This
- We Analyzed Every Gun Case Since Bruen. The Result Is Horrifying.
- The Idea for a Seven-Day Week Originated With Which Civilization?
- Can Zionism Survive This War?
- The Most Revealing Story From That Book About Biden’s Decline
- George Floyd Square, Five Years Later
- Who Painted The Last Judgment Above the Altar in the Sistine Chapel?
- The Most Insidious Way That the Supreme Court Has Exploited Trump’s Chaos
- Voters Ended This State’s Abortion Ban. Then Conservative Judges Got Involved.
- The Supreme Court Thinks It Protected the Economy From Trump. It’s Delusional.
- A Person Described as Voluble Does a Lot of Which Activity?
- Let’s Unpack One of the More Disturbing Things Stephen Miller Has Said
- Can the U.S. Learn from the U.K.’s Post-Brexit Mess?
- Elon Musk Learns a Lesson About Washington
- The Supreme Court Risks Ruling Itself Into Irrelevance
- One of Trump’s Weirdest Obsessions Is Spiraling Out of Control
- Gavin Newsom Can’t Run Away From His Biggest Liability
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- The Supreme Court Is Giving Trump Even More Power
- Trump’s New Favorite Law for Criminalizing His Opponents
- The One Thing That Could Still Torpedo Big Parts of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
- The One Thing That Could Still Torpedo Big Parts of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
- Trump’s Tariff Agenda Is Suddenly on Life Support
- Florida Republicans Came Up With a New Lie About History to Support Extreme Abortion Bans
- Whales, Dolphins, and Bats All Use the Reflection of Sound Waves for Navigation Through Which Technique?
- I’m an Arab and Jewish Attorney. I Quit DOJ When I Saw Who They Were Accusing of Antisemitism.
- Legally Dead—And Pregnant
- Texas Is About to Pass the Most Ridiculous Marijuana Ban in the Country
- Great News From Congress: Another Democrat Has Gotten a Book Contract!
- Which Country Was the Subject of the Platt Amendment Passed in the U.S. in 1901?
- Does Gavin Newsom Have It All Figured Out?
- The Way Trump’s America Most Closely Resembles 1930s Germany
- Which Was the Only Available Color of Play-Doh When It Was First Sold in 1956?
- Trump’s Isolationism Is Taking Us to Some Weird Places
- Trump’s Second Term Shows That John Roberts’ Worst Opinion Is Also His Biggest Mistake
- What Would You Pay to Stay Alive?
- Which Word Does the Letter V in an HVAC System Stand For?
- Trump’s JFK Files Release Didn’t Interest the Conspiracy-Heads Much. But I Found Something in There That Changes Everything.
- The Consequences of One of Project 2025’s Most Surprising Attacks Are Becoming Clear
- Republicans Snuck a Provision Into Their Megabill That Would Let Trump Defy the Courts
- Mike Johnson Used Trump to His Full Advantage This Week
- When Elena Kagan is This Angry, You Know Something Has Gone Badly.
- The Supreme Court Just Rewarded Trump for Brazenly Breaking the Law
- Bonus: Main Character: The One Big Beautiful Bill
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- The Problem With Old Politicians Goes Way Beyond Biden. Here’s What Dems Can Actually Do About It.
- Trump and Republicans’ Tax Bill Will Redistribute Wealth Upwards
- Gen Z Isn’t the MAGA Generation After All
- Separation of Church and State Scored a Surprise Reprieve at the Supreme Court
- The Trump Tax Bill Is Full of Threats to Elite Universities. It’s Even Worse Than It Seems.
- Chiropody Is the Treatment of Ailments Affecting Which Part of the Body?
- Trump Has Taken a Renewed Interest in the Conspirators Who Infiltrated 2020 Voting Machines
- Can A “Morality Coalition” Succeed Against Trump?
- Georgia Republicans Are Playing Dumb About Adriana Smith
- It’s the El Salvador Deportation Flight All Over Again—but This Time to South Sudan
- These Law Firms Should Sue Trump for Racketeering From the Oval Office
- Americans Don’t Lack Empathy. We Are Being Drained of It.
- It Is So Embarrassing to Watch Dems Try to “Find” a Liberal Joe Rogan. I Have So Many Ideas About What They Should Do Instead.
- Which U.S. President Was Referred to as “His Rotundity”?
- The Biggest Sign That Trump May Already Be an Elected Autocrat
- Another Attempt at Banning Abortion Pills Is Coming Out of Texas. The Reasoning Is Truly Twisted.
- If Trump Guts FEMA, Are Tornado Victims On Their Own?
- The Real Meaning of RFK Jr.’s Cryptic New Remarks on Abortion
- It’s Becoming Clearer What Trump Really Wants from Russia
- The Hermitage Museum Is the Home of Art and Culture in Which Russian city?
- Can House Republicans Govern? This Week Will Pose a Big Test.
- Here’s How the GOP Cuts Medicaid
- They Wanted to Have Fewer Prisons. Instead, They Got a Prisoner’s Worst Nightmare.
- Trump Is Dismantling Domestic Violence Nonprofits by Banning Certain Words
- Crepuscular Is Used in Relation to Which Time of Day?
- What It Would Look Like If the Trump Administration Got Its Way in the Birthright Citizenship Case
- Lyndon Johnson Made a Mistake in His Presidency That Donald Trump Has Been Exploiting for Years
- Is Immigration Still Trump’s Strongest Issue?
- The Real Threat of the Nonprofit “Terrorism” Provision in Trump’s Big Bill
- Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Is in Turmoil, but at Least He’s Getting a New Ride
- The Supreme Court Is Again Mired in a Mess Of Its Own Making
- Donald Trump’s Attempt To Destroy Due Process Ran Into a Wall at the Supreme Court
- The Trump DOJ Tells SCOTUS Its Plan to Ignore the Courts
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- Amazon’s Behavior Makes Walmart’s Earnings Call Look Like a Profile in Courage
- Qatar “Gifts” Trump a $400 Million Luxury Jet
- Brett Kavanaugh Just Gave a Gratuitous Win to Cops Who Kill
- The Supreme Court May Pick the Worst Possible Case to Cede More Power to Trump
- Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Is a Sneak Attack on Abortion
- In Which Part of a Flower Do Seeds First Form?
- He Wants to Primary Democrats From the Left. No Congress Member Is Safe.
- Why This “Nonprofit Killer” Clause Is So Alarming—and How Trump Will Use It
- The Qatari Plane Is Just The Start
- Republicans Think They Have a Way to Blow Up the Filibuster Without Anyone Noticing
- Two Supreme Court Justices Invited an All-Out Assault on the Voting Rights Act. Now It’s Here.
- Two Nuclear Powers Walked Back From the Brink of War. Here’s What Everyone Is Missing
- Which President Used the Phrase “Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick” for His Policy?
- Trump’s Middle East Diplomacy
- Republicans Have Landed on a Grisly Compromise for Cutting Medicaid
- The Trump Administration Is Letting In Just One Group of Refugees. The Choice Speaks Volumes.
- Which Beatrix Potter Character Ate So Many Nuts He Got Stuck Inside a Tree?
- In John Fetterman, Democrats Wanted a Regular Guy. And Boy, Did They Get One!
- The Supreme Court’s Radical Right Turn Is About Restoring Patriarchy, Plain and Simple
- David Hogg Wants Democratic Politicians to Be Afraid
- The Drafters of a Key 1940s Law Feared an American Dictator. Trump Is Blowing That Law Up.
- A Progressive Justice Billed This Method of Execution as “Relatively Quick and Painless.” She Was Wrong.
- Trump’s Qatari Plane Might Just Be a Trojan Horse
- Donald Trump’s Corruption Reaches New Heights
- Which Occupation Is Held by a Pettifogger?
- Porn Culture Did a Number on Millennial Women. It’s Time We Talked About It.
- The War Over Pete Hegseth
- Trump Was Just Dealt One of His Biggest Defeats Yet. There’s One Downside.
- Move Fast And Break The Law
- A Republican Senator Puts on His Big-Boy Pants
- Some Founding-Era Americans Feared a Pope Would Run for President. Now, One Could.
- David Souter’s Final Request Epitomizes His Judicial Philosophy
- Main Character Syndrome: Your Mom
- The Acquittal of Tyre Nichols’ Killers and the Hollow Promise of 2020
- Trump is “Making Center-Left Great Again”
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- Trump Thinks an Iran Deal Will Be His New Russia Deal. Fat Chance.
- The United States Must Retaliate Against Whatever Aquatic Demon Is Dragging Its Fancy Fighter Planes to the Watery Depths
- Which Term Refers to the Second Stomach of a Bird?
- Yes, Shelves Will Be Empty
- The Huguenots Fled From Religious Persecution in Which Country?
- Is Trump Carrying Out His Mass Deportation Promises? The Numbers Might Surprise You.
- The Arts of the Deal
- The Supreme Court Approved Trump’s Trans Military Purge in the Most Shameful Way Possible
- A Powerful New Judicial Ruling Lifts the Veil of Secrecy Around Executions
- Which Musical Has Characters Named Diesel, Baby John, Snowboy, and Gee-Tar?
- I Protested Trump 1.0 in All Kinds of Ways. Here’s Why I’m Sitting Out This Time.
- A Marco Rubio for All Seasons
- Which Color Is Corbeau?
- America’s Labor Unions Are Souring on Trump
- Trump v. the Judiciary
- Trump Just Issued an Executive Order Aimed at Decimating the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- The Time for Republicans’ Most Contentious Policy Has Arrived. They Better Brace Themselves.
- An Originalist Smackdown of Two of Trump’s Signature Orders
- Trump’s Tariffs Are Decimating People’s Wallets. The Solution Is Almost Too Easy.
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- It’s Easy to Forget the Reality of What We’re Doing to People Like Mahmoud Khalil. One Hour in His Facility Shows That.
- Trump’s First 100 Days: A Destructive Theater of Madness Over Method
- The DOJ Says Trump Has Saved 258 Million Lives. I Asked Them What That’s Based On.
- Which Word Does the Letter M Stand For in AM and FM Radio?
- Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
- Netflix’s Vietnam Doc Is Coming for Ken Burns’ Crown
- Which World Leader Has Trump Referred to as “Little Rocket Man”?
- Trump Is Making America a Declining Power
- Voters Are Frustrated. Will Democrats Be Able to Do Something With It?
- Inside the ICE Prison Holding Student Detainees
- What Does a Liberal Win in Canada Mean for America?
- In Trump’s First 100 Days, a Fault Line Between DOGE and Project 2025 Has Become Clear
- Who Has Hosted the NPR Show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Since 1998?
- The Supreme Court Could Soon Force Taxpayers to Fund a Catholic School
- Will HHS Survive RFK Jr?
- Where Would You Be Most Likely to See a Group of People Called a claque?
- Are Public Schools the Supreme Court’s Next Target?
- They’re Donald Trump’s Most Loyal Voters. I Didn’t Understand Why. After a Weekend in the Woods With Them, That Changed.
- The Sleeping Giant That Could Stop Trump’s Agenda in Its Tracks
- Play-It-Safe Democrats Were Wrong Again
- What If Losing in Court Means Trump is Actually Losing at Everything?
- The GOP Keeps Losing Public Abortion Votes. So It’s Trying an Absurd New Ploy.
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- Trump Wants to Blame Fed Chair Powell for Economic Downturn
- Trump Has a New Plan for Ukraine. Hoo Boy.
- MAGA Is Aiming to Take Over the D.C. Bar. Be Afraid.
- Donald Trump Is Tanking One of America’s Greatest Exports in the Middle of a Trade War
- You’ll Never Guess When Pro-Life Hospitals Consider “Unborn Life” Not Actually Alive
- We Are Currently Living in Which Geologic Era?
- The Flight Attendant Who Wants You to Go on Strike
- The Trump Administration Wants to Make Us Too Afraid to Look Out for One Another. Don’t Let Them.
- One of the Most Complex Cases of the Supreme Court Term Is Also One of the Most Straightforward
- There’s a Surprising New Tool to Challenge State Abortion Bans
- The M48 Battle Tank Is Nicknamed After Which U.S. Army General?
- Fed Up!
- In Vietnamese Culture, People Boil Which Plant to Bathe in It Before the Lunar New Year?
- Ciao Papa
- Alito’s Emergency Deportation Dissent Misrepresents the Most Crucial Fact in the Case
- It Sure Does Seem Like People Are Trying to Kill Politicians More Often. The Data Is Actually Surprising.
- Which Item Can Be Referred to in Slang as an Annie Oakley?
- The Real Supreme Court Endgame for Abortion Foes
- Why Did Big Law Fold So Easily?
- The Supreme Court’s Late-Night Rebuke to Trump Is Extraordinary in More Ways Than One
- Now Is a Good Time for the Democrats to Stop Overthinking This
- Federal Judges Are Ringing the Alarm Over Stephen Miller’s Illegal Deportation Scheme
- If You Want a Hint About the Future Trump Wants, Just Look to El Salvador
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- The Controversy That Said It All About America Under Trump—and Where We’re Headed Now
- Harvard Fights Back After Trump Pulls No Punches
- There’s Only One Real Way to Reverse Big Law’s Capitulation to Trump
- One Threatened Supreme Court Precedent Ties the Fates of LGBTQ+ People and Immigrants Inextricably
- Time in the U.S. Is Officially Determined by an Atomic Clock in Which City?
- Should Hospitals Drug Test New Moms?
- Trump Is Talking About Finding Ways to Send U.S. Citizens to Salvadoran Prison
- A Federal Judge Is on the Brink of Criminally Prosecuting Trump Officials for Contempt
- The Real Danger of Trump’s War on Low-Flow Showerheads
- There’s One Project 2025 Goal That Trump Has Yet to Realize. It Won’t Be Easy.
- Sarah Palin’s Bombshell Case Against the New York Times Is Back. Guess What’s Different This Time.
- Which Country Sent Its Red Army Into Battle During World War II?
- The Republicans Are Considering Something Truly Shocking: Raising Taxes on the Rich
- When a State Tells Trump ‘No’
- Is the Supreme Court About to Make Police Violence Much Worse?
- There’s a Reason the Trump Administration Is Fighting to Keep Detained International Students in Louisiana
- Who Starred as a Flesh-Eating Zombie on the Horror Sitcom Santa Clarita Diet?
- Trump’s Weaponized IRS
- The Judge Ruling on the North Carolina Election Fight Should Heed Bush v. Gore
- What Is the Definition of Debonair?
- Unfortunately, I Have a New Theory About How Gilmore Girls Explains Trump
- Project 2025’s Plan for Your Family
- The One Thing That Brought Trump Close to Reality This Week
- SCOTUS Thought It Was Dodging A Showdown With Trump. Nice Try.
- Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Senior Editor? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
- A “90 Day Pause” On Tariffs Means The Uncertainty Is Over, Right?
- Say Goodbye to Small-Town Libraries and Museums, Thanks to Trump’s Latest Cuts
- Apparently John Roberts Is Fine With Disappearing People to El Salvador
- American Jews Feel Divided This Passover. It’s Not the First Time.
- A Key Fight Over the Most Infamous Police Project in the Country Is Coming to a Head
- In Which Part of the Body Are Ceruminous Glands Found?
- Impeachment From the Bottom Up
- The Reaction on Fox News Really Said It All About About Trump’s Sudden Tariff Reversal Today
- Trump Claims Victory for “Art of the Deal” Despite Total Absence of Deal
- Who Employed a Policy of Nonviolent Resistance CalledSatyagraha?
- The Bizarre Legal Theory Behind Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention
- One Unlikely Sensation Has Given Rattled Americans Hope for Life After Trump. I Went to See It for Myself.
- A Cancelled Actor Scripts His Comeback
- One Aspect of Trump’s El Salvador Gulag Is Particularly Illegal
- I Moved to Europe Before Trump 2.0. I’m Shocked by How I’ve Been Feeling Lately.
- What Song Do You Hear When You Get Rickrolled?
- The Mass Grave in Gaza
- The Supreme Court’s New 5–4 Bailout for Trump Couldn’t Be More Ominous
- The Alabama Case That Could Undo the Right To Travel Out of State for an Abortion
- The Real Power of This Weekend’s Anti-Trump Protests
- Why Are Trans People Such an Easy Political Target? The Answer Involves a Surprising Culprit.
- Pogonophilia Refers to a Deep Affinity for What?
- The Upside Of Tariffs
- Slate Mini Crossword for April 6, 2025
- I Spent a Night Out With the Happiest Democrat in America. I Want to See What He Sees.
- Congress Is Starting to Think It Could Do Something About Trump After All
- Democrats Might Finally Be Learning an Important Lesson. Will They Run With It?
- The Nightmare Scenario of Being Sent To The Gulag Because of a Clerical Error
- Things Are Getting Dire in That State Judicial Race the GOP Is Trying to Steal
- There Will Be No Winners in the Supreme Court’s Next Big Abortion Decision
- Republicans Are Trying to Use Accounting Magic to Conceal the Cost of Tax Cuts
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- Elon Musk Tried and Failed to Buy the WI Court Race
- The Supreme Court Precedent That Should Free Mahmoud Khalil
- Why Trump Is Making It Easier for One Group—and One Group Only—to Come to the United States
- What Is the Official Term for a Group of Butterflies?
- A Few Takeaways From Elon Musk’s Utter Humiliation in Wisconsin
- The Lives Ruined by Trump’s Deportation Machine
- Why House GOP Leadership Pulled Out All the Stops to Kill This Vote–and It Backfired
- In 1991, Who Became the First Popularly Elected President of Russia?
- Congress Could Stop Trump’s Tariffs if It Wanted To
- How the Supreme Court Could Gut Planned Parenthood
- Trump’s Bloodthirsty Call to Execute Luigi Mangione Is the Exact Wrong Way to Deal With Luigi Mangione
- The Trump Administration Just Admitted It’s Creating a Black Site for Migrants
- How a Progressive Legal Tool Became a Weapon for Climate-Change Skeptics
- Which Tragic Figure From Greek Mythology Killed Her Own Mother?
- Why Withholding Your Taxes in Protest Could Actually Help Trump and Musk
- Free Speech? Not If You’re A Foreign Student.
- Maybe Don’t Take for Granted That You’ll Be Able to Vote in the Midterms
- In a Courtroom Friday, I Saw Firsthand Just How Abnormal This Moment Has Become
- The Adjective Columbine Refers to a Similarity to Which Bird?
- Will Elon Musk Buy Another Election?
- Trump Executive Order Says States Must Use Voting Machines That Don’t Actually Exist
- So Is Trump Actually Firing Any of These Signal Jokers?
- Think All This Gets Fixed With The Midterms? Think Again
- How Was J.D. and Usha Vance’s Greenland Trip? The Pictures Certainly Tell a Story.
- Think You’re Smarter Than Mark Joseph Stern? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
- Trump Hates Fentanyl but Loves Crypto. There’s a Contradiction There!
- Will Any of The Officials On The Leaked Chat Face Consequences?
- Liberals Have Been Waiting for This Moment Since Trump Took Office. They Need to Act Now.
- Which Variety of Quark Has the Largest Mass?
- The Ultrarich Have Reshaped Presidential Elections. Here’s Where They’re Looking Next.
- The Group Chat Heard ‘Round the World
- The New Video of Federal Agents Ambushing a Student and Disappearing With Her Should Chill You to Your Core
- Congress Isn’t Just Standing By As Trump Abuses His Power. It’s Doing Something Far Worse.
- The Trump Admin Can’t Decide How to Respond to the Signal War Plans Scandal, So It’s Trying Everything
- The Atlantic Editor Who Broke “Signalgate” Did Nothing Wrong. He Could Be Prosecuted Anyway.
- Who Served the Longest Period as Chief Justice of the United States?
- What Happens To My Student Loans Now?
- Count Orlok Is the Villain in Which 1922 Silent Horror Film and Its 2024 Remake?
- Why El Salvador Is Doing Trump’s Dirty Work
- A Tea Party for the Democrats?
- The Supreme Court Just Put the Voting Rights Act in Its Crosshairs Again
- What German Word Is Used in the English as a Term for a Hangover?
- How Colleges Can Fight Back
- Donald Trump Is Making His Judge-Induced Temper Tantrums Everyone’s Problem
- The Trump Regime’s Mounting Threats To Judges Should Worry Us All.
- Trump Is Attacking Big Law Firms. Paul Weiss Is the First to Capitulate.
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- The Constitutional Line Has Been Crossed
- We’re Finally Seeing the “Evidence” Against the Migrants Deported by Trump. It’s Unbelievable.
- Why It’s So Outrageous That Trump Is Invoking This Obscure 200-Year-Old Wartime Law
- What Is the Subject of Study in Oology?
- Trump’s Animal-Spirit Economy
- What Exactly Does Gavin Newsom Think He’s Doing?
- Zelensky Has a Real Chance to End the War, if He Can Accept These Harsh Realities
- Jean Chretien Was the Prime Minister of Which Country From 1993 to 2003?
- A “Made for TV” Deportation Policy
- Which City Is Home to the Annual New Year’s Day Mummers Parade?
- Democrats Had a Chance to Take a Stand Here. What Went Wrong?
- Is this the End of Sesame Street?
- Lawyers Can Slow a Trump Dictatorship. They Have to Do Something Uncomfortable First.
- A Conservative Giant Just Gave the Supreme Court Reason To Uphold Youth Gun Bans
- If You’re Waiting for Brett Kavanaugh to Save the Republic, Good Luck With That
- We’ve Officially Entered the Next Phase of Trump’s Dictatorship Era
- The Adjective Struthious Is Used to Describe a Resemblance to Which Bird?
- Martin Luther King Jr. Had a Dream for Economic Affirmative Action. The Supreme Court Failed Him.
- How American Bureaucrats Became Public Enemy No. 1
- Democrats Had a Rare Opportunity. They Blinked.
- Elon Musk Wanted the Cybertruck to Look Like “the Future.” But It Reminds Us of One Particular Past.
- Democrats Get a Say in Policymaking, Promptly Melt Down
- What Happens When the Law Is No Longer the Solution to a Legal Problem?
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- A Dangerous New Supreme Court Case Could Open the Door to Prosecutions for DEI
- “Efficiency” Is a Terrible Way to Measure Disaster Preparedness
- Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Specifically Targeting Children Again
- Botanist George Washington Carver Was Famous for His Work With Which Crop?
- Donald Trump on Mount Rushmore Would Make More Historical Sense Than You Think
- The Mask Is Really Off Now on Tech Billionaire Politics
- Could DOGE Really Gut Social Security?
- Maybe Trump Wants to Help Ukraine After All
- If Andrew Cuomo Wants a Comeback, He Might Have to Do Something He Won’t Like
- The Name of Which Bird Was Used for the Women’s Branch of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy?
- Will Student Protesters Be Deported?
- We’re Really Doing Execution by Firing Squad Again?
- A Conservative Lawyer Was Asked to Fix the Eric Adams Mess. Instead, He Made It Worse.
- What Was the First Song to Debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100?
- Andrew Cuomo Wanted To Be President. He’ll Settle For Mayor.
- Why the Private Equity Approach to Sell Government Buildings Won’t Work
- In Slang, What Bird Is Used to Denote a Constant Burden?
- Why Corporate DEI Is Such a Perfect Target for Trump
- Til Trump Do Us Part
- Are We Sure Trump’s Speech to Congress Is Over?
- Those Tesla Protestors Are Making Exactly The Point SCOTUS Needs To Hear.
- Trump’s Gaza Fantasy Exposes Israel’s Failure
- Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Writer and Editor? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
- He’s Using Autism as a Defense for a Capital Murder. It Might Work.
- Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Speech and Punitive Tariffs
- Which Igneous Rock Cools So Rapidly It Becomes Very Porous?
- How Worried Are Ukrainians?
- The Courts Are Finally Pushing Back on Trump’s Assault on Trans Rights
- The Thirty Tyrants Briefly Ruled Which City-State?
- The True Cost of Slashing the Government
- Trump’s Plans for the Rest of the World Are Truly Unhinged
- The Green Christ and The Yellow Christ Are Paintings by Which French Artist?
- Why Trump Needs Congress
- Trump’s Border Czar Keeps Suggesting That AOC Broke the Law, So She Wrote to His Boss
- Chase Strangio, One of the Lead Lawyers Battling Trump, Explains What We Can Do When the Law Fails Us
- What Is Shared by Two People in a Folie à Deux?
- Why Women Kill
- That Oval Office Shouting Match Was a Setup
- What happens when podcasters are determining what constitutes rule of law?
- Trump and Zelensky’s Meeting Ended in Disaster. Now What?
- Release of Andrew Tate and His Brother From Romania Has Some Famous Republicans Ticked Off
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- Montana “Trafficking” Bill Shows Endgame for Abortion Rights Foes
- About-Face on US Support for Ukraine Leaves Europe Scrambling to Adapt
- How Many Prime Numbers Are Less Than 25?
- Will Gaza’s Ceasefire Last?
- Maybe I’m Old-Fashioned, but the DOGE Kids Should Probably Not Be Able to Override the Secretary of State
- Who Was the Only Black Member of George H.W. Bush’s Cabinet?
- Donald Trump Is Trying to Take American Law Back to 1641
- The DOGE Backlash Begins
- The Republican Party’s Constituency Has Changed. They Aren’t Acting Like It.
- Did Germany Really Lurch to the Right This Election? It’s Complicated.
- Why Gazans Fear the Rain
- Who Went On the “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television” Tour in 2010?
- How the Military and Congress Can Safeguard Against Trump’s Latest Power Grab
- Barron Mania
- Trump’s High-Level Military Firings Send Several Disturbing Messages
- An Attack on Pregnant Workers at the 5th Circuit Could Unleash Chaos Across the Country
- Elon Musk Is Grabbing Headlines, but This Man May Be Even More Dangerous
- The True Purpose of Elon Musk’s Weekend Email Ultimatum to Federal Workers
- A Woman Described as Primiparous Has Only One What?
- I Reread Project 2025 Now That We’re in the Thick of It. The Takeaway Is Chillingly Clear.
- The Democratic Party Won’t Save Us. How about Labor?
- Why Trump’s Russian Bearhug Is So Dire
- The President Who Would Be King
- Why Castlecore and Romantasy Have Had Such Staying Power
- I’ve Pinpointed the Psychological Phenomenon at Play in Every Elon Musk Move
- Trump Issued Perhaps His Most Terrifying Executive Order on Tuesday
- This Law Protects Those Who Help Abortion Seekers Across State Lines. Now It’s Coming Under Attack.
- Trump Is Now Threatening Trans Voting Rights
- Think You’re Smarter Than a What Next Producer? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
- Why the Legal Theory Behind Trump’s Assault on Government Is So Dangerous
- Trump Won Big by Promising to “Save the Children.” But That Was Never the Real Goal.
- The Trump DOJ Scandal is a Big Deal
- Where Trump’s Ukraine Lies Are All Too Familiar
- This Might Be the Fastest Way to Get Elon Musk Out of the White House
- U.S. Attorney Ed Martin May Have Already Messed Up Trump’s Retribution Tour
- Which Is the Densest Naturally Occurring Element?
- Why Did Trump Take All the Eggs?
- Why This Trump Nominee Has Union Support
- These States Will Determine the Death Penalty’s Future in America. One of Them Is Moving in the Wrong Direction.
- This Trump Idea Sounds Great. It Would Have Horrible Consequences.
- Which Province Was Added to Canada One Year After the Red River Rebellion?
- It’s Not Time to Protest, It’s Time to Strike.
- A Measles Outbreak and Wake-Up Call
- Meet the Disabled Vets, Cancer Researchers, and Nuclear Techs Fired by Elon Musk “For Cause”
- Trump Takes a Wrecking Ball to Our Alliance With Europe
- The Trump Administration Is Going After Our Elections Too
- What Happens Next in the Eric Adams Case? It’s Up to One Judge.
- Who Is the Elven Hero in the Nintendo Video Game The Legend of Zelda?
- He’s Hot. He’s “Dangerous.” He Never Stops Talking. Is the Answer to Trump Hiding in Plain Sight?
- How Eric Adams Got His Charges Dropped
- In Irish Slang, What Is a “Gaff”?
- George Washington Cut Six Sentences From His Farewell Address. They’re Haunting Me Now.
- Trans People Just Got Deleted From Stonewall. Here’s Why Everyone Should Be Alarmed.
- The Most Stunning Detail of the Eric Adams–Trump Corruption Scandal So Far
- An Absolute Doozy of a Scandal in Washington and New York
- Can the New Trump Justice Department Shake Off a Scandal of This Magnitude?
- The Standoff Between the Justice Department and New York Prosecutors Is an Ominous Sign of What’s Coming
- Anti-Abortion Activists See Their Moon-Shot Goal Within Reach—and We’re Already Experiencing the Consequences
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- Trump’s DOJ Is Trying to Sabotage Trans Kid Plaintiffs at the Supreme Court
- There Are No Moderate Republicans This Time Around
- A Constitutional Crisis Between the Trump Administration and the Courts
- Here’s One Big Way You’ll Know if We’re in a Presidential Dictatorship
- A North Carolina Judge Just Acknowledged an Undeniable Truth: The Death Penalty Is Racist
- A Judge Lifted His Order Against DOGE. Musk Immediately Sprang Into Action.
- Which Term Is Used for Objects Traveling at Mach 5 or Faster?
- Democrats in Congress Will Soon Be Able to Actually Do Something to Pressure Trump
- The Award for Messiest Oscar Contender Goes To…
- I’m a Federal Worker. You Have No Idea the Irreversible Damage Elon Musk Is Doing.
- Pete Hegseth Just Did the Funniest Thing Imaginable
- South Carolina Doctors Ask for Right to Follow Conscience and Perform Abortions
- Looks Like Eric Adams’ Months of Pandering to Trump Have Finally Paid Off
- President Ulysses S. Grant Was Born With Which First Name?
- We Served in the Military. Trump Has No Idea How Much Damage He’s Just Done to It.
- Trump’s South Africa Fixation
- I Work at the Latest Agency Being Targeted by Musk. We Just Received This Shocking Email.
- An Update on That GOP North Carolina Judge Who’s Trying to Steal a Seat He Just Lost
- Larb Is One of the National Dishes of Which Asian Country?
- The GOP Can’t Quit “Stop the Steal”
- I Worked on Employment Law Until Trump Fired Me. Here’s the Truth About DEI.
- Which Pastry’s Name Comes From the French for “Lightning”?
- A Childhood Neighbor Terrorized My Family. It Prepared Me for Trump’s Takeover.
- Lessons From Hungary
- There’s a New Time Magazine Trump Cover Controversy. This Time Around, I Have a Radical Suggestion.
- It’s Clear What’s Driving Trump’s Presidency Now—or Rather, Who Is
- Illegal and Unlawful and Somehow Still Happening
- The People Who Turned On Democrats Over Gaza Don’t Want Your Blame After Trump’s Rant
- Bad News About Some of Those DOGE Staffers
- Why Elon Musk’s Buyout Offer “Reads Like a Scam”
- Trump Is Embracing a Shameful Stain on American History
- I’m a Government Worker. We’re Still Terrified Friday Is D-Day.
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- I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know.
- The Collision Between Elon Musk, Lawmakers, and the Courts
- When Hospitals Cave to Trump, Health Workers Must Disobey
- Guantanamo Bay’s Comeback Is a Warning
- Which Milky Sap Comes From the Rubber Tree?
- Donald Trump Does Not Understand Palestinians
- Trump Wants to Abolish the Department of Education. The Founders Would Have Something to Say About That.
- I Was a Member of the the NLRB. What Trump’s Doing to It Now Is Very Illegal.