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The United States government is basically the guy from Memento (2001, dir. Christopher Nolan).

There are several problems the president doesn't seem to have thought all the way through.

A reporter on the killing of “the Nancy Pelosi of Minnesota”—and all that came after.

If Democrats are going to spend the next four years asking their toughest questions late and in writing, they might as well not ask question...

The humiliation was on full display during the celebration for the Army’s 250th birthday.

Make it stop.

I'm a paid aunt.

I want to avoid this reaction.

He’s got to back off soon, right?

She needs to stop meddling.

Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for June 17, 2025.

Toni Morrison was an editor for 12 years, even as she wrote her own masterpieces. I spoke to her authors about what it was like.

Now that Israel is fighting Iran, can a regional conflict be avoided at this point?

Plus: The 10-minute timer could spark a lifelong habit.

Oh, the successes, the mishaps, and heartbreaks of summer love.

One of golf’s toughest courses proved almost insurmountable in a weekend of cold and rain.

David Sconce, the subject of The Mortician, ran a scheme involving illegal bulk cremation and the mutilation of corpses.

The case turned not on guilt or innocence, nor on liberty or confinement, but on a piece of paper the court already had. A form. Filed once...

Richard Glossip has endured one of the most troubled and complicated death penalty cases in American history.

The president seems to have no clear plan for the Iran–Israel war.

Do this instead.

The Supreme Court has not taken itself out of the battle over abortion. It has merely picked a different side.

It feels like an impossible choice.

She did the right thing!

It's been over a decade.