The North Carolina GOP’s Latest Ploy to Steal a State Supreme Court Seat
After almost two weeks of vote counting, Democratic Justice Allison Riggs won her election to the North Carolina Supreme ...
Help! I Bring My Girlfriends Family Free Food. But They Have the Gall to Make Complaints.
Submit questions here I am 20 and I work at a grocery store. My girlfriend’s family struggles a lot because her mom is the ...
My Daughter and Son Bathe Together. I Think I Need to Put a Stop to It.
I have a little girl who is 7 and a 4-year-old boy. They’ve been bathing together since my 4-year-old could sit up on his own ...
Patriotic Property Destruction, in This Week’s Open Thread
Find previous discussions in the Open Thread archive. Excepting the entreaty that you remain on topic, all of Slate’s usual ...
My Husband Has a Strange Bedtime “Need.” I Think He’s Trying to Trick Me.
Our sex life is what I would describe as pretty normal, and on nights when we do it, he sleeps soundly after. Same thing when ...
Alito and Thomas Have Already Taken the Most-Contradictory Positions of the Supreme Court Term
Within the span of less than a week, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas have again shown how their ideology dictates their legal judgments, often in hypocritical directions.
My Brother’s Wife Returned From Black Friday Shopping to Find Him Dead. But I Think She Was Responsible.
I believe that my brother’s wife killed him. On Thanksgiving, when they were over for dinner, my brother complained of pain ...
Coming Back to Work After Time Off Sucks. This Can Help.
The concept is simple: Build in a full day at the end of your trip, between the vacation and the resumption of normal life.
The Heist of St. Nick
The gist of it is this: In 1087 two Italian cities, Venice and Bari, raced to be the first to steal the bones of St. Nicholas—known to us as Santa Claus—from a basilica in what is now southern Turkey.
Why Manchin and Sinema’s Parting Gift to Trump Is So Brutal for the Rest Of Us
When Donald Trump enters office on Jan. 20, he will immediately start seizing control of the government by firing holdovers ...
What Christopher Wray’s Resignation Costs Us
FBI Director Christopher Wray announced that he would resign shortly before Donald Trump reenters the White House in January.
The Sydney Sweeney Industrial Complex
In August, HeyDude, a brand best known for its boat shoes, named Sweeney its global spokeswoman, or “director of Dude.” At the time, I was just one of many people who scratched their head over why one ...