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I Want to Take My Brother-in-Law to Court Over Money He Borrowed for a Fake “Emergency.”
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (266+ words) Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Submit questions here. My husband’s brother, “Ron,” called up last week claiming that he was short $500 in his rent money due to a dental emergency and asked if we could help him out. We…...
Democrats Are Laughing at Trump’s Midterm Plan. They Shouldn’t.
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (329+ words) Welcome to this week’s historic edition of the Surge, here in our brand-new home. Do you like the imported marble floors and silk window treatments? We’ll tell ya, it was a real hassle getting those through the Strait of Hormuz....
Was It Worth It? SCOTUS and Big Law Pay the Price of Cowardice
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (692+ words) Advertisement Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Spotify TuneIn Pocket Casts RSS Feed For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. Please enable javascript to get your Slate Plus feeds. All Slate Plus Podcasts…...
Democrats Have Several Ways to Take Control of the Senate. Let’s Break Down Their Best Chance.
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (289+ words) Welcome to Part 2 of our explainer about which party will control Congress after November’s midterm elections. As we wrote earlier this week, Democrats are a virtual lock to flip the House, but the Senate is another story. Despite Donald Trump’s…...
Can Trump Buy Back Americans’ Love at $5,000 a Piece? Guess We’ll Find Out.
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (251+ words) The first Republican midterm convention had all the simulacra of a real political convention. There were seats assigned by state and indicated by tall signs on poles, there was a host of precisely timed and deeply forgettable speeches by elected…...
Family advice: My dad is getting remarried to a sketchy person. I need to stop this before it goes south.
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (259+ words) Each week, exclusively for Slate Plus members, Prudie discusses a new letter with a fellow Slate colleague. Have a question for Prudie? Submit it here. I’m 26 years old, and my parents divorced when I was ten. The end of their…...
Yes, the Youth-Sports Industrial Complex Is Bad for the Kids in It. It’s Even Worse for the Kids Left Behind.
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (1014+ words) Slate By now, lots of people know that private equity is changing everything about the world of youth sports, an arena where it’s currently making a killing. But when I read Caitlin Moscatello’s recent piece in New York magazine, yet…...
He Quit a Major Tech Company Because He Thinks It’s Risking Human Extinction. We Should at Least Hear Him Out, Right?
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (320+ words) People have worried about artificial intelligence destroying humanity since A.I. existed only in science fiction. But the latest warning comes from someone worth listening to: A researcher at Anthropic, which makes the chatbot Claude, just quit out of fear that the…...
Hunter Biden Was Finally Winning People Over. Then He Had a Very Horrible Idea.
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (504+ words) Slate For the past few months, Hunter Biden has been inescapable on social media and the podcast circuit, engaging with talking heads as far right as Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson while offering something of a reckoning with his highly…...
Busy Philipps got a whole-body MRI. Here’s what to know if you’re considering one.
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (1000+ words) A Famous Actress Just Put Her Face on an Expensive, Controversial Medical Test. You Know What: I Can’t Blame Her. Slate These days, it’s not uncommon for a patient to ask me whether they should get a whole-body MRI scan…...