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Slate’s Mistakes for the Week of Aug. 10
4+ week, 1+ day ago (147+ words) In an Aug. 11 Politics, Ben Jacobs misidentified Suleiman the Magnificent as the ruler of Constantinople in the 1450s. It was Sultan Mehmed II. In an Aug. 9 Television, Sam Adams mistakenly implied that the person who jumped to his death from a window…...
Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s VP of Brand and Communications? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
3+ week, 1+ day ago (61+ words) Slate More Games From Slate Slate Mini Crossword for Aug. 21, 2026 Slate Pears Game 371: Aug. 20, 2026 Slate SoundBites for August 20, 2026 The New Madrid Fault Line Lies in the Middle of Which Continent? We need to talk about your adblocker...
A Grab Bag Episode, With Questions Ranging from Serious to Silly
3+ week, 2+ day ago (220+ words) Emily, John, and David top off the summer by answering listeners’ questions of all kinds. This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz answer listeners’ questions of all kinds: the political, the personal, and everything in-between. Many thanks to…...
Slate Crossword: Fried Treat Served With Sour Cream (Five Letters)
1+ week, 6+ day ago (53+ words) Slate More Games From Slate Slate Pears Game 380: Aug. 29, 2026 Slate Mini Crossword for Aug. 29, 2026 Slate Pears Game 379: Aug. 28, 2026 Slate Crossword: Product of a Grazer or Kazoo (Five Letters) We need to talk about your adblocker...
Can You Identify Which Item Cost More Than $10 in the 1897 Sears Roebuck and Co. Catalog?
3+ week, 4+ day ago (52+ words) Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for Aug. 18, 2026. More Games From Slate Slate SoundBites for August 18, 2026 Slate Mini Crossword for Aug. 18, 2026 Slate Crossword: Turn Out at a Cultural Event? (Nine Letters) Slate Pears Game 368: Aug. 17, 2026 We need to talk…...
Hoffman at NYSE, in This Week’s Open Thread
2+ week, 6+ day ago (98+ words) Slate Magazine On this day in 1967, American dissident Abbie Hoffman and a group of radical anti-capitalist, anti-Vietnam protestors disrupted trading at the New York Stock Exchange by raining dollar bills down from the observation gallery. The stunt resulted in the…...
Every Alarming Detail We Know So Far About the Elizabeth Holmes Documentary That’s Rocking the Film World
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (522+ words) By the end of the trailer, You Can See Everything reveals itself to be an upcoming A24 documentary co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, hitting theaters Oct. 16. It premiered at the Telluride Film Festival the same day the trailer dropped,…...
What Will We Learn From Our Summer of Complicated Mothers?
3+ week, 3+ day ago (859+ words) Slate We have a vision of how motherhood is supposed to be: difficult, but rewarding. Full of sacrifice, but worth it. There are hardships, surely, but they are offset by the moments of pure joy. Something evolutionary and primal kicks…...
Public Health Advocates Are So Desperate for Help Against Conspiracies They’ve Turned to the Place You’d Least Expect
2+ week, 3+ day ago (230+ words) Last month’s Senate grilling of Dr. Anthony Fauci, if viewed by an audience that had not been subjected to years of propaganda, would be staggeringly strange. But several experts, prodded for any note of optimism they could find, offered hope…...
Off the Record: Air Farce One
4+ week, 1+ day ago (149+ words) In which the president makes like an airline snack and Biscoffs. How much should we know about our politicians? This week we found out that even two of the most scrutinized people in America still have their secrets—be it…...