2022: SLATE (300)

JANUARY

My Two Months of Two COVID Variants

We Know Exactly Who the Capitol Rioters Were

My COVID ICU in Miami Is Being Slammed Yet Again. But This Time It’s Different.

They Left the GOP Because of Jan. 6. Here’s What They Think Now.

The Hidden Agenda Behind the Attack on Vaccine Mandates

The Matrix Resurrection Shows What the Original Did So Right – by Doing It All Wrong

We Talked to the Student Whose Post About High School Life Under Omicron Went Viral

J.D. Vance Has turned a 30 Rock Joke Into a Viable Political Strategy

Congress’ Plan to Protect the 2024 Election From Sabotage Has One Huge Flaw

I’m Begging My Pregnant Anti-Vax Patients to Get the Shot. It’s Not Working.

What Elmo’s Viral Moment Tells Us About How Parents Watch Kids’ TV

SCOTUS Had No Legal Reason to Block Biden’s Vaccine Rules. So It Made One Up.

Virginia Republicans Are Trying to Keep Critical Thinking out of Public Schools

What Yellowjackets Does Better Than Any Other Show

Imagining a “Second Civil War” Is a Lost Cause

How the Internet Ruined the Birth Story

A Cable News Host on the “Hygiene Test” He Uses for Republicans on Air

How Big of a Mistake Did Biden Just Make on Ukraine?

How Will History Judge the Women’s March?

Why Please Don’t Destroy’s Warp-Speed Absurdity Is the Future of Saturday Night Live

Will Democrats Ever Stop Embarrassing Themselves?

Oil and Gas Companies Are Whining About “Discrimination.” Now What?

The Supreme Court’s Plan to Block Climate Action We Haven’t Even Taken Yet

What in the World Are Biden and Putin Up To?

Justice Breyer’s Spectacularly Calculated Exit Has a Clear Lesson

What Conservatives Really Mean When They Say Biden’s Potential SCOTUS Nominees Are “Unqualified”

Why Women in Hollywood Had More Power in 1916 Than They Do Now

The Big Redistricting Blowout

There’s a Simple Reason That Demands to “Ban” Books Like Maus Are Soaring

FEBRUARY

How Biden’s Vow to Name a Black Woman to the Supreme Court Backfired

The Ukraine Crisis Is Not Going Well for Putin

Why Spotify Will Win

Putin Has a New, Brutal Backup Plan in Ukraine

Why San Francisco’s Asians Voted to Recall “Progressive” Members of the School Board

APRIL

The DOJ Finally Seems to Be Moving Toward a Trump Investigation

Madison Cawthorn Wins Orgy Snitch of the Week

The Grammys Still Haven’t Solved Their Biggest Problem

What to Do About Russia’s Atrocities in Bucha

Is Emmanuel Macron About to Blow It?

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Now the Most Prominent Symbol of a Decades-Long Black Movement

Could Russia Lose This Whole War?

So, Let’s Talk About Republicans and Sex Crimes

The Surprisingly Bulky Particle That Might… Break Physics?

The GOP’s New American Values

The Historians Take a First Crack at Donald J. Trump

Trump Is Right About the Deep State. Thank God!

How Red States Plan to Reach Beyond Their Borders and Outlaw Abortion in America

Doesn’t Elon Musk Have Something Better to Do?

Donald Trump Veers Headfirst Into the 2022 Primaries

Choosing When to Die

New Orleans’ Self-Mythology Dates Back to a Shockingly Racist Old Textbook

What Americans Keep Getting Wrong About Exercise

The Potential Exodus Brewing Within Texas’ State Government

Only One Blue State Is Fully Preparing for the Next Phase of the Abortion Wars

No One Punches the Mouse in the Face

The Black BYU Students Asking the Questions White People Don’t Want to Answer

The Most Unexpected Consequences of the Texas Abortion Ban

The Biggest Thing That’s Changed With Sex on TV

There’s a Reason No Smart Buyer Already Purchased Twitter

What’s Eating Edible Arrangements?

Everyone Is Starting to Admit Something Frightening About Ukraine

Elon Musk Is the King of All Media, Unfortunately (Sorry)

MAY

What the Latest Panic About the Sex Lives of Teenagers Gets So Wrong

What Trevor Noah Got Desperately Wrong at the White House Correspondents Dinner

Alito’s Draft Opinion Opens the Door to Congress Outlawing Abortion Nationwide

What Can the Chief Justice Do Now?

We Read Alito’s 98-Page Leaked Opinion. Here Are the Most Shocking Lines.

The “Original Sin” of the Religious Right

Alito Is Ready to Take His Place as the Country’s Most Powerful Policymaker

Our Ancestors Were Alive When the Dinosaurs Were

What It Will Take to Fix This

The Horrifying Implications of Alito’s Most Alarming Footnote

The One Group That Can Stop Elon Musk From Unbanning Trump on Twitter

Starbucks Is Playing With Fire

There’s Already a Revolution in Abortions Happening – and the Supreme Court Can’t Touch It

The New “Ultra-MAGA” Contender in Pennsylvania’s Senate Primary

Your Guide to the Nightmare of the Pennsylvania GOP Primary for Senate

Why Finland Joining NATO Is More Shocking Than Anyone Realizes

Tucker Carlson Is Deflecting

What Everyday White Americans and The Buffalo Shooter Have in Common

The Horror in New York Shows the Madness of the Supreme Court’s Looming Gun Decision

The Republican Party’s Extremist Wing Has a New Face

The Uncomfortable Reason You Can’t Escape the Depp-Heard Trial on TikTok

The Brief Life and Watery Death of a ’70s Libertarian Micronation

A Chilling Side Effect of Abortion Bans Is Already Playing Out in Texas Pharmacies

Why the Senate Protects Justices From Protesters but Won’t Protect Kids From Mass Shootings

What I Saw After the Shooting That Should’ve Changed Everything

The Police Waited Outside the School for More Than an Hour. What Were They Doing?

This Dude Truly Bested Trump This Week

All the Discrepancies Between What the Police Initially Said About Uvalde and What We Know Now

The Eerie Similarities Between Depp v. Heard and the Biggest Celebrity trial of the 1850s

What I Saw This Weekend at the NRA’s Annual Convention

JUNE

She Was Once the Face of Illegal Abortion in America. She Was Forgotten for a Reason.

The Real Lesson of the Disastrous Outcome in the Depp-Heard Trial

Why Wall Street Thinks Elon Musk Is Getting Out of the Twitter Deal

The One Republican Who Could Decide Whether Congress Passes a Gun Bill

The Country Has Finally Broken Me. I Know the Only Way to Respond.

The Mysterious Pain I Felt for Years Led Me to a Strange Place – and a Thrilling Solution

How the “Catholic Fox News” Turned to Trump – and Turned Against the Pope

HBO’s New Documentary Is About the Early 1970s, but It Couldn’t Be More Relevant

Why Are Influencers Getting Their Breast Implants Removed?

The Biggest Takeaway From the First Night of the Jan. 6 Hearings

The Jan. 6 Hearings Are a Trump Challenger’s Dream

The Jan. 6 Hearings Might Have an Unlikely Winner

Does Donald Trump Really “Know” Anything?

The Hidden Message in Bill Barr’s Jan. 6 Hearing Testimony

A Growing Christian Conservative Movement Has Its Solution to School Shootings

The Leader of Trump’s Favorite 2020 “Audit” May Be Disbarred After Courtroom Meltdown

U.S. Stocks Waver at End of Volatile Trading Week

The Ginni Thomas Saga Keeps Getting Weirder

Nobody Is Going to Save Us From a Recession

It’s Time to Start Worrying About North Korea Again

How the Greatest Kitchen Company on the Planet Won Its Obsessive Fans

The Horrible Price Public Servants Paid for Standing Up to Trump’s Election Lies

Clarence Thomas Just Declared Most Gun Control Laws Unconstitutional

Alito’s Final Dobbs Opinion Is Even More Extreme Than His First Draft

The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Are Absolute Weasels

One Story That Shows Amy Coney Barrett’s “Plan” for Abortion Isn’t One at All

The Only Conservative Justice Whose Dobbs Opinion Was Honest

So That’s What a Trump Tantrum Is Really Like

The Very American Tale of Why the Country Still Believes a Decades-Old Lie About the U.S. Flag

JULY

Liz Cheney Is Dropping Beguiling Hints About Another Potential Jan. 6 Bombshell

Cassidy Hutchinson vs. the Mob-Like MAGA Goons

Are You an “Uncle Sam” or a “Lady Liberty”?

Democrats Are Headed for a Disaster With Unfilled Judicial Vacancies

The Republican Moms Apologizing to Their Liberal Kids

Larry Summers Explains Exactly Why He Thinks We Need Massive Unemployment

Is the Catholic Church Under Attack?

It Couldn’t Be More Obvious What Elon Musk Is Doing.

Boris Johnson Promised to Make Britain Great Again. He Did Not.

The Two Weeks Late Presidency

The Sordid Backstory to the Tweet That Started It All

A Doctor Has a Wild Plan for Abortions in the South. It Just Might Work.

Joe Manchin Just Knifed What Was Left of Biden’s Agenda

Is Joe Biden Really Donezo?

Why Europeans Took So Long to Learn the Crawl

America’s Great Forgotten Solution to the Absurd Rent and House Prices

The Real Reason the GOP Is Rushing to Pass Abortion Bans Without Exceptions for Rape

The 50 Greatest Fictional Deaths of All Time

How Liz Cheney Actually Is Converting Republicans

The Jan. 6 Committee’s Season Finale Went All In on Showing Trump’s Complicity

Democrats’ $1 Million Mind Games Won This MAGA Loon a Primary

I’m a Pilot. I Love Flying to a City Few Travelers Ever Consider.

“Am I Going to Get Arrested if I Come to Illinois?”

So, Do Any of the Democrats Who Might Replace Joe Biden in 2024 Have What It Takes?

Where the Right-Wing Attacks on Education Finally Went Too Far – for Republicans

Why Netflix’s Most Expensive Movies Keep Getting Worse

The Democrats’ Aren’t Dead Yet

Why the Myth of the Miserable Lottery Winner Just Won’t Die

AUGUST

Why the Far-Right Network OAN Finally Had to Go

Nancy Pelosi Just Lit a Match at the Dynamite Factory

Kansas Voters Were the First to See the Brutal Reality of Abortion Bans – and Rebuke It

Hear Me Out: Trump Won’t Run Again

Christian Nationalists Used to Reject the Label. Now They Embrace It.

She’s In. Democrats, at Long Last, Have the Votes.

The Most Important Revelation About the Cops Involved in Killing Breonna Taylor

Alex Jones Is Still Winning the Info Wars

The Mar-a-Lago Raid Has Led to a Full-On GOP Meltdown

The Conspiracy Theory of the Far-Right Deep Web After the Trump FBI Raid

Republicans Are Outraged at Joe Biden for Accurately Describing the Economy

Who Is the Raid on Mar-a-Lago Really a Win For?

A Nuclear Week for Donald “Martyr” Trump

Wait, Have I Been Vaccinated Against Polio?

The Modest Vehicle That’s the Real Transportation of the Future

People in Their 20s Are Getting Botox – and It Could Backfire Spectacularly

Liz Cheney Never Really Represented the State of Wyoming

Voters Sure Do Seem Upset Roe Was Overturned

We Don’t Need a Trump-Inspired Civil War for Things to Get Real Bad, Real Fast

Republicans Are Getting Nervous About Their Senate Chances – and They Should Be!

Our Biggest Regrets of the Summer

I’ve Read Nearly All the Books by Former Trump Officials. Now We Have the Worst.

The Reason Anti-Abortion Activists Just Won’t Stop

The Truly Scary Part the $1.6 Billion Conservative Donation

Judge Blocks Biden’s Efforts to Stop Texas From Letting Pregnant Women Die

What the Critics of Loan Forgiveness Are Forgetting

The Mar-a-Lago Affidavit Shows Trump Is in Bigger Trouble Than We’d Thought

What Really Makes Serena Williams’ Last Stand So Remarkable

Male Politicians Don’t Seem to Have Noticed How Angry Women Voters Are

The Governor Whose Looming Testimony Is a Big Problem for Donald Trump

Mar-a-Lago Filing Shows Merrick Garland Must Move Quickly to Indict Trump

SEPTEMBER

Sharks Are Right There at the Beach. We Can’t Accept What That Means.

How the “Chill Ivy” Decided to Give Its Students Absolute Freedom

A Major Republican Donor Is Playing a Practical Joke on Mitch McConnell

Sharks Are Right There at the Beach. We Can’t Accept What That Means.

The Deadly Consequences of “The Most Underdiagnosed Complications of Childbirth”

Should DOJ Appeal Judge Cannon’s Incredibly Flawed Trump Special Master Ruling?

The Solution to the Trump Judge Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About

The Queen’s Decline Has Sent Britain Into Chaos. It Will Get So Much Worse.

I Watched the Hunter Biden Movie. Oh My.

I Can See Why CNN Is Booting All the Trump Critics Who Work There

Hold Hard the Tap Handle

There’s Only One Way to Help Britney Spears Now. We’re Doing the Opposite

When Will Russians Realize the Disaster in Ukraine Is Putin’s Fault?

John Roberts Can’t Admit What’s Happened to the Supreme Court

Mary Trump on How Her Uncle Keeps Getting Away With It

What the U.S. Can Learn from Ireland’s Win on Abortion

Lindsey Graham Goes Rogue

The New Yorker’s Lukewarm Satirist-in-Chief Still Has a Silly Idea About Republicans

The Only Way for Republicans to Win in Alaska

What Stacey Abrams Is Really Doing in Georgia

Here’s the Secret “Sheriff Fellowship” Curriculum From the Country’s Leading MAGA Think Tank

Why Trump’s Alleged Real-Estate Shenanigans Went Too Far

No One but Trump Would Be Prosecuted Like This

One of Higher Ed’s Worst-Kept Secrets Is Out. It’s Even Grimmer Than We Knew.

The Comic That Shows Why Marvel Movies Can’t Get the Fantastic Four Right

How Male Friendships Last–and Why Some Fail

Italy’s Catastrophic Election Is a Warning About Post-Trump Republicans in the U.S. 

The Smartest, Funniest Horror Movie in Ages Also Has a Killer Twist

Will Anyone Ever Buy or Sell a Home Again?

The Most Absurd “Solution” to America’s Assault on Women

OCTOBER

The Most Important Senate Race in the Country

How One Man’s Migraines Begat Alice In Wonderland

Inside the Law School Meltdown the Supreme Court Has Unleashed

The Mind-Numbing Predicament Nancy Pelosi Could Have Avoided

The Court’s Three Liberals Don’t Have a Lot of Power. Here’s What They Do Have.

Why Growing Parts of the Christian Right Are Convinced It’s the Apocalypse

Elon Musk May Already Be Pulling Some Shenanigans to Kill the Twitter Deal (Again)

Herschel Walker: What’s One Little Abortion Here or There?

Triangle of sadness’ Ruben Ostlund Spills the Secrets Behind the Year’s Most Deliciously Disgusting Scene

The Parts of #MeToo That Still Endure

Fifty Years Ago, He Was America’s Most Famous Writer. Why Haven’t You Ever Heard of Him?

How a Supreme Court Case About Pigs Could Upend Abortion Access

A New Bourdain Bio Challenges the Legend of “Saint Anthony”

Ending the Jan. 6 Hearings With a Trump Subpoena Was a Mistake

The Freakout Over John Fetterman

Gas Stoves Are Not Great for Your Kids’ Health. There’s a Simple Way to Reduce the Risk They Pose.

What to Do About Halloween’s Biggest Threat

My Eight Deranged Days on the Gone Girl Cruise

The California NIMBYs Who Defeated Themselves

Be Careful Cheering the (Admittedly Hilarious) Fall of Liz Truss

This Week in Gas Prices, the Only Thing That Apparently Matters in Politics

Kevin McCarthy Plots Pyrotechnic Levels of Government Dysfunction

What It’s Like for Russia’s Women Now That the Men Have Left

The Absurd Fraud at a Republican Chili Cook-Off in Alaska Has a Lesson About Sarah Palin, Trump, and 2022

Wait, What Is Really Up With Gen X’s Politics

Those Grade-School Test Scores Are a Really Bad Sign

The Federal Courts Are Out of Control Right Now

Elon Musk Is Already Firing Twitter Executives. Will He Break the Whole Thing?

A Great New Movie Is About Growing Up With Trumps, but the Real Target Is White Liberals

The White Lotus’ New Season Is About Something Very Different

I Watched J.D. Vance Try to Charm Voters in Ohio. I Finally Get Why He’s So Angry.

NOVEMBER

A Red Wave Could Be Headed for New York. It’s Clear Who to Blame.

Will Clown Candidates Cost the GOP – Or Are They Here to Stay?

The Far-Right Dark Web Isn’t Talking About Paul Pelosi. It’s Talking About What to Do on Election Day.

I Was Almost the “Late Abortion” Boogeyman. This Is Why Women Do It.

The Purple State Where the Midterms Could Bring Permanent Republican Rule

An Ex-Scientologist Explains the Danny Masterson Trial–and How Scientology Got Desperate

Herschel Walker Just Can’t Stop

Here’s How to Stress Out Appropriately

There Wasn’t a Red Wave. But There’s a Lot We Still Don’t Know.

What Democrats Can’t Forget About This Win

I Said “Yes” to Every PR Email for an Entire Day. If Only I Knew What I’d Done.

Republicans Are Turning on Trump for Blowing the Midterms. Will It Last?

Was I What You Wanted Me to Be?

The Inside Story of the Democrats’ Most Embarrassing Face Plant

Why Tens of Thousands of Tech Employees Are Being Laid Off

So, Is Donald Trump Really Toast, or What?

Why a Georgia Judge Roasted Alito’s Decision Overturning Roe v. Wade

Nancy Pelosi Is Out as Leader of House Democrats. Who’s Next?

The Stars Who Laundered This World Cup’s Abuses

Kamala Harris Had Her Chance. In 2024, Biden Needs a New VP.

Alito’s Alleged 2014 Leak Fits Right Into the Anti-Abortion Playbook

The Real Problem With the Second Alleged Leak at the Court

The Misleading Thanksgiving Claim That’s Taken on New Life

What Pecan Pie Tells Us About American Identity

How England’s Strategy Could Fall Apart Against the U.S.

The Best U.S. Players Rose to the Occasion

Quentin Tarantino and Bob Dylan Essentially Wrote the Same Book

The Student Accommodation Problem No Professor Wants to Talk About

Without Abortion, Doctors in Texas Are Forced to Witness Horrible Outcomes

What Really Happens When Someone Is Killed by Lethal Injection

DECEMBER

Elon Musk Has Reached the Limit of Things He Can Do Without Consequences

These Are the 10 Best Books of 2022

Why the USMNT Coudn’t Go Any Further

The Women of The White Lotus Could Learn a Few Things From Sex and the City

It’s Georgia’s World. We’re Just Living in It.

The Overlooked Strategy Behind Democrats’ Biggest Midterms Upset

Raphael Warnock Didn’t Just Defeat Herschel Walker. Something Bigger Happened

The Supreme Court Seems Less Inclined to End Democracy Than Before

Kevin McCarthy Is About to Enter Political Hell

Kyrsten Sinema Kicks Off 2024’s First Big Mess

What’s Truly Disturbing About Those Sci-Fi Avatars That Are Suddenly Everywhere

Why the Dream of Turning Empty Offices Into Housing Is a Bust

The Toxic Dynamic Fueling Our Love for the Sad Put-Upon Woman Essay

The Special Counsel Investigating Trump Is Wasting No Time

I Think I Found Kyrsten Sinema’s Side Hustle. It’s Perfect.

The Best Way to Handle Elon Musk’s Twitter Drama

There’s a Simple Way to Make Flying Easier for Everyone This Season

The Biggest Show on Cable Is Blatant Pro-Beef Propaganda

The Great Internet Grievance War the Right Has Wanted Is Here. It Ain’t Going Well.

Politicians Who Took SBF’s Money Should Be Very Worried

Why It’s So Hard to Talk About Hunter Biden

Why the Jan. 6 Committee Let Ginni and Clarence Thomas Off the Hook

My Catholic Mother-in-Law Wanted to Take My Jewish Daughter to Midnight Mass. My Reaction Surprised Me.

These Are Slate’s Favorite Podcast Episodes of the Year

How the Union Army’s Beloved Marching Song Became a French Christmas Favorite

Have Voters Stopped Punishing Democrats for Eating Kale and Arugula?

The Law Accepts Our Brains Aren’t “Mature” at 18 or 21. We’re Not Ready for What That Means.

These Debased Losers and Absolute Legends Defined 2022

Southwest Owes Passengers Refunds. This Is What It’s Been Doing Instead.

How Southwest Has Convinced Passengers to Give Up On Refunds They’re Owed

Republicans in Disarray

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