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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