2023: SLATE (364)

JANUARY

The Best Reason to Exercise Is Not Weight Loss – or Even Health

Like Nearly All Americans, I Don’t Eat Enough Fruits and Vegetables. Here’s How I’m Fixing That.

What Elon Musk Is Teaching Us About Billionaires

“These People Are Charlatans”: Inside the Republicans’ Historic Failure to Pick a Speaker

House Republicans Have Found a New Way to Do Jan. 6

The Right-Wing Nuts Upending the House Are Right About One Thing

Oh God, Kevin – What Did You Promise Them?

Kevin McCarthy Won the Battle, But Definitely Not the War

The Real Problem With John Roberts’ 2022 Report on the Court

Elon Musk Is Making Choices That Are Eerily Similar to Henry Ford’s

Democrats Were Smug During the Sepaker Debacle. But Do They Have a Plan?

Why Apple’s New A.I.-Read Books Are Making Some Humans Furious

I Ate at the Restaurant Where George Santos Is Often, for Some Reason, Spending Exactly $199.99

What Else Will the New Special Counsel Find Near Joe Biden’s Corvette?

How Did Yoga Get So Damn Expensive?

HBO’s New Post-Apocalyptic Drama Won’t Make The Walking Dead’s Biggest Mistake

In the ’80s, We Decided Bike Helmets Make Riders Safe. Cyclists Have Paid for It Ever Since.

How One Bad Court Pick in New York Has Turned Into a National Quagmire

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar Have Their Committees Back. Who’s Less Fortunate?

The Key Decision for Pope Francis in His Standoff With Conservatives

We Went to the First March for Life Since Roe Fell. It Was Euphoric – and a Little Confused.

January 1973 Was a Monumental Month for America – and Not Just Because of Roe

The Chaos at the Supreme Court Has a Clear Point

Sundance’s Brett Kavanaugh Documentary Doesn’t Drop Any Bombshells, but It Does Something Just as Important

Sometimes, Reality Itself Is a Little Too Woke

The New Kavanaugh Documentary Will Do One Thing. It’s Not Enough.

The Insidious New Narrative About Mass Shootings

I’m a Therapist for Older Asian Americans in L.A. County. The Shootings This Month Send a Clear Message.

Uh, My Son’s 7-Year-Old Friend Is Trying to Convert Him

How the Lab-Leak Theory Went From Fringe to Mainstream – and Why It’s a Warning

What Is COVID Actually Doing to Our Immune Systems?

FEBRUARY

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Wasn’t Always Like John Roberts

The National Prayer Breakfast’s Mysterious Schism

The Backlash Against America’s Most Popular Novelist Is Way Less Satisfying Than I’d Hoped

The First 2024 Candidate With the Guts to Challenge Trump

I’m Just Gonna Say It: Abolish Birthdays

No One Won at the Grammys

The Grim Reality About Saving People Trapped by an Earthquake

Joe Biden Reveals His Superpower

Steven Spielberg’s Oscar Curse

Jeopardy! Has Finally Perfected the Post-Trebek Formula

Joe Biden Won an Otherwise Very Foolish Week

Much Younger Men Keep Pursuing Me Online – and They Have the Same, Startling Fantasy

The Truth About That Controversial Super Bowl Call

The Shock Over What the College Board Did in Florida Is Missing a Crucial Fact

Let’s Stop Pretending Clarence Thomas Can Read the Framers’ Minds

Democrats Deferred to Dianne Feinstein in 2018. They Couldn’t Afford to Do So Again.

Why the Massive Tesla Recall Is So Bad

Donald Trump May Actually Need Nikki Haley in the Race

The Mysterious Disappearance of America’s Favorite Psychedelic

Why Fires From E-Bike Batteries Have Left Cities Helpless

Restaurants Pray for a Review Like This. They Don’t Always Realize What Comes Afterward.

The Ultra-Wealthy Strivers Who Are Losing the Game of Life

Now We Know Why It Costs So Damn Much to Build New Subways in America

How the Ukraine War Is Likely to End

Kevin McCarthy Gave Tucker Carlson the Jan. 6 Security Footage. He’ll Wish He Hadn’t.

Chatbots Are Already Coming for My Job

The Audition So Insulting It Inspired a Classic Hollywood Satire

Will This Make Biden Acknowledge the Supreme Court Is Out of Control?

MARCH

The Gut Punch New York Is About to Give Restaurants

The Sinister New Talking Point Republicans Used to Grill Merrick Garland

I Close-Read the 113-Page Complaint Trying to Ban the “Abortion Pill in Texas. It’s Extremely Revealing.

This Winter’s Weird Weather Goes Beyond Climate Change

I Spent 24 Hours Alone in the Woods to See If It’d Make Me Cool. Guess How That Went?

Why the Russian Army Isn’t Learning From Its Mistakes

This Devastating Food Stamp Cut Is Going to Haunt Democrats

The Jewish Summer Camp Hookup Scene Is Real. Here’s Why It Was Built.

I Was Ashamed of My Weight. Now I’m Ashamed of Taking Ozempic.

What Will Come From All the Revelations About Tucker Carlson and Fox News

A Tale of Two Tuckers

What We Learned About Your Favorite Fox News Hosts in the Dominion Lawsuit Documents

Just Get Used to It: The Oscars Are Weird Now

Ron DeSantis’ Book Reveals His Fatal Flaw – or Is It His Secret Weapon?

A Texas Man’s Cruel Attempt to Terrorize His Ex-Wife’s Friends Over Her Abortion

The Murder Case Embroiling the NCAA Tournament’s No. 1 Overall Seed

Ron DeSantis Has No Reason to Be “Moderate” On Abortion

Why a “Canceled” Country Star has America’s No. 1 Song

What Are “Menopause Entrepreneurs” Like Naomi Watts Selling Us? I Saw for Myself.

The Truth About Long COVID Is Finally Emerging. It’s Not What We Thought.

“You Know What? I’m Not Doing this Anymore”: The Disaster in Texas Everyone Should’ve Seen Coming

So, What’s Stormy Daniels Been Up to Lately?

Another Prosecutor Is Apparently Racing Toward a Trump Indictment

The Republican Plan to Make Voting Irrelevant

An Aging Star Is Ready for His Close-Up

A Teenage Experience Cherished for Generations Is Disappearing. What Are We Really Losing?

What the Heck Is Joe Biden Thinking Lately?

The Real End Goal of the Anti-Choice Texas Abortion Lawsuit

The Pope in a Coat Is Not From a Holy Place

How Paris Pulled Off What New York and London Can Only Dream About

The Big Problem With the Trump Indictment

APRIL

One of College Basketball’s Big Problems Helped Make a Great Final Four

The Unlikely Political Force That Could Decide the Next Chicago Mayor

What Trump Hopes Happens in New York on Tuesday – and What His Followers Are Saying Now

How the Media Made the Trump Indictment Story Worse Before It Even Happened

I Stood Outside the Court Waiting for Trump. It Showed Me Some Things About His Supporters Now.

The FBI Is Causing Trouble Again. Only This Time, It’s Hilarious.

What Happened in Tennessee Is a Warning

The Lawless Ruling Against the Abortion Pill Has Already Prompted a Constitutional Crisis

Alvin Bragg Attempts Legal Jujitsu

Why That Shocking Succession Moment Happened Off Screen

The Next Stage of the Abortion Pill Case Is a Major Test for These Conservative Judges

The Most Disturbing Thing About an American Reporter’s Arrest in Russia

The Legal Attacks on the Abortion Pill Are Making a Colossal Miscalculation

Why Jack Teixeira Had Access to So Much Classified Information

The Secret to Netflix’s Most Heinously Addictive Show

How a Bizarre Right-Wing Blogger Became the Left’s Favorite Laughingstock

The Internet Thinks We Don’t Know Its Secret. But I Do.

So, Is Clarence Thomas at Real Risk Here? Absolutely. 

A Once Unthinkable Revolution Is Coming to Figure Skating. Is the Sport – and the World – Ready?

Another Way Donald Trump Is Humiliating Ron DeSantis in Florida

Birth Control Is Next

I Became a Personal Trainer to Help People. What I Witnessed Caught Me Off Guard.

How Else Has Harlan Crow Given Money To?

The Great Alcohol Flip-Flop Isn’t That Hard to Understand – if You Know Who Was Behind It

America’s Next Top Supervillain Has Arrived

“Ban Lists” Are Growing. Ceremonies Are Weird. The Honeymoon’s Everything. Is the Wedding OK?

The E. Jean Carroll Trial Contains a Remarkable Piece of Evidence

Actually, Disney’s Lawsuit Against DeSantis Is Really Troubling

It Seems Ron DeSantis Forgot a Little Something About Disney

In One Year, I Went to 12 Weddings – and Had One Unimaginable Loss

MAY

Three Women in the News Are Setting Fire to an Ancient Trope

Disney Has a Secret. Ron DeSantis May Be Uncovering It.

The Insane Standard That America Applies to Parking

Congress Is Brainstorming Its Way Out of Averting Economic Catastrophe

The E. Jean Carroll Trial Now Hinges on a Single Question

Superhero Movies Have Taken Over the World While Playing the Underdog. So Has the Man Tasked With Saving Them.

Right-Wingers Won Twitter and They’re Going to Hate It

There’s a Deeper Threat Than the Proud Boys

Now We Know Why Donald Trump Didn’t Take the Stand in the E. Jean Carroll Trial

The Wild Backstory to George Santos’ Arrest

Trump’s Biggest Blunder in the E. Jean Carroll Trial Will Probably Doom Him in Court Again and Again

America’s Housing War Came to My City. I Watched My Neighbors Delude Themselves in Real Time

The Biggest Lesson From the E. Jean Carroll Trial Is Satisfyingly Simple

America’s Mothers Are Suckers. And I Say That With Love.

Meet the Man Who Wants to Be Trump 2.0

A Baffling Development in the Debt Ceiling Talks

The Killing of Jordan Neely Debunks a Common Myth About Cities

There Will Be Consequences for What’s Happening in North Carolina

Why Even Ron DeSantis’ Ugly Policies Won’t Keep Liberal Families From Moving to Red States

The Democrats Just Got Rolled by … Kevin McCarthy?

The Horrific Content a Kenyan Worker Had to See While Training ChatGPT

I Know One Way the Supreme Court Got to How It Is. I Watched It Happen for Years.

My Brother Killed a Man. Then Arizona Killed My Brother.

What I Realized After Justice Alito Attacked Me for Critiquing the Shadow Docket

Samuel Alito’s Assault on Wetlands Is So Indefensible That He Lost Brett Kavanaugh

The Ticking Time Bomb in America’s Downtowns

The Stain of Henry Kissinger’s Legacy

What Could Trump Possibly Get Out of Attacking Special Prosecutor Jack Smith?

In Defense of the Lawn

As a Blowout Party for Unsung Republican Heavyweights, the Men Were Drunk – And Anxious

What I Learned When I Talked to Clarence Thomas’ Mom

JUNE

There’s Unsettling New Evidence About William Rehnquist’s Views on Segregation

Why Tim Scott Made His Virginity Key to His Political Persona

A Key Factor for Female Athletes Was Ignored for Years. What’s Happening Now Isn’t Helpful, Either.

I’ve Seen the Future That Has Hollywood Actors Terrified

What Lane Does Mike Pence Think He’s Driving In, Exactly?

The Royal Family Is Freaked Out by Prince Harry’s Court Testimony. Maybe It Should Be.

The World Is Changing Rapidly. We Need to Remember One Key Thing.

KBJ Gives Clarence Thomas a Lesson in Congress’ Basic Spending Power

Trump’s Messy Bragging Is All Over This Indictment

The Kennedys Really Hate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Maybe They’re Onto Something. 

How to Force Judge Aileen Cannon Off the Trump Case

It’s Trump Indictment Day in Miami

Outside Trump’s Arrest in Florida, One Man More Hated Than Any Other

Amy Coney Barrett Delivered a Massive Victory for Native Rights

Republicans Are Finding New Voters With Ron DeSantis’ Favorite Talking Point. It’s Just the Beginning.

Young People Have No Idea What We Used to Do After Work. Let Me Regale You.

My E-Bike Changed My Life

There’s an Unprecedented Anti-Death Penalty Opportunity in a Deep-Red State

When I Transitioned in Rural Tennessee, I Never Could Have Expected the Reaction

Our Major American Misunderstanding

RFK Jr.’s Conspiracy Theories Are Even Wilder Than You Think

When Trump Promises to End the Ukraine War, This Is What He Really Means

The Radical New Show That’s Both Brilliant and Hilarious

One Day, I Slipped a Note Under the Door of a Loud Neighbor. Only Later Did I Realize My Mistake.

Rethinking the Liberal Giant Who Doomed Roe

There’s a Time Bomb for Democracy in Moore v. Harper

The Biggest Misconception About the Trans Athletes Debate

The Supreme Court Just Bulldozed Affirmative Action – With Two Bizarre Loopholes

John Roberts Says Elena Kagan’s Student Debt Dissent Is a “Personal” Affront

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