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Tom Comitta asked 1,045 Americans what they like and don’t like in their books. Then he wrote the books.

Inside the FTC’s conditions for an advertising merger.

We sit down with OG YouTuber Ingrid Nilsen to reflect on the 10-year anniversary of her most popular video to date.

Dr. Orna Guralnik introduces us to a batch of new couples, and we are riveted.

Plus: playing telephone, co-working, and one thing I don’t love about you.

On Thursday, by a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court allowed states to “defund” Planned Parenthood by cutting the provider out…

Tier-one friends only.

She needs to hear this.

Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for June 26, 2025.

The FX hit is aware of its flaws but still doesn’t know how to solve them.

This order sends a troubling signal.

New York voters chose “inexperienced” over “scandal-ridden.”

Becca Balint Knows the Hill Can’t Be Neutral

Queer Stories for Kids, Docs, and the Frontlines of Care

28 Years Later, Danny Boyle’s latest post-apocalyptic thrill ride, is also a contemplative allegory.

James Frey joins Felix Salmon to talk about the ultra-rich people who inspired his latest book, Next to Heaven.

Younger audiences are “embracing the cringe.”

Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for June 23, 2025.

U.S. politics are failing trans youth. We're also failing them by not talking about this more.

The Pentagon claims that the intervention was not about “regime change.”

Plus: a movie date, an Ami date, and a first girlfriend.

Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for June 22, 2025.

Total hopelessness is not an option.

Really, the random deposits get tiresome.

Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid.

Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for June 20, 2025.

I scored tickets to Benson Boone’s tour and became my boys’ heroine.

We used to have fun online. Not anymore.

In Jena, Louisiana, the people knew everything and nothing about what’s happening there.

Is it a match? Materialists isn’t so sure.

How one historic city got a movie genre all its own—despite its accent sending shivers down the spines of actors.

Toni Morrison was an editor for 12 years, even as she wrote her own masterpieces. I spoke to her authors about what it …

Now that Israel is fighting Iran, can a regional conflict be avoided at this point?

Plus: The 10-minute timer could spark a lifelong habit.

Oh, the successes, the mishaps, and heartbreaks of summer love.

In coming in second, I still think the mayor of Newark proved something important.

RFK Jr wants a “nonpartisan” advisory committee on immunization practices. So, a few pro-disease people on there?

Plus: parenting teens is this whole separate thing.

Everything is an "emergency."

Just to hold us over until the Bill of Rights is back.

Why Trump chose a legally dubious justification for what he’s doing in L.A.

In the new movie from the creator of Mare of Easttown, Sweeney plays a character even she can’t make likable.

I guess we actually have a DOGE now.

At this point, it’s like Trump wants people to protest his parade in Washington.

A dispatch from the front (of the drive-thru) line.

Can we ever know the real Pee-wee Herman? A new documentary attempts to.

Barry Lam joins Felix Salmon to nerd out on philosophy and the deficit.

Featuring a witch, an economist, and a finance coach.

For our listener Mavi, nighttime is the worst time.

The ICE protests in L.A. are only the beginning.

Plus: why you don’t have to be stuck in the suburbs.

It’s been quite a show!

Finance journalism’s best inside joke goes mainstream.

The thing about silos is that, often, they’re used for a good reason.

The project to demolish the New Deal reaches its apex one hundred years later with an intra-billionaire spat.

I have an idea to fix things.

It sets up a compelling argument—then veers wildly off course.

Even though an officer believed she had been tortured, she’s still being deported.

He mourned on Oct 7. By Oct 8, he was worried about what Israel would do in response.

How a snark page’s least-favorite influencer flooded For You pages with her “influencer carnival” wedding and whether y…

For five decades, the laugh track was ubiquitous in sitcoms. What happened?

The creator of Succession skewers the wealthy tech set in a new HBO Max movie. How well does Jesse Armstrong pull off M…

For LGBTQ+ people and organizers this June, the math isn’t mathing.

Against all odds, small-town Prides are multiplying and thriving—even in the country's most Trump-coded areas.

“Every client would walk in, describing the person they wanna be with in terms of height, weight, salary – like a consu…

Wedding musicians aren’t quite sure how to feel about it.

Plus: personal grooming, birthday dates, and age gaps.

I'm viscerally opposed to it.

Congratulations, Elon, on a job…being over.