In January of 2001, a startup news website broke a huge technology story: A charismatic millionaire was secretly developing an incredible invention, one that…
This fun new book about how Germans raise their kids will break American parents’ hearts.
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The inexplicable randomness of being homeless was familiar to me, but the scale of it was something new.
Would that we all had the swagger of an angry, shirtless 9-year-old giving the finger.
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Gender bias makes it impossible to have fair discussions about women in politics.
Instead of sticking to his principles, Gorsuch is running interference for the Trump administration.
The scientist couldn't have foreseen the crisis his research would touch off.
A few weeks ago, I spent a night at the Kendall Hotel in Cambridge, Mass., a congenial place done up in a firehouse theme with an atrium on the top flo ...
Just a power nap in the timescale of the universe.
In 1996, the New Yorker published “Hating Hillary,” Henry Louis Gates’ reported piece on the widespread animosity for the then–First Lady. “Like horse- ...
The following essay is excerpted from the latest issue of the Paris Review. This excerpt is available online only in Slate. To read the complete versio ...
The scientific jury is still out on whether our species is unique among social mammals in being able to conceptualize mental states—other species, such ...
