Politics

How Republicans Can Get Things Done

What the GOP can learn from Democrats about how to govern.

By Reihan Salam

How Hillary Clinton Can Win Despite a Floundering Democratic Party

By Jamelle Bouie

Pre-K Teachers No Longer Know How to Teach Pre-K

Interstellar Is a Bad Movie. Its Science Is Even Worse.

THE SLATEST SEE ALL
Jurisprudence

Even Crazier in Alabama

Voters just passed a constitutional amendment that would overrule the Supreme Court.

By Mark Joseph Stern

Stop Abusing the Term RSVP (if You Please)

By Troy Patterson

There’s a Better Way to Board an Airplane, but Airlines Aren’t Using It

By Nick Stockton
Most Recent See All
Nov 6, 2:56 PM - MIKE PESCA - 1M to read A Sneak Peek at The Gist’s Favorite Slate Plus Bonus Segments. No Member Jacket Required.
Nov 6, 2:37 PM - BEN MATHIS-LILLEY - 1M to read China Says It Will Build Ebola Hospital in Liberia
Nov 6, 2:25 PM - MARK JOSEPH STERN - 1M to read Gays Harbor Demons and Wear Diapers. Meet the Craziest Anti-Gay Legislator in America. 
Nov 6, 2:19 PM - CHRIS MOLANPHY - 9M to read In Pop Music Today, There’s the 1 Percent, and There’s Everybody Else
Nov 6, 2:03 PM - L.V. ANDERSON - 3M to read I Took Bulletproof Coffee’s Challenge. I Still Don’t Like Butter in Coffee.
Nov 6, 1:38 PM - JORDAN WEISSMANN Sweden’s Postal Service Is Putting Robyn, Max Martin, and Avicii on Stamps
Nov 6, 1:33 PM - JAMELLE BOUIE - 3M to read What Does the Republican Victory Mean for Hillary Clinton?
Nov 6, 1:26 PM - GRETCHEN MCCULLOCH - 2M to read A Better-Phrased Sentence Could Have Saved This Woman “From Her Marriage to Her Dog”
Nov 6, 1:20 PM - LILY HAY NEWMAN - 1M to read Astronauts Play With Blobs of Water in Zero Gravity. Yes.
Nov 6, 1:17 PM - BEN MATHIS-LILLEY - 1M to read Philadelphia Kidnap Victim Found Alive in Part Thanks to Abductor’s Bad Credit
Nov 6, 1:06 PM - REBECCA SCHUMAN - 4M to read These Ridiculous New York Times Pregnancy Fitness Videos Are Making Me Miserable
Nov 6, 12:58 PM - FORREST WICKMAN - 1M to read The Title for Star Wars: Episode VII Has Been Announced
Nov 6, 12:42 PM - ELLA MORTON - 1M to read The Soviet-Era Railways Run By Children
Nov 6, 12:19 PM - HEIDI KNOBLAUCH - 1M to read How 19th-Century Doctors Used Daguerreotypes For Consultation on Difficult Cases 
Nov 6, 11:58 AM - DANA STEVENS - 5M to read In The Theory of Everything, Stephen Hawking’s Marriage Is As Complex As the Universe
Most Read
  Dear Prudence

  • No Direction

    My husband’s spent our entire marriage writing a screenplay, and I’m fed up.

    Emily Yoffe

  • My Mom Is a Mooch

  • The Vanishing

  • Rumor Has It

  • The Right to Say I Don’t

  • VIEW ALL

Most Shared
Slate Store

Slate shirts! Slate gear! And books we love. Check it out.

Slate LIVE

Click here to find a list of Slate Events near you!

In Case You Missed It
History
The Self-Made Man The story of America’s most pliable, pernicious, irrepressible myth. By John Swansburg
The XX Factor
White Men Don't Catcall. They Harass In Other Ways.  
Politics
Mississippi Is Failing Its People in Every Way The reason is its history of white supremecy.
Music
Taylor Swift’s Navel What it reveals about the pop star’s music, sexuality, and celebrity.
Working How Colbert Creates Colbert, Explained in Meticulous Detail
  Podcasts
  • Mom and Dad Are Fighting Should Teenagers Be Allowed to Bring Their Phones to School?
  • The Gist The Name of This Game Is “Who Tooted?”
  • Culture Gabfest How Outraged Should We Be About Catcalling?
  • The Gist What JFK’s Missing Brain Tells Us About Ordinary People Shaping History

  • VIEW ALL

Betsy
Woodruff
Troy
Patterson
Amanda
Hess
  News & Politics
History
Nov. 6 2014 9:19 AM History, or Just Horror? Should archives make images of eradicated diseases and antiquated treatments available for the world to see? Rebecca Onion
Disturbing New Terrorism Trend: Ramming a Vehicle into a Crowd of People
Not Every Republican Could Be a Winner. Here Are the GOP’s Rising Stars Who Flamed Out.
Why Karl Rove May Have Been the Biggest Winner on Election Night
How Scott Walker Does It
Washington Gridlock Cannot Get Any Worse
How the Republican Party Clobbered Democrats With Their Own President
  Business
Moneybox
Nov. 6 2014 11:49 AM Tea Party Delusions Die Hard Jordan Weissmann
Whole Foods “Values Matter” Turnaround Campaign Might Actually Be Working
How to Bring Tech Jobs Back to the United States 
The Perks of Amazon Prime Are Now Available Beyond Amazon
The Rich Shop at Walmart, Target, and Amazon, Just Like Everyone Else
What Stocks Do When the GOP Takes Congress with a Sitting Democratic President
Even Red States Love a Higher Minimum Wage
  Life
The Eye
Nov. 6 2014 11:10 AM Why Is Designing a Chair So Difficult? 99% Invisible
What Is It Like to Be a Late-Night Talk Show Guest?
Help! My Husband’s Spent Our Entire Marriage Writing a Screenplay. Should I Leave Him?
Why Would Anyone Do Drag? A Queen Takes Questions About Her Art. (Video.)
This Mysterious Bridge Lures Dogs to Their Deaths
These Shipping Pallets Get Second Lives as Sleek Designer Furniture
Want to Learn How to Shut Down an Annoying Public Transit Preacher? Watch Lea DeLaria (Video).
  Double X
The XX Factor
Nov. 5 2014 3:29 PM Sexual Assault, Football, and a Mole Inside the Air Force Academy Amanda Hess
Next Up for the Personhood Movement: Targeting a City Near You
There Are 100 Women in Congress for the First Time Ever
Two Major Female Democrats in Close Senate Races Lose. What Does This Mean for Hillary?
Colorado Says No to Personhood for the Third Time
Patrick Witt’s Op-Ed About Harvard’s Sexual Assault Policy Is Infuriating. It’s Also Right.
Lena Dunham Looked Inside Her Sister’s Vagina. That’s Not Sexual Abuse. It’s Childhood.
  Slate Plus
Tv Club
Nov. 6 2014 8:32 AM Slate Plus Sneak Peek: The Walking Dead Podcast A spoiler-filled discussion of Episode 4. Mike Vuolo and Chris Wade
Slate’s Working Podcast, Episode 4 Transcript: The Workday of a Rock Star
Nine Questions With Slate Home Page Editor Seth Maxon (Video)
Doctor Who Podcast: Phil Plait and Laura Helmuth Recap Episode 11
How to Crash a “Very Intimate, Very Private Taping of the Gabfest”
  Arts
Behold
Nov. 6 2014 11:00 AM The Magical Life of One Pair of Icelandic Twins  Jordan G. Teicher
Here’s the Full Into the Woods Trailer, Now With Singing (and Johnny Depp's Face)
A Bright and Funny Cartoon Memoir About Growing Up Deaf
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s Patient, Sad, Funny Novellas About Everyday Life
When Should Actors in Biopics Transform Themselves With Funny Makeup? A Theory.
If The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou Were an 8-Bit Video Game
Many of Your Favorite Movie Trailers Have All Been Made by One Guy. Meet Mark Woollen.
  Technology
Future Tense
Nov. 6 2014 11:55 AM Will the Family Survive the Revolution in Reproductive Technology? A Future Tense Event.
The FCC’s Net Neutrality Trial Balloon Should Never Fly
Rehabbing Abandoned Video Games Should Be Legal
Dating Site Has to Pay Up After Sharing Users’ STI Statuses
Netizen Report: Attacks on Media Peak as Mexico Reaches Boiling Point
Former NSA Lawyer Says BlackBerry Declined Because Encryption Isn’t a Good Business Model
Bundle Up: November Is Going to Be Really Cold in the Eastern United States
  Health & Science
Wild Things
Nov. 6 2014 7:25 AM Watch a Porcupine Go Head-to-Head with a Pride of Lions A.J. McCarthy
A Dusty Disk Heralds the Birth of a New Solar System
If You Want to Survive a Black Hole Encounter, Bring a Friend
The New York Times Says Science Isn’t Sexist. Great News? Let’s Look at the Data.
The Unfortunately All-Too-Real-World Effects If Republicans Win the Senate Today
SpaceShipTwo Crash Update
Talking ’Bout Crater Dating
  Sports
Sports Nut
Oct. 31 2014 6:32 PM Michigan Fans 1, Dave Brandon 0 The resignation of the Wolverines’ villainous athletic director is why we like college sports. Ben Mathis-Lilley
How LeBron James and Cleveland Found Their Way Back to Each Other
Introducing Slate’s Marathon Time Predictor—a Better Way to Calculate How Fast You’ll Run

Should the Royals’ Alex Gordon Have Tried to Dash Home to Tie Game 7 of the World Series?
NBA Stars Aren’t Superheroes. They Break Just Like the Rest of Us Puny Humans.
Kyrie on My Wayward Son, and 2014’s Other Most Popular Fantasy Basketball Team Names
Just One Pitcher in Baseball History Had a Better Postseason Than Madison Bumgarner’s 2014