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How Oddsmakers Made a Killing off Gullible Trump Supporters

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The Law

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I Begrudgingly Admit That Tom Cruise Is Right

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Dear Prudence Uncensored: The Crisis Manager

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An Interview With the Cartoonist Behind the Only Meme Worthy of Our Current Train Wreck

Nitish Pahwa

The Story of Music in 2020 Took Place Online

Carl Wilson

Too Much TV Is Still Not Enough

Willa Paskin

The Albums That Found Unexpected Resonance in Lockdown

Lindsay Zoladz

The Best* College Football Games of 2020

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What Is Television, Anyway?

Emily VanDerWerff

Utopia Might Have Been a Bad Show. 2020 Made It Intolerable.

Inkoo Kang

Tech & Business

How it moves US

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A Black A.I. Ethicist on Her Experiences at Google—and Her Controversial Departure

Lizzie O’Leary

“They weren’t even treating me like a person.”

The Context Problem Social Networks Don’t Like to Talk About

Amre Metwally

The FCC’s Program to Discount Educational Internet Connections Needs an Upgrade

Lisa Guernsey

What We Do and Don’t Know About the Massive Federal Government Hack

Josephine Wolff

Pete Buttigieg Doesn’t Deserve to Be Transportation Secretary, but He Could Be Great at It

Henry Grabar

I Begrudgingly Admit That Tom Cruise Is Right

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Biden’s FTC Can Do More Than Sue Tech Companies. It Can Regulate Them.

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Human Interest

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We Thought Buying This Stuff Would Make 2020 Better. Boy Were We Wrong.

Slate Staff

Way too much Pez, a ring light, and more.

How the School Reopening Debate Is Tearing One of America’s Most Elite Suburbs Apart

Noreen Malone

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My Shy, Sexually Naïve Husband Has Become Great in Bed—but I Just Can’t Do What He Wants Now

Rich Juzwiak

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America Is Attempting to Exit an Abusive Relationship

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Political Gabfest

How Offshore Oddsmakers Made a Killing off Gullible Trump Supporters

Alex Kirshner

Why Florida Public Health Officials Won’t Blow the Whistle on Ron DeSantis

Ronald Krotoszynski

Biden Won’t Abolish ICE. Can He Fix It?

Mary Harris

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How Oddsmakers Made a Killing off Gullible Trump Supporters

Mitch McConnell Is Cranking Out Lame-Duck Judges, Breaking a 125-Year Precedent

Why Florida Public Health Officials Won’t Blow the Whistle on Ron DeSantis

The Weirdest and/or Most Obscene College Football Games of 2020

TV Club

The Rules of TV Storytelling Are Completely Imploding. Is That a Good Thing?

Utopia Might Have Been Bad. 2020 Made It Intolerable.

Zeitgeist

The Cartoonist Behind the Only Meme Worthy of Our Current Train Wreck

The Law

The Supreme Court’s COVID Cases Show That One Part of the Constitution Gets Special Attention

How to Do It

My Shy Husband Has Become Great in Bed, but I Can’t Do What He Wants Now

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My Hell on a Cargo Ship I Could Never Leave Because of COVID

What I Learned About Parenting by Telling Other People How to Parent

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I Begrudgingly Admit That Tom Cruise Is Right

I’ve Had a Wild Sex Life During the Pandemic—and I Don’t Want It to End

Why Is Florida Withholding COVID Data?

We are getting more serious, and I'm not sure how to deal with her current fame.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: The Crisis Manager

Podcast Episode Help! I’m Worried My Wife’s Pot Smoking Is a Bad Influence on Our Kids.

Help! I Only Get Angry on Rare Occasions, but When I Do, It’s Really Bad.

Help! My Wife Needs to Stop Treating This Toy Like It’s Our Baby.

If I Can Buy Up a Bunch of the Season’s Hot Toy … Should I?

How the School Reopening Debate Is Tearing One of America’s Most Elite Suburbs Apart

The Story of Music in 2020 Took Place Online

Too Much TV Is Still Not Enough

A Republican in Georgia on the Party’s Civil War

Slate’s Mistakes for the Week of Dec. 14

The Albums That Found Unexpected Resonance in Lockdown

How Offshore Oddsmakers Made a Killing off Gullible Trump Supporters

What I Learned About Parenting by Telling Other People How to Parent

Why Florida Public Health Officials Won’t Blow the Whistle on Ron DeSantis

John le Carré Saved Me From the CIA

An Interview With the Cartoonist Behind the Only Meme Worthy of Our Current Train Wreck

The Story of Music in 2020 Took Place Online

Too Much TV Is Still Not Enough

The Albums That Found Unexpected Resonance in Lockdown

The Best* College Football Games of 2020

What Is Television, Anyway?

Utopia Might Have Been a Bad Show. 2020 Made It Intolerable.

A Black A.I. Ethicist on Her Experiences at Google—and Her Controversial Departure

The Context Problem Social Networks Don’t Like to Talk About

The FCC’s Program to Discount Educational Internet Connections Needs an Upgrade

What We Do and Don’t Know About the Massive Federal Government Hack

Pete Buttigieg Doesn’t Deserve to Be Transportation Secretary, but He Could Be Great at It

I Begrudgingly Admit That Tom Cruise Is Right

How the Biden Administration Can Fix This Part of the Disaster Housing Crisis

Biden’s FTC Can Do More Than Sue Tech Companies. It Can Regulate Them.

We Thought Buying This Stuff Would Make 2020 Better. Boy Were We Wrong.

How the School Reopening Debate Is Tearing One of America’s Most Elite Suburbs Apart

Now Streaming: Jamilah Lemieux With The Wire Alum Brandon Young

When I Boarded My Cargo Ship Last Year, I Could Never Have Imagined What COVID Would Bring

My Shy, Sexually Naïve Husband Has Become Great in Bed—but I Just Can’t Do What He Wants Now

My Kid Is Heartbroken After Leaving His Favorite Toys at a Remote Campsite. What Should I Do?

Dear Prudence Uncensored: The Crisis Manager

America Is Attempting to Exit an Abusive Relationship

Democrat Delusions

Mitch McConnell Is Cranking Out Lame-Duck Judges, Breaking a 125-Year Precedent

The “Barr-Barr-Barr, Barr-Barr Is Gone” Edition

How Offshore Oddsmakers Made a Killing off Gullible Trump Supporters

Why Florida Public Health Officials Won’t Blow the Whistle on Ron DeSantis

Biden Won’t Abolish ICE. Can He Fix It?

A Republican in Georgia on the Party’s Civil War

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