Rural Minorities Ponder The American Dream From The Bottom Rung Of The Economic Ladder
On the country’s poorest.
Indentured Servitude, Money Laundering, and Piles of Money: The Crazy Secrets of Internet Cam Girls (NSFW)
“If you think cam girls—those flirty naked characters that plague porn site pop-up ads—are raking in easy money, you’re right. If you think cam girls are bleakly stripping online out of desperation, you’re also right.”
Rethinking Robert Rubin
An assessment of the former Secretary of the Treasury.
Joe Arridy Was The Happiest Man On Death Row
Joe Arridy had an IQ of 46. In 1939, he was executed for a crime he neither understood nor committed.
The Inside Story of a Controversial New Text About Jesus
On the 1,600-year-old text that suggests that Jesus, long believed to be celibate, was a married man.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic and author of The Beautiful Struggle.
"I was 24 when my son was born. People always say that kids get in the way, right? But actually it had the opposite effect on me. I feel like I could have spent my twenties doing all sorts of self-destructive things--that was my natural inclination--but having a kid suddenly makes that not OK ... The stakes of everything just went up. I think I'm the type of person where, for any reason, I only respond to pressure. That kid just so raised the pressure, for everything ... So I started writing for the Washington Monthly, and the Monthly pays shit, everybody knows that, right? They were paying ten cents a word at this point. But because they have these big-shots writing for them, nobody ever calls for the check! But I would say, 'no, I need you to send me that check. Yeah, I know it's only $150, but I actually need that check, you really need to send that check.'"
Neil Young Comes Clean
At 66, Young sobers up.
My Embed in Red
On a week spent immersed in right wing media.
Pink Slime
Inside the cluttered Los Angeles apartment of lo-fi auteur Ariel Pink.
Bad to the Bone
A medical device company experiments on humans.
'Moral' Robots
The debate over autonomous lethal drones.
The Honor System
On Teller, his magic, and his response to a stolen trick.
The Cranky Wisdom of Peter Kaplan
The former editor of the New York Observer, profiled.
In Plain View
How child molesters get away with it.
Cheating Upwards
Why so many smart kids are cheating on tests.
The Longform Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Capote, Talese, Orwell, Boo—masters of the craft, in their own words. New at Slate.
Take a Number
Why people keep dying on Mount Everest.
The Trouble With My Blood
Diagnosed with a rare blood disease, the author reflects on illness and addiction.
The Ballad of the Fabulous Sports Babe
Catching up with the controversial radio host, who recently returned to the air after years away.
The Fake Pot Industry is Coming Down From a Three-Year High
The rise of the “wildly lucrative” herbal incense business, and the downfall of one company.
The New New Girl
A profile of Mindy Kaling.
The Electric Pencil
The story of Edward Deeds, a state mental hospital patient and artistic genius.
Predator in the Ranks
Is a Marine responsible for a series of violent attacks against women?
The Secret History of Paul Thomas Anderson
The elusive director’s early years.
Paddled
An American enrolls in a Beijing ping-pong school. A series of humiliations ensue.
