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Slate

Health

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

In a district where parents are epidemiologists and health policy experts, the meltdown happened one Zoom meeting at a time

Noreen Malone Slate Dec 2020 30min Permalink

Arts Business Crime

"Everything Was Completely Destroyed"

What it was like to be a rank-and-file Sony employee after the hack.

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Amanda Hess Slate Nov 2015 20min Permalink

Crime History

How Not to Deal With Murder in Space

A bizarre 1970 Arctic killing over a jug of raisin wine shows that we need to think about crime outside our atmosphere now.

Sam Kean Slate Jul 2020 Permalink

Business Crime

The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd

A teenage clerk dialed 911. How should the brothers who own CUP Foods pay for what happened next?

Aymann Ismail Slate Oct 2020 25min Permalink

Arts

Fire in the Hole!

Machine guns, cannons and drones in the Arizona desert.

Terry Greene Sterling Slate Jul 2013 20min Permalink

History

The Class of RBG

The remarkable stories of the nine other women in the Harvard Law class of ‘59.

Dahlia Lithwick, Molly Olmstead Slate Jul 2020 40min Permalink

Health

An Uprising Comes From the Viral Underclass

And the Black Lives Matter movement could be the vaccine the country needs

Steven W. Thrasher Slate Jun 2020 20min Permalink

Business Food Health

“It Was Gone Overnight”

One restaurant’s struggle to weather the pandemic.

CHRISTINA CAUTERUCCI Slate Apr 2020 15min Permalink

Politics Religion

The Bible That Oozed Oil

A small Georgia town, a prophecy about Donald Trump, and the story of how a miracle fell apart.

Ruth Graham Slate Feb 2020 20min Permalink

Crime Sports

"You Guys Are Scaring Me"

A woman told police she was raped by three New York Mets. They were never charged.

Daniel Engber Slate Jan 2020 35min Permalink

Arts

Is America’s Favorite Playwright Too Much for New York?

Lauren Gunderson on the eve of her New York premiere.

Dan Kois Slate Dec 2019 20min Permalink

Sex Health Media

How Herpes Became a Sexual Boogeyman

The origins of a misplaced panic.

L.V. Anderson Slate Dec 2019 20min Permalink

Politics Movies & TV

Piper Perabo: Resistance Celebrity

How an actor becomes a Trump-era activist.

CHRISTINA CAUTERUCCI Slate Aug 2019 20min Permalink

Religion

Sixteen and Evangelical

How can people who once moved as one ultra-religious organism become such dramatically different adults?

Laura Turner Slate Jul 2019 20min Permalink

Health

Beta Blockers Were a Miracle Cure for My Stage Fright

Online startups can send you pills to cure anxiety. But is it safe to buy them?

Shannon Palus Slate Jun 2019 25min Permalink

Science

Oh, No, Not Knotweed!

How the most expensive and unstoppable invasive plant crisis inspires madness and panic.

Henry Grabar Slate May 2019 20min Permalink

Media

Joe Rogan's Galaxy Brain

How the former Fear Factor host’s podcast became an essential platform for “freethinkers” who hate the left.

Justin Peters Slate Mar 2019 20min Permalink

Crime

Guilty

“In 1998, I helped convict two men of murder. I’ve regretted it ever since.”

Seth Stevenson Slate Mar 2019 40min Permalink

The Abortions We Don't Talk About

Six women tell their stories.

Slate Jul 2018 20min Permalink

Tucker Max's Culture War

How the godfather of “fratire” went from chronicling his drunken sexual conquests to ghostwriting Tiffany Haddish’s memoir.

Laura Bennett Slate May 2018 15min Permalink

Arts

Angels in America: The Complete Oral History

The story behind Tony Kushner’s examination of AIDS and homosexuality.

Isaac Butler, Dan Kois Slate Jun 2016 1h5min Permalink

Sports

A Macedonian Tennis Racket

How a 20-year-old from the land of fake news tricked Martina Navratilova, Serena Williams, and the BBC.

Ben Rothenberg Slate Feb 2018 20min Permalink

Media

Joe Frank Signs Off

A profile of the radio legend who helped launch the career of Ira Glass and many more.

Mark Oppenheimer Slate Jan 2018 25min Permalink

Best Article Crime Sex

The Chickens and the Bulls

The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”

William McGowan Slate Jul 2012 30min Permalink

Religion

Could Father Mychal Judge Be the First Gay Saint?

Inside the campaign to canonize the fire department chaplain who died on September 11.

Ruth Graham Slate Sep 2017 15min Permalink

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