The New Black Mirror Asks How Much Personality a Smart Speaker Should Have
The new episode “Rachel, Jack & Ashley Too” features a relationship between a lonely teenage girl and a smart speaker.
View ArticleDear Prudence Podcast: Help! My Husband Believes Masturbating Is the Same as...
We’ve been married for 10 years and have never agreed on the subject.
View ArticleAlabama Mayor Suggests “Killing” LGBTQ People Is “Only Way” to Fix Society’s...
He made the comment just before the start of Pride Month.
View ArticleWho Will Replace Theresa May as Prime Minister?
Here are the candidates running to take over the fate of Brexit—and how good their odds are.
View ArticleCan Chernobyl Be Both a Procedural and a Post-Truth Parable?
The Slate Culture Gabfest also discusses Rocketman and Running From Cops.
View ArticleJussie Smollett Will Not Return to Empire
Smollett’s character was removed from the final episodes of Season 5 following the controversy.
View ArticleIs Linda Taylor Responsible for a Notorious Unsolved Kidnapping?
The so-called “welfare queen” and the Fronczak baby.
View ArticleYouTube’s New Crackdown on Hate Speech Comes at a Curious Time
Making rules and policies is the easy part. Enforcing them is much tougher, as evidenced by a recent incident.
View ArticleFuture Tense Newsletter: Winning the 5G Race
The challenges of 5G, what the new season of Black Mirror says about voice assistants, and more.
View ArticleTrump Falsely Claims He Implemented the Trans Troops Ban Because of a...
The military doesn't ban troops from taking prescription drugs.
View ArticleYouTube Keeps Having to Make Changes to Make Itself Safe for Kids
This time, the company is barring younger children from livestreaming. It’s only the latest attempt to stop exploitation on the platform.
View ArticleCharmin’s Massive “Forever Roll” Points the Way to a World of Products...
We should be able to throw a party for one without having to create so much waste.
View ArticleThe Ruling Against a Cop Accused of a Horrific Body Cavity Search Is a Rare...
The ghastly chain of events were set off when Kevin Campbell, a black man, drove past white Allen Park police officer Daniel Mack.
View ArticleMen Aren’t Doing the Dishes at Work, Either
Our new masculinity podcast on the effort to distribute office tasks evenly in Slate’s New York office.
View ArticleOn Fleabag, Hair Really Is Everything
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s show is obsessed with its characters’ ’dos.
View ArticleThe Meaning of “Conservative”
“The whole point of a free society is that it is shaped by the spontaneous order from below and not the plans from above.”
View ArticleWith Late Night, Mindy Kaling Responds to Being a “Diversity Hire”
And she speaks her mind through more than her own character.
View ArticleThe Most Shocking Statistic About Poverty in America Was Probably Wrong All...
Experts are bickering over the “$2 a day” statistic.
View ArticleNBC Is Making a Drama About the Early Days of Da Vinci Code Hero Robert Langdon
But will it have a hidden message?
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