The Democrats Had One Huge Shutdown Win. Trump Tried to Thwart It. He Just Failed.

On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discuss the ruling and its ...
Opinion

Charlie Kirk’s Death Was Always Going to End This Way

Three months have come and gone since these proclamations, and to put it mildly, none of them have come to pass. Instead, the exact opposite has happened. MAGA-dom has unraveled over the legacy of ...

Help! My Husband Likes to Do Something Dangerous in the Car. I Can’t Take It Anymore.

I am an older married woman. My husband likes to drive when we go places. Fine by me, except we live in the Pacific Northwest ...

My Brother-in-Law Is the Worst Person in My Family. This Year, I’m Standing Up for Myself.

My religious and political views are wildly different than the rest of the family. My brother-in-law is an anti-vaccine, anti ...

I Made the Mistake of Inviting My Family to My Brand-New Home. The Night Ended in Chaotic Disaster.

I made the mistake of hosting Thanksgiving in my new home. It is a three-story, two-bath home built on the water off a ...

Some of This Year’s Most Urgent, Timely Movies Were … Remakes

How exciting to be chatting with all of you again about this terrible, horrible, no-good, crazy, but sometimes also wonderful ...

Underground Tunnel

On this day in 1937, the first tube of the Lincoln Tunnel opened to the public. The tunnel is one of New York City’s ...

Help! My Boyfriend Told Me How His Brother Died. His Family Says Something Very Different.

Max’s mother was showing me some family pictures, and there were several of John. I know how hard it is for mothers to talk about their dead children, so I was as sympathetic as I could be. I ...