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Trump’s Dangerous Diversionary Device: Using Race to Erase Discourse

"Rather than an inadvertent mistake, this episode epitomizes Trump’s approach to...

If Jasmine Crockett wins, she wants to do it her way

Today, Explained will now be publishing video episodes every Saturday in audio a...

J.D. Vance is Booed at the Winter Olympics as a New Poll Shows How Europe Has Turned Against U.S.

European attitudes toward the U.S. have shifted dramatically over the past year,...

Slate Pears Game 175: Feb. 7, 2026

Today's puzzle has 10 pears.

Shaun White Taught Us All That the Parade of Nations Is Actually About Shaun White

"We were down there shooting some new products and testing products for my brand."

Haitians in America worry they’re Trump’s next target

President Donald Trump stood onstage at a presidential debate in his last campai...

The Snowboarder Who Puts the “Extreme” in “Extremely Wanted Fugitive”

“Operation Giant Slalom” is a pretty great code name for a law enforcement sweep.

The Di-SaaS-ter That Cost Billions in Market Value?

Business: The major market response to SaaS

The Sports Economy’s $8.8 Trillion Potential

"Sport can reinforce today’s extractive patterns—or it can model a new definitio...

Lindsey Vonn Completes Training Run Days After ACL Tear – Here’s Her Time

Hungary: Central Europe's Magnet for Investors in Diverse Sectors

Rapper Lil Jon Speaks Out After Son Found Dead in Georgia Pond

Every Celebrity in Taylor Swift’s New ‘Opalite’ Music Video—Full List

Catherine O’Hara Gets Heartwarming ‘Best in Show’ Tribute at Westminster Dog Show

Map Shows Most-Popular Super Bowl Snacks in Each State

Millionaires Tax Introduced in Washington

TrumpRx Launch: Biggest Price Savings and Full List of Medications So Far

This Country Runs On Slop

A handful of “slopagandists” are creating lazy, biased content—and the governmen...

How to Protect the 2026 Elections from Donald Trump

A case for preparation over fear.

The Moral Cost of Living in an Unequal Society

In his new novel, Daniyal Mueenuddin attempts to bring together the stories of p...

The Evangelicals Who See Trump’s Viciousness as a Virtue

At the National Prayer Breakfast, the president tested his audience’s commitment...

Reading Is a Practice, Not a Chore

Try an attitude shift that doesn’t force you to choose between setting strict re...

The Manosphere Breaks Containment

The internet’s new extremists will do anything for the algorithm.

The Obama Meme on Trump’s Truth Social Was Exactly What It Looked Like

The White House took 12 hours to remove a video depicting the former president a...

The Real Winner of TrumpRx

Donald Trump’s online drugstore isn’t what it seems.

Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: Dynamic Cauldrons

The Olympic flame lights up both Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.

Why Trump Is Picking Fights With Big U.S. Banks

He claimed that his accounts were closed for “political and social” reasons. The...

A Very Retro Olympics Opening Ceremony

The performance in Milan looked squarely at the past, both in substance and in s...

This Week Was a Five Alarm Fire in Election Law

But it is by no means impossible.

The Rise of the Anti-ICE Protest Song

For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 ...

A Bridge to Venezuela

The Colombian border city of Cúcuta braces for more turmoil.

Seydou Keïta Captured a Nation on the Cusp of Independence

At the Brooklyn Museum, the Malian photographer’s elaborately patterned studio p...

Slate Mini Crossword for Feb. 7, 2026

Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid.

The Unlikely Hit That’s Popularizing a Whole New Type of Novel

Like many, I never thought I’d become a fan of this bizarre series, but here we ...

Democrats Had a Very Messy Week in Texas. Here’s What That Means for the Rest of the Country.

Yes, Democrats’ odds of winning a Senate seat in Texas are low, but Republicans ...

Wait, What Euphemism Are We Using for Russian Olympians Now?

From “OAR” to “ROC” to “Individual Neutral Athletes.”

Milan Cortina’s Painfully Long Olympics Opening Ceremony Was a Defiantly Analog Celebration of Humanity

Milan Cortina's painfully long, inevitably uneven, excessively dance-obsessed ev...

The Olympic Opening Ceremony in Milan Brought Good Vibes. It’s About Time.

What it was like to be in San Siro Stadium in Milan to kick off the Winter Games

The appalling spectacle surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance

A heavy feeling has loomed over the Today show for the past week: Co-anchor Sava...

Barbara Pym’s Archaic England

In the novelist’s work, she mocks English culture’s nostalgia, revealing what li...

A Catalog of Gaza’s Loss

Recording what has been erased—and making sense of what remains.

How to Survive in a House Without Walls

After their home was obliterated, Rasha Abou Jalal and her family remain determi...

What Gaza’s Photographers Have Seen

These pictures are records of a genocidal war, but they are something more, too—...

Why We’re Still Fighting Over Elgin’s Marbles

, the poet retells the many conflicts, political and cultural, the ransacked por...

Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement

The conservative commentator on the antisemitism in MAGA media and why he condem...

Jenin Younes on Threats to Free Speech from the Left and the Right

A First Amendment lawyer once attacked Democrats for suppressing unpopular opini...

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