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I Want to Take My Brother-in-Law to Court Over Money He Borrowed for a Fake “Emergency.”
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (266+ words) Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Submit questions here. My husband’s brother, “Ron,” called up last week claiming that he was short $500 in his rent money due to a dental emergency and asked if we could help him out. We…...
This State Hasn’t Executed a Woman in 200 Years. It Is Picking the Worst Possible Way to Go Back.
2+ week, 5+ day ago (716+ words) The United States rarely executes women, no matter how gruesome their crimes. In fact, only 18 women have been put to death in this country in the past 50 years. That translates to around 1 percent of the executions carried out in that…...
Which Instrument Represents the Cat in Peter and the Wolf?
2+ week, 5+ day ago (59+ words) Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for Aug. 25, 2026. More Games From Slate Slate Mini Crossword for Aug. 25, 2026 Think You Know More About the ’90s Than Our Resident Gen Xer? As If! Slate Pears Special 1990s Edition Slate 1990s Crossword: Beanie Babies or…...
Off the Record: We Don’t Talk About Natalie
3+ week, 2+ day ago (158+ words) When you’re talking about this printer, there is no black and white. Nobody objected to Jon Ossoff calling the president disinterested in doing his job. But an off-hand mention of Trump’s “human printer”? That, for some reason, took things way…...
How Islamophobia Got Even Worse
3+ week, 3+ day ago (84+ words) The GOP is embracing Islamophobia; Democrats aren’t stopping it. Islamophobia has never gone away. And while it has been wielded as an electoral strategy against Zohran Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed and even Barack Obama, the shameless nature of the Islamophobia coming…...
Can You Identify Which Item Cost More Than $10 in the 1897 Sears Roebuck and Co. Catalog?
3+ week, 5+ day ago (52+ words) Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for Aug. 18, 2026. More Games From Slate Slate SoundBites for August 18, 2026 Slate Mini Crossword for Aug. 18, 2026 Slate Crossword: Turn Out at a Cultural Event? (Nine Letters) Slate Pears Game 368: Aug. 17, 2026 We need to talk…...
Help! I Stepped Up for My Pregnant Friend After Her Boyfriend Left Her. Now I Have to Share Some Bad News.
3+ week, 6+ day ago (100+ words) Our advice columnists have heard it all over the years—so we’re diving into the Dear Prudence archives to share classic letters with our readers. Submit your own questions to Prudie here. —Missing Out of My Goddaughter’s Birth —She’s Not…...
Donald Trump Has Committed Too Many High Crimes to Count. But Should Democrats Really Impeach Again?
3+ week, 6+ day ago (422+ words) If, as seems likely, Democrats win control of the House of Representatives in November, there will be tremendous pressure from the Democratic base to start a third round of impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. If Democrats also win the Senate,…...