Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Assistant Managing Editor? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz. Ray Hamel
Test your knowledge of this week’s big stories.
Slate Mini Crossword for June 26, 2026 Nate Cardin
Take a quick break with our daily 5×5 grid.
Larry David and Barack Obama Made a New HBO Show. It’s a Departure for Both of Them. Sam Adams
Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness places a bunch of Larrys at key moments in American history.
Alamo Drafthouse Used to Be a Shrine of Cinema. Then It Did Something So Unthinkable That Even Its Most Die-Hard Fans Revolted. Luke Winkie
Looking at your phone during a movie used to be blasphemous. Now the theater is commanding you to do it.
A.I. Enshittifies Everything Lizzie O’Leary
Should you base the whole economy on companies that hemorrhage money?
Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine Won Big at the Supreme Court Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern
The Supreme Court dealt a painful blow to immigrants on Thursday in a pair of 6–3 decisions.
Sam Alito Wrote One of the Cruelest Opinions in Recent Memory Alexis Romero
On Thursday, the Supreme Court blessed the Trump administration’s efforts to kick hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians out of the United States.
The Supreme Court Ran Wild Today. Let’s Get You Caught Up. Ian Prasad Philbrick
This is what a Republican supermajority looks like—and it sucks.
A Canceled Star Is Back. His Hateful New Movie Is One of the Most Disturbing Things I’ve Seen Lately. Rebecca Onion
Uwe Boll’s Citizen Vigilante is unsettling for its reception as much as its content.
Extremism Is the New Normal at SCOTUS as the Right-Wing Justices Step on the Gas Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern
This is a bold, maximalist, and absolutely fearless right-wing supermajority.