If You’re Not Cooking Your Sprite, What Are You Even Doing With It? Jenée Desmond-Harris
It’s time for my childhood secret indulgence to become your next obsession.
Help! My Ex-Fiancé Just Died. Now His Mother Is Accusing Me of Something Horrific. Jenée Desmond-Harris
I can’t have people thinking this!
Slate Mini Crossword for July 12, 2025 Kiran Pandey
Take a quick break with our daily 5×5 grid.
The Supreme Court Limited Lower Courts’ Power to Stop Trump’s Lawlessness. A Judge Is Trying Another Way. Shirin Ali
And some new information could upend Trump’s El Salvador torture-prison scheme.
It’s Certainly One Big Bill Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Elizabeth Spiers
Beautiful? Not so much.
Love Island’s Toxic Relationship With Social Media Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay
Following a recent Love Island USA controversy, Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay dive into the franchise’s rocky relationship with social media harassment. <img src="https://compote.slate.com/images/3e710a2c-4d02-453c-b939-e2a7b2b3987c.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0" title="Love Island’s Toxic Relationship With Social…
The Call Is Coming From Inside The Court Dahlia Lithwick
As the democracy-decimating chickens come home to roost, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse makes an argument for optimism.
Trump Is Once Again Threatening to Nuke the Economy Ben Mathis-Lilley
Good luck out there, Jerome Powell!
I Make a Ton of Money. I’m Afraid of What I’m Doing to My Girlfriend. Elizabeth Spiers and Athena Valentine
I’m basically forcing her to be a Stepford wife.