Category: Business

Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Features Director? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz. Ray Hamel Test your knowledge of this week’s big stories.  

Take Our Quiz to Find Out What Level of Authoritarianism Is Right for You Dahlia Lithwick It’s surely better to be honest about your geopolitical wants and needs than to…

Unchecked this will make the act of voting a Potemkin exercise, and upend the very concept of representative government.

The Biden Administration Says Willow Will “Haze” Four Polar Bears. The Reality May Be Much More Disturbing. Meg Duff How Bush-era memos helped the project move forward.  

Why TikTok’s CEO is getting yelled at in Washington.

Some Black Americans disagreed with Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy. But his assassination turned many of them into revolutionaries or rioters.

My Wife’s Friend Is Not Her Friend. Help! Jenée Desmond-Harris My Wife’s Friend Is Not Her Friend. Help! Listen to Dear Prudence answer your letters.  

Trump Judges Are Fighting About Whether to Crash the Economy Mark Joseph Stern Banks are getting nervous, and Republicans are trying to exploit the uncertainty to defund and deregulate financial…

TikTok Has a Not-So-Secret Weapon. Does it Matter? Hannah Docter-Loeb The platform flew influencers out to D.C.  

Nobody Actually Knows What Trump Will Be Charged With David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson It’s good to be careful about any narrative coming from the Trump camp.