I’m Going To Hunt Meta’s AI Muse For Sport Steffi Cao and Kate Lindsay
What are these AI agents hiding behind their fuzzy facades?
Katie Zacharia Did the Only Thing Trump Can’t Tolerate Heather Schwedel
You may miss her now that she’s gone.
Trump Is So Desperate to Lower Gas Prices That He’s Throwing a Key U.S. Ally Under the Bus Ian Prasad Philbrick
Angsty about the looming midterms, Trump is lashing out at a U.S. ally.
The New Sense and Sensibility Is a Different Kind of Jane Austen Movie. I Loved It. Rebecca Onion
Ang Lee’s 1995 movie is a classic. The new 2026 adaptation is a ball. <img src="https://compote.slate.com/images/82e5dade-bb69-493f-80c1-9ae4389e6e62.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0" title="The New Sense and Sensibility Is a Different Kind of Jane Austen Movie. I…
The Streaming Wars Just Created the Most Bizarre Allies Nitish Pahwa
A Trump-connected media empire is turning Hollywood upside down.
How Realistic Is the Buzzy New Movie About Getting Swallowed by a Whale? A Whale Biologist Weighs In. Nadira Goffe
Everything you want to know about Whalefall and its real-life possibilities.
A Hoax About James Talarico Went Viral and Then Fell Apart. What Happens Next Will Tell Us a Lot About Politics in 2026. Molly Olmstead
It’s a perfect experiment in truth and consequences—or lack thereof.
Texas Just Accidentally Set Up a Great Experiment About Whether Facts Matter at All in 2026 Molly Olmstead
It’s a perfect experiment in truth and consequences—or lack thereof.
Texas’ Anti-Abortion Bounty Law Is Being Used Against a Supremely Ironic Target Mary Ziegler
Hmm, this law might be too broad?
One Big Thing Connects Sam Alito’s Recent Comments About Roe v. Wade and the “Cornell Seven” Dahlia Lithwick
Women’s rights are just “abstract” to the justice. <img src="https://compote.slate.com/images/6114413e-65a2-42a9-bf11-dae611be2879.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0" title="One Big Thing Connects Sam Alito’s Recent Comments About Roe v. Wade and the “Cornell Seven”” />