Sonia Sotomayor Is Trying to Warn Us About the Supreme Court’s Dirtiest Open Secret ( slate.com )
People care when their drinking water is contaminated with lead. They care if their medicines aren’t safe and effective, or if somebody takes all the money out of their investment accounts. Those things don’t make people happy. Yet it’s administrative agencies that are guarding against that and protecting their rights. So...
New, Surprising Data Has Lessons for All Sides of the “Defund the Police” Debate ( slate.com )
Star Wars Has Lost Something Critical ( slate.com )
Get Ready. Everything’s About to Get a Hell of a Lot More Expensive. ( slate.com )
Get Ready. Everything’s About to Get a Hell of a Lot More Expensive. ( slate.com )
New York City Brokers Are Losing Their Minds. I Asked Some Why They’re So Angry. ( slate.com )
Everyone in attendance was gathered to object to a New York City Council bill that would save tenants from having to pay fees to real estate brokers who were hired by landlords—i.e., brokers that tenants did not hire. In other words, it was a rally for keeping the fees on the backs of tenants....
The Biggest Lie Trump–Biden 2024 Rematch Voters Are Telling Themselves: The system will not inevitably “hold.” ( slate.com )
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The Shockingly Relevant History of the Barcode ( slate.com )
Adobe Promises That It Hasn’t Gone Full Big Brother ( slate.com )
The Great Alcohol Health Flip-Flop Isn’t That Hard to Understand—if You Know Who Was Behind It ( slate.com )
For 20 Years, I Couldn’t Say What Donald Trump Did on the Set of The Apprentice. Now I Can. ( slate.com )
Bill Pruitt, a former producer for The Apprentice whose NDA just expired after 20 years, writes in Slate that Donald Trump used the n-word during the production of the show — and there are tapes of him doing it.
How Originalism Ate the Law: America is captive to a legal theory that dictates our laws on guns, abortion, and so much more. We need to act. ( slate.com )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240510115543/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/originalism-ate-the-law-what-now.html
Democratic Hopes of Retaking Congress Threatened Again by Allegations of Wife Corruption ( slate.com )
Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar’s household has allegedly been up to no good.
What Columbia Should Have Done Instead of Brutalizing Its Student Protesters ( slate.com )
One example, from just up the Ivy-garlanded I-95, at Brown University, was announced just hours before Shafik again called in the police. Brown’s governing body agreed to vote on a proposal that would divest the school’s endowment of companies affiliated with Israel in a meeting in October. The proposal is based on a 2020...
What Rubber Bullets Can Do to the Human Body - The “less lethal” weapons were used against student protesters at UCLA. ( slate.com )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240507032256/https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/rubber-bullets-blind-kill-trama-ucla-protest.html
The Anti-Defamation League Has Abandoned Some of the People It Exists to Protect ( slate.com )
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One Day 10 Years Ago, I Stopped Paying My Taxes. I Don’t Regret a Thing. ( slate.com )
I ignored the IRS for an entire decade and got away with it. I think....
A Family’s Disappearance Rocked New Zealand. What Came After Has Stunned Everyone (longform). ( slate.com )
The title of this piece is very clickbaity but the article is quite interesting....
So, Fake Images of Trump With Black Voters Are a Thing Now ( slate.com )
Recently, Donald Trump fans in Florida and Michigan have been auto-generating and spreading around faked “pictures” of Trump surrounded by crowds of Black supporters—and earning significant traction for doing so. Coming at a time when President Joe Biden is worried about losing the Black voters who came out for his 2020...
The Next Republican President Has a Plan to Ban Abortion Nationwide Without Congress ( slate.com )
The story behind Heritage’s claim begins in the 19th century, with the passage of a sexual purity law that was interpreted to make it a crime to mail or receive items intended, designed, or adapted for abortion. Exactly what the Comstock Act said or meant, not least when it came to abortion, was unclear at the time it passed....
I Thought About Making Travel Plans for the Eclipse—Then I Had a Realization. ( slate.com )
The Low-Key Republican Officials Quietly Dismantling All of Our Rights ( slate.com )
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The Low-Key Republican Officials Quietly Dismantling All of Our Rights ( slate.com )
The group receives almost no sustained public attention or accountability.
The Political Divide Between Men and Women Is Getting Wild. One Party Is Primed to Take Advantage. ( slate.com )
It has long been the case that American women are generally more liberal than American men. But among young Americans, this gender gap has widened into an enormous rift: According to recent Gallup polling, there is a 30-point differencebetween the number of women age 18–30 who self-identify as liberal and the number of men in...