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Trump's Efforts to Intimidate Elon Musk's Enemies Just Faced a Severe Setback
2+ hour, 28+ min ago (1041+ words) Slate Of all the lawsuits fought and won daily against the Trump administration, there was recently a profound moment of reckoning for free speech and a free press that got far too little attention when the litigation ended with a…...
The Lindy West Controversy Is Obscuring Something Important
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1696+ words) Slate Do you hear that solemn clang? People on the internet seem to be taking Lindy West's memoir as millennial feminism's final death knell. The extremely online 2010s movement'which brought us #Me Too, body positivity, the mainstreaming of intersectionality, and the…...
I Cover Religion. Even I Was Shocked by the New Fox Show About Women and the Bible.
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1061+ words) Slate We're in a Bible-curious time for popular media. In the past year, star-studded animated movies about Jesus and the patriarch David each made more than $80 million in theatrical runs, proving biblical films can be powerful contenders at the box…...
She Was a Black Midwife. What Happened to Her Might Shock You. Not Me.
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (836+ words) Slate I had my first child when I was 18 years old. I was told to get an induction, so I did. When it was time to push, I started to tear. Without warning or explanation, I was cut'what's called an episiotomy....
I Need Leave for an Unconventional Reason. I'm Terrified My Job Won't Give It to Me.
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (265+ words) Good Job is Slate's advice column on work. Have a workplace problem big or small? Send it to Laura Helmuth and Doree Shafrir here. (It's anonymous!) Dear She's My Mom, I'm so sorry that you're not only dealing with the…...
We Need More Women in Office'Even if They're Terrible
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (281+ words) Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Nancy Mace aren't exactly feminist firebrands, but they didn't need to be to defy Trump. A year after the most openly misogynist presidential candidate in modern U. S. history defeated, for the second time, an ultracompetent…...
No, Women Didn't Ruin the Workplace
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (222+ words) Anxiety about losing the male vote has metastasized. No, Women Didn't Ruin the Workplace "Are workplaces too girly?" and other questions asked bravely by the New York Times. Choose your preferred player: Get Your Slate Plus Podcast Thanks! Check your…...
The New Argument Against Birth Control That Could Appeal Directly to RFK Jr.
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (323+ words) Heritage has repurposed another anti-abortion strategy: one focused on the groundwater. When California contemplated making abortion pills available on the state's public university campuses in 2018, Students for Life argued that the move would pollute the groundwater with "gallons of chemically…...
Our Most Macho Sci-Fi Franchise Just Went "Woke." It Did Not Go Broke.
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (1697+ words) The killer new Predator movie is " feminist? Predator: Badlands, the newest entry into the 38-year-old franchise and the third Predator movie directed by Dan Trachtenberg, is a PG-13 story about a young Predator alien named Dek, who's rejected by his…...
American Men Are Angry. It Was Always Going to Come to This.
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (474+ words) That feeling of injustice deep in your gut isn't real, we say. You're a man. Things are fair for you. Stop being angry at nothing, we say. It is no longer possible to ignore that voice, to dismiss the desperation…...