AN UGLY (VIRTUAL) REALITY
Do Video Games Make Us More Cruel?
Shooters don’t necessarily make players more violent. But do they make us more cruel?
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LOOKS SICK
Designing A Nuclear Waste Warning Symbol That Will Still Make Sense In 10,000 Years
Storing nuclear waste safely forever is a hard design problem, but warning humans (or robots) of the distant future to keep away isn't much easier.
DARK MEAT
The Hellish Pre-Thanksgiving Conditions For Poultry Workers
Work more days. Carve more turkeys. Don’t get hurt. What poultry workers endure in the frenzied weeks before Thanksgiving.
ROCK ’EM SOCK ’EM JANET RENO
The Woman Washington Never Figured Out
For Janet Reno, feminism was all about doing the job.
RACE AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IS AN ISSUE
This Election Was About The Issues
Not the familiar stuff of Washington gridlock, but the most important issues of our time: misogyny, racism, and xenophobia.
YOU DON'T START WITH THE CLUES
How A Crossword Puzzle Gets Made
The art isn’t very complicated, but you do have to follow a few rules.
THE EMPTY CUP AWARDS
The Most Infuriating Thing On TV: Unrealistic Acting With Empty Coffee Cups
The biggest threat to realism on television is something you may never have considered: the way that coffee cups that are supposedly full of coffee are plainly empty.
DIVERSITY MATTERS
This Is What Happens When Writers’ Rooms Aren’t Diverse
A diverse writers’ room not only makes for more compelling storytelling, but also helps to counteract uncomfortable racial stereotypes and poor representation on screen.
INQUIRING MINDS MUST KNOW
Is Channing Tatum Really Our Gene Kelly?
The hunky movie-star dancers of the past and present have more in common than just swinging hips.
THE BLACK FILM CANON
A Video Tribute To The 50 Greatest Films By Black Directors
We asked 20 prominent filmmakers, critics, and scholars — from Ava DuVernay to Wesley Morris to Henry Louis Gates Jr. — for their favorite movies by black filmmakers, and used their picks to shape Slate's Black Film Canon.
IN HIS OWN WORDS
Why Police Are So Violent Toward Black Men
A former Baltimore cop lays out his conception of what’s going wrong in the world of policing and how it could be made right.
BURNING QUESTIONS
Every Question You’ve Ever Had About Weed, Answered
Does coughing get you high faster? Can your cat really get stoned? How would an adult find a dealer?
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW
How American Muslims Cope With Bigotry
One Muslim man talks to acquaintances, friends, and relatives to help understand how 2.6 million of their neighbors feel about shouldering the burden of terrorism.
ECONOMIC REALTALK
Would Walmart’s Prices Spike If They Paid Their Employees More?
We crunched the numbers on how much Walmart, the single biggest beneficiary of the food stamp economy, might have to raise prices across the board to help a typical worker earn a living wage.
ONE MAN, MANY FACES
Watch An Actor Play Every Ethnicity Hollywood Throws His Way
Cliff Curtis can do it all.
MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION
Election 2016: A Breakdown Of The Crimes
How should voters weigh the sins of these two uniquely corrupt candidates?
BEYOND ELECTION DAY
Trump Can Happen Again
Like some kind of malignant form of artificial intelligence, Trump has installed within the Republican Party all the necessary machinery for replicating himself.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY
A Week On The Trail With The 'Disgusting Reporters' Covering Donald Trump
We know how Trump feels about the media. But this is what it's like to write about a candidate who hates you.
NAMING AND SHAMING TRUMP'S RACISM
The Democratic Party's Racial Reckoning
In 1992, Bill Clinton had to pander to white bigots to win the presidency. In 2016, Hillary can call them what they are.
AMERICA REACTS TO TRUMP'S MISOGYNY
My Trump-Supporting Father And I Made A Pact Not To Talk Politics. Then Came The Access Hollywood Video.
I reached out and pleaded with him not to vote for a man who could so casually brag about sexual assault and, in so doing, encourage the kind of behavior that has left me feeling violated and scared.
