Jurisprudence
Christine Blasey Ford’s Request for an FBI Investigation Makes Perfect SenseThe fact that Republicans are unwilling to grant it shows how completely they diminish sexual violence.
Medical Examiner
You Don’t Need to Worry About Roundup in Your Breakfast CerealNo one wants to eat Monsanto’s weed killer. But a new report dramatically exaggerates the danger of the trace amounts detected.
Users
Even Trump Can’t Take Away the Majesty of the Interior Department’s InstagramThe agency still posts images of national splendor as though nothing in our country has changed—and I’m fine with it.
Food
I Hate How Much I Love SeltzerThose delightful bubbles push my environmentalist principles right out of my brain. Why?
Pre-Woke Watching
The Unexamined Privilege of Gilmore GirlsRory Gilmore was my teen idol. That sort of horrifies me now.
Medical Examiner
Trump Doesn’t Care About What Actually Causes ViolenceAnger, not mental illness, is most associated with violence. And our president stokes it.
Medical Examiner
Why Is Slate Questioning Gardasil?The benefits of the HPV vaccine still outweigh any potential harms. But the scientific process behind Gardasil was flawed, and the public deserves to know that.
Medical Examiner
If Harvey Weinstein Were Serious About Getting Help, He Wouldn’t Call Himself a Sex AddictHe needs to accept that he’s responsible for his actions.
Science
The Monuments Trump Doesn’t SupportWhile the president defends racist bronze relics, he’s stripping protections from the nation’s public lands.
Medical Examiner
The Goldwater Rule Is IrrelevantTrump’s mental health is not what makes him unfit for the job, and saying it is does nothing but perpetuate stigma.
Jurisprudence
Investigation at Yale Law SchoolAn inquiry into the actions of a prominent professor reveals why it’s so hard to report inappropriate behavior at the top law school in the country.
Jurisprudence
Brett Kavanaugh Failed the Alex Kozinski TestThe Supreme Court nominee shows you don’t have to be a sexual harasser to perpetuate a system of abuse.
Science
The Trump Administration Is Neutering the Endangered Species ActIts proposal is supposed to sound common-sense. But it prioritizes industry over wildlife.
Medical Examiner
Suicide Hotlines Are Critical, but They Can’t Make Up for America’s Broken Mental Health Care System
Medical Examiner
Kanye West Suffers From TrumpismGrandiose narcissists have a penchant for fascism, and it has nothing to do with whether the rapper is “crazy.”
Science
Trawling the Depths of Blue Planet IIShould we reconsider the octopus? Should nature documentaries talk about climate change? Members of the Slate science team discuss.
Books
Is Trump Crazy?Two new books set out to assess Trump’s mental health and end up with equally terrifying but totally opposite results.
Science
It Doesn’t Matter if Climate Change Caused Irma and HarveyThe stories we tell ourselves are more influential than science. And the back-to-back storms are quite a story.
Medical Examiner
Please Don’t Panic Over the Chemicals in Your Mac and CheeseA recent New York Times story raised concerns but missed some key facts.