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Have Voters Stopped Punishing Democrats for Eating Kale and Arugula?

This year, the politics of vegetables flip-flopped.

Why Nope Was One of the Most Exciting Movies of the Year, and Also the Most Obscurely Disappointing

Slate's 2022 Movie Club begins!

Christmas 2022, in This Week’s Open Thread

Join Slate’s open thread for the week of December 26.

Help! My Brother-in-Law Drunkenly Left Cocaine Out at My Toddler’s Birthday Party.

Everyone seems to think we should forgive and forget.

I’m Sick of My Brother’s Family Ruining Our Dinners Together

Parenting advice on stepsiblings, family dinners, and financial independence.

Forgive Us, Sylvester Stallone at 75 Is Hot

Does he a look a little like a melting candle? Yes. And yet.

Think You’re Pretty Smart? Prove It With This Week’s Quiz.

You’ll need a measured approach to excel at this quiz.

Which Movie Has More Women Talking: Women Talking or She Said?

An exercise in timekeeping, but also a consideration of what it means to fill a movie with women’s voices.

The Dawn of the Synthetic Age

An expert in environmental philosophy and wildlife recovery responds to Margrét Helgadóttir’s “A Lion Roars in Longyearbyen.”

Is the Last Animal of Its Kind Better Off in the Zoo or in the Wild?

Read a new short story about a Christmas parade, an Arctic metropolis, a hunter, and a zoo full of lab-grown animals.