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Help! My Husband Keeps Bringing in Random House Guests to Torture Me.

He knows I hate this, but he won’t stop.

How the Union Army’s Beloved Marching Song Became a French Christmas Favorite

An abolitionist standard, now with nutmeg.

My Husband Always Brags About How “Cheap” His Christmas Gifts to Me Are

He loves bargain hunting.

Encore: All Hail the Liver King

A return to our ancient ancestors’ way of life, via TikTok.

My Son Just Figured Out How to Calculate Conception, and It’s Causing a Big Problem.

Parenting advice on conception calculations, procrastination, and paying inlaws for care.

These Are Slate’s Favorite Podcast Episodes of the Year

However you're spending the holidays this year, these podcasts will keep you company.

Cities Are for People Who Want to Be There

Now they need to act like it.

When Your Family’s Views Grow Increasingly Conservative

Talking deradicalization with guest Mollie West Duffy.

Help! My Parents Are Forcing Me to Endure Pain in the Name of Religion.

I swear I’m not just being “dramatic.”

What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Babylon, the Star-Studded New Movie About Early Hollywood

Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie play silent-film actors disrupted by talkies. Was it really all this scandalous?