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Like the border wall, building a detention center for migrants in Guantanamo Bay is nothing new. The scale, though, is frighteningly new.

Now my son is grown and he is a wonderful person. I’m married, and we have been successful enough that I’m about to step back from my career to pursue some personal projects. Val never married and ...

Ever since I first played Elizabeth Hargrave’s revolutionary board game Wingspan, I’ve been wondering: What comes next? When I profiled Hargrave in 2021, she told me she was batting around several ...

Whatever its motivations, the 5th Circuit’s opinion has little to do with the reality of gun violence with which all ...

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Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Delia Cai is filling in as Prudie for Jenée Desmond-Harris while she’s on parental ...

In his confirmation hearing for FBI director on Thursday, Kash Patel presented himself as a man of experience, fairness, and ...

Musk had Trump fire the FAA leader as soon as he got into office, because the FAA leader had investigated and fined one of ...

Gabbard replied that she had only meant to highlight the “egregiously illegal and unconstitutional programs” that Snowden had ...

Also aboard the flight were many family members of these skaters, vital support systems for any young athlete. The ...

Suffice it to say, this winter slump sucks. But there’s one thing that brightens these dark days for me. Just about every ...