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The Private-Equity Confidence Game
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (614+ words) Advertisement Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music TuneIn Pocket Casts RSS Feed For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. Please enable javascript to get your Slate Plus feeds. All Slate…...
Michigan football: College football’s latest scandal might be its most absurd one yet.
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (1091+ words) I Thought I’d Seen Every Kind of Sports Scandal. Then Came This Football Game Last Saturday. Slate Lately, college football has featured a torrent of legal fights that border on the surreal. Texas Tech wants to play a quarterback who…...
On this Labor Day, I Have a Radical New Holiday Idea to Propose
6+ day, 47+ min ago (518+ words) slate.com The reality is that the baby is the most exciting and needful member of the family after the birth process wraps up. And while I do have a new appreciation for the concept of push presents, something I…...
How Williamsburg became a haven for A.I. tech bros.
1+ week, 52+ min ago (899+ words) An Infamous New York Neighborhood Has Entered a Bizarre New Phase Slate There is a place in New York City that many insist does not exist. It is primarily composed of concrete streets, old family-run stores, and a massive influx…...
Trump Has the Opportunity to Do the Funniest Thing
1+ week, 1+ day ago (233+ words) Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s politics newsletter that has no time for a joke right here because we have important business to discuss. Starting next week, the Surge is going to look different: sleeker and fresher…...
My Sister Squandered Her $400,000 Inheritance in a Stupid Way. I Could Help Her More, But I Don’t Want to.
1+ week, 3+ day ago (297+ words) My sister, who is 55 (three years my junior) has had life-long problems with money. She’s a great person and a very talented musician, but she never plans financially and is always dependent on others to support her in some way....
Trump Breaks a Lot of American Traditions. He’s Keeping This Awful One.
1+ week, 5+ day ago (346+ words) On Friday, Donald Trump announced an agreement that would effectively let the U.S. take over a chunk of Venezuela’s oil reserves. The move, which the president called “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY,” is a particularly brazen resource grab from…...
Supreme Court news: Justice Neil Gorsuch puts on his smarty-pants.
1+ week, 5+ day ago (710+ words) Dahlia Lithwick: Now that all of Gorsuch’s votes for the term are in and logged, do you feel as if you basically still understand who he is as a justice, Susan? You came to a pretty definitive idea about him…...
I Want to Throw a Party for an Exciting Milestone. I'm Worried My Friends Won't Want to Celebrate.
1+ week, 5+ day ago (333+ words) Our advice columnists have heard it all over the years—so we’re diving into the Dear Prudence archives to share classic letters with our readers. Submit your own questions to Prudie here. A few years ago, I purchased my first…...
My Ex-Girlfriend’s Parents Wanted Her to Leave Our Small Town and Make It Big. I Was the Enemy. Now They’ve Realized Their Mistake.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (574+ words) My parents were best friends with “Matthew” and “Delilah.” They had a daughter, “Bea” (an only child), who was the same age. We grew up together. As we got into our late teenage years and early 20s, we seriously dated and…...