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This is part of Amicus and Slate’s “By the People” series, which explores how the American people can reclaim the ...

Dear Prudence, My daughter was already having a difficult puberty, but when she hit 15, she just dialed it up to 1 ...

This year, she left her longtime friend group (they’d been friends since the start of this school year) after conflicts and ...

I'd just be borrowing it ...

It's hanging over me!

The state of Alaska has spent the past 14 years trying to confiscate an 82-year-old bush pilot’s $95,000 airplane because a ...

After Trump’s reelection, O’Donnell decided to move her family out of the U.S., and her old foe has since threatened to ...

Is there something on your face or in your mouth that might be causing the burning sensation your wife feels? Maybe you’re ...

For our 30 th birthday, Gen X writer and longtime Slatester Dan Kois is reviving the lost art of hanging out. Party Like It’s ...

The Trump administration canceled $7.5 billion in federal funding for clean energy projects in blue states, and it did so ...

When Tippy Amundson was in middle school, she read the diary of a teenager hiding from the secret police. “Terrible things ...