My Family Struggles With a Common Problem. I Think It’s Up to Me to Break the Silence.
Fast forward to now. My father died a couple years ago. Due to my father’s erratic spending during the period when she was ...
People Are Using It to Pay for Cold-Plunge Tubs—and to Stockpile Money for Retirement. It Started Out as Something Else Entirely.
It’s all something any nutrition coach might encounter—except, at Good Nutrition, patients can now pay using their HSA or FSA ...
I Used to Be My Boyfriend’s Biggest, Most Secret Turn-On. Now I’m the Opposite.
How do I handle finding out that I was a fetish for my boyfriend, and that now I’m not anymore? I’m so uncomfortable thinking ...
Warping Time, in This Week’s Open Thread
On this day in 1918, daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time. Time meant nuthin’, never ...
The Peculiar Pleasure of Cryptic Crosswords
I hadn’t really appreciated, before Ludwig came out, that cryptic crosswords are something with a strong British flavor, ...
I Survived Ashton Hall’s Morning Routine
A shirtless Ashton Hall steps into the bathroom, pectorals throbbing. He rubs his hands together with vigor and peels off ...
Trump Executive Order Says States Must Use Voting Machines That Don’t Actually Exist
Driven by Trump’s decadeslong fixation on false claims of voter fraud, the order mandates that proof of citizenship be added ...
What the Videos of the Pools Falling Off Skyscraper Roofs Can Tell Us About the Myanmar Earthquake
They expose the fissures in society, between those who have a well-built home, an insurance policy, or somewhere else to ...
George Clooney, I Will Decide When You Are Done With “Romantic Films,” Thank You Very Much
George Clooney giveth, and George Clooney taketh away. While it is lovely that Clooney has deigned to grace us with his ...
What an ER Doctor Who’s Worked Multiple Mass Shootings Thinks of Those Episodes of The Pitt
Dr. Christopher Colwell, who worked Columbine and Aurora and the 2017 UPS shootings, tells us what the hit show gets right ...
I Refuse to Do This One Sex Move to My Girlfriend. Now She’s Throwing a Fit.
I have been with my girlfriend “Gracie” for six months now, and everything has been going great … with one exception. Lately, ...
Trump’s Attacks on Big Law Are Way More Far-Reaching Than You Think
On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed both the practical ...