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• Robert De Niro: From Raging Bull to Whining Tool
• Cassie’s detailed Diddy testimony: Letters to the Editor — May 17, 2025
• I’m a music critic who often writes about country, but I’ve never met Morgan Wallen. I’m texting today because it’s time to change that
• The New Movie in One of Our Oldest, Dumbest Horror Franchises Is Actually … Great?
• How Star Wars reveals conservatives’ authoritarian fantasies
• Man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie, partially blinding him, sentenced to 25 years in prison
• Justin Bieber has denied that he was one of Sean Combs’ victims
• Trump declares himself the winner of the Taylor Swift vs. Trump war in a Truth Social post
• Robert Rosenkranz: How to use stoicism to build a meaningful life
• ‘Andor’ is a Star Wars show about the brutality of bureaucracy
• Expert: Is the experience of being left out a part of childhood that everyone has to navigate?
• Diddy’s lawyers are banking on the ‘mutual abuse’ defence. Newsflash: it’s not a thing | Tayo Bero
• Ask Prudence: Don’t keep your daughter from a wonderful vacation because her sister is jealous
• Review: The rise of the 'divorce memoir'
• In Maternal Ambivalence: The Loving Moments and Bitter Truths of Motherhood, Margo Lowy argues that mothers’ feelings about motherhood should be expected
• This week’s Slate News Quiz challenges you to test your knowledge of the week’s news events
• 'I am not the most outgoing with family all of the time, but I will offer the suggestion that if you have someone close to you -- or even someone like a parent or child who you wish were close...
• Why is Israel still in Eurovision? The answer is more complex than you might think | Chris West
• Truth Telling and Colonial History
• Cassie’s testimony against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs revealed a monster worse than any of us realized, but is it enough to send him to prison?
• Help! My Mother-in-Law Uses Me as a “Sounding Board” for the Most Revolting Topic.
• A passenger posted a video showing roaches crawling around on a Spirit Airlines plane, prompting a response from the airline
• Lorde discusses how she doesn't fully identify with either gender in new interview
• Bruce Springsteen delivered a lengthy diatribe against President Trump during his European tour
• Andrew Klavan's latest book, 'The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness,' hits No. 13 on the New York Times bestseller list
• How to do it: My best friend thinks his wife is cheating on him and wants to get her to sleep with me
• 50 Cent mocks Diddy for his apparent baby oil obsession
• Why is Maga-land so obsessed with Kai Trump turning 18? Do you really need to ask? | Arwa Mahdawi
• Amazon and A24 Made a Buzzy New Show With a Rising Star. It’s Not What I Was Expecting.
• Dear Good Job: J.K. Rowling is anti-trans and anti-asexual. What to do?
• He’s Friends With Joe Rogan and Was Friendly to Andrew Tate. Now He’s Atop the Netflix Charts.
• Warner Bros. Discovery's Max streaming service will revert back to being called HBO Max
• Trump strikes a righteous blow against the feds’ rabid criminal code
• How to do it: I expect my boyfriend to propose soon, but I'm worried about the future
• Mission: Impossible 8 – the return of the sexless show-off
• The BBC’s new therapy show left me with a full-body cringe
• Viet Thanh Nguyen Q&A: “My earliest memory? Being taken to school on a Vespa”
• Charlie Porter’s Nova Scotia House is a love story of how gardening, queer lives and the Aids crisis are intertwined
• This England: With a couple of kookies…
• The cruelty of politics is clouding my vocabulary
• How porcelain originated in China in the first centuries of the Christian era
• Why I’m falling for East 17
• 'He controlled a lot of my life,' Combs' ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura testifies
• A fluff ball with a monster face: what explains the luxury appeal of Labubu dolls? | Van Badham
• British TV will be a victim of the US trade deal
• Best of the Babylon Bee: Trump’s popularity skyrockets after deporting all cyclists
• Ask Prudie: How do I handle the prospect of delivering the eulogy for my mother?
• How many Blake Livelies can one movie hold? Another Simple Favor aims to find out.
• Portrait of an 18th-century It girl
• The repugnant campaign against Israel’s Eurovision star
• Andor’s final episode focuses on the relationship between Luthen and Kleya
• Judge Judy reacts to her AI baby double: ‘Hilarious and frightening at the same time’
• Pope Leo XIV can minister to world desperate for spiritual healing
• Malia Obama has been accused of copying some of her work by filmmaker Natalie Jasmine Harris
• Kardashian testified at trial of men accused of being involved in Paris robbery, saying, 'I absolutely did think I was gonna die'
• Tom Cruise’s new film, ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from film critics
• Real or flake? Experts weigh in on whether TikTok’s viral ‘caveman method’ skin care routine actually works | Natasha May
• Requiring Fifth-Graders to Read Pro-Gender-Ideology Books to Kindergarten Students (with No Opt Out) May Violate First Amendment
• How can I convince my husband that my baby is his? —Lying Liar
• How to Date Without the Internet
• Naples (Florida) Restrictions on Drag Performance at Pride Fest Likely Unconstitutional
• Q. Should I tell my friend’s husband he needs to do marriage counseling?
• Trump is laying the groundwork to privatize America’s national parks | Jonathan B Jarvis and Gary Machlis
• Texas GOP wants to ban kids from playing dress-up: Yes, really
• This week, Zak, Elizabeth, and Lucy talk about school clothes
• Mark Twain and the limits of biography
• The world performs for the U.S. on Embassy Day
• YouTube TV should carry C-SPAN
• After Penny the Chihuahua’s pit bull mauling, NY should hold bad owners responsible and look to ban dangerous breeds
• The Bloomberg family gets two slimy new members — and they’re not politicians
• Trump wants tariffs on ‘foreign’ movies. But there’s a reason no one wants to shoot in LA
• The worst thing about the damaged Rothko is that it fuels the ban-kids-from-galleries debate | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
• The New York Times published a video by Shaina Feinberg asking if it’s possible to be a great mom and have a great career
• Digging Up Trouble: Obama’s War Over Jerusalem
• This Mother’s Day, I want to appreciate my grandmother, Annie—not her real name, but rather the result of my being unable to pronounce granny as a child
• Trump’s attempt to reestablish Hollywood as the locus of moviemaking has been met with bafflement and ridicule
• Pope Leo's election underscores religion's enduring relevance
• Controversial Atheist Sam Harris Confesses - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• “If you’re a human, you have a mother. Whether she is living or dead, you should thank God for her
• Trump Suspending More Maine Funds — This Time Over Discriminatory Quotas
• Hennessy’s white cognac, Pure White Hennessy, is available in the U.S. for the first time
• Can the Kennedy Center Survive Trump?
• Disney Picks Anti-LGBTQ Middle Eastern Country for New Park
• Should the Civilization video games be fun—or real?
• The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness, by Andrew Klavan
• A 48-year-old Mississippi man accused of stalking Jennifer Aniston showed up to court shirtless and wrapped in a blanket
• Liev Schreiber’s 16-year-old son, Kai, identifies as a woman
• Pope Leo says he wants to correct the notion that Jesus Christ was simply a 'charismatic leader or superman'
• If I could be a tree, I’d be a sycamore
• Review: A doomsday murder mystery set in an underground bunker
• A Symphony of These Honored Dead – Aaron Slutkin
• Can you ace this week’s Slate News Quiz? Good luck!
• Review: A superhero struggle about the ethics of violence
• How the new Pope Leo XIV is as American as the Original Rainbow Cone!
• Paul Rudd’s New Comedy With Tim Robinson Is I Love You, Man for the A24 Generation
• This week's Dear Prudence is hosted by Jenée Desmond Harris, Cameron Currie, and Daisy Rosario
• What Louis Theroux gets wrong about the West Bank
• Will the first American pope criticize the war on immigrants now being waged by the worst U.S. president?
• "What a great honor": Trump congratulates American pope who has previously chastised administration
• Kennedy Center director Richard Grenell responds to reports that 'Les Mis' cast members are boycotting upcoming performance because of Trump