Slate Media Bias

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My Husband Got Two Other Women Pregnant. Now His Family Wants Our Wedding Gift Back.

So my marriage got annulled because my husband was a cheating pile of garbage who got two women pregnant while we were engaged. I found out after our honeymoon. I was very lucky I didn’t put the bastard on the deed to my house. I did return his mother’s engagement ring. My question is do I have to return his great aunt’s handmade quilt? She made it for both of us but use fabric from my late mother’s wedding dress among other personal items. And it is gorgeous.
Slate     Jan 13, 2023

An Entirely Sensible Housing Plan in New York (That Is Nevertheless Going to Make Suburbanites Go Nuclear)

One person’s cost is another person’s value, and efforts to lower housing costs often fail once voters realize such policies inevitably amount to officials saying, “We want to decrease the value of your home.” Nevertheless, it was refreshing to hear the governor describing housing like someone who needs it, rather than someone who has it. (In reality, she owns a pair of waterfront condos in Buffalo and a house in Virginia.)
Slate     Jan 13, 2023

Fact-Check: Was This Man (George Santos) Really a Decorated College Volleyball Player?

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Despite the continuously unspooling nature of his narrative, the Long Island congressman said again Wednesday that he does not plan to resign, and the national Republican Party would prefer, all else being equal, that he stay in his seat. The GOP only has a nine-member majority in the House, and if Santos were to resign, his spot would be filled by an open election. A Democrat would likely have a good chance to win such an election by making the argument that voters shouldn’t trust Long Island Republicans at the moment.
Slate     Jan 13, 2023

The Paradox of the Menopause Market

Companies have finally realized selling to menopausal women won’t diminish their brand. Now they want your money.
Slate     Jan 13, 2023

Biden Gets Best Approval Rating Poll in Like a Thousand Years

politics

Check it out, bro: The Economist and YouGov’s most recent weekly poll finds that 47 percent of Americans approve of the job that Joseph R. Biden is doing as president, while 45 percent disapprove. That makes for a net rating of [punching numbers into Slate’s proprietary algorithm] positive 2 percent, which, given the level of partisan polarization in the contemporary United States, is basically Harry Truman on VJ Day.
Slate     Jan 13, 2023

Should ChatGPT Be Used to Write Wikipedia Articles?

Five years ago, I traveled to Stockholm to cover the annual convention for Wikipedia and related free knowledge projects. But it was not just wiki-interviews and chewy candy fish that occupied my time among the Swedes. During one fun evening, I came across a group playing a tabletop game envisioning what Wikipedia would be like in 2035. This futuristic Dungeons & Dragons-style role-playing game featured a cast of diverse characters like Yuki, an A.I. pop music composer and Wikipedia writer, and Levi, a passionate neo-Luddite who believed Wikipedia should be composed by humans only.
Slate     Jan 13, 2023

Hand to God, They Found the New Classified Joe Biden Documents in His Garage, Next to a Corvette

politics

Donald Trump has been in hot water for a while for taking classified documents from the White House and storing them in, among other places, a closet near the pool at his Mar-a-Lago resort. A few days ago, meanwhile, President Joe Biden’s representatives said his attorneys found some classified material in his vice presidential papers at an office affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania. On Wednesday, reports emerged that classified documents had been found in a “second location” related to Biden.
Slate     Jan 13, 2023

The Real Stakes of the Gas Stove Debate

Gas stoves might be starting to flame out. In recent weeks, public discourse about one long-time beloved household appliance has become a bit messy and, frankly, silly: In late December, Richard Trumka Jr., a member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, spoke on a U.S. Public Interest Research Group webinar about the growing body of research demonstrating the harms gas stoves pose to human health. He then stated that the CPSC had a plan to solicit expert and public comment on the issue in March. All fine so far.
Slate     Jan 13, 2023

How To Celebrate (and Support) Your Introverted Kid

I mean… who doesn’t get a little nervous at parties?
Slate     Jan 13, 2023

The World of Crackers Has Lost a Giant

The Cracker Internet is suffering a great loss: the mysterious disappearance of Stoned Wheat Thins. Most useful as a vehicle for cheese (as most Most Useful things are), Stoned Wheat Thins have been a pantry staple for as long as I can remember. Unlike Wheat Thins—the salty-sweet, deeply toasted square snack often eaten in handfuls—in nearly every single way, Stoned Wheat Thins are paler, with a subtle mottling of toasted beige and a sprinkling of salt, and a perforation down the middle so that you can snap them in half. Their relative blandness makes them perfect for toppings, the ideal slightly elevated choice for everyday appetizer platters that aren’t quite fancy enough to merit the name “charcuterie.” ...
Slate     Jan 13, 2023

The House Freedom Caucus Intends To Blow Up The Economy

Jim Jordan is rolling up his sleeves.
Slate     Jan 13, 2023

What's behind Biden's new immigration policy. - Slate

Migrants from those countries will now have to request asylum before arriving at the U.S. border so Customs and Border Protection have time to prepare for their arrival. It’s an effort to slow down record high illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border—CBP reported over 2 million encounters with migrants in fiscal year 2022, a significant rise from the prior two years, when the pandemic slowed migration.
Slate     Jan 13, 2023