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Like the border wall, building a detention center for migrants in Guantanamo Bay is nothing new. The scale, though, is frighteningly new.

Ever since I first played Elizabeth Hargrave’s revolutionary board game Wingspan, I’ve been wondering: What comes next? When I profiled Hargrave in 2021, she told me she was batting around several ...

Now my son is grown and he is a wonderful person. I’m married, and we have been successful enough that I’m about to step back from my career to pursue some personal projects. Val never married and ...

Whatever its motivations, the 5th Circuit’s opinion has little to do with the reality of gun violence with which all ...

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Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Delia Cai is filling in as Prudie for Jenée Desmond-Harris while she’s on parental ...

The new Trump administration’s effort to both get a grip on and dismantle the federal workforce has also been a dystopian ...

In fact, you could say that Vanna had gracefully embraced her senioritis era. The woman never held the heftiest job in show ...

The United States may have kicked off the A.I. arms race, but a Chinese app is now shaking it up. R1, a chatbot from the ...

In his confirmation hearing for FBI director on Thursday, Kash Patel presented himself as a man of experience, fairness, and ...

Thanks to the screenshots OP attached, many of us were able to follow suit, some waiting a few hours in the customer support ...