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“West wrote a piece in which he comes off a bit like a vengeful father attempting to strangle a child before it has the chance to grow.” Cornel West’s Reckless Criticism of Ta-Nehisi Coates

“What a dramatic rise and fall! It was like something out of Baby Shakespeare.” The Rise and Fall of Baby Einstein

“The moral high ground can be painful to walk, but at least there are fewer gropers there.” Why Franken Had to Go

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News & Politics

The Slatest

Dec. 25 2017 2:20 PM Guatemala Follows Trump’s Lead, Moves Embassy to Jerusalem Daniel Politi

Man Who Left Manure at Treasury Secretary’s Home Calls it “Act of Political Theater”

Trump Has Spent Almost One-Third of His Presidency at a Property He Owns

The Moral and Aesthetic Nightmare of Christmas

Eggnog Riot, in This Week’s Open Thread

A Tragic Christmas in the Philippines: At Least 200 Killed in Storm, Dozens Die in Mall Fire

Trump Praises Himself in Call to Troops: “We Say Christmas Again Very Proudly”

GOP Sen. Flake Says Trump Is Inviting Challenge From Republican Centrists

Business

Moneybox

Dec. 23 2017 10:00 AM Slip Into the Christmas Spirit With These Romantic Japanese Bullet Train Ads Henry Grabar

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Has a New Mission: Protecting America From "Burdensome Regulations"

It Looks Like Trump Failed to Sabotage Obamacare This Year

These Unusually Rich Sample Tax-Plan Families Are All Too Real

How You’ll Be Able to Tell If Trump’s Corporate Tax Cuts Are Raising Wages Like He Promised

All It Took for Wells Fargo to Raise Wages by a Buck-Fifty Was $3.7 Billion in Tax Cuts

The True Lesson of the Tax Bill: This Country Is for Rich People

AT&T’s $1,000 Christmas Bonus Does Not Mean the GOP Tax Bill Will Raise Your Wages

Life

Picks

Dec. 26 2017 6:45 AM The Best Bar Carts on Amazon You’ll want one of these for your next soirée. Lauren Levy

The Best Travel Gadgets and Accessories

At a Certain Age, It’s Impossible to Get a Good Photograph of Your Child

The Best Gifts You Can Have Delivered Same-Day With Amazon Prime Now

A Christmas Connection With Gay Culture Thanks to a Gay Men’s Chorus

I Once Said My Husband Still Believed in Santa. Why Wouldn’t He?

13 Expert-Approved Cookbooks You Can Buy on Amazon

How I Fixed My Church’s Terrible Christmas Pageant

Double X

The XX Factor

Dec. 21 2017 12:20 PM Evangelical Women, Long Acculturated to Shun “Negative” Topics, Are Speaking Out About #MeToo Ruth Graham

USA Gymnastics Paid McKayla Maroney $1.25 Million to Stay Silent About Her Alleged Sexual Abuse

Democrats Should Follow the Doug Jones Playbook on Abortion Rights

My Husband’s Other Wife: She Died, so I Could Find the Man I Love

What Is Harassment? 56 People Shared Stories of “Gray Area” Sexual Encounters They Can’t Forget.

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Is Your Latest Problematic Fave

How Should We Process Sexual Harassment Allegations When No Specific Allegations Have Been Made Public?

Trump’s Accusers Hope America Is Finally Ready to Believe Them

Slate Plus

Dec. 22 2017 4:10 PM Good Tidings We Bring The Slate Plus Digest for Dec. 22. Chau Tu

How a 19th-Century Fight Over Theatergoing Transformed Our Understanding of Human Rights

Help! My Absent Sister Moved Home and Expects Me to Be Her Caretaker.

The United States After the GOP’s Tax Cut, on This Week’s Best Podcasts

Help! I’m Graduating College. He’s Graduating High School. Should I Ask Him Out?

Arts

The Music Club

Dec. 25 2017 10:00 AM The Music Club, 2017 Entry 4: This was yet another great year for women in rock. Ann Powers

This Year Saw the “Browning of America” Begin to Infiltrate Pop

A Very 2017 Yule Log Video

Grinches in Nebraska Steal Christmas From Vermont (By Confiscating 60 Pounds of Marijuana)

Here’s a Fifteen-Second Teaser for a Netflix Show Called Seven Seconds

SNL’s Hallmark Christmas Movie Parody Starring James Franco Is Almost As Ridiculous As the Real Thing

Louis C.K.’s Performance as "Horrifying Sweaty One-Armed Monstrosity" Scrubbed From Disney’s Gravity Falls

Watch Kendrick Lamar’s Stunning Video for “Love”

Technology

Dec. 23 2017 2:37 PM Hulu’s Alternative to the Yule Log Is a Bunch of Adorable Doggos Destroying Christmas Let us coo at these creatures and watch the world burn. Inkoo Kang

Under Eric Schmidt, Google Evolved From “Don’t Be Evil” to “Be Kind of Evil”

You Can Now Check if You Interacted With Russian Agents on Facebook

OkCupid Is Doing Away With Usernames. But Why Is It Making Fun of Its Users in the Process?

The "Start Your New Year Off Right" Meme Is a Reminder That Twitter Can Be Glorious

Prepare for Department Stores and Fast Food Joints to Start Scanning Your Face

Bitcoin's Value Plummeted Overnight and No One Knows Why

Health & Science

My Dementia

Dec. 24 2017 8:00 AM My Dementia Telling who I am before I forget. Gerda Saunders

NASA Is Pivoting to Astrobiology. Yes, That Means Aliens.

Life Expectancy Is Down, Again, Thanks to Opioids. What Did We Expect?

There Is No Ban on Words at the CDC. But What’s Actually Happening to Science Is Scarier.

Want to Win a Nobel Prize? Retract a Paper. Really!

A Japanese Startup Wants to Put Advertising on the Moon. Is That Legal?

Why We’re Questioning the Science Behind Gardasil’s Approval

Sports

Sports Nut

Dec. 21 2017 5:00 AM The Liberal Arts Football Factory Is Wesleyan University compromising its independent reputation and academic excellence to build an athletic cash cow?

How Sean Combs Could Make His Dream of Becoming the NFL’s First Black Principal Owner a Reality

Jerry Richardson Was Admired by His Fellow NFL Owners. He Never Should Have Been.

Source: 49ers’ Eric Reid Was Asked Whether He’d Stop Protesting If NFL Donated $100 Million to Charity

Eric Reid: NFL Wants to Use Money From Military and Breast Cancer Programs to Buy Off Protesting Players

Greg Schiano’s Allies in the Sports Media Love Him Because He’s an Authoritarian Bully

Larry Nassar Preyed on Young Gymnasts Who’d Been Taught Their Bodies Were Not Their Own