I Can’t Believe What Holiday Gifts My Co-Workers Purchased for Our Rich Bosses
If you’re sure that they do know you’re covering the cost personally, then yes, they should thank you; that’s basic good ...
I Just Listened to Steve Bannon’s Show for a Week. What’s Coming Is Clear.
During the vote over the Senate majority leader, Bannon was incensed that Sen. Rick Scott, the MAGA pick, lost out to John ...
Someone Reported My Family to CPS. It Feels Like Retaliation.
Your brother is an adult who should obviously know better than to name-call his teenaged sister. And right now, he either has ...
The Mom of the Troublemaking Child Finally Intervened. Uh, That Was Not At All What We Had in Mind.
She Already Broke It. I’ve Had Major Revelations in Therapy About How I Mistreated My Daughter. But She Won’t Forgive Me. One ...
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My Daughter Has an “Unconventional” Marriage. I Don’t Understand How She Could Accept This.
Being old doesn’t have to mean being fossilized. I am old—I’ll turn 70 on my next birthday—and I’m also stubborn as hell. If ...
Why the Frenzy Over College Football’s Flashiest Story Died—Right When It Got More Compelling
Last year, the Colorado Buffaloes were an unprecedented college football attraction. Deion Sanders took over the program a ...
An Interview With the Vanity Fair Writer Whose Cormac McCarthy Scoop Went Viral for All the Wrong Reasons
An interview with the Vanity Fair writer whose astounding revelations about Cormac McCarthy went viral for all the wrong ...
I Got Into a Near Fatal Accident When I Was a Child. I Can’t Stop Thinking About What My Parents Should’ve Done.
Just over 30 years ago, when I was a few months from my tenth birthday, I suffered a horrific and nearly fatal accident at my ...
I’m Starting to Think You Guys Don’t Really Want a “Village”
It’s impossible to read about modern parenting, especially material intended for the highly educated, middle-class contingent ...
I’ve Had Major Revelations in Therapy About How I Mistreated My Daughter. But She Won’t Forgive Me.
I am so sad. My youngest daughter, E (29), is very much estranged from me but requires me to see her a few times during the ...
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The Queen of Cookbooks
Read all the stories from Slate’s 25 Most Important American Recipes of the Past 100 Years. It was early the week of Thanksgiving 1959, and the young Knopf editor Judith Jones was trying to tie ...