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Log Cabin Eternal

The weird politics of Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie. For Slate

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Is Heathcliff Black?

A debate that can’t be won. For Slate

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Netflix’s Train Dreams Is Beautiful, Moving, and Missing Something

A soft movie; a hard novella. For Slate

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1923 Ends With a Bang

How the Yellowstone spinoff achieved whole new levels of Taylor Sheridana. For Slate

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Against The Women

People love Kristin Hannah’s Vietnam book. Why? For Slate

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Does The Pioneer Woman Really Own The Land From Killers of the Flower Moon?

The story behind a viral tweet. For Slate

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Buckminster Fuller’s Greatest Invention

Review of Alec Nevala-Lee’s Fuller biography. For the New Republic

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The Truths and Fictions of “The Northman”

An interview with Robert Eggers. For Slate

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The Fable of the Sick Anti-Vaxxer

A man scorned the smallpox inoculation, then got smallpox. It made no difference. For Slate

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The American Art of the Vaccine Rollout

A six-part special series on the introduction of new vaccines. For Slate

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Did Helen Keller Really “Do All That”?

A weird theory hits TikTok. For Slate

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Playing Good Cop

How Officer Friendly got into American schools, for Slate

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The Long History of the Hand-Washing Gender Gap

Women are slightly better at handwashing than men. Here’s one theory why. For Slate

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What It Felt Like

If “living history” roleplay can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning it? For Slate

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The Real Story Of Queen Elizabeth’s Toxic White Makeup

The iconic white paint that might have poisoned a queen. For Slate

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The Vault

Documents blog I ran from 2012-2018. For Slate

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No Sense of Decency

Why the iconic McCarthy clapback will never happen in the Trump era. For Slate

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History of Reconstruction Podcast

Limited series on the Reconstruction era, with cohost Jamelle Bouie. For Slate

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Your Childcare Conundrum is an Anticommunist Plot

Why we don’t have government daycare. For Slate

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Slate Academy: Fascism

Limited-series podcast on the history of fascism, with cohosts Josh Keating and June Thomas. For Slate

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