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To all the House Republicans who are planning on running in suburban America in 2020 with Donald Trump on the ballot, “good luck,” says Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO), the four-term Congress member who lost his reelection bid last week. You’re…
It’s probably the most contentious question in the dieting wars: How much do carbs really matter when it comes to weight loss? On one side are a cadre of respected researchers; the journalist Gary Taubes; and Atkins, Zone, and keto…
The Department of Education under Secretary Betsy DeVos issued new rules on Friday governing the way colleges and universities around the country handle allegations of sexual harassment and assault. The new rules, which apply to primary and secondary schools as…
Maybe Taylor Swift has something to do with that: But don’t be spooked if you’re a science-minded person. There’s an interesting story for you here too. Apparent retrograde motion of planets is an illusion generated by the combined movements of…
Maybe you’ve encountered the idea of the “smart home” and wondered if it’s for you. We hear about it plenty, and Ori, a company that came out of an MIT-funded research project in 2014, is the one making headlines for…
In 2014, Slate published ten photographs from a work in progress by the artist Brenda Ann Kenneally, documenting the lives of a group of twenty-first-century American teen-agers in Troy, a city in upstate New York. The subjects in her images…
