The 10 Best Albums of 2025—Plus the 20 Songs That Met the Moment Carl Wilson
The top albums, singles, and protest anthems of the year.
Help! My Twin Swears I’m Out to Get Her. Uh, All I Did Was Deny Her Very Bizarre Demand for My Eggs. Jenée Desmond-Harris
Apparently, I’m saying no out of “spite.”
Skeleton Suits Were Once Popular Attire for Whom? Ray Hamel
Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for Dec. 9, 2025.
A Deaf Poet’s Lifelong Search for Missing Sounds Anna Sale
“There is something English about the way silence can carry any heavy suppressed emotion.”
FIFA’s Courtship of Trump Began Long Before Last Week’s World Cup Draw. Alex Kirshner, Ben Lindbergh, and Lindsay Gibbs
Maybe the BCS wasn’t so bad after all.
Trump Just Told Us What He’ll Do With the Dangerous New Powers the Supreme Court Is About to Give Him Mark Joseph Stern
Slaughter supplies the blueprint for this very kind of corrupt regulatory retaliation.
I Know What Trump’s New National Security Document Really Is Fred Kaplan
It’s an unserious document—but it can tell us a few things about how Trump sees the world.
Netflix’s Hit Diddy Documentary Makes Some Outrageous Insinuations. Here’s What You Need to Know. Nadira Goffe
Sean Combs: The Reckoning gets into some messy territory.