Parents Are Panicking About Kids Drowning Days After They’ve Come Home From the Pool. Is That Real? Lucy Morris
Have you heard about “dry drowning”?
Turning Your Face Into Your Ticket Lizzie O’Leary
“I asked the TSA. They said, ‘it’s working great.’ And I said, ‘Do you have the data?’ They said no.”
What Apple Did to Hit $3 Trillion Alex Kantrowitz
And why the company is defying stock-market physics.
My Sister Is Desperate for My Life to Become As Miserable As Hers—and Other Advice From the Week Slate Staff
Some advice from the past week.
The Deranged Scene at a 24-Hour Nonstop Marathon That Takes Place on One Tiny, Maddening Track Stephen Lurie
At the Dawn to Dusk to Dawn race, it’s not about who wins. It’s about who survives.
The Twisted Logic of Following (Almost-)Strangers on Find My Friends Mia Armstrong-López
Plus, stories from the recent past of Future Tense.
Help! My Friend of 20 Years Has Completely Ghosted Me. I’m Really Freaking Out. Jenée Desmond-Harris
I have no idea what’s going on.
The Roberts Court Has Turned the First Amendment Into a Wrecking Ball Joseph Pace
“The First Amendment was meant for better things.”
The New Indiana Jones Finds a Very Different Inspiration From the First One Sam Thielman
The first movie raided world cinema for treasure. The new one mines a more familiar source. <img src="https://compote.slate.com/images/fb21ee08-611f-4f40-a7d1-187e211b8c66.jpeg?crop=1200,800,x0,y0" title="The New Indiana Jones Finds a Very Different Inspiration From the First…
What the Coup Attempt Revealed About Putin Fred Kaplan
A week later, cracks in the system are easier to spot.