If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the world. The whole experience of being a music fan keeps mutating all of the time. Back in Y2K, when ‘NSync dropped “Bye Bye Bye,” …
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Twenty-five years ago this month, two highly caffeinated girls made their first appearance on television. Well, girl-women – one a bookish 16-year-old, the other her former 16-and-pregnant mother, the two often blended together into one fast-talking, quick-witted unit. They bantered at 2x speed. They drank cartoonish amounts of coffee – five cups by 8am, if the mother is to be …
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Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. We’re excited to welcome A.J. Daulerio, author of Slate’s Ask A.J. column, to Care and Feeding, where the father of three will be sharing parenting advice every other Wednesday. Dear Care and Feeding, My 12-year-old son goes to an after-school program oriented around healthy …
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Rockstar has churned out plenty of knockout titles over the years, and not just the obvious ones like Grand Theft Auto, but also gems such as Bully and Table Tennis. But which game is truly their greatest work? That question was put to Dan Houser, one of Rockstar’s co-founders, during LA Comic Con—and his reply? “Red Dead 2, I think, …
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Tradition in Major League Baseball dictates that teams celebrate milestone victories with booze-soaked clubhouse parties. And on Sept. 1, it surely seemed safe for the Detroit Tigers to begin ordering champagne. Even after a loss to start September, the Tigers were given a 99.8 percent chance that day to win the American League’s Central division by FanGraphs. Detroit’s odds of …
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On Tuesday night, in the hours before her U.S. Open quarterfinal against Iga Swiatek, Amanda Anisimova did what she’d been avoiding for a month and a half: She rewatched the 2025 Wimbledon final. “Nobody told me to,” she said in a press conference on Wednesday, laughing at the obviousness of her own statement. As she sat at the podium a …
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In what Public Citizen called “the greatest corruption in presidential history,” US President Donald Trump and his family added $5 billion in cash to their fortunes this Labor Day as his new cryptocurrency was opened to the public market. The currency, known as WLFI, is owned by World Liberty Financial, a company founded by the president’s sons, Donald Trump, Jr., …
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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – AUGUST 29: Payton Tolle #70 of the Boston Red Sox reacts after the last out of the top of the fourth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Fenway Park on August 29, 2025 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Brian Fluharty/Getty Images)Getty Images BOSTON — If Payton Tolle is as good as some believe, many of the 36,344 …
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As Bill Belichick was winning six Super Bowls in 24 seasons with the New England Patriots, the coach’s teams came to establish certain baseline expectations. They almost always throttled their divisional opponents and projected an air of exacting competency, all while imploring players to focus on football under a credo he repeated ad nauseam: “Do your job.” For the first …
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