Slate Learn How to Protect Yourself Online slate.com All too often, journalists, activists, and others who use social media in their professional and personal lives are victimized by harassment, …
Slate Fashion Masks Are Wellness Now slate.com - Shannon Palus Protective face masks are poised to become the next major wellness trend. This potential is thanks to our increasingly apocalyptic world, filled with …
SlateHeart Attacks What Are the Chances Sanders Has Another Heart Attack Before November? slate.com - Jeremy Samuel Faust In early October, while campaigning in Nevada, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was rushed to the hospital experiencing chest pain. He was …
SlatePeacock Welcome to the Fresh Internet Hell of the Streaming Wars slate.com - Katharine Trendacosta They’re worse than the cable wars, and they’re just getting started. Begun, the streaming wars have. Worse and far more harmful than the cable wars of …
SlateFacebook Inside Facebook’s Supreme Court slate.com - Lizzie O’Leary For the last year, the social network has tried to find global consensus on how to moderate controversial content. It hasn’t been easy.
SlateNevada Politics If Something Goes Wrong With the Nevada Caucuses, Blame Humans, Not Tech slate.com - Aaron Mak Nevada’s Democratic party is about to show us if it can pull off what Iowa’s couldn’t. After numerous mishaps with a hastily constructed …
SlateInternet Meet One of the Earliest Victims of Internet Bullying slate.com - Jeff Kosseff An interview with a teenage Boy Scout falsely accused of sending harassing messages in 1994. On Feb. 24, the Free Speech Project will host an event …
Slate How Much Can Jeff Bezos’ $10 Billion Do to Fight Climate Change? slate.com - Chloe Hadavas Jeff Bezos is an easy target for the ire of anyone concerned about the climate crisis. Over the past year, Amazon employees have protested and …
SlatePangolin Huh, what’s a pangolin? slate.com - Shannon Palus The new coronavirus that’s gripping the globe likely started out in animals (probably bats) before making the jump to humans. On Feb. 7, researchers …
SlateTravis Kalanick Susan Fowler’s Memoir Shows Uber Was an Even Worse Place to Work Than We Thought slate.com - Aaron Mak There’s a good case that Uber would still have its notoriously toxic workplace culture were it not for Susan Fowler. The former Uber engineer wrote a …
SlateSocial Media Companies Faux News Articles and Social Media Posts Will Haunt This Election slate.com - Chris Estep Facebook and Twitter need to do more to prevent that. On Feb. 24, the Free Speech Project will host an event called “Redefining Free Speech for the …
SlateNew York Supreme Court Facial Recognition Technology Is the New Rogues’ Gallery slate.com - Matthew Guariglia Fueled by explosive reporting, foreign totalitarian regimes, and a lifetime of dystopian sci-fi, the movement to ban the government’s use of face …
Slate Future Tense Newsletter: Introducing the Free Speech Project slate.com - Margaret Tucker Stories from the recent past of Future Tense.
SlateWomen's News The Long History of the Hand-Washing Gender Gap slate.com - Rebecca Onion Women are slightly better at hand-washing than men. Here’s one theory for why. Hand-washing! It takes minimal effort and is incredibly effective, and …
SlateMobile Technology Did the Early Internet Activists Blow It? slate.com - Mike Godwin A couple of weeks ago, I went to lunch with a prominent journalist who wanted to ask me about Wikipedia. I had been general counsel for the Wikimedia …
SlateCoronavirus Will Coronavirus Break China’s Surveillance State? slate.com - Lizzie O’Leary Lizzie O’Leary is the host of What Next: TBD, Slate’s show about technology, power, and the future. Previously, she created and hosted Marketplace …
SlateIowa Democratic Party Oh Good, Another Voting App Might Have Some Problems slate.com - Aaron Mak Two weeks after a malfunction in a vote-reporting app helped make a mess out of the Iowa caucuses, another election app is stirring up …
SlateSocial Media Feeling Down? Snapchat Wants to Help. slate.com - Chloe Hadavas The conventional wisdom around mental health goes something like this: If you’re feeling upset, triggered, anxious, or depressed, put down your …
SlateCruise Ships “They Can Lock You in a Room”: A Cruise-Ship Doctor Explains How to Contain Coronavirus slate.com - Shannon Palus A cruise-ship doctor explains all the ways ocean liners could contain a coronavirus on board. It’s no wonder that cruise ships have become a B-plot in …
SlateT-Mobile Sprint–T-Mobile Has All the Hallmarks of a Bad Tech Merger. Why Is It Going Through? slate.com - Lindsey Barrett In a politically fractured time, it can be tempting to cling to apparent consensus wherever traces of it can be found. That instinct is partly to …
SlateUniverse I Will Be Very Sad if Betelgeuse Explodes slate.com - Lucianne Walkowicz The constellation of Orion the Hunter is one of the most dependable sights in the night sky. Even in the most light-polluted cities, the outline is …
SlateAndrew Yang How the Yang Gang Is Taking the End of Andrew Yang’s Campaign slate.com - Aaron Mak How the Yang Gang is taking Andrew Yang’s exit from the Democratic Primary. Andrew Yang, who suspended his presidential run Tuesday night, will be …
SlateHigher Education How the U.S. Can Kickstart the Digital Heartland slate.com - Anthony Nguyen A Future Tense event recap.
SlateWuhan Coronavirus The New Coronavirus Has an Official Name, and It’s the Same as a Cable Company slate.com - Shannon Palus A company that sells cables now shares a name with the new coronavirus disease. The world has been concerned for weeks about the mysterious outbreak …
SlateGender We Dug Into Data to Disprove a Myth About Women in STEM slate.com - Meredith Reiches It used to be that women were simply biologically less capable. Now the argument is that they’re less interested. Both are wrong. In 2018, a …
SlateIdentity Theft That Enormous Equifax Hack Looks a Lot More Bizarre Now slate.com - Josephine Wolff On Monday, the Department of Justice released an indictment that alleges the Chinese government was behind the 2017 breach of Equifax that led to 147 …
SlateTechnology Join Us to Discuss Redefining Free Speech for the Digital Age slate.com The internet has set us free. The internet will destroy our democracy. Both the utopian and apocalyptic hype share a common belief that there is …
SlateIcon version of the Flipboard logoInternet Introducing the Free Speech Project slate.com - Jennifer Daskal A yearlong editorial and event series that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech. Not long ago, the ubiquitous, open …
SlateNew Hampshire Primary The New Hampshire Primary Might Be the Most Technophobic Election in the Country slate.com - Aaron Mak There will be no app malfunctions during the New Hampshire primary for one simple reason: There will be no apps. In the troubled aftermath of the …
