This is part of Slate’s 2026 Olympics coverage. Read more here. After the doping scandal at the center of the 2022 Beijing Olympics, I wrote that if skating could not find a way ...

Pete Hegseth, perhaps the most thuggish, toadying, all-around underqualified secretary of defense in the job’s nearly 80-year ...

It was a show that gave viewers the sort of surprise appearances they might expect from a Super Bowl halftime show (Lady Gaga ...

Just because there’s one very famous story about an underdog taking on a leporine opponent and winning does not mean it ...

When it was first revealed that Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny would be headlining the Super Bowl LX halftime show, it was ...

Kicker Jason Myers had a historic night, becoming the first man to make five field goals in a Super Bowl and setting the game ...

I have a 21-year-old daughter who is a junior in college and is very happy and loves it. She has many friends and her grades ...

My mother passed away recently after being in and out of the hospital for years. My father and I were never close, and when ...

We haven’t had an unfair leg up in our lives and have worked hard for what we have, and can now afford to move our son to a ...

My college girlfriend and I (both women) were together for four years, through a pandemic, graduation, and almost a year of ...

Find previous discussions in the Open Thread archive. Excepting the entreaty that you remain on topic, all of Slate’s usual ...

Dear Prudence, I’m the adventurous sort and agreed to let a friend set me up on a blind date, only to end up get ...