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From Sylvester to Sam Smith, LGBTQ music has long been coded and even denied, yet never absent from the pop charts.
Help! I Started Earning Way More Than My Boyfriend. Then His Incessant Jabs Began. Jenée Desmond-Harris
None of what he says is true.
Large Stone Carved Heads, Believed to Belong to the Olmecs, Are Found Across Which Country? Ray Hamel
Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for July 23, 2025.
The Astronomer CEO Coldplay Cheating Scandal Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay
We break down how an office affair, Chris Martin, and the internet created one of 2025’s best monocultural moments of the year.
In the world of Eddington, the conspiracy theorists might be right. Sam Adams, Dana Stevens, and Stephen Metcalf
Is Ari Aster’s new nerve-jangling film a coherent vision of an incoherent world or big ol’, paranoid mess? <img src="https://compote.slate.com/images/ed559494-ed32-4441-9ef0-e23fc637b251.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0" title="In the world of Eddington, the conspiracy theorists might be…
Internet Rumors Suggest a Man’s Smile Can Foreshadow His Penis Size. There’s More to That Than You Might Think. David Mack
This is, surprisingly, a question researchers are taking seriously.
Did the Coldplay Kiss-Cam CEO Really Have to Get Fired? Christina Cauterucci
They were two consenting adults!
Amazon’s Hit Summer Romance Boasts One of the Most Annoying Love Triangles of All Time Nadira Goffe
The Summer I Turned Pretty is just the latest offender in a long list of aggravating on-screen romantic rivalries.