I talk to a lot of old people, those who were born in the 20th century, and if I ask them what the word “unalive” means, they usually have no idea what I’m talking about, except for some of them who have kids or who study Internet culture. This will,

Listen to this post: Log in to listen My computer got hacked, which is always embarrassing to admit, because it was my fault; the vulnerability that was exploited is detailed in this Ars Technica story: Dutch officials have warned that a high-severity macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Earlier this year, FBI Director Kash Patel vowed before God, Fox Nation, and Donald Trump that he would punish the “deep state” for its manifold transgressions, especially the (actually nonexistent) conspiracy to steal

Times Exclusive Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky. Listen · 13:53 min Sept. 30, 2026 Mark Zuckerberg says Meta’s A.I. push is a tremendous success. “Our investments in A.I. are accelerating every major part of

The Lede After decades of depending on customers who had to beg their parents for pocket money—and who would eventually grow up—the toy industry has found a savior in “kid-ults.” October 3, 2026 Illustration by Nick Little We might call it the Great Regression. This summer, the toy industry hit

With your art collective Centre for Political Beauty you famously built a replica of the Holocaust memorial on a property next to the home of an AfD politician. Now you’ve written a history book about the Nazis’ rise to power. Don’t we already know everything there is to know about

Clinton, Iowa, is topographically flat and economically declining. The sawmills that made the city rich in the late 19th century have been repurposed as a museum. One of the Victorian mansions long since abandoned by the old lumber barons is open for tours, but tourists are scarce. Clinton has shrunk

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The Lede After decades of depending on customers who had to beg their parents for pocket money—and who would eventually grow up—the toy industry has found a savior in “kid-ults.” October 3, 2026 Illustration by Nick Little We might call it the Great Regression. This summer, the toy industry hit

With your art collective Centre for Political Beauty you famously built a replica of the Holocaust memorial on a property next to the home of an AfD politician. Now you’ve written a history book about the Nazis’ rise to power. Don’t we already know everything there is to know about

Evidence suggests that it really affects what psychiatrists like me call sustained engagement — an important difference in understanding how to think about the condition. Listen · 9:19 min Credit...Sophi Miyoko Gullbrants Sept. 29, 2026 Leer en español As a psychiatrist, I increasingly see people seeking help for a familiar

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. When showing up for others feels hard, some strugglers have lately steeled themselves with a version of this maxim: “Inconvenience is the cost of community.” It’s a reminder, oft-repeated on social media these

Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images. This story is adapted from the Slatest newsletter. You can sign up here to get it in your inbox every day. Donald Trump talks constantly, which makes it a minor miracle that he can still surprise us. But he did Thursday

President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with TIME at the White House on Sept. 28. Over the course of the interview, Trump discussed a wide range of issues, including the war with Iran, the artificial intelligence boom, the Federal Reserve, the Supreme Court, and his outlook for the

Una voz de fondo en la tele: “En España se hacen miles de desahucios al año. ¿Por qué entonces tanto escándalo con este? Hay que protestar por todos”. No es la primera vez que alguien pide la condena de una violencia concreta y otro le sale por peteneras con que

Times investigation The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat. Gold miners at work in El Callao, Venezuela.Credit...Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York Times Times investigation The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously

Updated at 8:45 a.m. ET on September 27, 2026 A crusade against empathy is sweeping through the right. In sometimes apocalyptic terms, prominent conservatives are denouncing that feeble human capacity to understand the feelings of others. This is a trend I’ve written about before, but I’ve been intrigued by the

Una voz de fondo en la tele: “En España se hacen miles de desahucios al año. ¿Por qué entonces tanto escándalo con este? Hay que protestar por todos”. No es la primera vez que alguien pide la condena de una violencia concreta y otro le sale por peteneras con que

Donald Trump stood before the United Nations on Tuesday and threatened to “annihilate” Iran. Yet even as the most powerful man on the planet flexed his military muscles, he was powerless to keep the gravitational pull of domestic politics at bay. Heading into the UN building in New York, the

Mid-century Americans knew how to throw a party, for better or worse. In some of the most famous titles of the 1950s and 1960s—Couples, by John Updike; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee; Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates—the drama (and martini-soaked melodrama) took place in middle-class living rooms.