When Marvena Alston’s alternator went out on her car back in the fall, she only had to rely on D.C.’s buses to get her groceries for about a week. It wasn’t ideal, but it wasn’t an extended... Read more

MacKenzie Scott, a new power player among the nation’s leading philanthropists, has been chipping away at her fortune over the course of the pandemic. Scott, who has been far more generous i... Read more

We finally have a supportive administration and Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress, has the time for D.C. statehood come at last? Slate staff writers Christina Cauterucci and... Read more

We weren’t supposed to have a vaccine by now. Less than a year ago, I wrote a story with the headline, “It Will Probably Take Longer Than 12 to 18 Months to Get a Vaccine.” This wasn’t an of... Read more

For 20 years, Raymond Diaz worked in a dry cleaning store in New York, regularly clocking 60 hours every week. But once the pandemic hit, the company had to close down. Business dried up, an... Read more

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Every week, the crew responds to a bonus question in chat form. Dear How to Do It,... Read more

Things are finally back to normal at the Suez Canal. The backlog of ships that had been stranded by the massive container ship that blocked the Suez Canal has finally been cleared, Egyptian... Read more

On Wednesday, Johnson & Johnson acknowledged that a huge batch of vaccines—enough for 15 million doses—had to be tossed out after it was found to have been contaminated during the produc... Read more

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a series of tweets railing against the White House’s coronavirus efforts on Thursday. In them, the publicity-hungry conspiracy enthusiast promoted her late... Read more

Throughout these early months of 2021, automobile companies been busy letting everyone know that, much like Bob Dylan, they’re going electric. General Motors, Ford, Jaguar, Volvo, and the fe... Read more