Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I spent a few mornings of my summer standing in a Santa Monica parking lot surrounded by a small group of Tesla owners. The club (which has been going since 2019) meets every other…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. A few mysteries remain about the Russian drones that swarmed into Poland’s skies Wednesday night, but a few things are all but certain—none of them pleasant—about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intentions and President Donald…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. It’s unclear whether Tiffany Trump has a job in the traditional sense, but the role she has served in American life for the past nine-ish years is that every so often she pops up…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. A lot of leaders are big-picture people who don’t sweat the details. Donald Trump takes the approach to the extreme: He hates details. He has never sweated a detail for a fraction of an…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. This week has demonstrated that the tech “broligarch” who’s most influenced President Donald Trump’s second administration isn’t Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, or Marc Andreessen—it’s Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, the 80-year-old software tycoon who recently…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Anyone who’s tired of centuries of two-party dominance in American politics has probably dreamed of something coming along to shake things up. And earlier this month, when Elon Musk capped weeks of mouthing off…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. How seriously should we should take President Donald Trump’s threat to punish Russia with “very severe tariffs” if Vladimir Putin doesn’t make a deal for peace with Ukraine in 50 days? Here’s a key…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Monday, Tesla lost 6.8 percent of its value when the S&P 500 fell by less than 1 percent on tariff fears—marking the sixth-worst day of the year for the stock. The causes of…
Good Job is Slate’s advice column on work. Have a workplace problem big or small? Send it to Laura Helmuth and Doree Shafrir here. It’s anonymous! Dear Good Job, I’m a guy who works in a place that technically doesn’t have a dress code, but we try to keep things business casual. I want to dress more gender…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Though stationery is traditional, there are many other ways to invite people to something special. On an episode of My Super Sweet 16, the 2000s MTV reality show, one party-thrower memorably invited his guests…