On this day in 1995, Astronaut Eileen Collins, a former flight instructor and test pilot, becomes the first woman to pilot ...

Like the border wall, building a detention center for migrants in Guantanamo Bay is nothing new. The scale, though, is frighteningly new.

Now my son is grown and he is a wonderful person. I’m married, and we have been successful enough that I’m about to step back from my career to pursue some personal projects. Val never married and ...

Ever since I first played Elizabeth Hargrave’s revolutionary board game Wingspan, I’ve been wondering: What comes next? When I profiled Hargrave in 2021, she told me she was batting around several ...

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Whatever its motivations, the 5th Circuit’s opinion has little to do with the reality of gun violence with which all ...

Although trans people account for less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, they were the subject of hateful rhetoric and ...

Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Delia Cai is filling in as Prudie for Jenée Desmond-Harris while she’s on parental ...

I’m torn with this information since I know this would break my brother’s heart. He’s raised her since she was born, she’s under 6, and we love her! I’m also afraid of the fallout in the future, ...

These diseases had once been extraordinary rarities. When HIV hit, they were everywhere. I remember how I blew up gloves into balloons to distract the kids, so small and polite, their hair neatly ...

I was overjoyed to see him finally fitting in. I gushed at him about it repeatedly, trying to reinforce the behavior until he ...

Musk had Trump fire the FAA leader as soon as he got into office, because the FAA leader had investigated and fined one of ...