Best Jobs at the Olympics: Shaun White at the Milan Cortina Opening Ceremony

As Shaun White, veteran of five Winter Olympics and three-time snowboarding gold medalist, you will chime in periodically during the “parade of nations” segment of the Milan Cortina opening ceremony.

My Daughter’s Teacher Is Processing Something Big in the Classroom. He Needs to Stop.

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Olympics Jerk Watch: The Snowboarder Who Puts the “Extreme” in “Extremely Wanted Fugitive”

The Olympic Games are back. Hooray! Also back, therefore, is Slate’s long-running Olympics Jerk Watch, in which I apply ...

A Guide to the Epstein Files if You, Like Me, Just Need to Know What Timothée Chalamet Is Doing in There

But the files also contain a lot of miscellaneous information that is not so much as important as it is interesting —I’m ...

Help! We Just Dodged an Obvious Scam Call. But One Thing the Scammer Said Has Us Extremely Worried.

A few days ago, I answered a phone call for my husband, “David.” It was an obvious scam—the caller said they were from an ...

My Son Has Discovered a New Beloved Hobby. But My Mother-in-Law Has Some “Warnings.”

My mother-in-law, “Karina,” is less than enthusiastic about this (to put it mildly) and has been telling us that Caleb will ...

The Unlikely Hit That’s Popularizing a Whole New Type of Novel

If that sounds extremely and alienatingly geeky to you, consider the testimony of New York Times reader Janiece Mulia, who ...