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Netflix’s David Beckham Documentary Was a Sensation. Does Its Follow-Up Bring the Spice?

There was Posh, of course, the Gucci-clad yet always grumpy member of the Spice Girls, and to some, its weakest singer. (She ...

Brett Kavanaugh Is Leading the Supreme Court’s Embrace of Alternative Facts

It is striking that many early-stage SCOTUS orders have either reversed or supplanted factual findings of lower courts.

This Part of Parenting Comes With a Cost. And I’m Really Starting to Feel It.

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and ...

Help! My Wife Constantly Lets Her Grandkids Invade Our Private Time. This Has to Stop.

Each week, exclusively for Slate Plus members, Prudie discusses a new letter with a fellow Slate colleague. Have a question ...

My Mother-in-Law Says the Way I Read Books to My Baby Is Harmful

My in-laws and I disagree on our approach to reading children’s books to my infant. I fully embrace the whimsy of magic and ...

Dear Jurisprudence: I Thought Lawyers Weren’t Allowed to Lie in Court?

There’s a little something called the McDade Amendment, passed in 1998, that actually requires federal government lawyers to follow both the ethics rule of the state where they’re licensed to practice ...

Slate’s Mistakes for the Week of Oct. 6

In an Oct. 7 Music, Stephanie Burt misdescribed the scarf in Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” as red. Although it is red in the music video, in the lyrics it’s never given a color.