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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

In his confirmation hearing for FBI director on Thursday, Kash Patel presented himself as a man of experience, fairness, and ...

However, if we’re getting technical, Gomez probably still doesn’t actually have a billion dollars in cash to dole out at her ...

In fact, you could say that Vanna had gracefully embraced her senioritis era. The woman never held the heftiest job in show ...

Trump briefly raised the idea of buying Greenland in his first term and expressed shock—even calling off a planned visit to ...