The Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino, left, and Binion's Gambling Hall & Hotel in Las Vegas Photograph by Ethan Miller/Getty Images. This article arises from Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, the New ...

Women and people of color have viewed controlling their health as a corrective to the failures of a white, patriarchal system. Photo illustration by Slate. Images via K. Kendall/Wikimedia Commons; ...

Wikimedia Commons/White House Historical Association It’s a familiar chapter in our history, part of the triumphant narrative of westward expansion: In 1803, the United States bought a massive chunk ...

George Saunders’ Tenth of December, his fourth short story collection, was published to much fanfare in 2013. The centerpiece of the ballyhoo was a New York Times Magazine profile pronouncing it “the ...

Jesse Jackson at an event honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., in 1983. Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos Jesse Jackson first ran for president during the national ...

Donald Trump gives a fist-pump to the ground crew as he arrives on his plane in St. Augustine, Florida, on Oct. 24. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Read Franklin Foer's follow-up story for new statements from ...

Ginkgo tree–lined at Hikarigaoka Park in Tokyo. Hiro1775/Thinkstock This story was adapted from an episode of New Hampshire Public Radio’s podcast Outside/In. Listen to it here: Each autumn, ...

In 1996, the New Yorker published “Hating Hillary,” Henry Louis Gates’ reported piece on the widespread animosity for the then–first lady. “Like horse-racing, Hillary-hating has become one of those ...

When Josephine Anderson, a formerly enslaved Floridian, was visited by a white government interviewer in the fall of 1937, she told him a ghost story. Anderson described to Jules Frost a “white man” ...

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Student presentations at Ke Kula ‘o ‘Ehunuikaimalino School. Alexandria Neason HILO, Hawai‘i—When Herring Kekaulike Kalua was a child growing up on Hawai‘i’s Big Island, his parents spoke mostly in ...

A few months ago, I began making my way through the complete set of Emily Dickinson's 1,789 poems. Right from the start, I was struck by how often commonplace plants and animals—robins, bumblebees, ...