Recipe for Disaster is Slate’s column about what recipes get wrong—and how to fix them. If you’ve noticed a recipe annoyance, absurdity, or outright lie, file your complaint here and we will ...

Last week, in a conversation with Anthropic’s Claude, I lamented the fact that, at least here in the West, every public debate appears to resemble a confrontation rather than a dialogue. I suggested ...

On September 3rd, Beijing’s Tiananmen Square once again became the world’s eye-popping focus. A grand military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of China’s victory in the War of Resistance ...