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 ...

The Bee Gees performing on NBC's The Midnight Special in 1973. NBC Television Listen to Episode 16 of Slate’s Hit Parade: Listen to Hit Parade via Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or ...

Listen to Hit Parade No. 5 with the audio player below. Ever since the ’60s, the recording industry emphasized the album over the single. By the ’80s, they were milking as many hits as possible from ...

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 ...

The Washington Post has obtained an extremely crass recording, above, on which Donald Trump converses with Access Hollywood host Billy Bush about women aboard a bus on the set of Days of Our Lives.

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 ...

Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade, andLeBron James at the 2016 ESPY Awards. ABC/ESPN The ESPY Awards began on a somber note Wednesday* evening as NBA players Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Dwyane ...

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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