Help! My Roommate Has a Big Following Online. She’s Using It to Blackmail Me.
Then she threatened to put me on blast on social media if I brought it up again. Tiffany has a decent following online, and I ...
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My Grandmother Only Just Passed, and Now My Wife Wants to Radically Change Her Most Beloved Family Tradition
Every year, my family gets together for a big festive meal to celebrate New Year’s. This year, assuming no last-minute ...
My New Husband Can’t Keep His Hands Off Me. I Never Imagined That Would Be a Bad Thing.
My partner and I have been together for five years, living together for four, and are newly married. Since we’ve been married ...
The Problem With Wicked
Thankfully, my Wicked audience was very well behaved. No singing along with Cynthia and Ariana, no dancing, and no pictures ...
If I Could Make Everyone See One Movie This Year, It’d Be This
In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2024, Bilge Ebiri, K. Austin Collins, ...
I’ve Never Gotten a Woman Off With This Basic Technique. I’ve Failed as a Man.
I have never been able to give any woman an orgasm with my penis. I can give orgasms via oral every time but I feel ...
A Detailed Review of the Sex Scenes in
In Sex Reviews, writers offer a sober critical assessment of the sex scenes in new films and television series. This installment contains spoilers for Babygirl.
My Mom Gave Me Terribly Cheap Christmas Gifts. When I Found Out Why, I Let Her Have It.
My mom is a big gift-giver. She’s always loved getting me and my siblings a lot during Christmas. She retired a few years ago ...
Help! I Cannot Stand Christmas With My In-Laws—and I Want to Hide the Truth.
Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Delia Cai is filling in as Prudie for Jenée Desmond-Harris while she’s on parental ...
Sour Grapes
Concord grapes are rarely seen in grocery stores, but even if you’re not familiar with the name, you definitely know the ...
A Newly Declassified Memo Sheds Light on America’s Post-Cold War Mistakes
The newly discovered memo, written in March 1994 by Wayne Merry, chief of the U.S. Embassy’s internal politics division at ...
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We Just Got a Taste of What Elon Musk Will Do When Trump’s in Office
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, which does not know whether the government will be open or shut down when you read this newsletter. It will be an early Christmas surprise!