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Speaker A: Then there started to feel like there was deluge or like, okay, a heavy rain of commentary about gift guides, articles and social media posts and tweets and skeets about why there were so ...

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Stephen Colbert only has 12 shows left before the Colbert Report comes to an end. But he is going out with a bang: Thursday night, he invited his former boss and “voice of the left,” as he calls him, ...

Kanye returns with the modestly titled "God Level." FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/Getty Images Some weeks ago Kanye teamed with Future and released the highly unfortunate "I Won," a grating ode to male ego and ...

Stream Future's highly-anticipated sophomore album, Honest. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella After a series of delays and even a name change (it was previously titled Future Hendrix), ...

Anonymous, the anarchic digital collective known for everything from pranks to online vigilantism, is one of the Internet’s most notorious subcultures. Gabriella Coleman, a cultural anthropologist at ...

NEW ORLEANS—Two thousand-odd Republican activists, candidates and strategists have gathered here for the two and a half day Republican Leadership Conference. (From time to time it's renamed the ...

The Gist has moved! Find new episodes here. Can the right essential oils help relieve stress? Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Eneas De Troya/Flickr Listen to Episode 205 of Slate’s The Gist: ...