Susan Matthews
Slate
Charlottesville, VA, United States
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What Will John Fetterman Wear to Tonight’s Debate?
Almost all known pictures of this man feature a hoodie. → Read More
Is Taylor Swift’s Midnights Great or Cringe? Four Generations of Fans Debate.
A Gen Xer, a Millennial, a Zillennial, and a 10-year-old discuss where the singer’s new album ranks. → Read More
The Most Absurd “Solution” to America’s Assault on Women
Even if the Equal Rights Amendment were somehow ratified today, this Supreme Court wouldn't care. → Read More
It’s Been a Ghoulish Week for Men
What the Try Guy, Adam Levine, and Anthony Bourdain have in common. → Read More
Why Joe Biden Was Wrong to Declare the Pandemic “Over”—and Why He Was Right
A Slate debate. → Read More
House of the Dragon’s Huge Success on HBO Raises a Vexing Question
The ratings keep climbing. My self-respect does not. → Read More
The Worst Part About the “Unlikely” Story of a 10-Year-Old Who Needed an Abortion in Ohio
The post-Dobbs world is here—and some aren’t ready to face it. → Read More
The Fundamental Lesson of This Roe Decision
This is not about the Constitution. → Read More
Before Roe, Two Women Changed the Debate About Abortion Forever. We Only Remember One.
Introducing Slow Burn, Season 7. → Read More
Why Alito Can’t Find the Right to Abortion in the Constitution
The justice ignores who the Constitution was written by and for. → Read More
We Didn’t Need a Racially Diverse Sex and the City
We discuss what we’re dreading about And Just Like That. → Read More
The Exact Wrong Thing to Do About Omicron
We keep learning this lesson about the virus again, and again. → Read More
Below Deck’s Chef Rachel, of “Eat My Cooter” Fame, Tells Us What the Show—and Yachting—Is Really Like
Hargrove joins The Waves to dish on the last season, the yachting industry, and the pressures of being a chef. → Read More
The Miami Building Collapse Is a Warning
Waiting to trace the exact lines of causation misses the point. → Read More
How a Controversy Over (Alleged) Dinners at Amy Chua’s House Caused a Meltdown at Yale Law
One half of a notorious Yale power couple finds herself at the center of a school scandal again. → Read More
I Got the J&J Vaccine 8 Days Ago. Here’s What I’m Actually Worried About.
The kind of “pause” that has been instated as is actually pretty normal. → Read More
Goodbye, Donald Trump
He can’t go back up the escalator. → Read More
It’s Almost Over. That’s the Problem.
What most Americans are waiting for is what Trump supporters find intolerable. → Read More
Is Climate Change Happening? The SCOTUS Nominee Can’t Say.
Kamala Harris asked Amy Coney Barrett three simple questions. → Read More
What the President Has Never Understood About COVID Testing
The president's protective bubble was always an illusion. → Read More