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We’ve passed 300,000 deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States. It is hard to know what to say about this scale of death, given that we’ve passed hundred-thousand body-count milestones twice before. And we may reach another before the pandemic ends. In the absence of something to say, we’ve collected some of the writing on death due to COVID-19 that Slate has published throughout the pandemic. A round number isn’t much different from what we’ve been experiencing for months now, after all. Humans tend to experience death individually, so even though it’s happening on a mass scale...

Jenkins goes all-in on the ‘80s, a decade that was very all-in on itself. The bright, shiny production is deeply attentive to that sense of time and place, which is especially satisfying in a genre that can often feel vague in that regard (Jenkins’ previous film being a notable exception). Advertisement Peter Debruge, Variety: For nearly two hours of its 151-minute runtime, “Wonder Woman 1984” accomplishes what we look to Hollywood tentpoles to do: It whisks us away from our worries, erasing them with pure escapism. … Jenkins, production designer Aline Bonetto and costumer Lindy He...

Dear Prudence is online weekly to chat live with readers. Here’s an edited transcript of this week’s chat. Danny Lavery: I’m here, I’m upright, I’m doing my best. Let’s see what we can do with that. Q. Childish attachment: I’m a man in my 30s and have been married to my wife for six years. During that time, we have had a very painful journey in trying to have a child. Our first daughter was stillborn and our second lived for only six hours before also passing away. My wife then had a miscarriage during the third pregnancy. She decided she wanted to stop trying to have a biologi...

This homebound year has led to a boom in interior decorating, thanks to the extraordinary amount of time we’ve all had to contemplate, scrutinize, and loathe our immediate surroundings. For me, this energy went right in the trash. I mean literally. I’m changing the way I throw things out. I’m using a smaller garbage bag. The problem, speaking as someone who has spent the pandemic sharing a kitchen with one person or no one at all, is that it takes a small household a long time to fill up a family-size garbage can. Even when you’re cooking three meals a day. Some people, grotesquely, t...

Two weeks ago, we learned that Donald Trump has had discussions with his advisers about granting preemptive pardons to his adult children, Jared Kushner, and Rudy Giuliani, and that he was in talks with Giuliani about the possibility of a pardon as recently as late last month. The exact scope of these pardons was unclear, given that there is no public information about the actual crimes for which any of these individuals would theoretically need to be pardoned. It was proactive pardoning, pardoning just in case things head south. Advertisement One week ago, having been hospitalized with the c...