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On Monday, outgoing President Donald Trump announced that Attorney General William Barr would be leaving the administration on Dec. 23, as the pair paid glowing tribute to one another despite a weeks-long falling out over Barr’s apparent reluctance to take part in Trump’s effort to overturn the election. “Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House. Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job! As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family,” Trump announced on Twitter. �...

for the full episode. Earlier this fall, A.I. ethicist Timnit Gebru submitted a paper for consideration at an academic conference about predictive language models: on their environmental cost, and how they could learn racist and sexist language and also spread misinformation. Since she was working for Google, the company first wanted to review the paper—which Gebru wrote with several of her colleagues—and sign off on it. She was then told by senior managers that the paper didn’t meet Google’s publication bar, and that she should retract it or remove the names of Google employees. G...

Dear Care and Feeding, My husband and I have different ideas about how many gifts to buy for our kids for Christmas. I’d prefer to keep things small; he wants to go big. I’d be happy to compromise, except that his entire extended family—his numerous sisters, parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles—also give our kids a ton of presents, and we just don’t have the room in our small house for so much stuff. Since I can’t really ask the relatives to scale back, I think we need to be more conservative. I like to get most of my shopping done right after Thanksgiving so I don’t have to...

Dear Prudence, I’m a college student who’s a little chubby and doesn’t have perfect skin, but I’m able to look in the mirror and smile. Unfortunately, my mother doesn’t feel the same way about me. When I became a teenager she started telling me about the benefits of plastic surgery. I simply don’t want to do it. I have tried explaining this, from polite statements, to tantrums, to cold indifference, with no effect. Once, when I was in high school, she told me she wanted me to come with her to visit my grandmother, but she pulled up to a plastic surgeon’s office, where it turned ...

A daily email update of the stories you need to read right now. We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again. Please enable javascript to use form. Email address: Send me updates about Slate special offers. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms. Sign Up DC: Proud Boys pull a “Black Lives Matter” poster off a progressive church building Throw it over the fence and rip it a part. A woman yells that they “should burn it” Advertisement Video posted on social media shows the group tearing down t...