By Sam Sliman and Nick Gebo This Thanksgiving season, nonviolent drug offenders from across the country looked on as President Biden pardoned two lucky turkeys, saving them from a tasty demise. The turkeys, named “Chocolate” and “Chip,” were pardoned “based on their temperament and commitment to being productive members of...
By Megan McGrath We at The Slant are fans of the popular Reddit thread r/AITA (Am I the Asshole) because we get to pass judgment onto walking psychopaths with a worse sense of accountability than that guy in your Calc II class with seven Title IX violations—a favorite pastime. Today...
I’ve always hated being asked what I want to do with my life, because you think you can just say “I’m thinking about going to law school” and people will just assume you’re selling your soul to big law and leave you alone. But no, there’s always the follow up...
By Slant Staff I’m not Catholic, but I’ll try anything once. I like to call it the broccoli hypothesis. I think I read it on some fucked up reddit thread somewhere. It says that one should always try something to have an opinion on it. In the same way that...
My name is Khan Trovershall, and I don’t really follow politics. Here’s the thing—I just don’t like to get involved in such divisive topics because at the end of the day, everyone’s upset and no one wants to listen to the new Kanye album. Politics is the reason that during...
