World

Defund the police is a perfectly good term.

Photographic illustration of Slate. Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images. As protests over racial inequality and police violence have characterized much of this summer, so have debates about how we speak and write about those issues. In a recent episode of Lexical ValleyJohn McWhorter explored two themes of linguistic …

Read More »

Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans to star in Russo Bros. Gray Man

Four years after Ryan Gosling jazz returned to our hearts La La Land, the hunk returns: According to Deadline, Gosling will lead Joe and Anthony Russo’s adaptation of the spy novel Mark Greaney The gray man. Chris Evans will be a co-star. The film will be Netflix’s most financially ambitious …

Read More »