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Justin Peters

New York

Corespodent at Slate

@Slate correspondent, author, improviser, game show loser. Unapologetically off-topic.

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  • 4 days ago | slate.com | Justin Peters

    Skip to the content Strutting Into the Zeitgeist Family Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Aside from her family, which always took precedence, my mother had two great loves in her life: Being a Catholic, and being from Chicago.

  • 6 days ago | slate.com | Justin Peters

    Skip to the content Being Stalked by an Undersea Monster The Media Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Late last month, the New York Times quietly bid farewell to my favorite weekly hate-read. “The Conversation,” as its title implied, was a breezy weekly chat between Times op-ed columnists Gail Collins, a liberal, and Bret Stephens, a Trump-critical conservative.

  • 6 days ago | slate.com | Justin Peters

    Faith-based Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The Catholic Church has a new supreme pontiff—and he’s from the South Side of Chicago. These are words that no reporter alive today ever really expected to be writing. Until very recently, the prospect of an American assuming the throne of St. Peter seemed about as dim as the prospect of a Fox & Friends Weekend host becoming secretary of defense.

  • 6 days ago | yahoo.com | Justin Peters

    Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysSign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The Catholic Church has a new supreme pontiff—and he’s from the South Side of Chicago. These are words that no reporter alive today ever really expected to be writing.

  • 3 weeks ago | slate.com | Justin Peters

    Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. There comes a point in the career of every contemporary Republican politician when they will be forced to do, say, or defend something that is broadly unconscionable. This mandatory inevitable heel turn is the price of conservative political ambition in the Donald Trump era.

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Justin Peters
Justin Peters @justintrevett
9 Sep 24

the “kim carnes & the hate boys” revival starts here https://t.co/4OmSEAZ60E

Justin Peters
Justin Peters @justintrevett
6 Sep 24

Surprised that Tucker Carlson platformed a Holocaust revisionist on his X show? Read my May @Slate assessment of the host's sad post-Fox career to understand why something like this was inevitable: https://t.co/9QGAmOwnKi

Justin Peters
Justin Peters @justintrevett
8 Jun 24

It's sad to realize that not even the patronage of the third-wealthiest man in the world is enough to spare the Washington Post from the business-book buzzword bullshit that's long been responsible for the worst ideas in news. Me in @Slate. https://t.co/HBbtq8OiaT