Tony Ho Tran

1 month ago | slate.com | Tony Ho Tran

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his office said in a statement on Sunday. The diagnosis occurred last week, following a urinary screening that revealed a small nodule in his prostate, which revealed the aggressive Stage 4 prostate cancer, according to the statement.

Mar 26, 2025 | slate.com | Tony Ho Tran

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Henry Reider talks like his words can’t keep up his thoughts. It makes sense. English is his third language after Krio and Mende—all of which are spoken in his native Sierra Leone. Reider is also a creative, whose mind dances between anything from his university studies to his YouTube channel, or to whatever it is he’s talking about at the time.

Jan 20, 2025 | slate.com | Tony Ho Tran

This is part of Hello, Trumpworld, Slate’s reluctant guide to the people who will be calling the shots now—at least for as long as they last in Washington. Elon Musk wasn’t always like this. Years ago, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO was a liberal—or at least, he branded himself as one. He was an innovator, an idealist, and someone who wanted to literally jettison humanity from its earthly cradle into a more progressive future. He believed in global existential threats, like climate change.

Nov 13, 2024 | slate.com | Tony Ho Tran

Users I still don’t know what I did wrong. Only a few short weeks after we carried the luscious green plant into our new home, its protruding branches and leaves started to shrivel. Killing this living thing—an expensive “new home” gift to ourselves—still fills my partner and me with shame.

Oct 24, 2024 | slate.com | Tony Ho Tran

It’s a good way to spend a Saturday morning—if, admittedly, a strange one. I wake up and pack a tote bag with leather gardening gloves, a water bottle, a towel, and headphones. Then I drive to one of Chicago’s 272 cemeteries and spend hours taking pictures of the dead. I do this once a month or so.