You can start your day with a joke in one Midwestern neighborhood. There are a lot of laughs in Pappillon, Nebraska, which is about 20 minutes outside of Omaha, and they are all thanks to Diane Allred ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

Pamela Jones reveals her life in a fundamentalist Mormon sect in Mexico, where her father had 57 children and her ex-husband ...