The $20,000 American-Made Electric Pickup With No Paint, No Stereo, and No Touchscreen Transpo /Cars /Electric Cars

The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen

Is the market ready for a four-wheeled digital detox?

by Tim Stevens

Apr 25, 2025, 2:20 AM UTCLinkFacebookThreadsThe Slate Truck is an electric two-seater with 150 miles of range and no stereo. | Image: Slate AutoTranspo /Cars /Electric Cars

The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen

Is the market ready for a four-wheeled digital detox?

by Tim Stevens

Apr 25, 2025, 2:20 AM UTCLinkFacebookThreads

Ask just about anybody, and they’ll tell you that new cars are too expensive. Changing that overly spendy status quo is going to take something radical, and it’s hard to get more radical than what Slate Auto has planned.

Meet the Slate Truck, a sub-$20,000 (after federal incentives) electric vehicle that enters production next year. In the wake of tariffs shaking the auto industry and with the Trump administration pledging to kill the federal EV incentive, that situation isn’t looking to get better soon, especially for anyone wanting something battery-powered. Read more about it here.

The Grateful Dead’s New Album Didn’t Just Sell Well — It Sold Out In One Week BusinessHollywood & Entertainment

The Grateful Dead’s New Album Didn’t Just Sell Well — It Sold Out In One Week

ByHugh McIntyre,

Senior Contributor.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Every year, the jam outfit lands new wins across multiple tallies, thanks to a bursting archive that just keeps delivering and a fan base that’s arguably as passionate now as it was at the peak of the group’s touring days.

This time around, the band returns with yet another live recording that proves just how potent its catalog remains. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

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The Grateful Dead’s Beacon Theatre, New York, NY, June 14, 1976 debuts on Billboard’s Vinyl Albums … Read more about it here.

How Michael Jordan Made $300 Million in 2024 Michael Jordan hung up his high tops for good more than two decades ago but still earns more than any athlete on the planet. Illustration by Lorenzo Gordon

His 2024 haul pushed his career earnings to $3 billion, or $4.15 billion when adjusted for inflation and highest all-time among athletes before accounting for taxes, expenses and investment gains.

Terms of Jordan’s Nike contract have never been revealed. The club paid him $92 million over 14 years—he also made $2 million during his final two seasons in Washington—but it was almost always Nike that represented the biggest line item on his annual tax return.

After three years at UNC, Jordan was the third pick in the 1984 NBA Draft and was paid $555,000 by the Bulls during his rookie season. Read more about it here.

The Best Time to Eat Breakfast? It’s Not Right When You Wake Up

The Best Time to Eat Breakfast? You’ve already got some energy in the system.”

The problem with traditional, carb-heavy breakfast foods, like cereal, toast and pastries, is that they give you “a lovely glucose spike that fuels your cells, and then you have a corresponding crash,” says Aujla. “You’re hungry [again] by mid-morning, and need coffee and other stimulants to keep yourself focused and up and running until lunchtime.” Instead, he recommends a meal high in protein and fiber—partly because we often generally skimp on protein, which we need for “longevity,” and partly because protein and fiber keep us energetic and satiated through the morning.

Aujla has a few go-to breakfasts along these lines. During the week, he relies on overnight oats that go easy on the actual oats. “I have two tablespoons of oats, two tablespoons of milled flax seed, one tablespoon of chia and one tablespoon of hemp seeds,” he says. “Then I’ll add grated apple, some pumpkin seeds, a bit of protein powder, and then water or coconut milk or whatever. Read more about it here.

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This week, I’m 90% offline because I’m on my honeymoon. Instead of going dark, I handed the keys to Feed Me over to a few friends, kind of like when Johnny Carson would let Frank Sinatra fill in for him. The newsletters and comments will be available to all readers this week.

What’s up, Feed Me Readers. Read more about it here.

The Nikola Jokić problem: Why we will never fully explain his brilliance This article discusses nikola joki problem. Read more about it here.

Two-way contracts in college basketball? One mid-major coach’s bold idea to adapt to transfer portal chaos By Matt Norlander Apr 23, 2025 at 3:15 pm ET • 5 min read Getty Images

The transfer portal deadline hit at midnight ET Wednesday, ending the liveliest and most congested transfer cycle in college basketball history. In an effort to be creative in the ever-changing landscape of college sports, Killings is trying to improve his team while also using a moneyball-type approach to bring a little more stability to power-conference programs, in addition to his own.

Developing players to return to power-conference teams

Here’s the idea: Many high-major schools wind up with players that, for whatever reasons, aren’t prepared to play at that level when they get there. (Sometimes, the player and the coaching staff only realize this after the fact.) Instead of sticking around for four years to develop, most of these players now leave after one season if things don’t go the way they hoped. 

The self-aware guys who bounce typically transfer down to a level much more suited to their skill sets. Well, instead of doing what many other coaches have been doing — contributing to therapy-session text chains daily or making grousing phone calls to fellow coaches for the past month — Albany coach Dwayne Killings has been brainstorming one potential workaround: two-way contracts.

Well, sort of. 

Isaac Trotter

Similar to two-way deals in the pros, with players fluctuating between G League and NBA rosters, Killings wants to turn his America East program into a developmental system for high-majors. Read more about it here.

Wrangler’s $50 Jeans Are the Best in the Butt Business Style

Wrangler’s $50 Jeans Are the Best in the Butt Business

Published April 23, 2025NYT Wirecutter

By Alexander Aciman

Alexander Aciman is an editor who has written about pasta-making, running gear, and Wirecutter picks he has spotted on TV shows.

Picture this: Don Draper stands at the head of a boardroom amid a cloud of cigar smoke. Because whatever you may think of the fit, or the comfort, or the decidedly and unapologetically straight-leggedness of Wrangler’s flagship pants, one thing is undeniable: They flatter the very anatomical feature that men’s jeans have spent decades trying to hide.

The Wrangler brand found its way into the wardrobes of many of the 20th century’s greatest icons, from Martin Luther King Jr. and Paul Newman to Freddie Mercury and John Lennon. He waits in silence for a moment, scans the room, and finally he speaks.

“Wrangler butts,” he says. “They drive you nuts.”

Or at least this is how I imagine the original pitch went for Wrangler’s Cowboy Cut Jeans when they were first introduced, in 1947. Read more about it here.

The Beauty of the Bean Bag

The Beauty of the Bean Bag

Written by Jake Silbert2 days ago in Stylell bean

Every few years, culture rediscovers the L.L.Bean tote bag, officially (and adorably) named the Boat 'n Tote. Every time it does, I say good: L.L.Bean's signature bag is probably the single greatest tote bag ever created.

L.L.Bean's tote so good that over 80 years after it was conceived as a method of lugging around ice blocks, we're still discussing its relevance while new generations come around to its simple brilliance.

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Anecdotally, I've been witnessing a real Bean Bag boom here in New York. Perhaps due to impressively overt ongoing demand for the derivative Trader Joe's tote, L.L.Bean's Boat 'n Tote is riding a wave.

Years after that whole Balenciaga Bean Bag situation, young people are still customizing their Boat 'n Totes with personalized embroidery — a service offered in-house by L.L.Bean — secondhand shops are slinging vintage editions, and the overt homages roll out en masse season after season, varying in form from paean to parody. Read more about it here.

Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen: The Freestylist

Magnus Carlsen strolls across the parking lot of Millerntor Stadium in Hamburg as the journalists scurry into hiding. No questions are allowed.

DER SPIEGEL 16/2025

The article you are reading originally appeared in German in issue 16/2025 (April 12th, 2025) of DER SPIEGEL.

SPIEGEL International

This Monday in mid-January marks the first time that the world’s top-ranked player has competed for FC St. As if the superstar of the chess world were a skittish doe that would take flight at the slightest rustle.

Carlsen has been promised that no journalists will be on site, say the organizers of a meet and greet. Read more about it here.