Dan Kois
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 10
- Latest publication
- Sep 14, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Slate Magazine
- Top 50K sites
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- Jul 8, 2026
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The Smartphone Era Has Robbed Us of Some of Life’s Biggest Joys. Here’s How to Get Them Back. (opens the original)
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Welcome to Party Like It’s 1996, a six-week time-travel challenge to help you rediscover the lost art of hanging out. This is the final challenge in the series, but you can sign up here to go back and receive the full series in your inbox from the beginning. Reader! Have you heard? The New York Times is running stories about mix tapes! MapQuest is popular again! 1990s fever is sweeping the nation. For the past five weeks, we’ve been exploring a bygone era together, time-traveling to the lo-fi 19
This Kind of Spontaneous Communal Experience Used to Be the Building Block of Friendship (opens the original)
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Welcome to Party Like It’s 1996, a six-week time-travel challenge to help you rediscover the lost art of hanging out. This is Challenge No. 5, but you can sign up here to get this series in your inbox from the beginning. Whew! Hot enough for you? In 1996, the global surface temperature was roughly 1.6 degrees cooler than it is now!!!!! Anyway, for more than a month we’ve been experimenting with ways to give our dystopian modern existences a little chilly 20th-century flair. Last week, you spent
In the ’90s, This One Thing Made Nights In Feel More Special. We Can Get It Back. (opens the original)
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Welcome to Party Like It’s 1996, a six-week time-travel challenge to help you rediscover the lost art of hanging out. This is Challenge No. 4, but you can sign up here to get this series in your inbox from the beginning. Been a long time since I rapped at ya. Welcome back to Party Like It’s 1996, your journey to pre-millennium times, when the khakis were baggy, the computers were buggy, and a street cellphone call was the lowest phone call you could make. I want you to pat yourself on the back f
My Millennial Editor Thinks This Is the Most Harrowing Challenge of All. We Used to Do It All the Time. (opens the original)
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Welcome to Party Like It’s 1996, a six-week time-travel challenge to help you rediscover the lost art of hanging out. This is Challenge No. 3, but you can sign up here to get this series in your inbox from the beginning. Hey! I was just in the neighborhood. Whatcha up to? Last week, in our continuing series Party Like It’s 1996, I challenged you to spend some time reaching out to friends and family using non-emoji-based technology. It seems like it made a real impact on many of you! Reader Taryn
In the ’90s, It Was Still an Essential Way to Connect With People. We’ve Lost It Entirely. We Shouldn’t Have. (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Welcome to Party Like It’s 1996, a six-week time-travel challenge to help you rediscover the lost art of hanging out. Sign up here to get this series in your inbox. Welcome back to Party Like It’s 1996, Slate’s newsletter challenge for 1990s wannabes. (If you missed the first installments of this series, go back and catch up starting here). Last week I asked you to spend a
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