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It Was One of the Most Surreal Moments in Oscars History. It's Often Still Misunderstood. -- Jamie Fisher

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KBJ Warns of "Kafkaesque Nightmare" After Pro-Trump Supreme Court Ruling on Mail Voting. We'll Know Soon Enough. -- Richard L. Hasen

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More and More Women Are Opening Up About Something That Used to Be Shameful. I Wish They'd Kept It All Secret. -- Christina Cauterucci

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My Millennial Editor Thinks This Is the Most Harrowing Challenge of All. We Used to Do It All the Time. -- Dan Kois

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Michael Cohen Flip-Flopped on Trump. Here's Why It Matters. -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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Twenty Years Ago, She Drowned Her Five Kids. What Came After Will Disappoint You. I Fear History Is Doomed to Repeat Itself. -- Rebecca Onion

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Slate Mini Crossword for Aug. 25, 2026 -- Kavin Pawittranon

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They're Cute. They're Cuddly. They're Everyone's Favorite Workplace Perk. They're Also the Engines of Pure, Unadulterated Office Hell. -- Alison Green

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Think You Know More About the '90s Than Our Resident Gen Xer? As If! -- Ray Hamel

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Slate 1990s Crossword: Beanie Babies or Hummel Figurines, e.g. (15 Letters) -- Quiara Vasquez

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Slate SoundBites Special 1990s Edition -- Jenny Fey

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Rich Juzwiak -- My Wife Told Me She Has Only Had Sex With One Other Person. Then She Told Me Her Definition of "Sex."

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Jamilah Lemieux and Michelle Herman -- I Have a Hard Rule About the Men I Date and My Daughter. I'm Scared It Could Backfire.

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Ilyce Glink -- My Friend Is Barely Hanging on Financially. She Doesn't See the Crisis That's Coming Down the Line.

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Laura Helmuth -- I Work Part-Time at the Community Pool. Some Parents Have Accused Me of Something Wild.

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I Just Got Home From a Trip With 12 People. It Would Have Been Unbearable Were It Not for a Simple, Underrated Solution. Luke Winkie - Go to Paris with a gaggle of people. Stay separately. See them twice.

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