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Detroit's Favorite Dish Is Beige, Bland, and Bad at Photos. But There's a Reason It Remains So Beloved. Rose Palazzolo

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The Guy Behind The Big Short and Moneyball Is Back to Take On Elon Musk and DOGE. It's a Roller Coaster. -- Laura Miller

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A Notoriously Bonkers Bestselling Book Is Now an Even Wilder Movie Starring Anne Hathaway. It's Quite the Ride. -- Rebecca Onion

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She Co-Wrote the Longest-Running No. 1 of All Time. Now Will She Finally Get Her Due? -- Carl Wilson

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The "Cornell Seven" Rape Case Has Ignited the Country. Let's Talk About What We're Actually Talking About Here. -- Jill Filipovic

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He Was an Object of Mockery. Now He's Looking Like the Next Brad Pitt. I Think I Know What Changed. -- Isaac Butler

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Michelle Herman -- There's One Name in This World That Takes Me to a Dark Place. My Husband Wants to Use It for Our Daughter.

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Laura Helmuth -- I Know Plenty of Working People Eat Lunch Like This. But This Isn't Right for a Professional Environment.

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true - She Was a College Beach Volleyball Star. Then She Was Abruptly Kicked Off the Team. The Real Threat to Women's Sports May Be to Blame. Maggie Mertens - Republicans have made women's sports a signature issue. What's really happening shows how cynical that is.

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Tom Cruise's New Movie Is a Disaster of Almost Apocalyptic Proportions -- Dana Stevens

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I Stumbled Across My Boyfriend's ChatGPT. It Ended Our Relationship. Lindsey Hall - "I'm just not proud of her."

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Slate Mini Crossword for Oct. 4, 2026 -- Quiara Vasquez

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true - The Supreme Court Just Took What Will Be the Blockbuster Case of the Term - Shirin Ali - On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court accepted what is sure to be the blockbuster case of its 2026–27 term.

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SCOTUS Ignored the Horrors of Lethal Injection. After Christa Pike, Will We Continue to Let Them? -- Amicus

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Our Unpopular President Leads an Unpopular War. Remember What Dems Got the Last Time That Happened? -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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I Research Gender-Based Policing at Cornell. Here's How My Campus Police Should Have Responded to Jane Doe. -- Sabrina Karim

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true - Are the Polls Wrong Again? Or Is the Blue Wave a Blue Tsunami? We Took a Closer Look. Jim Newell

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