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Wednesday, August 19, 2026 1:42 PM ET

Slate - Top Stories

Jenée Desmond-Harris -- My Friend Ignored Every Wedding Invitation I Sent. Now She's Back, and Her "Excuse" Hurts Just as Much.

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Carvell Wallace and Rumaan Alam -- I Read My Son's Texts From His Ex-Girlfriend. Uh-Oh.

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I've Recently Started Clocking This New Habit of Mine. I Bet You're Doing It Too. How Do We Stop? Paola de Varona

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Society Has One Narrative About Motherhood. Hayden Panettiere and Lindsay Clancy Are Showing Us Another Reality. -- Shannon Palus

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The Gen Z Whisperer on How Democrats Can Win the Midterms -- Mary Harris

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I Wish I Could Unsee What I Saw at the Trump Admin's New "Patriotic" Art Exhibit -- Christina Cauterucci

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Mickey Mouse, Welcome to the Resistance -- Nitish Pahwa

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We're Finally Learning How ICE Is Spending Its Unlimited Budget. It's Literally Shocking. Shirin Ali

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The Great Pyramid of Giza Was Constructed as a Tomb for Which Pharaoh? -- Ray Hamel

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Slate Crossword: Times to Undo a Tie? (Three Letters) -- Quiara Vasquez

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Trump Just Dealt a Huge Blow to America's Standing in the World -- Fred Kaplan

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Why Hayden Panettiere's Sudden Death Is So Devastating -- Nadira Goffe

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A Controversial Technology Is Making Me a Worse Writer. No, Not That One. -- Alex Kirshner

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The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits -- Nitish Pahwa

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In the '90s, It Was Still an Essential Way to Connect With People. We've Lost It Entirely. We Shouldn't Have. -- Dan Kois

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how to do it -- I'm a Sex Worker. I Had a Client So Good in Bed That I Want to Do Something Unprofessional.

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dear prudence -- I've Opened Up Our Home to Kids in Need. My Husband Has Some Pretty Unfair Objections.

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pay dirt -- I Have a Wife, Kids, and a Good Life. No One Knows My Deepest Fantasy.

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Jessica Stoya -- I Caught My Husband Doing Something Weird With the Neighbor Across the Way. I'm Speechless.

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Kristin Wong -- I'm So Sick of Hearing the Same Old Complaint From People About Their Savings. They Have No Idea!

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Doree Shafrir -- My Co-Worker's Annoying Habit Is Making My Life Hell

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Why Did Trump Lose It Over Natalie Harp—and Who Is She, Anyway? Unfortunately, I've Learned Too Much. Heather Schwedel

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Anne Hathaway's Nasty Little Dinosaur Movie Is Better Than Any Jurassic Park in Years -- Sam Adams -- The End of Oak Street understands that what makes Spielberg great is often something much nastier than just magic and wonder.

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The Hottest Girl in the Country Is Making Millions Off Us. To Find Out Why, I Did the Unthinkable. -- Scaachi Koul -- There's a common mistake we make in trying to figure her out.

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true - J.D. Vance Is Learning an Important Foreign Policy Lesson the Hard Way - Fred Kaplan - This must have been an embarrassing moment for the vice president.

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Is Tech Dismantling Democracy? -- What Next

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Donald Trump's Trickle-Down Misogyny -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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