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One of the Most Popular Social Media Apps Just Made a Baffling Change - Steffi Cao

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A Beloved Artifact From My Teens Has Been Reissued for Gen Z. These Poor Kids Have No Idea What They're In For. -- Rebecca Onion

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Is Your Weather App Awful? It Might Be Your Fault. -- Nitish Pahwa

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True Crime Conspiracists Have Homed In On Patrick Clancy. I Can't Believe What I'm About to Say. -- Scaachi Koul

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The Real Reason Many Americans Are Cutting Ties With Their Parents and Siblings -- Rin Reczek

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One Number Is Keeping Trump's Team Up at Night. You Should Be Worried About It Too. -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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A Streamer Predicted He Could Kill a Black Person and Get Away With It. Thousands Watched. When He Shot Someone, the Real Story Began. -- Charlie Cy

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Slate Mini Crossword for Aug. 21, 2026 - Dan Kois

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The Issue That Could Cost Democrats a Senate Seat in Michigan -- Ben Jacobs

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Fifty Years Ago, Tucker Carlson's Dad Ignited an Obsession That Plagues the Right to This Day. Will It Ever End? -- Julie Kliegman

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Getting Concert Tickets Has Become a Bloodbath. Now Another Leisure Activity Is Joining the Club. -- Nadira Goffe

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I'm a Paleontology Nerd. Anne Hathaway's New Movie Gives Us Some Real Dinosaur Boners—Sometimes Literally. -- Riley Black

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HBO's Great New Sunday Night Show Is the Spiritual Successor to Watchmen -- Sam Adams

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true - care and feeding - Other Parents Keep Giving Me the Stink Eye. This Really Isn't Fair.

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care and feeding -- 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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Jenée Desmond-Harris - I Found Out I Had Two Secret Siblings. Now I Have Advice for Anyone Facing the Same Discovery.

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Jessica Stoya and Rich Juzwiak -- I Told My Husband the Spicy Surprise I Want to Get Him for His Birthday. He Was Skeptical—Then Realized I Was Serious.

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A.J. Daulerio -- My Kid Messed Around and Found Out. My Wife Wants to Blame Someone.

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Athena Valentine and Lillian Karabaic -- I Spent $1,000 on a Weekend With a Friend I Don't Even Like. Now I'd Like to Ask Her an Awkward Question.

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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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The Most Popular Beatles Song Wasn't Written by John or Paul -- Hit Parade

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Why You Need to Start Friction-Maxxing -- ICYMI

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

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Tech Oligarchs Have a Certain Future in Mind. It Completely Misunderstands How the World Works. -- Laura Miller

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true - Donald Trump Has Finally Wielded His Presidential Power for Good - Christina Cauterucci - RIP to one of air travel's most cursed features.

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Can the Midterms Withstand Prediction Markets? What Next: TBD

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Mickey Mouse, Welcome to the Resistance -- Nitish Pahwa

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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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Society Has One Narrative About Motherhood. Hayden Panettiere and Lindsay Clancy Are Showing Us Another Reality. -- Shannon Palus -- What will we learn from our summer of complicated mothers?

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Slate Pears Game 372: Aug. 21, 2026

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Slate Crossword: They Let You Get Up Close and Personal With Kids, Typically? (11 Letters) -- Quiara Vasquez

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Slate SoundBites for August 21, 2026 -- Jenny Fey

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true - Harry and Meghan Are Returning to the U.K. The Timing Couldn't Be Darker. Imogen West-Knights

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true - So About That Iranian Cyberattack on Our Water Supply - Scott Pilutik - It's only the most essential component of human life.

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Think You're Smarter Than Slate's VP of Brand and Communications? Find Out With This Week's News Quiz. -- Ray Hamel

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A Grab Bag Episode, With Questions Ranging from Serious to Silly -- Political Gabfest

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The Latest Conservative Cause Célèbre Is an Absolute Nightmare -- Mary Ziegler

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The New Madrid Fault Line Lies in the Middle of Which Continent? -- Ray Hamel

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Trump Can't Stop, Won't Stop (Undermining the 2026 Elections) -- Shirin Ali

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true - We've Replaced School Security With the Creepiest Possible System - Nicholas E. Stewart

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