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Slate - Top Stories

How Bitcoin Became an Emotional Tether for a Specific Type of Lost Boy - Nathaniel Moore

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The New Movie That Finally Cracks Cinema's Most Maligned Genre -- Sam Adams

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America Hates A.I. Donald Trump Loves It. What Is Going On Here? -- Jim Newell

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He's a Controversial Titan of "Wellness." I Read All 540 Pages of His New Book. Let Me Tell You the Maddening Truth. -- Rebecca Onion

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A Promising Young TV Star Was Sentenced to 92 Years for a Brutal Crime He Says He Didn't Commit. Then a Prison Guard Delivered a Life-Changing Message. -- Wes Ferguson

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The Sydney Sweeney Football Boob Ad Sexualizes Sydney Sweeney -- Heather Schwedel

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Slate Crossword: Working Pretty Dam Hard? -- Nancy Serrano-Wu

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Slate Mini Crossword -- Quiara Vasquez

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Every Few Weeks, My Wife and I Have Sex. I'm Worried How We Do It Might Be Breaking the Law. -- Rich Juzwiak

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They're the Greatest Political Villains in America. Trump Can't Stop Talking About Them. I Went Into Their Shadowy Lair. -- Alexander Sammon

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A Congressional Candidate Accidentally Perfected Something Unexpected: The Totally-Fine-Kinda-Charming Sex "Scandal" -- Christina Cauterucci

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The Jewish Leaders Celebrating Macklemore's Dismissal From Ed Sheeran's Tour Have Lost the Plot on Antisemitism -- Alex Kirshner

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One of Jeopardy's Most Beloved Traditions Vanished. I Spent Months Talking to the People Whose Lives It Changed. Then I Got Some News. -- Claire McNear

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Some People Think Elon Musk Snapped. The Controversial Four-Hour Documentary About Him Suggests Something Else. -- Sam Adams

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pay dirt -- My Brother-in-Law Was Doing a Good Job Taking Care of My Ailing Sister. Then Things Got Strange.

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dear prudence - My Sister-in-Law Insisted on Bringing Her Dog to My House. Then the Worst Possible Scenario Happened.

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Jenée Desmond-Harris -- If Couples Can't Let Go of This Particular Battle, They're in for a Miserable Marriage

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Michelle Herman -- We're Officially Empty Nesters. Now My Wife Has an Absurd Idea for Our Future.

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true - Kristin Wong - I Happily Paid All of My Girlfriend's Housing and Travel Costs for Two Years. Then I Learned Something Outrageous.

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Laura Helmuth -- The 21-Year-Old Intern Just Got Hired for a Role She Definitely Isn't Qualified For. There's Something Fishy Going On.

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11h ago - true - Laura Miller - His Novels Have Been Turned Into Blockbuster Movies. Now His First in Years Is a Scathing Take on Hollywood.

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true - His HBO Show Was a One-of-a-Kind Cult Sensation. Now He's Back With His First Movie. John Wilson on the tricks he used to make his debut feature, and why he's the "shadow mayor." Sam Adams

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true - Another Civil War Would Be Bad. A New Book Imagines Something Even Worse. Laura Miller - Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven imagined a flu apocalypse. Her Exit Party gives us civil war, and then some.

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The Time Tax: Why Government Wastes Your Life -- Gabfest Reads

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Calm Down, There's No "AI Apocalypse" -- ICYMI

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His Previous Horror Movie Became an Oscar-Winning Sensation. His New One Might Ruin You. -- Nadira Goffe

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Millennials and Gen Z Are Coping With "Burnout" in a Weird New Way. It's Not As Cute As They Think. Courtney Iseman - What I'm seeing out here has me shaken and stirred.

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Slate Pears Game 402: Sept. 20, 2026

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Slate Pears Game 401: Sept. 19, 2026

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true - Prohibition Tried to Stamp Out Drinking in America. But Now We Know That It Actually Gave Us One of the Greatest Cocktails. N.C. Stevens

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Slate Mini Crossword for Sept. 19, 2026 -- K. Austin Collins

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View all -- News & Politics

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true - We Might Finally See Consequences for Gerrymandering Abuses - Shirin Ali - For exactly one year, Missouri has been locked in a confusing legal battle over which congressional map it can use for the November elections.

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Did Congress Really Mean to Protect the Environment? SCOTUS is Skeptical. -- Amicus

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Think You're Smarter Than a Slate Website Developer? Find Out With This Week's News Quiz. -- Ray Hamel

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What Did the Kennedy Center Ever Do to Donald Trump? -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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The Theory Behind Government's Cruelest Paperwork - David Plotz

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