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Evangelicals Traveled to Their Country in Record Numbers. Then Trump Said They Were Evil. Alexander Sammon

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Donald Trump Sure Is Corrupt. If Only There Were a Constitutional Remedy for That. -- Frank Bowman

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America's Most Famous Pastor Just Revealed How He Treats His Wife. It Tells Us Something About Evangelicals. -- Sarah Stankorb

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Parents Colluded With Corporations to Kill a Beloved Halloween Tradition. I Think It's Time We Raise It From the Grave. -- Chason Gordon

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The U.S. Department of Education Posted an Incel Meme. It Gets Worse From There. -- Steffi Cao

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It's Democrats' Dream Senate Scenario. The Polls Say It's Not Impossible. -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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Why There's a Real Risk of a Replay of the 2020 Election Come Tuesday -- Shirin Ali

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He's Boring. He's an Establishment Democrat. Up Close He's ... Actually Kind of Great? -- Susan Matthews

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We Finally Know Why Trump Has Tried So Hard to Hide the Epstein Files -- Jill Filipovic

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We Bought a House. We Had Help From My Husband's Parents. It Was One of the Biggest Mistakes We've Ever Made. -- Meghan Nesmith

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Slate Mini Crossword for Oct. 30, 2026 -- Quiara Vasquez

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People's New Sexiest Man Alive Is Proving Weirdly Controversial -- Nadira Goffe

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She's an Oscar Winner. She's About to Star in a Scorsese Film. I Can't Figure Out Why She's Doing ... This. -- Heather Schwedel

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I'm the Neighborhood Hero Who Doles Out Full-Sized Candy Bars on Halloween -- As Told to Luke Winkie

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What to Do About Halloween's Real Threat to Kids -- Henry Grabar

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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" Party and the Glorious Aesthetics of the Everyday -- Rebecca Onion

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Jenée Desmond-Harris -- My Husband Read a Popular Romantasy Book. It's Brought Us Closer Together.

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Jessica Stoya and Rich Juzwiak -- I Accidentally Sent a Risqué Text to the Wrong Person. That's Not Even What My Boyfriend's Upset About.

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Jamilah Lemieux -- I Have Two 9-Year-Olds by Two Different Women. Now the Whole Thing is About to Blow Up.

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Elizabeth Spiers and Athena Valentine -- My Dad Has Made Me a Lifesaving Offer. But There's a Big Catch.

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Laura Helmuth -- Every Morning, My Boss Gives Us an Unfiltered Look Into His Email Inbox. I've Seen Things I Shouldn't Have.

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How to Lose Your Party a Senate Seat: Alaska Edition -- Trying to trick voters isn't nice. Getting caught trying to trick voters isn't smart. -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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One Literary Giant Is Rarely Associated With His Homeland. Make No Mistake: He's the Most Influential American Writer of All. -- Laura Miller -- Not Mark Twain, not Herman Melville, not F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Was the Strange, Long-Lost Icelandic Version of Dracula Written by Bram Stoker Himself? -- Decoder Ring

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Everyone in You Can See Everything Is Playing a Character, but Only One Performer Is Utterly Convincing -- Isaac Butler

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The Documentary Dividing The Internet -- ICYMI

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The Plan: Make One of the Most Acclaimed Documentaries of All Time and Win Best Picture at the Oscars -- Sam Adams

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Taika Waititi Adapted a Strange and Beautiful Novel. The Result Is Shaping Up to Be a Legendary Bomb. -- Laura Miller

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true - Mark Zuckerberg Has Made a Lot of Awful Decisions. One of His Most Infamous Was Probably His Smartest. Chris Stokel-Walker - Facebook's rebrand may have placed the company in a better position for what came after—even if the legless avatars never came to life.

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She Will Not Stop Until Every Haitian Is Gone. And She's Happy to Tell You Why. -- Alexander Sammon

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If You Hate Your Birth Control, There's a New Option That Might Be Worth Considering -- Mia Armstrong-López

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Unfortunately, I Must Hand It to the Trump Administration in This One Instance -- Alex Kirshner

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Money Talks: The Real Threats of Artificial Intelligence - Slate Money

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The First Real A.I. Test - Lizzie O'Leary

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Some People Are Miserable at Work. You'd Think They'd Leave—but They Choose to Do Something Wild Instead. -- Alison Green -- Their hair is falling out and their cortisol is through the roof, but still, they choose to stay.

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Slate SoundBites for October 30, 2026 -- Jenny Fey

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Slate Crossword: Articles You Might Be Inclined to Write? (Five Letters) -- Chandi Deitmer

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Slate Pears Game 441: Oct. 29, 2026

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View all -- News & Politics

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true - Obama Won This State Twice. Republicans Have Since Taken It Over. Now Democrats Have Come Roaring Back. Ben Jacobs - Republicans were on the verge of a sweep here just two years ago. Now they're trying to limit their losses.

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Polls Inch Toward Democrats, and Voters Worry More About Corruption -- Political Gabfest

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What Is Defined Scientifically as a Force Multiplied by a Time Divided by an Area? -- Ray Hamel

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Think You Know More About the Midterms Than Slate's Senior Politics Writer? Find Out With This Week's News Quiz. Ray Hamel

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