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Slate - Top Stories

I Gazed Into the Abyss of Roku's New Slop Channel and Regret Everything - Nitish Pahwa

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

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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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An Extremist Won This Week in Wisconsin. It's Probably Not the One You've Read About. -- Jim Newell

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Everyone Calls Me a F-Boy. I Deserve It. But I Refuse to Stop Breaking People's Hearts. -- Isabelle Kohn

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My Boyfriend Suffers From a Common Male Problem in Bed. I Don't Think He Has Any Idea. -- Jessica Stoya and Rich Juzwiak

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Amazon's Show of the Summer Will Stand the Test of Time -- Rebecca Onion

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Slate Crossword: Result of a Common Printer Malfunction -- Quiara Vasquez

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Slate Mini Crossword for Aug. 16, 2026 -- Quiara Vasquez

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Her Previous Album Has Become One of the Defining Records of the Decade. Her New One Is Something Else Altogether. -- Carl Wilson

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Starbucks and McDonald's Keep Pushing These Drinks. I Have a Distressing Theory Why. -- Steffi Cao

2 days ago

One of the Most Horrifying Things Imaginable Just Happened in My Prison. Why Is Nobody Talking About It? -- Robert Lee Williams

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It's the Buzziest Book of the Year. Anne Hathaway Is Making It Into a Movie. It Has the Worst Kind of Twist Ending. -- Rebecca Onion

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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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Jenée Desmond-Harris -- My Boyfriend and I Took Care of His Mother's Dog for Five Days. I'm Aghast at How She Repaid Us.

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Rich Juzwiak -- Before Giving a Risqué Wedding Gift, Ask These Two Questions

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Michelle Herman -- I Was Always the Weird Kid the Teacher Didn't Like. Now I Have a Chance to Save Someone From That Fate.

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true - Kristin Wong - My Mother Gave My Sister a Big Gift. Now She's Offering to Even the Score.

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Laura Helmuth -- My Co-Workers Are Starting to Side-Eye Me for What I Do All Day at Work. If Only They Knew Why.

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true - Restaurants Think They're Making This Classic Dish More "Accessible." I'm Not Sure That's Such a Good Thing. You may not be able to take a crack at it for much longer ... Maggie Hennessy

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Look What You Made Me Do -- Gabfest Reads

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Does Hating Influencers Really Mean Hating Women? -- ICYMI

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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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Slate Pears Game 367: Aug. 16, 2026

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Slate Pears Game 366: Aug. 15, 2026

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Slate Mini Crossword for Aug. 15, 2026 -- Kavin Pawittranon

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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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The Ottolenghi Conspiracy: A Dinner Party Riff -- David Plotz

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To Understand Today's Supreme Court, You Need to Understand One Particular Justice. -- Amicus

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Trump on Long-Suffering Sailors: "Not Nearly Long Enough" -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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Dear (Juris)Prudence: How Can Congress Stop Trump From Sabotaging the Next Democratic President? -- Mark Joseph Stern

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Dear (Juris)Prudence: Who Cooks Up the Supreme Court's BS Originalist Ideas, Anyway? Mark Joseph Stern

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