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There's One Horrific Detail From Taylor Swift's Wedding That Will Haunt My Nightmares - Heather Schwedel

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An Eye-Opening New Book Offers Insight Into the Hearts and Minds of Conservative Women -- Laura Miller

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Living Abroad Helped Me Realize Some of the Best Qualities of Americans -- Hannah Docter-Loeb

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Will America Be Any Better at 500? I Made Some Guesses. -- Luke Winkie

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The Ultimate Myth We Tell Ourselves About the U.S. -- Lizzie O'Leary

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The True Successor to Yellowstone Is Clear. It's Surprisingly Promising. -- Rebecca Onion

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America Has Two Options at the Box Office This Fourth of July Weekend. The Choice Is Clear. -- Sam Adams

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The Drama Over This $40 Million Movie Reveals a Bleak Truth About the Future of Hollywood -- Nitish Pahwa

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I've Finally Found the Drink That Deserves to Be Called "the Great American Cocktail." It's Probably Not What You Think. -- Jordan Weissmann

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Michaels (but Neither Michael nor Mikey) of SNL (Five Letters) -- Nancy Serrano-Wu

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I Had a Secret Surgery That Changed My Life Forever. I'm Worried It'll Decimate My Dating Prospects. A Few Years Ago, I Had a Surgery That Changed My Life Forever. I'm Worried It's the Reason I Could Wind Up Alone. I'm Way Too Damaged to Be a Good Parent. I'm Worried My Solution Will Make Women Run for the Hills. I Had Way Too Messed Up a Childhood to Be a Good Parent. I'm Scared My Solution Will Decimate My Dating Life. I Had a Secret Surgery That Changed My Life Forever. I'm Worried It'll Decimate My Dating Life. My Messed-Up Childhood Culminated in a Secret Surgery. It Could Be the Reason I Wind Up Alone. document.getElementById('cmr7z4qq0000m3b7cp8vafq67@published') .querySelectorAll('span[data-promoline-variant]') [Math.floor(Math.random() * 6)].hidden = false - A Few Years Ago, I Had a Surgery That Changed My Life Forever. I'm Worried It's the Reason I Could Wind Up Alone. Rich Juzwiak

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I'm Dating a Great Guy. We Need to Have an Unpleasant Conversation—One That's Heartbreakingly Common.

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The World Thinks Americans Only Eat Pizza-Nugget-Burgers. The Truth Is a Much More Interesting Story. Chason Gordon

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Florida Has Sentenced Some Alligators to a Terrible Fate. No One Realizes Exactly How Horrifying It Is. I Went There to Find Out. -- Luke Winkie

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Nina Totenberg Made a Mistake. But the Reaction Reveals a Much Bigger Problem. -- Dahlia Lithwick and Sonja West

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Trump's State Fair Commits a Cardinal Sin -- Molly Olmstead

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true - how to do it - My Boyfriend Is Doing Something Really Creepy to Our Friends on ChatGPT. I Can't Believe He'd Violate Them Like That.

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CARE AND FEEDING -- Our Gay Friends Are Getting Married This Summer. I'm Disgusted by the Gift My Wife Wants to Give Them.

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CARE AND FEEDING -- My Niece Begged Me to Keep a Secret. But Keeping This One Could Get Her Hurt.

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Jenée Desmond-Harris -- My Wife and Her Sisters Never Listen to Our Daughter. They Missed a Major Announcement, and All Hell's Broken Loose.

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Rich Juzwiak -- I Used to Love Doing a Controversial Thing In Bed With My Ex. I'm Scared It'll Make My New Boyfriend Run Away.

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Michelle Herman -- I Caught My Kids Up to a Corrupt Scheme at a Restaurant. Apparently They're Doing It "for Grandma."

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Athena Valentine and Kristin Wong -- My Sister Wants to Feel Like a Princess on Her Wedding Day. I Have to Tell Her Something That's Going to Ruin That.

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Laura Helmuth -- Quitting My Job Will Have Some Real Repercussions for the People I Help. The Guilt Is Eating Me Alive.

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Louis C.K. Is Back With His First Major Stand-Up Special Since #MeToo. He Hasn't Really Changed. -- Imogen West-Knights -- The once disgraced comedian has not only been uncanceled but given his own Netflix special.

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AI Is Changing How We Have Sex -- ICYMI

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One of the Biggest Questions of the World Cup Comes From a Country With a Unique Name -- Alex Kirshner

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Their World Cup Team Lost Terribly. Yet They're Having the Most Fun. -- Aymann Ismail

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Every Child Seems to Take Part in a New, Exhausting Tradition These Days. Teachers Have Some Theories About Why. -- Kate Lindsay -- "They're just going to go to the classroom upstairs," one teacher pointed out.

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Slate Mini Crossword for July 5, 2026 -- Kiran Pandey

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Slate Mini Crossword for July 4, 2026 -- Quiara Vasquez

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What Was Really Going On With Republicans' Show of Rebellion Against Trump's War - Fred Kaplan - It was more posed than real.

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Thanks to SCOTUS, Bad History Might Actually Kill America -- Amicus

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Off-the-Record: Toy Story 5 Did NOT Make Mary Cry -- What Next

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

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Why the Court's Long-Sought Ruling Has One Big Exception -- Political Gabfest

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Something Is Going On With Mitch McConnell's Health, and His Office Is Being Mighty Cagey About It -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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Is 250 Even That Old for a Country? Rebecca Onion

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