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I "Humanize" Bot-Written College Admissions Essays for a Living. I Have a Warning for Everyone. There's a Writing Crisis Happening in Schools Today. I Should Know. I'm Helping Make It Happen. I Make Thousands Each Month Helping High School Students Fake Their Essays. It's Depressing—but It Pays My Rent. High School Students Are Using Chatbots to Write College Admissions Essays. I Should Know: I Help Them. I Struggled to Find a Job After College. To Pay Rent, I Started Doing Something Highly Controversial. document.getElementById('cmmyv34s8004d03m42lg602h0@published') .querySelectorAll('span[data-promoline-variant]') [Math.floor(Math.random() * 5)].hidden = false - I Make Thousands Each Month Helping High School Students Fake Their Essays. It's Depressing—but It Pays My Rent. Kate Gilbertson

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One Man Has Been More Effective Than Most at Getting ICE to Back Down. He Told Me How. The Congressman Busting People Out of ICE Jails - Every Time ICE Backs Down, He Seems to Be Behind It. He Told Me How He Does It. Everyone Who Is Furious at ICE Might Be Missing an Even More Deserving Target - document.getElementById('cmmyv34s8004903m4hle1z6vc@published') .querySelectorAll('span[data-promoline-variant]') [Math.floor(Math.random() * 4)].hidden = false - Everyone Who Is Furious at ICE Might Be Missing an Even More Deserving Target - Alexander Sammon

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People Who Never Watched Peaky Blinders Might Like the New Movie Even More Than Longtime Fans - If You Never Got Into Peaky Blinders, Now Might Be the Perfect Time - I Love Peaky Blinders, but It's All Too Clear When the Show Lost Its Way - The Peaky Blinders Movie Will Remind You Why It Was Such a Killer Show - The Hit Netflix Gangster Series That Rules Precisely Because It Doesn't Try to Be The Sopranos - The Hit Gangster Series That's Great Precisely Because It Doesn't Try to Be The Sopranos - It Was One of My Favorite Shows of the 2010s. Now It's Back With a Big-Budget Movie. document.getElementById('cmmyv34s8004a03m4o2fh5ba0@published') .querySelectorAll('span[data-promoline-variant]') [Math.floor(Math.random() * 7)].hidden = false - The Peaky Blinders Movie Will Remind You Why It Was Such a Killer Show - Jack Hamilton

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The New Bachelorette Had the Type of Fame Producers Craved. Then It All Came Crashing Down. Scaachi Koul

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Trump's Specter Haunts This Season of The Pitt. Its Latest Episode Makes It Clearer Than Ever. The Pitt Just Aired One of Its Most Powerful Episodes Yet - The Pitt Has Never Been Shy About Its Politics. The Latest Episode Makes It Clearer Than Ever. ICE Just Showed Up in The Pitt. The Episode Makes a Powerful Statement. The Pitt's Real Villain Is Clear, Even if We Never See Him - ICE Appears in The Pitt's Latest Episode. It's One of the Most Powerful Statements of the Entire Series. document.getElementById('cmmyv34s8004c03m4v8afqi4m@published') .querySelectorAll('span[data-promoline-variant]') [Math.floor(Math.random() * 6)].hidden = false - The Pitt's Real Villain Is Clear, Even if We Never See Him - David Mack

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Kerry Washington and Elisabeth Moss Star in Apple TV's New Thriller. It's Compellingly Watchable. -- Rebecca Onion

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Ryan Gosling's New Movie Is Out of This World -- Dana Stevens

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The Cesar Chavez Sexual Abuse Allegations Show a Disturbing Similarity to Jeffrey Epstein - Christina Cauterucci

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Slate Mini Crossword for March 20, 2026 -- Nate Cardin

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Play Today's SoundBites -- Jenny Fey

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Jeffrey Epstein Misunderstood How Genes Work. The Reason Why Is Kind of Dark. -- Susanne Paola Antonetta

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Laura Helmuth -- After Over Two Decades on the Job, I Quit. Then I Got a Weird Letter in the Mail From HR.

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