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Tuesday, May 19, 2026 2:05 PM ET

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America's Hottest Primary Has Clues About What's Coming After Trump. It's Not Pretty. -- Ben Jacobs

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Donald Trump Hates One Television Show More Than Any Other. After Watching for the Past Week, I See Why. -- Heather Schwedel

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Is the Supreme Court's Abortion Pill Ruling Actually a Feint?

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Maybe Trump Is Giving Us the Capital City We Deserve -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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Trump's Efforts to Intimidate Elon Musk's Enemies Just Faced a Severe Setback -- Dahlia Lithwick

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Trump's New Grift Is His Most Brazen ... Ever? -- Jim Newell

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Trump Just Made a Truly Shocking Admission About Iran -- Fred Kaplan

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Slate Crossword: Where Kash Patel Went Snorkeling(!?!?) Last Year (11 Letters) -- Quiara Vasquez

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Slate Mini Crossword for May 19, 2026 -- Quiara Vasquez

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I've Watched My 5-Year-Old's Favorite TV Shows. I'm ... Concerned. -- Carrie Bauer

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My Husband's Favorite Sports Team Has a Notorious Fan Base. He Takes That Reputation to the Extreme. -- Jenée Desmond-Harris

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It's an Industry Almost Everyone Hates. Wall Street Loves It. It Could Demolish the Entire Economy. -- Nitish Pahwa

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The Four Secret Words That Allow Your Employer to Make You Do Almost Anything They Want -- Alison Green

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There Was One Widespread Rumor About the SNL Finale. It's Time for It to Come True. -- Scaachi Koul

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What's Fact and What's Fiction in The Wizard of the Kremlin -- Ellin Stein

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Sterling K. Brown Just Got His First Great Villain Role, and He Knocked It Out of the Park -- Nadira Goffe

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Jenée Desmond-Harris -- There's a Problem With Tipping a Percentage on Delivery Orders That No One Likes to Admit

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Arionne Nettles -- My 6-Year-Old Son Started Screaming Bloody Murder on a Plane. The Reason Isn't At All What You'd Expect.

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Rich Juzwiak -- I Normally Have a Much Higher Sex Drive Than My Husband. Then He Got Injured, and, Uh, Wow.

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Jessica Stoya -- I Read My Wife's College Journal. What I Discovered About Her Sex Life Haunts Me.

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Ilyce Glink -- I Split a Suite With a Married Couple on Vacation. I Don't Know if We'll Ever Recover From the Fallout.

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true - A MAGA Judge in Texas Was Called Out by a Colleague for Trying to Steal a Case in Rhode Island - Mark Joseph Stern

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My Daughter Wants to Move Home After College. I Said OK—With One Condition. Her Reaction is Off the Wall. Ilyce Glink

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A Fox News Host Wrote a Bestselling Romance About Liberal Women Falling for Republican Men. I Read It So You Don't Have To. -- Rebecca Onion -- George W. Bush's former press secretary has found her next gig. I'm not sure she's up to the job.

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Liberalism Under Siege: A Blueprint for Revival -- Gabfest Reads

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I Tried Out Those Weird Mushroom and Dandelion "Coffees" That Are All Over Social Media. What a Trip. -- Nadira Goffe -- The era of "mud water" is nigh.

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A Brat Pack Star Remembers How to Have Friends -- Death, Sex & Money

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true - Trump Thought He Could Wing It at His Summit With China's President. Not Exactly! Fred Kaplan - The world's most powerful men met this week. What happened?

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Which Was the Only Movie Directed by Alfred Hitchcock to Win a Best Picture Oscar? -- Ray Hamel

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Republicans Are Trying to Kill the Abortion Pill. They Don't Stand a Chance. -- Christina Cauterucci

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She Was Ripped From Her Car and Detained, but She's Not Done With ICE - Mary Harris

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