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Slate - Top Stories

Nikole Hannah-Jones' Confessional Piece Raises the Question: What Do You Owe Your Children? Jill Filipovic

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America Might Beat China in a Crucial Race. You Might Not Like What That Means. -- Alex Kirshner

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For Over a Century, America Has Failed to Provide a Very Basic Necessity. The Reasons Will Make You Squirm. -- Christina Cauterucci

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History's Most Famous Ax Murderer May Not Have Been a Murderer and May Not Have Used an Ax -- Rebecca Onion

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Mahershala Ali's New Movie Is Unlike Anything I've Seen Before -- Aymann Ismail

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Trump Found a New Horrifying Way to Disappear ICE Detainees -- Shirin Ali

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Republican Judges Defy Supreme Court to Try to Boost GOP in Midterms - Billy Corriher

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The Book Started as a Steamy Star Wars Fanfic. Now the Movie Adaptation Is Here. Uh-oh. -- Rebecca Onion and Nadira Goffe

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The Mess With Channing Tatum, Explained in Too Much Detail -- Heather Schwedel

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It Wasn't Looking Good for Ed Sheeran. Then I Saw His Most Recent Concert. -- Nadira Goffe

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Slate Crossword: Magic 8 Ball's Optimistic Answer (11 Letters) -- Nancy Serrano-Wu

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Slate's Commenters Have Been Trolling My Writing for Years. I Finally Asked Why. I'll Never Look at Them the Same. -- Luke Winkie

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Are We Making Fruit Too Delicious? -- Chason Gordon

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Taylor Swift's "Patient Zero" Could Mean Something Very Obvious. Or It Could Play With a Loaded History of the Term. -- Anna Gibbs

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I Treat Eating Disorders. There's a Particular Behavior I Keep Seeing Among High-Functioning Women. -- Giulia Suro

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It's the Cruelest Conspiracy on the Internet. Donald Trump Has Taken It Up. After a Dark Year, I Found the Truth. -- Molly Olmstead

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Jenée Desmond-Harris and Lizzie O'Leary -- I Think I Might Be in a Polyamorous Marriage. I Had No Idea.

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Jessica Stoya and Rich Juzwiak -- Every Time My Long Distance Boyfriend Comes to Town, Something Strange Happens. My Body Might Be Trying to Tell Me Something.

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Kristin Wong -- There's a Solution for My Mom's Limited Retirement Money. It Goes Against What I Was Raised to Believe.

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Laura Helmuth -- My Boss Thinks He's Figured Out the Answer to Every Working Parent's Struggle. Absolutely Not.

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Prohibition Tried to Stamp Out Drinking in America. But Now We Know That It Actually Gave Us One of the Greatest Cocktails. -- N.C. Stevens -- Everybody loves it. But now we can truly appreciate it.

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