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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 Used to Love Doing a Controversial Thing In Bed With My Ex. I'm Scared It'll Make My New Boyfriend Run Away. My Ex and I Had a Special Sex Practice I Truly Loved. I'm Scared It'll Make My New Boyfriend Run for the Hills. I Used to Love Doing a Controversial Thing In Bed With My Ex. I'm Scared It'll Make My New Boyfriend Run Away. I Love Doing a Sensitive Thing to Guys In Bed. But Bringing It Up to Them Could Change Everything. My Favorite Sexual Activity Is Also the One That Makes Guys Most Nervous. I'm Scared It'll Break My Boyfriend's Brain. There's a Bedroom Activity That Makes Most Straight Guys Nervous. I Love It. I'm Not So Sure My New Boyfriend Will. Men Are Always So Sensitive About My Controversial Sex Interest. It's Really Not That Bad! document.getElementById('cmr80zjbg000h3b7c49hdxkp4@published') .querySelectorAll('span[data-promoline-variant]') [Math.floor(Math.random() * 7)].hidden = false - My Favorite Sexual Activity Is Also the One That Makes Guys Most Nervous. I'm Scared It'll Break My Boyfriend's Brain. 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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true - dear prudence - My Estranged Sister Betrayed Me in the Worst Possible Way. Now I'm Supposed to Assist Her With a Life-or-Death Situation.

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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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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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