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Slate - Top Stories

Trumpworld Has Found Its New Jeffrey Epstein -- Joshua Kolb

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Greg Lavallee -- My Divorce Was Finally Finalized and I Bought My Own Place. And Then the Phone Calls Started.

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A Major New Oscar Contender Has Arrived. It Is Once Again About ... Putting on Hamlet. -- Sam Adams

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true - The Sydney Sweeney Football Boob Ad Is Making People Mad for the Wrong Reason - Heather Schwedel

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Slate Pears Game 399: Sept. 17, 2026

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Slate SoundBites for September 17, 2026 -- Jenny Fey

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Slate Pears Game 398: Sept. 16, 2026

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He Was a Catfish-Wrestling TV Star. Then He Was Sentenced to 92 Years in Prison for a Heartless, Violent Crime. No One—Including Him—Understood What Would Come Next. -- Wes Ferguson

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On 9/11, I Went on the Campaign Trail With Abdul El-Sayed. What I Saw Was Revealing. -- Aymann Ismail

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The Supreme Court Is Being Asked to Intervene in a Texas Surrogacy Battle. The Justices Must Say No. -- Evelyn Tenenbaum

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We Might Finally See Consequences for Gerrymandering Abuses -- Shirin Ali

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All 349 "Murmurs" in the Twilight Saga, Charted and Ranked -- Rachelle Hampton

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At Dolly Parton's Civil War–Themed Dinner Theater, There's Violence on Many Sides -- Aisha Harris

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The Fracturing in American Judaism That Macklemore Just Exposed to the World -- Alex Kirshner

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Who's to Blame for Inflation? Trump's Handpicked Fed Chair Left Little Doubt. -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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We're Finally Moving Beyond Inexpensive, Disposable Clothing. Just Look at What Happened to Shein. -- Steffi Cao

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Slate Crossword: They're Jam-Packed! (11 Letters) -- Quiara Vasquez

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The Pathogen Yersinia Pestis Is Responsible for Which Disease? -- Ray Hamel

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Trump's New Effort to Mess With Student Visas Was Shot Down in Humiliating Fashion -- Jay Willis

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Republicans Found an Ugly New Way to Undo Losses in Abortion and Gerrymandering Cases -- Michael Milov-Cordoba

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The Supreme Court Put Efforts to Ban the Abortion Pill on Hold. Louisiana Decided It Can't Wait That Long. -- Mary Ziegler

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HOW TO DO IT -- My Husband Is Usually Game for All My Out There Sex Ideas. But There's No Telling How He'll React to My Latest.

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care and feeding - My Son Spends a Lot of Time With My Well-Off Family. I'm Not Sure It's a Good Idea.

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dear prudence -- I Want to Take My Brother-in-Law to Court Over Money He Borrowed for a Fake "Emergency."

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pay dirt -- A Surprise Notice From a Debt Collector Arrived at Our House. Then I Started to Unearth the Upsetting Truth.

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Jenée Desmond-Harris and Lizzie O'Leary -- My Marriage-Hating Boyfriend Finally Proposed. This Is Not What I Had in Mind.

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Jessica Stoya and Rich Juzwiak -- I Went on Two Dates With a Guy. Then He Sent Me a Surprising Message About Where He Wants to Go From Here.

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Kristin Wong -- I Have a Lifelong Dream for My Apartment. Fulfilling It Could Have Major Consequences for My Family.

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Laura Helmuth -- The 21-Year-Old Intern Just Got Hired for a Role She Definitely Isn't Qualified For. There's Something Fishy Going On.

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John Roberts' New Role Model Demonstrates Everything Wrong With the Supreme Court -- If the court is curling up anywhere, it is at the feet of a presidency increasingly unchecked by law. -- Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan

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true - The Daily Wire Decided to Make a Die Hard–esque Movie About Campus Protest. It Is Every Bit As Deranged As You Might Think. Protesters! They're never happy! Rebecca Onion

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true - Another Civil War Would Be Bad. A New Book Imagines Something Even Worse. Laura Miller - Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven imagined a flu apocalypse. Her Exit Party gives us civil war, and then some.

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Forbidden Alphas, Cursed Billionaires, & The Rise Of Microdramas -- ICYMI

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John Mulaney Had One Moment at the Emmys Too Hot for NBC. It Was the Best Part of the Show. -- Nadira Goffe

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When My Sister's Addiction Killed Her, I Turned Into a Manic Detective. It Turns Out I Wasn't Alone. -- Dina Gachman

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One of Jeopardy's Most Beloved Traditions Vanished. I Spent Months Talking to the People Whose Lives It Changed. Then I Got Some News. -- Claire McNear

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Millennials and Gen Z Are Coping With "Burnout" in a Weird New Way. It's Not As Cute As They Think. Courtney Iseman - What I'm seeing out here has me shaken and stirred.

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Slate Mini Crossword for Sept. 17, 2026 -- Nijah Morris

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Who's Interfering in the Election Now -- What Next

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