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Starbucks and McDonald's Keep Pushing These Drinks. I Have a Distressing Theory Why. The Sad Economics of America's Trendiest Drink - The Silliest Drink Trend in America Right Now Is a Recession Indicator - Starbucks and McDonald's Keep Pushing These Drinks. I Have a Distressing Theory Why. The Ridiculous Drink That's Perfectly Encapsulating the Vibes Economy - How Refreshers Took Over the Drinks Menu - America's Trendiest Drink Is a Bad Sign for the Economy - document.getElementById('cmst2s4t5004gpwl0l9fobiyf@published') .querySelectorAll('span[data-promoline-variant]') [Math.floor(Math.random() * 7)].hidden = false - America's Trendiest Drink Is a Bad Sign for the Economy - Steffi Cao

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The Obsession With Botox and Filler Has Reached a Dangerous New Level - Sam Nichols

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Amazon's Show of the Summer Is Here. It's a Pleasant Surprise. -- Rebecca Onion

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Slate Crossword: Only Way to Travel from Antarctica (Five Letters) -- Hemant Mehta

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If You Want to Know How Trump 2.0 Is Really Going, I Suggest a Visit to the Dying Trump "Superstore" -- Jessica Pishko

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Turns Out There Are Downsides to Burning All Your Allies -- Fred Kaplan

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There Is No Male Loneliness Crisis. What's Actually Happening Is So Much Darker. -- Nick Keppler

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Anne Hathaway's Nasty Little Dinosaur Movie Is Better Than Any Jurassic Park in Years -- Sam Adams

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Death Penalty Supporters Say There's No Proof of the Innocent Being Executed. Virginia Might Prove Them Wrong. -- Austin Sarat

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One of the Most Horrifying Things Imaginable Just Happened in My Prison. Why Is Nobody Talking About It? -- Robert Lee Williams

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The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Breakup News Has Me Reeling in the Best Way -- Heather Schwedel

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The Right-Wing Reaction to AOC's Egg Freezing Is Very Revealing -- Jill Filipovic

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The Hottest Girl in the Country Is Making Millions Off Us. To Find Out Why, I Did the Unthinkable. -- Scaachi Koul

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The One Part of Friends That Was Actually Totally True -- Dan Kois

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We Want to Follow Our Daughter to Her New College Town. There's One Problem. -- Care and Feeding

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I'm a Lesbian. Now I Want to Try Something Specific—With a Man. -- How to Do It

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Jenée Desmond-Harris -- I Use My Journals for a Very Specific Reason. If Someone Found It, They Would Get the Wrong Idea.

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Nicole Chung -- My Daughter Came Home From a Sleepover With a New Habit. She's Way Too Young for This.

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Lillian Karabaic and Athena Valentine -- I Have a Wife, Kids, and a Good Life. No One Knows My Deepest Fantasy.

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It's the Buzziest Book of the Year. Anne Hathaway Is Making It Into a Movie. It Has the Worst Kind of Twist Ending. -- Rebecca Onion -- I basically enjoyed Yesteryear—until that final surprise messed up everything.

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She's Gone From Indie Rocker to Unlikely Pop Star. Now She's Back With Her First Album Since the Big Change. -- Carl Wilson

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I Wish I Could Unsee What I Saw at the Trump Admin's New "Patriotic" Art Exhibit -- Christina Cauterucci

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The Odyssey Book Bump Is Real, and It's Glorious -- Nadira Goffe

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How McGruff Took a Bite Out of Crime -- Decoder Ring

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I Wanted to Dislike Kim Kardashian's New Skims London Store. That's Not Exactly What Happened. -- Imogen West-Knights -- I feel duty-bound to report that the pajamas are diabolically ugly.

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Slate Mini Crossword for Aug. 14, 2026 -- Adrianne Baik

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Slate SoundBites for August 14, 2026 -- Jenny Fey

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true - Meet the Onetime Trump Critic Running Against Abdul El-Sayed - Jim Newell - One imagines Mike Rogers has enjoyed a lovely Michigan summer.

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Will Democrats' Bitter Primaries Hurt Them When It Matters Most? -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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Did Trump really need to orchestrate the secret plane swap? -- Political Gabfest

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What Grows on a Nuciferous Plant? -- Ray Hamel

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true - The Supreme Court's Callais Ruling Has Already Wrought Terrible Damage - Donathan L. Brown

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