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The New Movie That Finally Cracks Cinema's Most Maligned Genre -- Sam Adams

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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

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America Hates A.I. Donald Trump Loves It. What Is Going On Here? -- Jim Newell

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His HBO Show Was a One-of-a-Kind Cult Sensation. Now He's Back With His First Movie. -- Sam Adams

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He's a Controversial Titan of "Wellness." I Read All 540 Pages of His New Book. Let Me Tell You the Maddening Truth. -- Rebecca Onion

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A Congressional Candidate Accidentally Perfected Something Unexpected: The Totally-Fine-Kinda-Charming Sex "Scandal" -- Christina Cauterucci

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A Promising Young TV Star Was Sentenced to 92 Years for a Brutal Crime He Says He Didn't Commit. Then a Prison Guard Delivered a Life-Changing Message. -- Wes Ferguson

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The Sydney Sweeney Football Boob Ad Sexualizes Sydney Sweeney -- Heather Schwedel

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Trump's Greatest Political Boogeyman Really Is Alive and Well in America. If Only He Knew What They Were Doing. -- Alexander Sammon

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I'm Fine With My Husband Pleasuring Himself. I'm Really Not OK With What My Neighbor Has to Do With It. -- Rich Juzwiak

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

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Are We Heading For "Pearl Harbor in Space"? -- Fred Kaplan

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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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The Daily Wire Decided to Make a Die Hard–esque Movie About Campus Protest. It Is Every Bit As Deranged As You Might Think. -- Rebecca Onion

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Some People Think Elon Musk Snapped. The Controversial Four-Hour Documentary About Him Suggests Something Else. -- Sam Adams

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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 - My Sister-in-Law Insisted on Bringing Her Dog to My House. Then the Worst Possible Scenario Happened.

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Michelle Herman -- I Recently Revoked My Mom's Ability to Let Herself Into My Apartment Uninvited. Now She's Retaliating.

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Athena Valentine and Elizabeth Spiers -- My Brother-in-Law Was Doing a Good Job Taking Care of My Ailing Sister. Then Things Got Strange.

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Laura Helmuth -- I Was Just Pushed Out of a Gig I'm Really Good At. The Reason Feels So Unfair.

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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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The Time Tax: Why Government Wastes Your Life -- Gabfest Reads

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Calm Down, There's No "AI Apocalypse" -- ICYMI

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His Previous Horror Movie Became an Oscar-Winning Sensation. His New One Might Ruin You. -- Nadira Goffe

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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. 19, 2026 -- K. Austin Collins

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His Dog Died in Boarding and Ignited a Scandal. It Happens More Often Than You'd Think. -- Taylor Prewitt

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Slate SoundBites for September 18, 2026 -- Jenny Fey

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true - We Might Finally See Consequences for Gerrymandering Abuses - Shirin Ali - For exactly one year, Missouri has been locked in a confusing legal battle over which congressional map it can use for the November elections.

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Did Congress Really Mean to Protect the Environment? SCOTUS is Skeptical. -- Amicus

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Think You're Smarter Than a Slate Website Developer? Find Out With This Week's News Quiz. -- Ray Hamel

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What Did the Kennedy Center Ever Do to Donald Trump? -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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The Theory Behind Government's Cruelest Paperwork - David Plotz

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