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Thursday, August 13, 2026 10:50 PM ET

Slate - Top Stories

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

9 hours ago

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

6 hours ago

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

5 hours ago

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

8 hours ago

The AOC Breakup News Has Me Reeling in the Best Way -- Heather Schwedel

8 hours ago

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

6 hours ago

Well, That's One Way to Kick Trump Disciples Out of Your Government -- Imogen West-Knights

1 day ago

What Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong's Loss in Wisconsin Really Means for the Democratic Party -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

17 hours ago

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

7 hours ago

Trump's Latest Obsession Will Be a Huge Headache for Todd Blanche -- Shirin Ali

16 hours ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

1 day ago

I'm a Performance Coach. I Have a Word of Caution for Parents Who Are Using Popular New Baby Tech. -- Steve Magness

2 days ago

I Desperately Want a Baby. What I Need to Do to Get One Can Take Me to a Dark Place. -- Sammi LaBue

3 days ago

true - dear prudence - My Sister Just Revealed What She's Really Been Up to With an Older Cousin. Our Family Wants Me to Keep an "Open Mind."

4 days ago

care and feeding -- I Took a Video of What I Thought Was My Child Enjoying a Classic Childhood Activity. My Wife Was Not So Charmed.

4 days ago

how to do it -- I'm a Divorced Mom Who Just Started Dating Again. I'm Very, Very Embarrassed by One Thing Everyone Is Doing These Days.

4 days ago

pay dirt -- I Own Several Vacation Properties. But There Are Two Guests I'll Never Let Stay, No Matter What It Does to My Marriage.

4 days ago

Jenée Desmond-Harris and Lizzie O'Leary -- I Came Home to Find a Very Unfamiliar Piece of Furniture. Then I Learned Exactly What My Husband Had Agreed To.

8 hours ago

Jessica Stoya and Rich Juzwiak -- I'm a Lesbian. Now I Want to Try Something Specific—With a Man.

9 hours ago

Kristin Wong -- I'm Almost 70 and I Have Nothing Saved for Retirement. My Next Move Could Make or Break Me.

1 day ago

Laura Helmuth - My Co-Workers Are Starting to Side-Eye Me for What I Do All Day at Work. If Only They Knew Why.

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

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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 Best New Show on TV Is on a Network You'd Never Expect -- Scaachi Koul -- It expertly merges so many threads of 2026 culture.

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

1 day ago

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

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We Lost Another Creator To AI, Boys -- ICYMI

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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

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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.

7 days ago

Slate Pears Game 364: Aug. 13, 2026

10 hours ago

Slate Crossword: Bird Dropping, Perhaps? (Five Letters) -- Quiara Vasquez

11 hours ago

Slate SoundBites for August 13, 2026 -- Jenny Fey

16 hours ago

Slate Mini Crossword for Aug. 13, 2026 -- Kiran Pandey

16 hours ago

View all -- News & Politics

2 years ago

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

6 days ago

What Grows on a Nuciferous Plant? -- Ray Hamel

8 hours ago

Trump Cares About Vaccines. Uh-Oh. -- What Next

16 hours ago

Did Trump really need to orchestrate the secret plane swap? David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and Juliette Kayyem

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