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It Seems Impossible. It Can Kill You. Come Along With Me as I Try It—Because You Should, Too. Tamara Davison

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There's One Series I've Recommended Over and Over. It's Proved a Hit With Everyone. -- Laura Miller

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Conservatives Are Using a Trojan Horse to Try to Kill RBG's Greatest Legacy. It Might Just Work. -- Reva Siegel and Mary Ziegler

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A Dystopian New Movie Has the Weirdest Premise Ever. Here's Everything You've Wanted to Know. -- Nadira Goffe

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I'm Beginning to Feel a Little Disturbed by a Certain Pattern in Netflix's Movies -- Sam Adams

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Slate Crossword: Baltic Country That Pioneered Online Voting -- Quiara Vasquez

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Slate Mini Crossword -- K. Austin Collins

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One Of My Ex's Family Members Randomly Confessed Something Shocking to Me. Then He Did Something That Made My Jaw Drop. -- Rich Juzwiak

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He's the Greatest Boogeyman of Democrats and Republicans Alike. We're About to Find Out if He's for Real. -- Luke Winkie

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The Real Reason Rand Paul Put a DOJ Target on Anthony Fauci's Back -- Shirin Ali

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They're the Most Annoying Creatures on the Planet. You Don't Know What They're Going to Unleash on America. -- Marianne Dhenin

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There's One Simple Word the Left Needs to Start Saying if They Want to Win -- Luke Winkie

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One Genius Recipe Has Solved Everything Wrong With Potato Salad. So Why Does No One Know About It? -- Danny Palumbo

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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."

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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.

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Jenée Desmond-Harris -- When My Dad Dies, I'll Empty His House. I Have to Destroy the Evidence!

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Rich Juzwiak -- My Aunt Spied On My Boyfriend In the Shower. Uh, Now She's Making Wild Accusations About Him.

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Michelle Herman -- My Family Is Trying to Push My Grandma Out of Her House. Their Ulterior Motives Are Plain as Day.

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Kristin Wong -- I Think My Brother Is Trying to Steal the Family Business. My Parents Refuse to Get Involved.

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Laura Helmuth -- My Boss Clearly Has a Favorite. She Gets Away With More Than I Ever Could.

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true - Bartenders Everywhere Are Swooning Over a New Cocktail Ingredient. I'm Not Sure You're Going to Like It. You might want to have a spoon ready for this. Courtney Iseman

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An Acclaimed Novelist's New Book Is Supposedly a "Literary Assassination" of Natalie Portman. I've Read It. It's Something Much Weirder. -- Laura Miller -- Readers are titillated over the idea that Rachel Cusk's Life of M dishes the dirt on her movie star friend.

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How a Titanic Voice Helped Power the World's Biggest Movie -- Hit Parade

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The Internet Can't Be Normal About Weight -- ICYMI

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The Brilliant, Funny, Strange New Movie That Grapples With a 1980s Cult Classic -- Sam Adams

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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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true - It Might Be the Best Thing a Corporation Has Ever Done. It's Finally Back. Rainesford Stauffer

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View all -- News & Politics

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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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We've Debunked the Supreme Court's Monopoly on the Constitution. Whaddaya Gonna Do About It? -- Amicus

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Senate Floor Speeches Rarely Matter. This One Did. And It Was Terrible. -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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Off the Record: Democrats Go to War (With Other Democrats) -- What Next

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Think You're Smarter Than Slate's Senior Director of Podcast Operations? Find Out With This Week's News Quiz. -- Ray Hamel

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Nobody in American Politics Can Figure Out When to Back Down - Jim Newell

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