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Their First Book Changed the World. The Follow-Up Made Me Feel Something I Didn't Know I Could Feel. Rebecca Onion

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If You're Not Including This in Your New Year's Eve Plans, You're Starting 2026 Off on the Wrong Foot -- J. Bryan Lowder

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Brett Kavanaugh Seems to Regret His "Kavanaugh Stops" Opinion. Too Late. -- Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern

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Quentin Tarantino Is Talking Trash About Him, but He Had One of the Best Scenes of the Year -- Bilge Ebiri

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Well, That Is One Way to "Protect" Against Zohran Mamdani's Lawless New York -- Alexander Sammon

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The Case of the Disappearing Facelifts -- Hunter Lacey

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The Most Popular Stories of 2025 -- Hannah Docter-Loeb

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One State Supreme Court's Lazy "Shortcut" Erases Civil Rights -- Kyle C. Barry

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The Scariest Part of Weapons Is What It Refused to Explain -- Alison Willmore

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With Rob Reiner Dies a Whole Tradition of Hollywood Filmmaking -- Dana Stevens

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Slate Mini Crossword for Dec. 30, 2025 - Adrianne Baik

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The Very First Things the Next Democratic President Needs to Do After Taking Office -- Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern

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2025 Was the Year of Brainrot -- Kate Lindsay

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A Controversial Technology Makes Moms Like Me Possible. Some Doctors Aren't Totally Sold. -- Heather Grossmann

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Three Kids Thought They Got the College Acceptance of Their Dreams. When They Got to School, They Found Something Far Different. -- Josh Levin

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Rich Juzwiak -- I'm Dying to Try Group Sex. One Terrifying Little Thing Is Holding Me Back.

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Rebecca Onion - Help! My Husband Constantly Laments the "Failures" of Modern Medicine. Uh, I'm a Doctor.

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It Used to Be the Coolest Band in the World. How Did It Get So Cringe? Luke Winkie - Watching the set at the Knockdown Center, I became aware that my favorite band had become unfathomably lame.

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Two of Our Most Lovable Stars Made a Delightful Movie This Year. Then It Disappeared. -- Justin Chang

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true - The Supreme Court May Soon Regret Its Bet on Trumpism - Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern - Why did the conservative supermajority align with the president, and what consequences might it face for its choices?

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