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Over 170,000 Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? Nearly 200,000 Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? Microsoft Gave Nonprofits Free Software—Then Deleted Their Data - Microsoft Made a Quiet Change. Small Nonprofits Lost Everything. The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits - Small Nonprofits Say Microsoft Deleted Their Files Without Warning - Microsoft Quietly Ended a Popular Program. It Left Hundreds of Thousands of Nonprofits Out to Dry. document.getElementById('cmsxrn6a4001auqmazgkr1ofr@published') .querySelectorAll('span[data-promoline-variant]') [Math.floor(Math.random() * 7)].hidden = false - Microsoft Made a Quiet Change. Small Nonprofits Lost Everything. Nitish Pahwa

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Trump Just Dealt a Huge Blow to America's Standing in the World -- Fred Kaplan

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Trump Promised to Keep Us Out of Protracted Wars of Choice in the Middle East. We Are Now in a Protracted War of Choice in the Middle East.

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Who Cooks Up the Supreme Court's BS Originalist Ideas, Anyway? -- Mark Joseph Stern

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It Was One of the Biggest Scandals of the First Trump Term and It's Even Worse Now. Where Did It Go? -- Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern

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It's Obvious Now Why "Woke 1" Failed. I Have an Idea for How Progressives Can Be Less Annoying Next Time. -- Luke Winkie

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

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Try the Slate Mini! -- Nate Cardin

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Tech Oligarchs Have a Certain Future in Mind. It Completely Misunderstands How the World Works. -- Laura Miller

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Corruption, Autocracy, Murder: The List of Potential Trump Impeachment Charges Is Long -- Frank Bowman

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I Gazed Into the Abyss of Roku's New Slop Channel and Regret Everything -- Nitish Pahwa

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Amazon's Show of the Summer Will Stand the Test of Time -- Rebecca Onion

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HBO's Great New Sunday Night Show Is the Spiritual Successor to Watchmen -- Sam Adams

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Ilyce Glink -- I'm Fearful for the Future and Want to Do Something Specific With Our Cash. My Husband Has Other Plans.

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I Wish I Could Unsee What I Saw at the Trump Admin's New "Patriotic" Art Exhibit - Christina Cauterucci - The overarching impression is of a seasonal HomeGoods display around the Fourth of July.

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true - The Hottest Girl in the Country Is Making Millions Off Us. To Find Out Why, I Did the Unthinkable. Scaachi Koul - There's a common mistake we make in trying to figure her out.

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Slate SoundBites for August 18, 2026 -- Jenny Fey

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Bestselling Author Elizabeth Strout Grapples With Her 'Uptight' New England Tendencies -- Death, Sex & Money

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true - In the '90s, It Was Still an Essential Way to Connect With People. We've Lost It Entirely. We Shouldn't Have. Dan Kois

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true - J.D. Vance Is Learning an Important Foreign Policy Lesson the Hard Way - Fred Kaplan - This must have been an embarrassing moment for the vice president.

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The Nightmare on the USS Lincoln -- What Next

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A Pugilist Is Someone Engaged in Which Activity? -- Ray Hamel

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Can You Identify Which Item Cost More Than $10 in the 1897 Sears Roebuck and Co. Catalog? Ray Hamel

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