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She Was Teen-Celebrity Royalty. He Said She Had "Cottage Cheese Thighs." It's Affected My Life More Than I'd Like to Admit. Krista Diamond

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Britain Just Issued Another Shocking Ban for People Under 16. This One Is Going to Be a Fight. -- Imogen West-Knights

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Stephen Miller Was Closer to Realizing His Scariest Idea Than We Ever Knew -- Shirin Ali

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He Wanted to Study Business. He Ended Up Romance-Scamming Older Women. He Told Me Everything. -- Carlos Barragán

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Toy Story 5 Takes On a Dark Subject—and Comes Away the Best Pixar Sequel in Years -- Dana Stevens

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Spielberg Never Told Her That Her Scene Would Be the Movie's Climax. Now She's Going Viral for Her Performance. -- David Mack

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It's the Most Controversial Scene in One of the 2000s' Most Polarizing Movies.What if We Got It Wrong? -- Jeffrey Bloomer

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Trump Gave His Fed Pick One Job. About That ... -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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There Are Some Real Humdingers in Trump's Iran Deal -- Fred Kaplan

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Slate Mini Crossword for June 18, 2026 - Nate Cardin

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J.D. Vance Went on The View. His Interview Was Very Different From What I—or He—Expected. -- Heather Schwedel

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How Does Susan Collins Keep Winning? -- Jim Newell

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He Spent a Month Investigating How Susan Collins Keeps Beating Democrats. Here's What He Found.

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My Kids Are Going To Get a Windfall When I Die. Only One of Them Can Handle It. -- pay dirt

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My Biggest Fears About My Mom Were Just Confirmed. I Dread the Call I'll Get Next. -- dear prudence

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I Thought We'd Found a Fix for My Daughter's School Problem. Now We're Back at the Start—and Out $5,000. -- care and feeding

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true - Rich Juzwiak - I'm Interested in a New Woman. But Now I've Found Her Online Posts—and Her Niche Sexual Interest Is Alarming to Say the Least.

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Nicole Chung -- A Local Mom Posted That Her Daughter Was Looking for New Friends. I Answered Her Ad—Big Mistake.

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Kristin Wong -- My Job Pays for Our Mortgage and Daycare. But I Might Give It All Up for My Spouse's Career.

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Doree Shafrir -- My Older Male Co-Workers Are Making Insinuations About Me and My Boss. I Don't Want to Hear It.

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Jenée Desmond-Harris and Lizzie O'Leary -- I Finally Took an Ancestry Test. The Results Are Even More Shocking Than I Expected.

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Jessica Stoya and Rich Juzwiak -- I Found a List My Wife Made Comparing Me to Another Man. What She Wrote Haunts Me.

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Laura Helmuth -- I Found My Unemployed Girlfriend a Good Job. The Way She "Repaid" Me Is Unacceptable.

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The Dumbest Way Pete Hegseth Is Draining the Military - Mary Harris

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The Supreme Court Will Decide Whether ICE Can Hold People Indefinitely. We Should All Be Worried. -- The case the Supreme Court granted review for on Monday focuses on the detention of lawful permanent residents. -- Alexis Romero

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It's Incendiary. It's All Too Common. It's One of the Most Annoying Cop-Outs on TV. -- Imogen West-Knights -- Shows like Alice and Steve, Yellowjackets, and Stranger Things are all guilty of falling back on the same cliché.

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Why Is This One Film Shot So Sticky? -- Decoder Ring

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It's Disclosure Day for the Final Culture Gabfest Summer Strut -- Culture Gabfest

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Welp, It's Time to Fess Up: We Got Sunlight All Wrong -- Rowan Jacobsen -- It's one of the only things that reliably increases health, longevity, and happiness. So why are we so hellbent on blocking it out?

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Slate SoundBites for June 18, 2026 -- Jenny Fey

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Slate Mini Crossword for June 17, 2026 -- Quiara Vasquez

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The Lorenz Curve Is a Graphical Representation of Which Data? -- Ray Hamel

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Trump's War Is Still Going to Cost You -- What Next

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Another Racially Charged Verdict Has Split Americans. Here's the Real Scandal. -- Robyn Nicole Sanders

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J.D. Vance's Book Is Actually Two Books. One Is Good. One Shows How Far He Has Fallen. Molly Olmstead

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