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Friday, September 18, 2026 11:06 AM ET

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Trump's Greatest Political Boogeyman Really Is Alive and Well in America. If Only He Knew What They Were Doing. -- Alexander Sammon

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A New York Congressional Candidate Accidentally Perfected Something Unexpected: The Totally-Fine-Kinda-Charming Sex Scandal -- Christina Cauterucci

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His Dog Died in Boarding and Ignited a Scandal. It Happens More Often Than You'd Think. -- Taylor Prewitt

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The Sydney Sweeney Football Boob Ad Sexualizes Sydney Sweeney, Not Women in Sports -- Heather Schwedel

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A Trump Official Announced That the U.S. Has Weapons in Space. What's Going On Here? -- Fred Kaplan

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Pie: It's Gloppy, It's Soggy, It's Un-American -- Nathan Heller

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A Major New Oscar Contender Has Arrived. It Is Once Again About ... Putting on Hamlet. -- Sam Adams

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What Did the Kennedy Center Ever Do to Donald Trump? -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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Trump Is Aiming Again at a Familiar First-Term Target. The Consequences Could Be Deadly. -- Richard L. Revesz and Sarah Wheaton

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The Fracturing in American Judaism That Macklemore Just Exposed to the World -- Alex Kirshner

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The Daily Wire Decided to Make a Die Hard–esque Movie About Campus Protest. It Is As Deranged As You Might Think. -- Rebecca Onion

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A Promising Young TV Star Was Sentenced to 92 Years for a Brutal Crime He Says He Didn't Commit. Then a Prison Guard Delivered a Life-Changing Message. -- Wes Ferguson

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On 9/11, I Went on the Campaign Trail With Abdul El-Sayed. What I Saw Was Revealing. -- Aymann Ismail

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The Supreme Court Is Being Asked to Intervene in a Texas Surrogacy Battle. The Justices Must Say No. -- Evelyn Tenenbaum

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The Supreme Court Put Efforts to Ban the Abortion Pill on Hold. Louisiana Decided It Can't Wait That Long. -- Mary Ziegler

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Republicans Found an Ugly New Way to Undo Losses in Abortion and Gerrymandering Cases -- Michael Milov-Cordoba

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dear prudence -- I Want to Take My Brother-in-Law to Court Over Money He Borrowed for a Fake "Emergency."

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pay dirt -- A Surprise Notice From a Debt Collector Arrived at Our House. Then I Started to Unearth the Upsetting Truth.

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Jenée Desmond-Harris -- If Couples Can't Let Go of This Particular Battle, They're in for a Miserable Marriage

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Jessica Stoya and Rich Juzwiak -- I Went on Two Dates With a Guy. Then He Sent Me a Surprising Message About Where He Wants to Go From Here.

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Greg Lavallee -- My Pregnant Wife Has Given Me an Impossible Ultimatum. I Don't Know How to Choose.

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Athena Valentine and Elizabeth Spiers -- My Brother-in-Law Was Doing a Good Job Taking Care of My Ailing Sister. Then Things Got Strange.

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Laura Helmuth -- The 21-Year-Old Intern Just Got Hired for a Role She Definitely Isn't Qualified For. There's Something Fishy Going On.

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We Might Finally See Consequences for Gerrymandering Abuses -- For exactly one year, Missouri has been locked in a confusing legal battle over which congressional map it can use for the November elections. -- Shirin Ali

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true - Another Civil War Would Be Bad. A New Book Imagines Something Even Worse. Laura Miller - Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven imagined a flu apocalypse. Her Exit Party gives us civil war, and then some.

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Forbidden Alphas, Cursed Billionaires, & The Rise Of Microdramas -- ICYMI

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John Mulaney Had One Moment at the Emmys Too Hot for NBC. It Was the Best Part of the Show. -- Nadira Goffe

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When My Sister's Addiction Killed Her, I Turned Into a Manic Detective. It Turns Out I Wasn't Alone. -- Dina Gachman

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One of Jeopardy's Most Beloved Traditions Vanished. I Spent Months Talking to the People Whose Lives It Changed. Then I Got Some News. -- Claire McNear

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Millennials and Gen Z Are Coping With "Burnout" in a Weird New Way. It's Not As Cute As They Think. Courtney Iseman - What I'm seeing out here has me shaken and stirred.

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Slate SoundBites for September 18, 2026 -- Jenny Fey

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Slate Mini Crossword for Sept. 18, 2026 -- Nate Cardin

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Trumpworld Has Found Its New Jeffrey Epstein - Joshua Kolb - The ties with the Tate brothers are deep.

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