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Sunday, February 22, 2026 6:15 AM ET

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Trump Betrayed the MAHA Movement This Week. RFK Jr.'s Reaction Was Telling. Molly Olmstead

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We Once Knew How to Protect Transgender Children. We Can Choose to Remember. -- Josh Ackley and Andrea Bastiani Archibald

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Bad Bunny Just Got the Last Laugh About His Super Bowl Halftime Show -- Chris Molanphy

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This Terrible New Olympic Event Must Be Exiled From the Games Forever -- Justin Peters

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The Saddest Winter Olympian Just Couldn't Stop Falling -- Justin Peters

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She Might Be the Most Beloved Millennial Star of All. She Just Pulled Off the Impossible. Scaachi Koul

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The Supreme Court Just Basically Held Up a "No Kings" Sign -- Jim Newell

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I Asked Jamaicans About Cool Runnings. They Have ... Mixed Feelings. -- Nadira Goffe

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One of the Olympics' Biggest Stars Is at the Center of a Bizarre Intra-Squad Drama -- Justin Peters

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We Just Saw the Creation of a New Kind of Figure Skating Hero -- Christina Cauterucci

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Americans Are Uniquely Infatuated With Bald Eagles. Too Bad Most of Us Have No Idea What They're Actually Like. -- Jason Bittel

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One of America's Great Traditions Is Dying. I'll Never Let It. Not Now That I Have Proof I Was Right All Along. -- Dan Kois

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Sober-Curiosity Led Me to the Manosphere. I'm Glad It Did. -- Andrew Moseman

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There's an Unspoken Rule About Birthday Parties at My Kid's School. Who Actually Wants This? -- Jesse Sposato

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true - Jenée Desmond-Harris and Lizzie O'Leary - Help! My Best Friend's Husband Has a Very Strange Set of "Rules." And Now He's Turning Them on Me.

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Greg Lavallee -- Costco Was a Core Part of My Childhood. My Wife Wants to Deny My Kids the Best Part.

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Laura Helmuth -- My Ex Husband Sabotaged My Career in the Most Ridiculous Way Possible. There's No Coming Back From This.

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Jenée Desmond-Harris -- Help! I've Kept My Distance From My Melodramatic Sister-in-Law. But She Just Sucked Me Back in With a Wild Accusation.

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Rich Juzwiak -- My Wife Swears I Did Something "Terrible" on Valentine's Day. I Think I'm the One Who's Owed an Apology.

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Jamilah Lemieux - My Ex Gave Our Boys Burner Phones for a Nefarious Reason. This Is Not "Harmless Fun."

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Elizabeth Spiers and Athena Valentine -- There Is a Clear Next Step for My Aging Parents. My Mother Is Furious at Me for Even Suggesting It.

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Laura Helmuth -- I'm Training the New, Young Guy at Work. Uh, Who's Going to Tell Him This Isn't How We Behave in an Office?

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Stephen Colbert Just Gave Brendan Carr a Free Lesson in the Streisand Effect -- Sam Adams -- CBS and the FCC are once again trying to control the Late Show host. So far, it's backfiring spectacularly.

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What James Van Der Beek's Family Is Doing After His Death Is Unexpected. It Really Shouldn't Be. Rachel Chapman - The backlash says a lot about our attitudes around money and illness.

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It's a Classic American Kids' Pastime. Why Are Parents Getting Tasered, Punched, and Arrested Over It? -- Nick Ripatrazone -- As a basketball dad, I know what I'm talking about.

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Slate Mini Crossword for Feb. 22, 2026 -- Adrianne Baik

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Trump Wants Veterans to Lose Benefits As Soon As Their PTSD Symptoms Are Treated. There's One Problem With That. Steve Kennedy - The consequences of this shift are not abstract.

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Texas Is Prosecuting a Midwife for Abortion. Its Case Is Already Falling Apart. -- Mary Ziegler

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A Priest's Journey Through Work, Faith, and Controversy -- John Dickerson

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SCOTUS Tells Trump His Illegal Tariffs Are Illegal. He Should Be Thanking the Justices. -- Amicus

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Trump Tried to Bully the Supreme Court on Tariffs. It Failed Spectacularly. -- Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern

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