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I've Finally Found the Drink That Deserves to Be Called "the Great American Cocktail." It's Probably Not What You Think. Jordan Weissmann

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The Ultimate Myth We Tell Ourselves About the U.S. -- Lizzie O'Leary

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The World Thinks Americans Only Eat Pizza-Nugget-Burgers. The Truth Is a Much More Interesting Story. -- Chason Gordon

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I've Learned One Magical Thing From Soccer Commentators. You Can Try It, Too. -- Clement Gelly

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The Drama Over This $40 Million Movie Reveals a Bleak Truth About the Future of Hollywood -- Nitish Pahwa

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Something Is Going On With Mitch McConnell's Health, and His Office Is Being Mighty Cagey About It -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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Trump Has Done Countless Bad Things to This Country. We're Pathologically Obsessed With the Most Insignificant One. -- Christina Cauterucci

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Hamilton Designed It. Jefferson Called It "Odious." And It Made Washington Take Up Arms Against His Own People. -- Brooke Barbier

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There's One Drink That Will Satisfy Everyone at Your Holiday Cookout. But It Comes With a Catch. -- N.C. Stevens

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Slate Crossword: Epoch When Mammals as We Know Them First Popped Up (Six Letters) -- Quiara Vasquez

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Think You're Smarter Than Slate's Features Editor? Find Out With This Week's News Quiz. -- Ray Hamel

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Everything We Know About Taylor Swift's Wedding Points Us to One Conclusion -- Heather Schwedel

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I'm Dating a Great Guy. We Need to Have an Unpleasant Conversation—One That's All Too Common. -- Unhinged

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I Loved That My Stepmom Had Started Creating Children's Books. Then I Stumbled on Her "Technique." -- Dear Prudence

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My Son Played a Simple Prank on My Sister-in-Law. She's Blowing This Way Out of Proportion. -- Care and Feeding

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true - how to do it - My Boyfriend Is Doing Something Really Creepy to Our Friends on ChatGPT. I Can't Believe He'd Violate Them Like That.

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true - dear prudence - My Estranged Sister Betrayed Me in the Worst Possible Way. Now I'm Supposed to Assist Her With a Life-or-Death Situation.

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CARE AND FEEDING -- Our Gay Friends Are Getting Married This Summer. I'm Disgusted by the Gift My Wife Wants to Give Them.

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CARE AND FEEDING -- My Niece Begged Me to Keep a Secret. But Keeping This One Could Get Her Hurt.

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Jenée Desmond-Harris -- When I First Had a Baby, Strangers Would Ask Me a Brazen Question. There's Only One Way to Respond.

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Rich Juzwiak -- My Boyfriend Wants Less Sex Since I Got Pregnant. The Reason He Gave Has Me Reeling.

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Jamilah Lemieux -- My Mother-in-Law Is So Obsessed With Making Sure Everyone Knows My Baby Is a Girl That She Crossed an Unforgivable Line

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Athena Valentine and Kristin Wong -- My Sister Wants to Feel Like a Princess on Her Wedding Day. I Have to Tell Her Something That's Going to Ruin That.

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Laura Helmuth - Quitting My Job Will Have Some Real Repercussions for the People I Help. The Guilt Is Eating Me Alive.

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Jamilah Lemieux -- My Husband Said He'd Make My Wish of Twin Babies Come True. Now That It's Time to Step Up, He's Balking!

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America Has Two Options at the Box Office This Fourth of July Weekend. The Choice Is Clear. Two new movies promise to tell a tale of the history of the United States. Only one truly captures it. Sam Adams

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true - Nina Totenberg Made a Mistake. But the Reaction Reveals a Much Bigger Problem. We're all focusing on the wrong part of NPR's retirement announcement error. Dahlia Lithwick and Sonja West

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Pacino. Scorsese. Oscar Isaac. Why Did These People All Sign On to Such a Terrible Movie? -- Laura Miller -- Netflix's star-packed, crazypants Dante movie is infernal.

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The True Successor to Yellowstone Is Clear. But There's One Key Difference. -- Rebecca Onion

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One of the Biggest Questions of the World Cup Comes From a Country With a Unique Name -- Alex Kirshner

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Their World Cup Team Lost Terribly. Yet They're Having the Most Fun. -- Aymann Ismail

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One of the Most Polarizing Figures in Media Has a Book Out. I'm Not Sure It's Even Meant to Be Read by Humans. -- Scaachi Koul

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Influencers Are Hitting Retirement -- ICYMI

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Every Child Seems to Take Part in a New, Exhausting Tradition These Days. Teachers Have Some Theories About Why. -- Kate Lindsay -- "They're just going to go to the classroom upstairs," one teacher pointed out.

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Slate Pears Game 323: Jul. 3, 2026

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Slate SoundBites for July 3, 2026 -- Jenny Fey and Lee Bullock

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Slate Mini Crossword for July 3, 2026 -- Kavin Pawittranon

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View all -- News & Politics

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What Was Really Going On With Republicans' Show of Rebellion Against Trump's War - Fred Kaplan - It was more posed than real.

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Why the Court's Long-Sought Ruling Has One Big Exception -- Political Gabfest

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The Deeper Meaning of Ketanji Brown Jackson vs. Clarence Thomas on Birthright Citizenship -- Robyn Nicole Sanders

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Off-the-Record: Toy Story 5 Did NOT Make Mary Cry - Mary Harris

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