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Maybe Trump Is Giving Us the Capital City We Deserve -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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There Was One Widespread Rumor About the SNL Finale. It's Time for It to Come True. -- Scaachi Koul

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I Tried Out Those Weird Mushroom and Dandelion "Coffees" That Are All Over Social Media. What a Trip. -- Nadira Goffe

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Trump's New Grift Is His Most Brazen ... Ever? -- Jim Newell

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It's an Industry Almost Everyone Hates. Wall Street Loves It. It Could Demolish the Entire Economy. -- Nitish Pahwa

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Sterling K. Brown Just Got His First Great Villain Role, and He Knocked It Out of the Park -- Nadira Goffe

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Slate Mini Crossword for May 18, 2026 -- Nate Cardin

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My Wife Is Insisting on a $500 Cake for Our Daughter's Fifth Birthday. I Suspect She Has an Ulterior Motive. -- Arionne Nettles

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I Split a Suite With a Married Couple on Vacation. I Don't Know if We'll Ever Recover From the Fallout. -- Ilyce Glink

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The Four Secret Words That Allow Your Employer to Make You Do Almost Anything They Want -- Alison Green

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We Do a Lot of Sneering at "Virtue Signaling." It May Be Time to Rethink Our Approach. -- Michael Brownstein and Alex Madva

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I Know Way Too Much About Infectious Diseases. Here's Why I'm Considering Taking a Cruise With My Family Anyway. -- Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz

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It Costs $10. New Parents Have No Idea They'll Need It. -- Shannon Palus

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My Dad Couldn't Afford His Nursing Home, So My Family Made a Drastic Move. We're Not Alone. -- Anna De La Cruz

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Nicole Chung -- My Adult Son Legally Changed His Last Name. My Husband's Reaction Is Absurd.

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Jessica Stoya -- I Got Home From Work and Caught My Wife Betraying Me. I Can Use This to My Advantage.

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Kristin Wong -- My Friends Always Host Our Hang Outs in Their Home. They Have an Infuriating Habit.

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true - Jenée Desmond-Harris - My Husband's Family Treats His Ex-Wife Like She's Royalty. After What She Did, She Doesn't Deserve It.

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Jenée Desmond-Harris -- There's a Problem With Tipping a Percentage on Delivery Orders That No One Likes to Admit

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Rich Juzwiak -- I Normally Have a Much Higher Sex Drive Than My Husband. Then He Got Injured, and, Uh, Wow.

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Arionne Nettles -- My 6-Year-Old Son Started Screaming Bloody Murder on a Plane. The Reason Isn't At All What You'd Expect.

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Laura Helmuth -- Someone Reported My Boss. She Found Out, and She's Holding It Against Me.

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Danny M. Lavery -- Help! My Son Is Making a Big Mistake With His Wedding Guest List. His Fiancée Told Me Stay Out of It.

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Ilyce Glink -- My Daughter Wants to Move Home After College. I Said OK—With One Condition. Her Reaction is Off the Wall.

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How Do the Sex Scenes in Off Campus Stack Up to Heated Rivalry? Let's Evaluate. -- Nadira Goffe and Rebecca Onion -- If you're jonesing for another visit to "the Cottage," this might scratch the itch.

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Liberalism Under Siege: A Blueprint for Revival -- Gabfest Reads

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Right-Wing Creators Are In Their Flop Era -- ICYMI

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What's Fact and What's Fiction in The Wizard of the Kremlin -- Ellin Stein

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Bleached Hair + an Elvis Sneer = MTV Immortality -- Hit Parade

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Yes, a Beloved College Is Closing. But It's Not As Bad As It Seems. -- Ethan Ris -- I study higher education for a living. The data doesn't lie.

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Slate Crossword: "Peel Me a Grape" Type (Four Letters) -- Tim Croce

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Slate SoundBites for May 18, 2026 -- Jenny Fey

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Slate Mini Crossword for May 17, 2026 -- K. Austin Collins

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View all -- News & Politics

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He Spends His Days Tracking America's Wildest Conspiracy Theorists. What He's Seeing Lately Is Eye-Popping. Luke Winkie - Will Sommer has watched our politics descend into darkness. We're not ready for what's coming next.

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ICE Dragged Her from Her Car. She Says, See You In Court. -- What Next

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How Liberalism Became a Dirty Word -- John Dickerson

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true - Trump Thought He Could Wing It at His Summit With China's President. Not Exactly! Fred Kaplan

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How the SCOTUS Ruling in Callais Affects Reproductive Rights. -- Amicus

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In Baseball Slang, Who or What Is Uncle Charlie? Ray Hamel

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