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Slate - Top Stories

America's Most Famous Pastor Just Revealed How He Treats His Wife. It Tells Us Something About Evangelicals. Sarah Stankorb

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Parents Colluded With Corporations to Kill a Beloved Halloween Tradition. I Think It's Time We Raise It From the Grave. -- Chason Gordon

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The U.S. Department of Education Posted an Incel Meme. It Gets Worse From There. -- Steffi Cao

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He's Boring. He's an Establishment Democrat. Up Close He's ... Actually Kind of Great? -- Susan Matthews

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Why There's a Real Risk of a Replay of the 2020 Election Come Tuesday -- Shirin Ali

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I Wanted to Understand What Israelis Think of This Election. What I Learned Was Chilling. -- Tamara Davison

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How to Lose Your Party a Senate Seat: Alaska Edition -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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We Finally Know Why Trump Has Tried So Hard to Hide the Epstein Files - Jill Filipovic

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People's New Sexiest Man Alive Is Proving Weirdly Controversial -- Nadira Goffe

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She's an Oscar Winner. She's About to Star in a Scorsese Film. I Can't Figure Out Why She's Doing ... This. -- Heather Schwedel

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We Bought a House. We Had Help From My Husband's Parents. It Was One of the Biggest Mistakes We've Ever Made. -- Meghan Nesmith

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Trump's Real Goal in America Is Clear in One Town. It's Haunting to Visit. -- Alexander Sammon

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Everyone in the Film Is Playing a Character, but Only One Performer Is Utterly Convincing -- Isaac Butler

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Elizabeth Holmes Is a Fraudster. It's Astonishing What Nathan Fielder's Doc Makes of Her. -- Shannon Palus

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The Plan: Make One of the Most Acclaimed Documentaries of All Time and Win Best Picture at the Oscars -- Sam Adams

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true - pay dirt - I'm Getting Something Many Divorced People Would Be So Happy With. I Don't Want It!

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how to do it -- My Boyfriend Likes to Play Out Scenarios in Bed. Some of His Latest Ones Have Gotten a Little Personal.

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care and feeding -- Every Time Our Daughter Misbehaves, My Wife Pulls Out Her Phone. Then She Makes an Evil Threat.

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dear prudence -- My Uncle Gravely Offended a Friend at My Wedding. What Happened Next Is One for the History Books.

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Jenée Desmond-Harris and Lizzie O'Leary -- I Discovered a Secret That Broke Up My Sister's "Perfect" Relationship. Turns Out I'm Not So Good a Detective.

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Jessica Stoya and Rich Juzwiak -- I Accidentally Sent a Risqué Text to the Wrong Person. That's Not Even What My Boyfriend's Upset About.

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Jamilah Lemieux -- I Have Two 9-Year-Olds by Two Different Women. Now the Whole Thing is About to Blow Up.

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Kristin Wong -- I'm Cutting My Brother Off Over His Elaborate Halloween Decor

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Laura Helmuth - Every Morning, My Boss Gives Us an Unfiltered Look Into His Email Inbox. I've Seen Things I Shouldn't Have.

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She Will Not Stop Until Every Haitian Is Gone. And She's Happy to Tell You Why. -- Alexander Sammon

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One Literary Giant Is Rarely Associated With His Homeland. Make No Mistake: He's the Most Influential American Writer of All. -- Laura Miller -- Not Mark Twain, not Herman Melville, not F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Was the Strange, Long-Lost Icelandic Version of Dracula Written by Bram Stoker Himself? -- Decoder Ring

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The Documentary Dividing The Internet -- ICYMI

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Taika Waititi Adapted a Strange and Beautiful Novel. The Result Is Shaping Up to Be a Legendary Bomb. -- Laura Miller

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Some People Are Miserable at Work. You'd Think They'd Leave—but They Choose to Do Something Wild Instead. -- Alison Green -- Their hair is falling out and their cortisol is through the roof, but still, they choose to stay.

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Slate Crossword: Articles You Might Be Inclined to Write? (Five Letters) -- Chandi Deitmer

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true - Obama Won This State Twice. Republicans Have Since Taken It Over. Now Democrats Have Come Roaring Back. Ben Jacobs - Republicans were on the verge of a sweep here just two years ago. Now they're trying to limit their losses.

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Polls Inch Toward Democrats, and Voters Worry More About Corruption -- Political Gabfest

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What Is Defined Scientifically as a Force Multiplied by a Time Divided by an Area? -- Ray Hamel

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true - Democrats Have No Business Being Competitive in These Five States—but They Are - Ian Prasad Philbrick

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