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I Teach Gender-Based Policing at Cornell. Here's How My Campus Police Should Have Responded to Jane Doe. Sabrina Karim

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She Co-Wrote the Longest-Running No. 1 of All Time. Now Will She Finally Get Her Due? -- Carl Wilson

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Trump's Mental State Just Got Put on Full Display. It's Not Pretty. -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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A Notoriously Bonkers Bestselling Book Is Now an Even Wilder Movie Starring Anne Hathaway. It's Quite the Ride. -- Rebecca Onion

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Ted Cruz Wants It. Matthew McConaughey Wants It. It's Downright Evil. -- Alex Kirshner

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Christa Pike's Botched Execution Is a Travesty. Blame the Supreme Court's MAGA Majority. -- Austin Sarat

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Tierra Walker Died From Texas' Abortion Ban. Will Anyone Pay a Price? -- Mary Ziegler

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The "Cornell Seven" Rape Case Has Ignited the Country. Let's Talk About What We're Actually Talking About Here. -- Jill Filipovic

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

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Remember What It Was Like to Have a President Who Actually Reads? -- Laura Miller

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Netflix Adapted a Great American Classic. What Have They Done to It? -- Rebecca Onion

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He Was an Object of Mockery. Now He's Looking Like the Next Brad Pitt. I Think I Know What Changed. -- Isaac Butler

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dear prudence - I've Been Married for 10 Years. Every Year, One Part Gets Harder.

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Jenée Desmond-Harris -- A Childhood Injury Has Made My Life Harder in a Big Way. Then I Learned What Happens to Most People Who Experience It.

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Jessica Stoya -- I Just Discovered What My Husband Does Every Time I'm Out of Town. He's Not Who I Thought He Was.

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Jamilah Lemieux -- I Disrupted My Parents' Ridiculous Plot for My Nephew. They Don't See That They're the Problem!

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Elizabeth Spiers and Lillian Karabaic -- My Hobby Lifted Me Out of My Postpartum Depression. My Husband Insists It's Too Expensive.

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Laura Helmuth -- I Know Plenty of Working People Eat Lunch Like This. But This Isn't Right for a Professional Environment.

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true - She Was a College Beach Volleyball Star. Then She Was Abruptly Kicked Off the Team. The Real Threat to Women's Sports May Be to Blame. Maggie Mertens - Republicans have made women's sports a signature issue. What's really happening shows how cynical that is.

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I Stumbled Across My Boyfriend's ChatGPT. It Ended Our Relationship. Lindsey Hall - "I'm just not proud of her."

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true - The Supreme Court Just Took What Will Be the Blockbuster Case of the Term - Shirin Ali - On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court accepted what is sure to be the blockbuster case of its 2026–27 term.

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Jack Smith Testifies, and Senate Republicans Come Up Empty-Handed -- Political Gabfest

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true - Our Unpopular President Leads an Unpopular War. Remember What Dems Got the Last Time That Happened? Ian Prasad Philbrick

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