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What People in the Room and Outside It Are Now Saying About Trump’s “S---hole Countries” Remark

It’s Small, Brazen Acts Like This One That Will Move the Sexual Harassment Fight in the Right Direction

Vikings Beat Saints on Insane Final-Play TD, First in Playoff History

Cranberries Lead Singer Dolores O’Riordan Dies at Age 46

Interrogation

Enough With the Palace Intrigue

Media critic Margaret Sullivan says news readers don’t care about power moves within the White House.

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A Short Blurb Helped Cause the Opioid Crisis. That’s Just the Start of Science’s Citation Woes.

Black Mothers Are Struggling Most From America’s Deteriorating Workplace Conditions and Benefits

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Hawaii Missile Scare Reactions: “This Is How You’re Going to Die—in a Place That’s a Paradise”

Four Ways We’ve Distorted the History of the Civil Rights Movement

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News & Politics

The Slate Quiz

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Trump Revises Total Syria Withdrawal Plan, Will Keep 200 U.S. Peacekeeping Forces

A Show, but a Riddle Too

Antitrust Law Could Help Mueller Prove That Trump Officials Conspired With Russia

Alexander Acosta, Now a Trump Official, Broke Federal Law in Brokering Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 Plea Deal

The Angle: Jussie Smollett’s Case Won’t Change How We Perceive Hate Crimes

North Carolina Orders New Election in Disputed U.S. House Race

Polish Activists Topple Statue of Iconic Priest as Vatican Summit on Sex Abuse Begins

Business

Moneybox

Feb. 21 2019 1:39 PM Trump’s Bizarre Tweet About China and 6G Wireless Tech, Unpacked Jordan Weissmann

Elizabeth Warren Gets That Child Care Is Key to the Economy

The Startup That Wants to Sell You a Subscription to Miami Beach Tap Water Explains Itself

Every Democrat Should Talk About Health Care Like Amy Klobuchar Does

Cathy O’Neil Talks About Surviving Overtravel

Here’s What It’s Like to Train Horses at Medieval Times

Withholdings and Refunds in the First Tax Season Under the New Law

Moderate Democrats Are in Love With a Tepid and Outdated Idea to Fix Health Care

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June 5 2018 4:00 PM Dear Prudence Live Chat For June 11, 2018. Daniel Mallory Ortberg

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Part-Time Work Isn’t the Solution to Mothers’ Work-Life Woes

Help! My Husband Is Embarrassed by Our Infertility.

Help! Will Becoming a Foster Parent Ruin My Love Life?

What’s a Male Ally to Do? Try These Five Things.

Help! Everyone Keeps Telling Me to Go to Therapy—Please Make It Stop!

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Double X

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Hollywood’s Official Response to #MeToo Is Off to a Rocky Start

A Close Look at the Many Times We’ve Anointed “The Year of the Woman” Before

The Best, Most Searing Writing on Sexual Harassment This Year

Evangelical Women, Long Acculturated to Shun “Negative” Topics, Are Speaking Out About #MeToo

USA Gymnastics Paid McKayla Maroney $1.25 Million to Stay Silent About Her Alleged Sexual Abuse

Democrats Should Follow the Doug Jones Playbook on Abortion Rights

Slate Plus

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The Cambridge Analytica Mess Reveals That Even Careful Policies Can’t Protect Our Data

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Sept. 22 2018 8:32 AM Why Is Autumn the Only Season With Two Names? Forrest Wickman

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SNL’s Steve Bannon Finally Takes off His Grim Reaper Mask and He Looks a Lot Like Bill Murray

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Eliza Dushku Accuses Stunt Coordinator Joel Kramer of Sexually Assaulting Her When She Was 12

Ashley Judd Thinks James Franco’s Response to Allegations Against Him Has Been “Terrific”

Technology

Future Tense

Feb. 22 2019 5:50 AM What the Success of Netflix’s Roma Foretells for the Future of Film By official counts, the film hasn’t made a penny from the box office. But it’s paving a new path to prestige.

Climate Change Is Not a “National Emergency”

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Now, Even the Freezer Aisle Is Tracking You

It Sure Looks Like Trolls Are Weaponizing Call-Out Culture to Weaken Democrats

New York City Fends Off Fatbergs

Who Do You Call When You’re the Victim of a Cybercrime?

Health & Science

Science

Jan. 12 2018 5:09 PM Did Ryan Zinke Give Florida an Offshore Drilling Exemption Because of Mar-a-Lago? Everything Zinke says to justify Florida’s exemption applies to every other coastal state. Except one thing. Neel V. Patel

Facebook’s Revamp Is Also an Effort to Fight Fake News. Will It Work?

It’s Surprisingly Easy to Lose a Satellite, Even One Worth Millions

Is Watching the News Actually Bad for Your Health?

How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudoscientific American Fantasyland

What Doctors Suggest You Do About the Flu This Winter

Will Puerto Rico’s Official Death Count From Maria Ever Be Accurate?

Sports

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NFL Coaches Are Making Better Fourth-Down Decisions. They Still Have a Long Way to Go.

What the Orlando Magic Tell Us About the NBA’s Crazy Start

The World’s Best Three-on-Three Basketball Player Is a Serbian Nicknamed Mr. Bullutproof

The Houston Astros’ Players Are Easy to Love. Their Front Office Is Not.

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