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Who Produced a Series of Eight Satirical Paintings Titled A Rake’s Progress?

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Ray Hamel

Bob Woodward’s New Book Is About Biden, but the Most Urgent Takeaways Are About Trump

Tweet Share Share Comment It’s been three years since Bob Woodward’s last book chronicling the power games of the Washington elite—hardly a...

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Fred Kaplan

The Worst State in the Country for Domestic Violence May Take a Giant Leap Forward

Tweet Share Share Comment In 1998, April Wilkens was arrested for shooting and killing her abusive ex-fiancé. At trial, April testified that she...

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Rachel Zarrow

What Does It Mean for Something to Be Piquant?

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Ray Hamel

Swing-State Politics Is Rotting Our Brains and Harming Democracy

Tweet Share Share Comment The Electoral College is far and away the single most ridiculous institution in the democratic world. It was a...

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David Faris

An Abortion Fund Took a Stand Against Israel’s War in Gaza. The Fallout Was Extreme.

Tweet Share Share Comment It all started with an Instagram post. On a Monday in October 2023, Jade Hurley was looking for a way to acknowledge...

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Christina Cauterucci

Can Someone Send This Clown to Mars for the Next Month?

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, your favorite media product. You know how they used to say that Seinfeld was a show about nothing?...

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Jim Newell

The Supreme Court Takes a Nuclear Waste Case Almost Too Wild to Believe

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court took up a spate of new cases last week as the justices regrouped for a new term. Although the court is...

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Dahlia Lithwick And Mark Joseph Stern

The Phrase the Right Uses to Explain Why It’s OK That Trump Makes Things Up

Tweet Share Share Comment At an Oct. 5 rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump told a seemingly apocryphal story about a decades-old women’s...

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Ben Mathis-Lilley

Think You’re Smarter Than a Slow Burn Host? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

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Ray Hamel

Young Men Are Going in a Very Different Direction From Young Women. It Could Completely Upend Society.

Tweet Share Share Comment Something strange is going on with young men in America. For decades, young voters have leaned left compared to older...

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Jill Filipovic

John Roberts Knows He Lost the Public. Does He Care?

Tweet Share Share Comment You would be forgiven were you to find yourself suffering from some version of motion sickness when reading about Chief...

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Dahlia Lithwick

The Harris Campaign Is Making a Huge Mistake in North Carolina and Georgia

Tweet Share Share Comment Barely three weeks remain until Election Day, which means that the Kamala Harris campaign is pulling out all the stops....

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Alexander Sammon

The Gamma Knife Is Used Primarily to Treat Which Part of the Body?

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Ray Hamel

How One of the Most Powerful Conservative Legal Groups Is Fighting to Reshape America

If you heard about a well-funded right-wing group with a detailed plan to achieve conservative policy goals, you’d likely think of Project 2025....

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Susan Rinkunas

Why the Supreme Court May Not Decide the 2024 Election After All

Tweet Share Share Comment Some have speculated that the Supreme Court has kept its fall schedule light in case it decides to take up litigation...

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Richard L. Hasen

My Sister Insisted We Bring Our Kids to Her Wedding. Then Things Went Totally Off the Rails.

Slate Plus members get more  Care and Feeding every week. Have a question about kids, parenting, or family life?  Submit it here ! Dear Care and...

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Nicole Chung

Clarence Thomas Thinks the Real Victims Are Prosecutors Who Engage in Misconduct

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in Glossip v. Oklahoma, a death penalty case posing a question so bizarre...

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Mark Joseph Stern

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