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Why It’s Not a Good Idea for Ukraine to Join NATO Now

Tweet Share Share Comment Is it time for Ukraine to join NATO? President Volodymyr Zelensky told a group of European leaders in Moldova on Thursday...

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Fred Kaplan

A Trans Pharmacist Went Viral for Testifying Before the Arkansas Legislature. Here’s Her Full Story.

Listen to What Next: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Tweet Share Share Comment If you know Gwendolyn Herzig’s name, it’s probably for a really...

yesterday 0

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Mary Harris

Biden Is Messaging the Debt Ceiling Deal Totally Wrong

Tweet Share Share Comment Late Thursday night, the Senate voted 63-36 to pass the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the budget proposal that, among other...

yesterday 0

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Alexander Sammon

Why Tim Scott Made His Virginity Key to His Political Persona

Tweet Share Share Comment If Sen. Tim Scott were elected president of the United States—and, given polling, that looks like a pretty big “if”...

yesterday 6

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Molly Olmstead

Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Jurisprudence Editor? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

yesterday 6

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Ray Hamel

The Slatest June 2: Why Tim Scott Made His Virginity Key To His Political Persona

Tweet Share Share Comment It’s more fun via email (promise).  This article first appeared in our  Slatest evening newsletter , which seeks to...

yesterday 9

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Slate Staff

Is Ron DeSantis Forgetting the Way His Wife Wants Him to Pronounce His Name?

Tweet Share Share Comment Here’s an odd thing about Ron DeSantis: He doesn’t seem to have a consistent way to pronounce his own last name. This...

yesterday 1

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Molly Olmstead

The Slatest June 1: One of the Supreme Court’s Biggest Cases This Term Is Totally Fake

Tweet Share Share Comment It’s more fun via email (promise).  This article first appeared in our  Slatest evening newsletter , which seeks to...

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Slate Staff

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is Totally Fake

Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of Opinionpalooza , Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. Support our...

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Mark Joseph Stern

The Supreme Court Sleeper Case That Poses an Existential Threat to Artistic Freedom

Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of  Opinionpalooza , Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. We’re...

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Mark Joseph Stern

Oklahoma Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling Shows Path Forward in Deep Red States

Tweet Share Share Comment When the Oklahoma Supreme Court first declared a limited state constitutional right to abortion in March, many didn’t bat...

previous day 30

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Mary Ziegler

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is Rooted in a Lie

Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of Opinionpalooza , Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. Support our...

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Elie Mystal

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of Opinionpalooza , Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. Support our...

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Jay Willis

There’s Unsettling New Evidence About William Rehnquist’s Views on Segregation

Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of Opinionpalooza , Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. We’re working...

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Richard L. Hasen And Dahlia Lithwick

No “Foul Sandwiches” in Sight as Debt Ceiling Bill Cruises Toward Passage

Tweet Share Share Comment On Wednesday, Slate published a summary of the state of affairs on Capitol Hill that was organized around the concept of...

previous day 1

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Ben Mathis-Lilley

The Details of the Atlanta Bail Fund Arrest Are More Horrific Than First Described

Tweet Share Share Comment Early on Wednesday morning, police officers from the Atlanta Police Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigations...

previous day 1

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Jocelyn Simonson

Who’s Really Winning (and Losing) the Duel Over the Debt Ceiling

Tweet Share Share Comment In Washington, everyone is counting. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is tallying up Republican votes in favor of the debt...

wednesday 20

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Alexander Sammon

The Slatest May 31: What I Learned When I Talked to Clarence Thomas’ Mom

Tweet Share Share Comment It’s more fun via email (promise).  This article first appeared in our  Slatest evening newsletter , which seeks to...

wednesday 4

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Slate Staff

What I Learned When I Talked to Clarence Thomas’ Mom

Listen to Slow Burn: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Tweet Share Share Comment Pin Point, Georgia, is a tiny place, just about a mile from end to...

wednesday 10

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Joel Anderson

Guess Which Former Supreme Court Justice Says Judges “Don’t Have That Much Power”

Tweet Share Share Comment This is an abridged version of an article reported and published by  the Marshall Project,  a nonprofit news...

wednesday 10

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Beth Schwartzapfel

How Kevin McCarthy Split the Bozo Caucus

Tweet Share Share Comment A decade ago, the U.S. government shut down because Texas Sen. Ted Cruz wanted to repeal Obamacare. Five years ago, it...

wednesday 4

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Ben Mathis-Lilley

Former Governors of Which State Just Came Out Against the Death Penalty?

Tweet Share Share Comment Last week, Don Siegelman and Robert Bentley, two former governors of Alabama, published a remarkable statement expressing...

wednesday 4

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Austin Sarat

Ron DeSantis’ New Target: 8-Year-Old Kids of Asian Descent

Tweet Share Share Comment “Why should I have to bring my U.S. passport to prove my worthiness when buying property when you guys don’t?” Peter...

wednesday 1

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Azadeh Shahshahani And Juilee Shivalkar

The Women of Israel Will Not Let Their Country Backslide Into Theocracy Without a Fight

Tweet Share Share Comment Last week represented the 20th consecutive weekend in which Israeli activists took to the streets, in cities throughout...

30.05.2023 40

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Dahlia Lithwick

The Urgent Warning That Got Cut From a Supreme Court Opinion 20 Years Ago

Tweet Share Share Comment More than 20 years ago, then-Supreme Court Justice David Souter tried to warn that big money in politics risked turning...

30.05.2023 30

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Richard L. Hasen

At a Boozy Party for Some of America’s Richest Republicans, Everyone Was Anxious—and No One Wanted to Hear a Certain Name

The party was on at a gathering of unsung Republican heavyweights, and I was in search of the armadillo racing. The booze was flowing: Open bars...

30.05.2023 40

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Alexander Sammon

The Slatest May 30: Come Stare Into the Republican Soul With Us

Tweet Share Share Comment It’s more fun via email (promise).  This article first appeared in our  Slatest evening newsletter , which seeks to...

30.05.2023 4

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Slate Staff

It Took Alito Barely a Month to Violate the Supreme Court’s New Ethics Rules

Tweet Share Share Comment On April 25, Chief Justice John Roberts sent the Senate Judiciary Committee a “Statement on Ethics Principles and...

30.05.2023 9

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Mark Joseph Stern

This Makes It Harder for Putin to Sell His Narrative About the War

Tweet Share Share Comment The drone attack on Moscow early Tuesday morning showed that the war is real and near, not just for Ukrainians, but for...

30.05.2023 4

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Fred Kaplan

Is Student Debt Forgiveness Happening, or What?

Tweet Share Share Comment Over the past few weeks, you may have seen headlines swirling around President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness...

29.05.2023 10

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Shirin Ali

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