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Which of the Characters in The Wizard of Oz Best Befits the Adjective Pusillanimous?

Which of the Characters in The Wizard of Oz Best Befits the Adjective Pusillanimous?

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Ray Hamel

Rebuilding Community and Restoring Meaning in America

Listen to Gabfest Reads: Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. This month, Emily Bazelon talks with...

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Emily Bazelon

I Went to Trump’s New Reflecting Pool. I Found Something Floating. Then I Drowned in Metaphors.

I Went to Trump’s New Reflecting Pool. I Found Something Floating. Then I Drowned in Metaphors.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Something dark and flat...

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Christina Cauterucci

This Is the Week J.D. Vance Became Vice President

This Is the Week J.D. Vance Became Vice President

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Jim Newell

Think You’re Smarter Than the Writer Behind the Slatest? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

Think You’re Smarter Than the Writer Behind the Slatest? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

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Ray Hamel

Neil Gorsuch’s New Gun-Rights Decision Is a Love Letter to Legal Weed

Neil Gorsuch’s New Gun-Rights Decision Is a Love Letter to Legal Weed

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The Supreme Court...

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The Supreme Court Issued an 8–1 Ruling on Plea Deals. The Accord Won’t Last.

The Supreme Court Issued an 8–1 Ruling on Plea Deals. The Accord Won’t Last.

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court. Keep up with all of our Supreme Court coverage and...

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Alexis Romero

America Found Something It Loves More Than It Loves the War on Drugs.

America Found Something It Loves More Than It Loves the War on Drugs.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Another day, another...

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This Content Is Available For Slate Plus Members Only True Ian Prasad Philbrick

J.D. Vance Wrote a Tragedy. He Just Doesn’t Know it.

J.D. Vance Wrote a Tragedy. He Just Doesn’t Know it.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. For its first 177 pages,...

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Molly Olmstead

I Went to a Jack Schlossberg Event. I Can’t Believe I’m Saying This: He Should Win.

I Went to a Jack Schlossberg Event. I Can’t Believe I’m Saying This: He Should Win.

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J.D. Vance’s Book Is Actually Two Books. One Is Good. One Shows How Far He Has Fallen.

J.D. Vance’s Book Is Actually Two Books. One Is Good. One Shows How Far He Has Fallen.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. For its first 177 pages,...

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Molly Olmstead

Stephen Miller Was Closer to Realizing His Scariest Idea Than We Ever Knew

Stephen Miller Was Closer to Realizing His Scariest Idea Than We Ever Knew

This is Executive Dysfunction, a newsletter that highlights one under-the-radar story about how Trump is changing the law—or how the law is pushing...

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Shirin Ali

The Lorenz Curve Is a Graphical Representation of Which Data?

The Lorenz Curve Is a Graphical Representation of Which Data?

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Ray Hamel

There Are Some Real Humdingers in Trump’s Iran Deal

There Are Some Real Humdingers in Trump’s Iran Deal

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Now that the text of the...

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Another Racially Charged Verdict Has Split Americans. Here’s the Real Scandal.

Another Racially Charged Verdict Has Split Americans. Here’s the Real Scandal.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Long before the jury...

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Robyn Nicole Sanders

Trump Gave His Fed Pick One Job. About That …

Trump Gave His Fed Pick One Job. About That …

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. It’s been a big day for...

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The Supreme Court Will Decide Whether ICE Can Hold People Indefinitely. We Should All Be Worried.

The Supreme Court Will Decide Whether ICE Can Hold People Indefinitely. We Should All Be Worried.

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court. Keep up with all of our Supreme Court coverage and...

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Alexis Romero

The Dumbest Way Pete Hegseth Is Draining the Military

The Dumbest Way Pete Hegseth Is Draining the Military

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. For the past few months,...

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Mary Harris

Which London Theater Burned Down During a Performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII in 1613?

Which London Theater Burned Down During a Performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII in 1613?

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Ray Hamel

The One Part of the White House Lawn Fight Spectacle That Managed to Be Legitimately Infuriating

The One Part of the White House Lawn Fight Spectacle That Managed to Be Legitimately Infuriating

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Freedom isn’t free, and...

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Laura Jedeed

He Spent a Month Investigating How Susan Collins Keeps Beating Democrats. Here’s What He Found.

He Spent a Month Investigating How Susan Collins Keeps Beating Democrats. Here’s What He Found.

This story is adapted from Slate’s new and revamped Slatest newsletter. You can sign up here to get it in your inbox every day. The new mission of...

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Ian Prasad Philbrick

Which Country Singer Has Had a Record 44 No. 1 Songs on the Billboard Hot Country Chart?

Which Country Singer Has Had a Record 44 No. 1 Songs on the Billboard Hot Country Chart?

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Ray Hamel

How Does Susan Collins Keep Winning?

How Does Susan Collins Keep Winning?

The 2020 election made Maine Sen. Susan Collins a political legend. National Democrats, who’d effectively let Collins walk to victory in 2014,...

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Jim Newell

Has an Idaho Doctor Discovered a Loophole in Dobbs?

Has an Idaho Doctor Discovered a Loophole in Dobbs?

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court. Keep up with all of our Supreme Court coverage and...

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Reva Siegel And Mary Ziegler

Alabama’s Post-Callais Maps Violate a COVID-Era Clause in the State Constitution

Alabama’s Post-Callais Maps Violate a COVID-Era Clause in the State Constitution

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, states across the South have...

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Katie Glenn

Trump Says the Deal With Iran Is Complete. Not So Fast.

Trump Says the Deal With Iran Is Complete. Not So Fast.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. President Donald Trump...

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Fred Kaplan

Donald Trump Says He Made a Peace Deal With Iran. Will It Stick?

Donald Trump Says He Made a Peace Deal With Iran. Will It Stick?

This story is adapted from Slate’s new and revamped Slatest newsletter. You can sign up here to get it in your inbox every day. Donald Trump has...

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Ian Prasad Philbrick

What Word Refers to the Clothing, Bedding, and Accessories of a Newborn?

What Word Refers to the Clothing, Bedding, and Accessories of a Newborn?

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Ray Hamel

Republicans Would Rather Get Rid of This Agency Than Upset Trump. That’s a Terrible Idea.

Republicans Would Rather Get Rid of This Agency Than Upset Trump. That’s a Terrible Idea.

Last week, when President Donald Trump was about to nominate Bill Pulte, the head of his housing-finance authority, to be director of national...

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This Content Is Available For Slate Plus Members Only True Fred Kaplan

It’s My Favorite Sport. It’s Trump’s Too. But It’s Not As MAGA As He’d Have You Believe.

It’s My Favorite Sport. It’s Trump’s Too. But It’s Not As MAGA As He’d Have You Believe.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I did not ask to be born...

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How America’s Birthday Got Hijacked

How America’s Birthday Got Hijacked

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Jim Newell

Our Most MAGA Court Created Another Mess for SCOTUS to Clean Up

Our Most MAGA Court Created Another Mess for SCOTUS to Clean Up

The nation’s most conservative appeals court keeps getting beaten up at the Supreme Court, but its judges adamantly refuse to take the hint. On...

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Alexis romero and mark joseph stern

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

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

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Ray Hamel

Trump Hasn’t Shed His Biggest Delusion About Iran

Trump Hasn’t Shed His Biggest Delusion About Iran

President Trump was at it again Thursday morning, issuing threats on Iran that nobody (least of all Iranians) could take seriously and likening the...

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This Content Is Available For Slate Plus Members Only True Fred Kaplan

KBJ Just Blasted Amy Coney Barrett’s “Contempt” for Congress

KBJ Just Blasted Amy Coney Barrett’s “Contempt” for Congress

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court. Keep up with all of our Supreme Court coverage and...

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What Trump, Mussolini, and Other Autocrats Can Never Understand About Soccer

What Trump, Mussolini, and Other Autocrats Can Never Understand About Soccer

The best games of my life had no crowd. A field in Chile, the dirt gone to red mud in the rain. A pitch in Cambodia where the turf was just the part...

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Flynn Coleman

What’s Going On in Donald Trump’s Brain as He’s Turning 80? He’s Given Us Some Clues.

What’s Going On in Donald Trump’s Brain as He’s Turning 80? He’s Given Us Some Clues.

Trump Brain is a series about what’s really going on in the president’s head, on his 80th birthday.  The president of the United States is about...

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Nitish Pahwa

What’s Going On in Donald Trump’s Head? We Don’t Have Brain Scans. We Do Have This.

What’s Going On in Donald Trump’s Head? We Don’t Have Brain Scans. We Do Have This.

This is the year the first baby boomers—those born in 1946—turn 80, and that cohort includes Donald Trump. (His big day is June 14.) We have all...

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Slate Staff

​​One Trump Obsession Says More About Him Than Any Other

​​One Trump Obsession Says More About Him Than Any Other

Trump Brain is a series about what’s really going on in the president’s head, on his 80th birthday.  Four decades ago, Donald Trump was a New...

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Christina Cauterucci

Experience What It Feels Like to Live Inside Trump’s Baffling Brain

Experience What It Feels Like to Live Inside Trump’s Baffling Brain

In honor of Donald Trump’s 80th birthday and our attempt to understand what goes on in the president’s brain, we have created Sad!Libs, like an...

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Tony Ho Tran

The Trump DOJ’s Threat Against California’s Vote Is a Bluff

The Trump DOJ’s Threat Against California’s Vote Is a Bluff

This is Executive Dysfunction, a newsletter that highlights one under-the-radar story about how Trump is changing the law—or how the law is pushing...

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Shirin Ali

The Parotid Gland Is Located in Which Part of the Body?

The Parotid Gland Is Located in Which Part of the Body?

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Ray Hamel

In December 2024, Which Middle Eastern Country Added a Third Star to Its Flag?

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Ray Hamel

Republicans Have the Chance to Do the Funniest Thing Ever With Todd Blanche’s Nomination

It now seems as if acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is prepared to do pretty much anything for Donald Trump, having carried that ethos from his...

09.06.2026 5

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Dahlia Lithwick

Spencer Pratt Has Now Defined His Legacy. It’s Not Pretty.

Imagine that there was a social media site where liberals spun each other up all day. (Let’s call this platform “Bluesky.”) Now imagine that...

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Alex Kirshner

There’s a Terrible Reason Why This Ebola Outbreak Is Different

Landing at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in early June felt like arriving into a scene from a different time, specifically the...

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Jill Filipovic

Which of These Movies About Aliens Was Not Directed by Steven Spielberg?

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Ray Hamel

Trump Is Making the U.S. an Increasingly Irrelevant Power

Events of the past weekend, in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, provided a bleak portrait of the United States under President Donald Trump as an...

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Fred Kaplan

What the Latest Judicial Sex Scandal Tells Us About a Broken System

Judges who interpret our laws should be held to the highest ethical standards. But right now, they’re held to none. Georgia federal Judge Eleanor...

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Aliza Shatzman

Are Democrats Blowing a Golden Opportunity to Beat Susan Collins?

Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers the most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Welcome...

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Jim Newell