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Inside the Report

Here Are the Report’s Most Deeply Strange Details

Heather Schwedel

Trump’s Obstruction Defense Is That People Didn’t Do What He Told Them to Do

Dahlia Lithwick

What Mueller Says About Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump

What About the Pee Tape?

The Discrepancies Between the Report and Barr’s Summary

Missed Everything? Here’s All You Should Know.

Elliot Hannon

The Conversation Starts Here

Introducing Charged, a story about an experiment in punishment and the people caught up in it.

Most Gun Owners Are White. Most Gun Court Defendants Are Black.

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The One Death Game of Thrones Can’t Face

Sam Adams

There’s no way humanity should win this war.

Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Future Tense Editor?

Ray Hamel

Find out with this week’s news quiz.

Advice

I Want to Buy My Dying Mom One Last Night With a Stud

How to Do It

Should I tell her I paid him?

I Invaded My Daughter’s Privacy, but She’s Planning to “Be With” Some Boy Soon. What Do I Do?

Care and Feeding

My Dog Hates Taking Photos. How Can I Make Him Less Camera-Shy?

Beast Mode

I don’t want to break our promise, but I can’t see how giving up the good life we have is worth it.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: The Flirtatious Neighbor

Help! I’m Sober Now, but Regret and Shame Keep Preventing Me From Moving Forward.

Dear Prudence Podcast: Help! My Friend Treats Me Like an Unpaid Therapist.

Help! My Husband Uses Our Silverware to Feed Our Dog, and It’s Making Me Sick.

Care and Feeding

I’m a Gay Man, and My Student Is Homophobic. What Should I Do?

Molly Olmstead

House Judiciary Committee Subpoenas Full and Unredacted Mueller Report

Dahlia Lithwick

Donald Trump’s Defense Against Obstruction Charges Is That People Didn’t Do What He Told Them to Do

William Saletan

The Clearest Case of Trump’s Corruption in the Mueller Report

Rachelle Hampton, Marissa Martinelli, and Daniel Schroeder

Jeremy Stahl

Why Robert Mueller Documented Trump’s Lies So Meticulously

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Molly Olmstead

Sarah Sanders Tries to Walk Back Her Admission to Mueller That She Lied About Comey

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Lili Loofbourow

William Barr Gave Trump the Kavanaugh Defense

Fox News’ Shepard Smith Delivered the Best Burn I Heard All Day

Justin Peters

Mueller’s Report Proves Trump Obstructed Justice—and Asks Congress to Consider Impeachment

Mark Joseph Stern

One of My Students Uses Anti-Gay Slurs Around Me

How should I handle it?

Matthew Dicks, Brandon Hersey, and Cassy Sarnell

William Barr Has Failed America

His press conference was appalling even by the Trump administration’s standard.

Mark Joseph Stern

Culture

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Gentleman Jack’s Hidden History

Inkoo Kang

A new series from Happy Valley’s creator tells the story of “the first modern lesbian.”

Slate Spoiler Specials: After

The One Death Game of Thrones Can’t Face

Sam Adams

Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’ Experiment in Empathy: White Noise

Studio 360

Pornhub’s New Horny Bee Campaign Is Part of a Well-Established Cultural Tradition

Marissa Martinelli

Trump Is Tweeting Game of Thrones Memes Again, to HBO’s Displeasure

Natalia Winkelman

Patrick Beverley Tries to Get Inside Kevin Durant’s Head, Finds Durant Is Already There

Nick Greene

Technology

How it’s changing us

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How to Scan Your Airbnb for Hidden Cameras

It’s not as technically difficult as it might sound.

The Mueller Report Shows Just How Much Russia Trolled Americans in Real Life, Too

April Glaser

New Details From the Mueller Report About Don Jr.’s Interactions With WikiLeaks

April Glaser

Why Was the Mueller Report Delivered to Congress on CDs?

April Glaser and Siva Vaidhyanathan

Police Are Making Tone-Deaf Memes to Build Community Trust

April Glaser

Making Sense of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange

Future Tense Newsletter: A Theory of Conspiracy

Anthony Nguyen

How a Futurist Sees AOC’s Video “A Message From the Future”

Rebecca Lavoie, Gabriel Roth, and Carvell Wallace

Human Interest

An honest guide to modern life

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Kim K Esq.

Mark Joseph Stern

Can Kim Kardashian actually become a lawyer with no law degree and a busy job playing herself on TV?

Work Till You Die

Brigid Schulte

This $13, Olive-Derived Oil Gave Me the Best Skin of My Life

Strategist Editors

Dear Care and Feeding: Who the Heck Is Patrick?

Nicole Cliffe

I Want to Buy My Dying Mom One Last Night With a Stud. Should I Tell Her I Paid Him?

Stoya and Rich Juzwiak

My Dog Is Hopelessly Camera-Shy. How Can I Make Him Less Scared of the Spotlight?

Nick Greene

On Slate’s Parenting Podcast: How Do I Stop Relatives Posting Pictures of My Kid on Social Media?

Business

Where the money goes

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The Future of Unions Is White-Collar

Bret Schulte

Blue-collar jobs are disappearing. But a powerful new wave of organized labor is taking its place.

Herman Cain Says He Is Not Actually Withdrawing His Name From the Fed Race

Jordan Weissmann

Some of the 2020 Dems Should Really Be Giving a Lot More to Charity

Jordan Weissmann

A Piece of Paris Goes Up in Flames

Henry Grabar

What Trump Should Have Passed Instead of The Tax Bill That Everyone Hates

Jordan Weissmann

Women in Charge: Anna Allanbrook

Allison Benedikt

How Food52 Uses Customer Insights to Design Products and Recipes

Seth Stevenson

Sometimes It Takes a Horrible Fire to Raise a Billion Dollars

Henry Grabar

News & Politics

What really matters

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“100 Days of Success”

Jim Newell

Democratic leaders are absolutely positive that everything’s perfect. Why do you ask?

House Judiciary Committee Subpoenas Full and Unredacted Mueller Report

Donald Trump’s Defense Against Obstruction Charges Is That People Didn’t Do What He Told Them to Do

Dahlia Lithwick

The Clearest Case of Trump’s Corruption in the Mueller Report

William Saletan

Why Robert Mueller Documented Trump’s Lies So Meticulously

Jeremy Stahl

Sarah Sanders Tries to Walk Back Her Admission to Mueller That She Lied About Comey