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Music Trivia: The ’90s Pop Edition

Ralph Breaks the Internet Finally Gives Us the Disney Princesses We Need

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He can’t act. He doesn’t do impressions. But he’s rapidly become the show’s must-see character.

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We could have fixed this problem years ago. We didn’t.

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I already reported her to the principal.

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Even in prosperous times, the city is getting harder to live in—and it’s not clear how HQ2 will help.

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The Right Is Obsessed With Ocasio-Cortez

The Dartmouth Sexual Harassment Allegations Are So Much Worse Than I Thought

Are Kids Flashing Nazi Salutes at Your School? Here’s How to Handle Them.

A Trump Judge! Ruled Against Trump! In the Acosta Case?! (It’s Sad That That’s Surprising.)

Our President

Trump Says Pence Is “100 Percent Loyal” Amid Reports He’s Questioning the VP’s Loyalty

Jamal Khashoggi

CIA Concludes Saudi Crown Prince MBS Ordered the Murder

Football

The Citadel’s First-Half Tie Against Alabama Should Count for More Than a Moral Victory

California Wildfires

Trump: Doing More Raking Like Finland Could Prevent Fires

Why Climate Change Makes More Disasters Like This Inevitable

Slate’s music history podcast is here to quiz you on pop icons.

Ralph Breaks the Internet Finally Gives Us the Disney Princesses We Need

Keurig Made a Gadget for Mixed Drinks, and It's Kind of Perfect

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How Pete Davidson Took Over SNL

North Carolina Voters Brought Their State Back From the Brink of Democratic Collapse

The New Harry Potter Film Is So Bad It Worsens the Other Books and Movies

I hate the optics of it: The men sit around drinking, while the women wash up.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: The Angry Neighbor

Dear Prudence Podcast: Help! My Husband Brought Home 16 Endangered Animals.

Help! My Fiancé Won’t Stop Making “Jokes” About How I’m Cheating on Him.

Dear Prudie: My Parents Think a Heart Attack Killed My Sister. Should I Tell Them She Overdosed?

Watch Steve Carell Attempt to Distract Horrified Schoolchildren From the Frozen Cosmonaut Floating Outside the Window of the International Space Station

On Saturday Night Live’s Cold Open, Laura Ingraham Looks Into Voter Fraud, Facebook, and, of Course, Vaping

What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Overlord

The Night of the Gingko Lets Us Watch Climate Change in Real Time

During Wildfire Tour, Trump Suggests Doing More Raking Like Finland Could Prevent California Wildfires

The Citadel’s First-Half Tie Against Alabama Should Count for More Than a Moral Victory

During Wildfire Tour, Trump Suggests Doing More Raking Like Finland Could Prevent California Wildfires

The Gizmos to Buy Your Techie This Holiday (Before They Sell Out)

Trump Says Pence Is “100 Percent Loyal” Amid Reports He’s Questioning the VP’s Loyalty, Role

The Citadel’s First-Half Tie Against Alabama Should Count for More Than a Moral Victory

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The New Fantastic Beasts Continues the Yearslong Striptease Toward Revealing Gay Dumbledore

Watch Steve Carell Attempt to Distract Horrified Schoolchildren From the Frozen Cosmonaut Floating Outside the Window of the International Space Station

On Saturday Night Live’s Cold Open, Laura Ingraham Looks Into Voter Fraud, Facebook, and, of Course, Vaping

What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Overlord

The Citadel’s First-Half Tie Against Alabama Should Count for More Than a Moral Victory

The Confusing Twists in the New Fantastic Beasts Movie

In Memoriam: Ariana Grande’s Ponytail

The FBI Says Hate Crimes Are Soaring. It Actually Has No Idea.

Climate Change Creates Conditions That Allow for Disasters Like the Camp Fire

The Dartmouth Sexual Harassment Allegations Are So Much Worse Than I Thought

Facebook Says It Wants to Give Away Some of Its Power. But Will It Really? How?

It’s Far Too Easy for Countries Like Russia and China to Hijack Internet Traffic

The FDA’s New E-Cigarette Regulations Respond to an “Epidemic” That Doesn’t Really Exist

Tech Companies Like Facebook Should Have to Safeguard Your Data Like Lawyers and Doctors Do

The Night of the Gingko Lets Us Watch Climate Change in Real Time

My Daughter’s Teacher Is Atrocious—What Should I Do?

The Gizmos to Buy Your Techie This Holiday (Before They Sell Out)

Why It’s So Hard to Watch People Your Age Do Better Than You

How Parents and Principals Can Overcome the Rising Tide of Hate in Our Schools

With Seventeen Moving to “Digital-First,” the Era of the Teen Print Magazine Is Over—as It Should Be

Five Gifts to Turn Your Child Into a Junior Scientist

My Daughter’s Fiancé’s Parents Think We’re Paying for the Wedding

Do New Yorkers Even Want Amazon’s 25,000 Jobs?

House Democrats Are Already Pursuing a Dumb Tax Stunt, and the Left Is Very Annoyed

Amazon Can’t Make Crystal City Worse

New York’s Amazon Deal Will Be a Lasting Monument to Andrew Cuomo’s Economic Incompetence

Amazon’s New York Headquarters Will Have a Helipad Because of Course It Will

Cities Should Never, Ever Agree to an HQ2 Contest Again

Democrats Proved They Can Win Again in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Why Not Ohio?

How Will Amazon’s New Headquarters Actually Help These Cities?

Democrats Have Made One Thing Very Clear About 2020: They’re Over White Men

During Wildfire Tour, Trump Suggests Doing More Raking Like Finland Could Prevent California Wildfires

Trump Says Pence Is “100 Percent Loyal” Amid Reports He’s Questioning the VP’s Loyalty

CIA Concludes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Ordered Khashoggi Murder in Istanbul Consulate

Ben Stiller’s Latest Is Based on a True-Life Prison Break—and No, It’s Not a Comedy

Does Jeff Flake Mean It This Time?

Kellyanne Conway’s Husband Says He Would Rather Move to Australia Than Vote for Trump

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