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Culture Noted Cats Enthusiast Mo Rocca Responds to the Trailer for the New Movieslate.com - Rhodes Murphy As a teenager, the comedian and CBS correspondent wrote a fan letter to every actor in the musical.
Human Interest Help! I Resent My Friend’s Over-the-Top Kindness.slate.com - Daniel Mallory Ortberg “It’s just too much. We can’t keep up!”
Pete Buttigieg Mayor Pete Cited a Classic Graham Greene Novel to Explain His Foreign Policy Views. He Completely Misread It.slate.com - Phil Hoffman Buttigieg believes The Quiet American is a story of how America’s good intentions lead it astray. It’s much darker than that.
John Bolton Trump Is Still Sleepwalking Into War With Iranslate.com - Fred Kaplan And no one knows how to stop it.
Human Interest Graydon Carter’s New “Air Mail” Is a Big Glossy Magazine Stuffed Into a Single Newsletterslate.com - Ruth Graham Carter’s old-school editorial mode might not be in tune with the medium he now occupies.
Hobbies The Angle: Boris Johnson Won’t Have It Easyslate.com - Slate Copy Desk Brexit may be the least of his worries right now.
Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Warren Is Warning of a Recession. Maybe We Should Listen.slate.com - Chip Brownlee She’s been right before.
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Culture Gymnastics Villain MyKayla Skinner’s Comeback Is for Realslate.com - Rebecca Schuman Her eye-catching performance this past weekend makes her a serious contender for Tokyo 2020.
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Avengers: Endgame Avengers: Endgame Defeats Avatar as Highest-Grossing Movie Everslate.com - Rhodes Murphy Rereleasing the movie with new end-credits scenes seems to have done the trick.
Iran Boris Johnson’s First Challenge Won’t Be Brexit. It Will Be Iran.slate.com - Joshua Keating This is quite a week to become prime minister.
Tom Hanks The Tom Hanks-as-Mr. Rogers Movie Trailer Says It All: “Please Don’t Ruin My Childhood”slate.com - Marissa Martinelli A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood looks as cozy as a red sweater.
Human Interest Dear Care and Feeding: My 7-Year-Old Is Worried About Her Little Mustacheslate.com - Nicole Cliffe Parenting advice on upper lip hair, a dancing boy, and close siblings.
Human Interest The Perfect Meditative, Low-Cost Hobby to Keep You Off Your Phoneslate.com - Dan Check All it requires is a few basic sewing supplies.
Human Interest 100 Great Books for an Ambitious Teenage Readerslate.com - Dan Kois Classics and contemporary novels, comics and plays, literature and trash.
Equifax The FTC’s Remarkable $5 Billion Fine for Facebookslate.com - Josephine Wolff The fines represent huge progress for the FTC in pushing companies to take seriously the potential regulatory penalties for data breaches.
Teens Teenage U.S. Citizen Has Been Detained by Immigration Authorities for Three Weeksslate.com - Aaron Mak Border agents suspected that Galicia's Texas ID, Social Security card, and birth certificate were fake.
Boris Johnson Boris Johnson to Be U.K.’s Next Prime Ministerslate.com - Elliot Hannon The Tory leader will now take control of the fraught Brexit process.
Trump Administration The Trump Administration Is Trying to Cut Food Stamp Benefits for 3 Million Peopleslate.com - Elliot Hannon Some 40 million low-income people—or about 12 percent of the total U.S. population—get food assistance.
Culture They Came From Planet Claireslate.com - Studio 360 Behind the debut album of the B-52s, featuring Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson.
Human Interest Help! My Fiancé’s 11-Year-Old Still Sleeps in Our Bed.slate.com - Daniel Mallory Ortberg “I am afraid to rock the boat. I don’t want to become the wicked stepmom.”
Human Interest Dear Care and Feeding: My Parents Just Died, and My In-Laws Have Claimed Every Holidayslate.com - Michelle Herman “This is beginning to slowly shatter me.”
Trump Says He Could Win Afghanistan War “in a Week” but Afghanistan Would Be “Wiped Off the Face of the Earth”slate.com - Elliot Hannon Trump says he doesn't want to kill 10 million Afghans to end conflict.
I Became a Sex God to Please My Wife. Now She Won’t Let Me Do the Thing She Loves Most.slate.com - Stoya I know she loves it.
David Duke How to Stop a Racist Politicianslate.com - Mary Harris What David Duke’s defeat can teach us about Trumpism.
Al Franken What Jane Mayer Gets Wrong About Al Frankenslate.com - Christina Cauterucci And what she fails to understand about the #MeToo movement.
Robert Mueller Democrats May Think Robert Mueller’s Testimony Will Finally Turn the Screws on Trump. They’re Wrong.slate.com - Mike Pesca Mueller’s report and previous public statement haven’t changed much. Why would his upcoming testimony do so?
Culture Deadspin’s Dave McKenna on Elgin Baylor, Dan Snyder, and Kevin Johnsonslate.com - Josh Levin One of America’s best sportswriters on the biggest stories of his career.
Culture Noted Cats Enthusiast Mo Rocca Responds to the Trailer for the New Movieslate.com - Rhodes Murphy As a teenager, the comedian and CBS correspondent wrote a fan letter to every actor in the musical.
Human Interest Help! I Resent My Friend’s Over-the-Top Kindness.slate.com - Daniel Mallory Ortberg “It’s just too much. We can’t keep up!”
Pete Buttigieg Mayor Pete Cited a Classic Graham Greene Novel to Explain His Foreign Policy Views. He Completely Misread It.slate.com - Phil Hoffman Buttigieg believes The Quiet American is a story of how America’s good intentions lead it astray. It’s much darker than that.
John Bolton Trump Is Still Sleepwalking Into War With Iranslate.com - Fred Kaplan And no one knows how to stop it.
Human Interest Graydon Carter’s New “Air Mail” Is a Big Glossy Magazine Stuffed Into a Single Newsletterslate.com - Ruth Graham Carter’s old-school editorial mode might not be in tune with the medium he now occupies.
Hobbies The Angle: Boris Johnson Won’t Have It Easyslate.com - Slate Copy Desk Brexit may be the least of his worries right now.
Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Warren Is Warning of a Recession. Maybe We Should Listen.slate.com - Chip Brownlee She’s been right before.
Protest Hong Kong’s Political Unrest Is Getting More Violentslate.com - Taylor Mahlandt The protesters have continued to clash with police and criticize the government over the past week.
Human Interest My Husband Cheated, Got an STI, and Didn’t Tell Me. Should I Forgive Him?slate.com - Rich Juzwiak I don’t want to be a sad divorcée.
Culture Gymnastics Villain MyKayla Skinner’s Comeback Is for Realslate.com - Rebecca Schuman Her eye-catching performance this past weekend makes her a serious contender for Tokyo 2020.
Big Little Lies Where Were All the Big Little Lies That Were Promised to Us?!slate.com - Willa Paskin The second season was distorted by its willingness to give the audience “what it wanted”—actresses chewing scenery—at the expense of what the show …
Avengers: Endgame Avengers: Endgame Defeats Avatar as Highest-Grossing Movie Everslate.com - Rhodes Murphy Rereleasing the movie with new end-credits scenes seems to have done the trick.
Iran Boris Johnson’s First Challenge Won’t Be Brexit. It Will Be Iran.slate.com - Joshua Keating This is quite a week to become prime minister.
Tom Hanks The Tom Hanks-as-Mr. Rogers Movie Trailer Says It All: “Please Don’t Ruin My Childhood”slate.com - Marissa Martinelli A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood looks as cozy as a red sweater.
Human Interest Dear Care and Feeding: My 7-Year-Old Is Worried About Her Little Mustacheslate.com - Nicole Cliffe Parenting advice on upper lip hair, a dancing boy, and close siblings.
Human Interest The Perfect Meditative, Low-Cost Hobby to Keep You Off Your Phoneslate.com - Dan Check All it requires is a few basic sewing supplies.
