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Democrats Are Laughing at Trump’s Midterm Plan. They Shouldn’t.
20+ hour, 58+ min ago (329+ words) Welcome to this week’s historic edition of the Surge, here in our brand-new home. Do you like the imported marble floors and silk window treatments? We’ll tell ya, it was a real hassle getting those through the Strait of Hormuz....
Was It Worth It? SCOTUS and Big Law Pay the Price of Cowardice
23+ hour, 43+ min ago (692+ words) Advertisement Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Spotify TuneIn Pocket Casts RSS Feed For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. Please enable javascript to get your Slate Plus feeds. All Slate Plus Podcasts…...
Democrats Have Several Ways to Take Control of the Senate. Let’s Break Down Their Best Chance.
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (289+ words) Welcome to Part 2 of our explainer about which party will control Congress after November’s midterm elections. As we wrote earlier this week, Democrats are a virtual lock to flip the House, but the Senate is another story. Despite Donald Trump’s…...
Can Trump Buy Back Americans’ Love at $5,000 a Piece? Guess We’ll Find Out.
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (251+ words) The first Republican midterm convention had all the simulacra of a real political convention. There were seats assigned by state and indicated by tall signs on poles, there was a host of precisely timed and deeply forgettable speeches by elected…...
Hunter Biden Was Finally Winning People Over. Then He Had a Very Horrible Idea.
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (504+ words) Slate For the past few months, Hunter Biden has been inescapable on social media and the podcast circuit, engaging with talking heads as far right as Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson while offering something of a reckoning with his highly…...
The Australian Breaker Doc Has Very Little to Say
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (56+ words) Slate ICYMI host Kate Lindsay and Slate senior supervising producer Daisy Rosario go live to discuss the new Netflix documentary Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly and how the global viral ridicule toward the Australian breaker sits with them a year later....
We’re Pretty Sure We Know Who’s Going to Win the House
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (300+ words) OK, let’s start with the obvious: Which party is going to win? Doesn’t that mean that Democrats are a shoo-in? So what’s the catch? Got it. What else? So you’re saying Republicans have a chance? To be clear, it would…...
Democrats Keep Looking for the “Next Obama.” They Should Do This Instead.
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (1559+ words) Slate The first time I remember hearing Barack Obama’s name was in late 2006 or early 2007. I was sitting in seventh grade social studies, where we were encouraged to discuss current events. “I think he’s going to run for president,” our…...
Well, That Was One Way for Ivanka Trump and Her Niece to Spend the Weekend
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (17+ words) Slate Magazine...
Ivanka Trump—and Everyone Else—Sees One European Country as the Next Mediterranean Tourist Mecca. I Went to See Why People Are So Mad.
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (974+ words) It is difficult to imagine what it is like to have nearly unlimited money. What it might be like to arrive at a Mediterranean island on a yacht and to think that the next logical step is that this island…...