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This week's Executive Dysfunction.

One imagines Mike Rogers has enjoyed a lovely Michigan summer.

A social disease at the limits of a parasocial relationship.

Centrists and progressives faced off all over the country.

Abdul El-Sayed has put a bruising Democratic primary behind him, and is onto a what promises to be a bruising general election.

Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for Aug. 5, 2026.

That and a long-awaited "thank you" could swing this whole war.

What started as a wild story about the Reflecting Pool has turned serious--and terrifying.

I really don't think we need to be debating the legitimacy of Thanksgiving right now.

Passing the bill would mark significant bipartisan resistance to the Trump administration's mass deportation agenda.