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The math will not change. The only question is whether our laws will reckon with it.

The fund is corrupt. The larger project is narrative: using government machinery to keep alive the claim that January 6 was legitimate.

It's a real disaster over there.

Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for May 21, 2026.

This week's Executive Dysfunction.

One thing you're hearing more and more--how we're just too prepared for disaster.

Those questions do not have clean answers. But the instinct underlying the Fourth Amendment remains surprisingly stable across centuries.

Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for May 20, 2026.

Political comedy met its match in Teflon Don.

The Kentucky Republican built a movement of his own, and it's one that's not going away.