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• Which Breed of Dog Was Steinbeck’s Companion in Travels With Charley?
  Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for April 28, 2026.
• The Crazy Loophole DOJ Is Exploiting to Keep My Immigrant Clients Imprisoned
  This is not justice. This is a lottery.
• Why So Many Believe the WCHD Shooting Was Staged
  Fake it till you make…them build you a ballroom?
• A Comprehensive New Book Exposes One of the Worst Pieces of the Modern Legal System
  This is the system of forced arbitration.
• One State Has an Ingenious New Strategy for Blocking the Opening of an ICE Detention Warehouse
  Tucked away in rural western Maryland, past a dead-end road cut off by railroad tracks, a stream runs cool and clear over a ledge dotted with snails.
• Members of Which Profession Are Known Collectively as the Fourth Estate?
  Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for April 27, 2026.
• The Stories of ICE’s Brutal Treatment of Children Are Piling Up. The Effects Are Devastating.
  As James Baldwin once said, “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
• Michael Jackson: Too Big to Fail
  Don’t stop till it gets uncomfortable.
• Donald Trump’s Would-Be Assassin Had a Plan. The Opposite Is About to Unfold.
  It didn’t hurt Trump. It’s actively helpful to his cause.
• The Post-Truth Era Is Upon Us. The Correspondents’ Dinner Attack Is the Latest Example.
  The attack touched off a conspiracy theorist bonanza—though largely not from the usual suspects.
• This Month’s Twin Tragedies in Louisiana and Virginia Could Have Been Prevented
  These events aren’t unpredictable. They are patterned—and they are preventable.
• There’s Something Different About This Version of the Democratic Party
  The party—for better or for worse—is finally listening to its base.
• Kash Patel Knows His Atlantic Lawsuit Will Fail. Here’s Why He Doesn’t Care.
  Journalists should ditch dining with an administration committed to hobbling the press and the constitution.
• How the Supreme Court Should Respond to Trump’s Fed Probe Surrender
  The Department of Justice announced on Friday that it has dropped its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
• Democrats Just Won Big in Virginia. A Court Could Still Take It Away.
  Virginia voters delivered a major blow to Republicans on Tuesday.
• SchadenFriday: Cabinet Crashouts
  Jeet Heer speculates on whether Kash Patel is on his way out.
• Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Homepage Editor? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
  Test your knowledge of this week’s big stories.
• Hegseth Just Sent an Alarming Message to the Rest of the World
  The defense secretary's recent phone call with a loyal U.S. ally has staggering implications.
• Old Age Is Catching Up With Congress. This Morbid Pattern Is Proof.
  For a while, deaths in Congress were down. Then something changed.
• The World’s Most Expensive Standoff, and Nobody Can Quit
  It's Groundhog Day in the Strait of Hormuz.
• The Trumpiest Court Just Openly Defied SCOTUS
  The 5th Circuit effectively went rogue, daring the Supreme Court to check its brazen disobedience.
• I Watched the Worst of Trump’s Attempt to Destroy the Government. I Have One Requirement for All 2028 Democrats.
  Millions of lives are at stake.
• Isotherms Are Lines Connecting Points on a Map With the Same What?
  Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for April 23, 2026.
• The One Part of the Court System Where Trump’s Takeover Plans Have Been a Smashing Success
  This week’s Executive Dysfunction.
• Congress’s Purge Era
  Whoa, did Congress just do something bipartisan?