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- A Tiny European Country Just Held a Whole Election in 33 Days. The U.S. Should Take Note.U.S. campaigns take nearly half a decade. There's a better way.
- Are Democrats Blowing a Golden Opportunity to Beat Susan Collins?Can Graham make it to November?
- In the Tank for Trump—and Over a Barrel on the HillBlanche, Bondi, and Boutros: This Week, three Bs = a lotta B.S.
- What Do We Do With the Latest Revelations About Graham Platner?The latest revelations have left Maine's voters in an unenviable position.
- SchadenFriday: Is the Pope Girlbossing AI?Anti-A.I. lefties can appreciate the pope’s focus on labor.
- Stephen Miller’s New Attack on Green-Card Applicants Is Simply a Scare TacticLast month, the Trump administration sent the immigration-law world into a frenzy.
- 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.
- Pete Hegseth Sees One Type of Person as “Qualified.” You Can Probably Guess What That Is.And the military is being weakened by it.
- Donald Trump Can’t Stop Giving Everyone Around Him the Same “Gifts.” I Got Some Myself—and Quickly Saw What’s Going On Here.I understand the president better now. I hate it.
- Is Graham Platner Too Messy to Flip Maine’s Senate Seat?Some thought Graham Platner could be the future of the Democratic party. Now he's trying to get his campaign past another dumpster fire of his own making.
- Do Trans People Have “Stand Your Ground” Rights? Wyoming’s Answer May Be “No.”Albany County Circuit Court Judge Robert Sanford agreed with the prosecutor that there was probable cause that Kelver committed assault.
- Which Tissue Connects Muscle to Bone?Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for June 4, 2026.
- The Fight Over Trump’s Sweetheart IRS Deal Is Not at All OverThis week’s Executive Dysfunction.
- Do the Dems Need More Graham Platners?The plan seems to be “just win and sort out if he’s Fetterman 2.0 later.”
- SCOTUS’s MAGA Wing Just Blew Up the Midterms With This Shadow Docket RulingJustice Sotomayor calls out the high court’s right wing for gutting voting rights and throwing Alabama’s midterms into disarray.
- How to Get Neil Gorsuch to Stand Up For WorkersLast week, the Supreme Court delivered a resounding victory for workers in Flowers Foods Inc. v. Brock.
- Sonia Sotomayor Bluntly Exposed the Supreme Court’s Latest Voting Rights LieSCOTUS delivered yet another crushing blow to voting rights on Tuesday night, issuing a 6–3 decision over the shadow docket.
- The Supreme Court Just Transformed Its Horrible Voting Rights Ruling Into Something More CalamitousWhat the Roberts court has just wreaked goes beyond handing an extra House seat to the GOP in the upcoming election.
- They Support the Most Unlikely Campaign in America. They Usually Won’t Talk About It. Now I Understand Why.An unlikely conservative candidate is building a movement in a blue city. Democrats helped him do it.
- Which First Name Was Shared by Both Major U.S. Presidential Candidates in the 1896 Election?Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for June 3, 2026.
- How Congress Can Pass a New Voting Rights Act Despite the Supreme CourtEven after Callais, Congress has the power, under the guarantee clause, to stamp out state efforts to decimate Black representation.
- The Hunger Strike at Delaney HallA US senator was caught in the cloud of pepper spray with protestors last week.
- The Real Reason North Carolina’s GOP Is Proposing Legalizing Vigilante Killings of Abortion ProvidersThe bill has been greeted with bafflement and disbelief. One of its co-sponsors was embarrassed enough to remove his name from the proposal.
- Clarence Thomas Just Issued One of His Strangest Opinions EverOn Monday, the Supreme Court released an unsigned opinion about a criminal defendant’s right to a fair trial and an honest prosecution.
- Why Graham Platner’s Sexting MattersThe candidate's team keeps telling us to ignore his rough edges. These are more than rough edges.
U.S. campaigns take nearly half a decade. There's a better way.
Can Graham make it to November?
Blanche, Bondi, and Boutros: This Week, three Bs = a lotta B.S.
The latest revelations have left Maine's voters in an unenviable position.
Anti-A.I. lefties can appreciate the pope’s focus on labor.
Last month, the Trump administration sent the immigration-law world into a frenzy.
Test your knowledge of this week’s big stories.
And the military is being weakened by it.
I understand the president better now. I hate it.
Some thought Graham Platner could be the future of the Democratic party. Now he's trying to get his campaign past another dumpster fire of his own making.
Albany County Circuit Court Judge Robert Sanford agreed with the prosecutor that there was probable cause that Kelver committed assault.
Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for June 4, 2026.
This week’s Executive Dysfunction.
The plan seems to be “just win and sort out if he’s Fetterman 2.0 later.”
Justice Sotomayor calls out the high court’s right wing for gutting voting rights and throwing Alabama’s midterms into disarray.
Last week, the Supreme Court delivered a resounding victory for workers in Flowers Foods Inc. v. Brock.
SCOTUS delivered yet another crushing blow to voting rights on Tuesday night, issuing a 6–3 decision over the shadow docket.
What the Roberts court has just wreaked goes beyond handing an extra House seat to the GOP in the upcoming election.
An unlikely conservative candidate is building a movement in a blue city. Democrats helped him do it.
Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for June 3, 2026.
Even after Callais, Congress has the power, under the guarantee clause, to stamp out state efforts to decimate Black representation.
A US senator was caught in the cloud of pepper spray with protestors last week.
The bill has been greeted with bafflement and disbelief. One of its co-sponsors was embarrassed enough to remove his name from the proposal.
On Monday, the Supreme Court released an unsigned opinion about a criminal defendant’s right to a fair trial and an honest prosecution.
The candidate's team keeps telling us to ignore his rough edges. These are more than rough edges.
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