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Sept. 1 2017 6:34 PM White Elephant Trump has never been less popular—and never more clearly the head of a party of racial resentment. Jamelle Bouie

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Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Editor? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

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Why a Judge Ruled That Texas’ Anti–Sanctuary City Bill Is Very, Very Unconstitutional

Trump Tower Moscow Revelations Put Trump’s Flattery of Putin in a Disturbing New Light

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Business

Moneybox

Sept. 1 2017 5:27 PM Betsy DeVos Trolls America, Picks a Former For-Profit College Dean to Run an Anti-Fraud Squad Jordan Weissmann

No, We Shouldn’t Switch to a Four-Day Workweek

Our Corporate Tax System Is a Mess. Republicans Might Just Make It Worse.

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Sept. 1 2017 4:30 PM A Midshipman Explains Why He’s Suing to Block Trump’s Ban on Trans Troops Mark Joseph Stern

“An Unprecedented Betrayal”: Former Military Leaders Condemn Trump’s Trans Troops Ban

For Gay Fathers of Kids With Disabilities, Parenting Comes Before Identity

Help! My Husband’s Driving Is So Reckless I’m Afraid He’ll Kill Us Both.

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No, Mattis Did Not Freeze Trump’s Transgender Troops Ban

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Help! My Husband Wants to Keep a Gun in the House.

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Sept. 1 2017 2:25 PM Women Are Taking the Economic Hit From America's Child Care Deserts Christina Cauterucci

School Supply Lists Have Gotten Ridiculously Long and Expensive. Here’s Why.

Laura Ingraham Has Deep Ties to an Anti-Feminist Group That Pooh-Poohs Claims of Sexual Harassment

Sofía Vergara’s Ex Might Finally Be Out of Luck in His Battle for Custody of Their Frozen Embyros

One British Writer Wants to Replace “MILFs” With “WHIPs.” Where Will These Unsexy Acronyms End?

Ivanka Just Helped Make It Harder for “Women Who Work” to Expose Wage Discrimination

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Sept. 1 2017 6:07 PM Join Our Private Facebook Group! The Slate Plus Digest for Sept. 1. Gabriel Roth

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Help! Should I Be Worried That My Boyfriend Has Been Divorced Twice?

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Arts

Brow Beat

Sept. 4 2017 4:37 PM Six Questions the Twin Peaks Finale Left Unanswered Matthew Dessem

The Best New Characters in Twin Peaks: The Return, Ranked

Poet John Ashbery Dies at 90

Taylor Swift Posts New Song “Are You Ready for It?” for Which You May or May Not Be Ready

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Damien Chazelle’s Mysterious Parisian Musical Drama Is Headed to Netflix

Drew Barrymore Is Producing a Horror Anthology Series Written and Directed Entirely by Women

Technology

Future Tense

Sept. 1 2017 9:08 AM Can You Match the Prediction to the Year It Was Made? Warning: There are some very good old predictions—and some very bad new ones. Nick Thieme

We Remember Predictions That Come True but Forget the Ones That Flop

The Arcane, Fascinating Academic Debate That Helps Explain Why We Didn’t Prepare for Hurricane Harvey

Nazis and White Supremacists Are No Longer Welcome on the Internet. So They’re Building Their Own.

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FCC’s Net Neutrality Comment Window Ends Wednesday—the Next Step Toward Its Extinction

How Shutterstock Tried to Cash In on One of the Summer’s Biggest Memes

Health & Science

Climate Desk

Sept. 1 2017 1:41 PM Could Houston Have Engineered Its Way Around a Harvey-Size Storm? A close analysis of what the dams were supposed to do. Adam Rogers

Could Your Next Doctor Be Your Dentist?

Hurricane Harvey Could Bring Unprecedented Flooding to Texas. Trump Isn’t Ready.

Trump Is Making Truckers’ Regulation Problems Much Worse

Are You at Risk of Alzheimer’s? This Online Quiz Is More of a Scam Than a Service.

The Solar Eclipse of 2017, Reviewed

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Sports

Sports Nut

Sept. 1 2017 4:21 PM Baseball Is Broken If you took home runs out of the game, you would get a sport that is basically unwatchable. Joe Sheehan

Anonymous NFL Execs: We’re Not Blackballing Kaepernick, We’re Just Racist

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Kyrie Irving to Boston Is the Biggest Possible Trade That Won’t Change a Thing

The NFL’s Billionaire Owners Are Too Late to Stop Colin Kaepernick

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