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Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Senior Writer? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
12+ min ago (84+ words) Test your knowledge of this week's big stories. More Games From Slate Slate Mini Crossword for Feb. 20, 2026 Slate Pears Game 187: Feb. 19, 2026 How Many Moons in Our Solar System Are Larger Than the Planet Mercury? Slate Mini Crossword for Feb. 19, 2026 We…...
The Pitt Has Been Missing Something This Season
27+ min ago (19+ words) A collage of African-American characters portraying medical professionals, an ER patient and a hospital visitor on The Pitt....
The Weirdest Job at the Olympics Might Also Be the Best One
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (258+ words) Best Jobs at the Olympics'is a biennial feature in which I determine which of the random jobs at the Olympics is the best random job at the Olympics. Some caveats: "Olympic athlete" doesn't count; the job doesn't have to be…...
A Cabal of Powerful People Living by Their Own Rules
7+ hour, 21+ min ago (835+ words) Accountability comes for former Prince Andrew and some others with Epstein associations, but clearly not all; a new oral history archive and interviews refocus a spotlight on Obama; and a federal judge blocks the Trump administration's effort to remove slavery…...
One NBC Announcer Has Been Angry the Whole Olympics. I Love Him.
12+ hour, 27+ min ago (694+ words) Richards grew more and more excited over the course of Sadowski-Synnott's second run. "Come on, Zoi! Make a statement here!" he urged as she stomped a backside double-cork 1080 off the course's final ramp. "Back dub 10!" Richards cried. "If that's not…...
Help! My Best Friend’s Husband Has a Very Strange Set of “Rules.” And Now He’s Turning Them on Me.
13+ hour, 7+ min ago (360+ words) Each week, exclusively for Slate Plus members, Prudie discusses a new letter with a fellow Slate colleague. Have a question for Prudie? Submit it here. I'm struggling with the behavior of my close friend's husband, and I'm worried about how…...
Bonus: Epstein, the Ex-Prince, and Consequences
14+ hour, 32+ min ago (128+ words) On a scale of 1-Magna Carta, where are we? Hold up'people can be held accountable for what's in the Epstein files? Does America know about this? Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, was arrested after a release of Epstein files revealed…...
The Former Prince Andrew’s Epstein Files Arrest Is the Most Shocking Yet. It’s Clear What’s Coming.
16+ hour, 31+ min ago (676+ words) The last time this happened 400 years ago, the British royal in question was executed. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has not been having a very happy birthday. At 8 a.m. local time today, police officers arrived at the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, where he has…...
Stephen Colbert vs. CBS
19+ hour, 47+ min ago (129+ words) Firing Peter so the president won't block Paul's merger. Stephen Colbert vs. CBS Chasing away both your audience and your talent doesn't make good business sense'unless the point is to sacrifice one part of your portfolio to elevate another. Choose…...
Slate Mini Crossword for Feb. 19, 2026
1+ day, 16+ min ago (80+ words) Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid. Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid. You did it! Solved in . Challenge your friends to today's puzzle! More Games From Slate Slate Crossword: Where Creatives Types Like to Hang? (12 Letters)…...