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What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Unfrosted

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Jerry Seinfeld has toasted up a fantasia on the corporate battle that produced the Pop-Tart. Here’s what’s true and where the story’s been sweetened.

Wednesday, May 8

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Steve Albini Was an Icon of Punk-Rock Purity—but He Also Showed How You Could Evolve

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The legendary producer, dead at 61, was more than just a rigid minimalist.

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No, Really—These People Are Actually Down Bad, Crying at the Gym

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The viral Taylor Swift lyric is particularly poignant for those of us who sob while squatting.

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Enjoy This Tale of a Low-Stakes Campus Screwup That Has Nothing to Do With the Middle East

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The people at Ohio State's commencement ceremony were not amused.

Trump Allegedly Wanted His Night With Stormy Daniels to Be a Threesome. This Is the Other Woman’s Story.

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Alana Evans spoke with Stormy Daniels immediately after her encounter with Trump.

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Why Michael Cohen’s Coming Testimony Will Be a Very Big Deal

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Cohen can tie together all the threads of the criminal scheme with which Trump is charged.

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A Judge Had a 13-Year-Old Girl Handcuffed for No Reason. A Year Later, He’s Faced Basically No Consequences.

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This shows how life-tenured federal judges can act with near impunity even when they are found culpable by their colleagues.

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Mitt Romney Has a Wild Theory About the TikTok Ban

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This idea could have been ripped from, well, a TikTok video by conspiracy-curious teenage power users.

The Antisemitism Bill That Passed the House Would Endanger American Jews

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Hatred in America is real. But this bill will only make it worse.

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The Shady Scheme Hiding in Your Favorite Burrito Place Could Finally Be Illegal

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It's time to stop hiding low-wage jobs behind manager titles.

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Millard Fillmore Ran for President in 1856 as a Member of Which Political Party?

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Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for May 8, 2024.

Slate Crossword: Califohnia’s Fohmuh Guhvuhnuh (Six Lettuhs)

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Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for May 8, 2024.

American Law Feels Utterly Broken. We Can Actually Do Something About It, Though.

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The Constitution is not determined by the founders, judges, or even Supreme Court justices. We still get to decide what it should mean.

America Is Captive to One Ridiculous Legal Theory That Dictates Our Lives. Here’s What We Can Do.

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Leaving out the Reconstruction Amendments just doesn’t work for modern America.

Liberals Had a Dream to Fix the Supreme Court. It’s Time to Admit the Truth.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the Supreme Court with a big idea.

The Constitution Is America’s Bible

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You can’t understand our profoundly unique relationship to our founding text without understanding this.

The Bogus Legal Theory Driving America’s Gun Violence Crisis

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This term, it might get even worse.

For a Year, I Lived as the Constitution Instructs. Here’s What I Learned.

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I carried a musket. I housed soldiers. I felt patriotic! And I learned a lot.

America Is Captive to One Ridiculous Legal Theory That Dictates Our Lives. Here’s What We Can Do.

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The laws on guns, abortion, and so much more don't have to be like this.

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Tuesday, May 7

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Kathy Hochul Really Outdid Herself With This Gaffe

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It doesn’t seem like Gov. Kathy Hochul actually cares much about what the Bronx’s Black children get to access.

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Why I Deleted 33,000 of My Old Tweets—and You Should Too

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It’s actually a way to get back at Elon Musk.

When Stormy Daniels Told Her Story in Court, the Absurd Horror of This Trial Finally Hit Home

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Imagine if this story had come out right after the Access Hollywood tape.