Before it became fodder for right-wing YouTubers, local journalists had been investigating welfare fraud in Minnesota’s Somali community.
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What Next | The Jan 6ers: Where Are They Now?
The case that turned the Justice Department inside out.
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Slate Money | Money Talks: Barbie’s Dirty Laundry
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What Next | Don’t Call It a Regime Change
If Maduro is bad enough to warrant THAT, why is his vice president running Venezuela now?
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What Next: TBD | Are We Over the Moon?
NASA had a goal of getting to the moon by 2027. It's 2026, and the agency is still far from reaching that.
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Slate Money | Schrödinger’s Equities
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ICYMI | Twitter Is Dead (Really, We Mean It)
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Amicus | The Fast Track To Autocracy
Almost a year on, predictions from an expert on the law of autocracy about Trump’s American takeover have proven eerily prescient.
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What Next: TBD | 2025: Dystopian Tech of the Year
Just when you thought wrap-around sunglasses were as bad as they could be…
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What Next | 2025: The Music of the Year
Bad Bunny continued to dominate—but newcomers like Cameron Winter and his band Geese also shined.
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Political Gabfest | Greatest Hits
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What Next | 2025: The Advice of the Year
In a year when things felt out of control, this advice kept us grounded.
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What Next | 2025: The Movie(s) of the Year
Two films especially felt like they couldn’t have come out at any other time.
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What Next | 2025: The Game of the Year
One man’s presence loomed over U.S. sports, like a xenophobic Goodyear Blimp.
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Slate Money | 2025 Hot Takes
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ICYMI | Our Year of Brain Rot and Tech Dystopia
The most important internet moments of 2025.
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Amicus | What We Got Wrong About SCOTUS in 2025
Hopes of moderation evaporated as the Supreme Court’s MAGA majority laser-focused on one thing in 2025. It’s only going to become more obsessed in 2026.
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Slate Money | Money Talks: Altruism After USAID
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Hang Up | 2025: The Year in Sports
We look back at the biggest sports stories from each month of the past year.