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How Many Moons in our Solar System Are Larger Than the Planet Mercury?
2+ hour ago (85+ words) Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for Feb. 19, 2026. More Games From Slate Slate Mini Crossword for Feb. 19, 2026 Slate Crossword: Where Creatives Types Like to Hang? (12 Letters) Slate Pears Game 186: Feb. 18, 2026 Slate Crossword: Country That Touches Lake Victoria (Six Letters)…...
Slate Mini Crossword for Feb. 19, 2026
2+ hour, 4+ 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)…...
Should I Be Productive After My Baby Is Born?
2+ hour, 55+ min ago (219+ words) Tips for helping you enjoy the weeks and months after your baby is born. Plus: hormones run amok, a missing bicycle, and teens learning respect. But first, they share their latest triumphs and fails. Cheyna had a full day of…...
Slate Adds Ian Philbrick as Politics Writer
10+ hour, 15+ min ago (229+ words) We're thrilled to announce that Ian Prasad Philbrick is joining Slate as our new politics writer. He'll cover the biggest political stories of the day and help shape Slate's newsletter coverage, bringing his talent for distilling complex developments into clear,…...
The Secret Behind the Most Thrilling Victory of the Winter Games
14+ hour, 36+ min ago (495+ words) This is part of Slate's 2026 Olympics coverage. Read more'here.' After Mikaela Shiffrin crossed the finish line in the 2026 Olympic slalom, she appeared lost in a trance. No fist pump. No falling to the snow in relief. No tears of joy....
My Girlfriend Has a Good Reason for the Sudden Change in Our Sex Life. But My Patience Is Running Out.
14+ hour, 55+ min ago (555+ words) Woman putting a hand up between her and a man. How to Do It is Slate's sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It's anonymous! Dear How to Do It, I'm a heterosexual male…...
The Best Skier of All Time Was Finally, Cathartically, Breathtakingly Great
20+ hour, 15+ min ago (654+ words) Her last chance in Cortina, and maybe the last in her career as an Olympian, was the women's slalom. Calling the slalom Shiffrin's specialty is like saying Beethoven knows his way around the piano. Mikaela Shiffrin defines this event. Going…...
Slate Mini Crossword for Feb. 18, 2026
21+ hour, 4+ 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 Which City Was the Home of the First U.S. Mint…...
Slate Crossword: Country That Touches Lake Victoria (Six Letters)
22+ hour, 5+ min ago (59+ words) Read about it in Slate: On Wheel of Fortune, Vanna White had gracefully embraced her senioritis era, writes Luke Winkie. Which City Was the Home of the First U.S. Mint in 1792? Slate Mini Crossword for Feb. 18, 2026 Slate Pears Game 185: Feb. 17, 2026 Paul…...
Emerald Fennell’s Quote-Unquote Wuthering Heights Is Total Fanfic
23+ hour, 25+ min ago (380+ words) On this week's show, the panel dive into the passionate worlds of "Wuthering Heights," Love Story: JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, and the revived The Muppet Show. This week, Dana is joined by Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times film critic…...