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Sen. Tim Scott, who recently threw his hat in the running for the 2024 GOP nomination, used to proudly call himself an adult virgin.
The senator no longer says he is abstinent. But his rhetoric about sex might still do it for evangelical voters. Molly Olmstead explains why Scott has made her virginity key to her political persona and examines whether it will help or hurt her career.
Need a refresher on who else is running for president? We’ve got you covered.
Airplane nonsense
Is Delta in trouble for a… deceitful napkin? A flight napkin with claims about the airline’s carbon offsets printed on it is being submitted as evidence in a class action lawsuit over the company’s true CO2 output. But Delta isn’t the only company lying to us about its emissions-reduction efforts, writes Nitish Pahwa.
NATO? Not now!
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Zelensky says Ukraine is ready to join NATO. Other influential voices are also calling for it. But there are serious potential consequences to consider, writes Fred Kaplan, including the risk of another world war.
Fueled by spite
The announcement of Kim Cattrall returning to Sex and the City might honestly be better than the show. The pettiness! The subterfuge! Heather Schwedel goes over every perfect detail.
Good trip
Rep. Earl Blumenauer doesn’t just bike to the Capitol, he wants the feds to pay you to bike to work. He spoke with David Zipper about evolving congressional attitudes toward cycling and why he’s not about to push the feds to subsidize golf carts.
Tick tock, dad
It turns out that men have biological clocks too. Recent research into ‘advanced paternal age’ tells us a lot about the challenges facing fathers like Robert De Niro, 79, and Al Pacino, 83, writes Shannon Palus. She explains the bad news for older men trying to jump on this new celebrity trend.
Nasty, brutal and short
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One of the tales in the collection that crowned Stephen King as a master of horror is now a movie. Jack Hamilton revisits the terrifying source material, which he calls “an elegant, diabolical and deceptively creative masterpiece.”
Today, Slate… CAN’T STOP WEARING THESE SUNGLASSES*
… like reviled billionaire media executive David Zaslav, who has become a defining symbol of the gross excesses of capitalism (but hey, cool shades!).
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