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Heather Schwedel

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
14
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Sep 23, 2026
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Jul 5, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Heather Schwedel

    It Was Almost the Greatest Celebrity Story I’ve Ever Heard. It Was Too Good to Be True. (opens the original)

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    Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. This week we learned that Channing Tatum is not—I repeat, not—maintaining a secret burner Instagram account where he says shady things about his ex-fiancée … but wouldn’t it be great if he were? Little in this life thrills me more than when a celebrity burner account is discovered. There were a good 24 hours when I thought Tatum had one, and I’m afraid I will be chasing th

  2. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Heather Schwedel

    Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Scandal Is Even More Ridiculous When You Remember What Tiffany Trump Tried at Hers (opens the original)

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    Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When it came out that Donald Trump Jr.’s recent wedding was secretly paid for by a Russian oligarch, I had a completely rational, normal response, which was this: I guess Taylor Swift has been vindicated once again. You’ll recall that when Swift got married earlier this year, people were quick to call it the tackiest wedding of the year, maybe ever. Swift is not not an oli

  3. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Heather Schwedel

    George W. Bush’s 9/11 Paintings Have to Be Seen to Be Believed (opens the original)

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    Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When George W. Bush decided to take up painting later in life, he could have played it safe, with puppies and children and landscapes. He’s done some of that, but he’s also consistently surprised people—there were those nudes that were discovered in an email hack and, after that, the provocative decision to paint portraits of world leaders like Vladimir Putin and Tony Blai

  4. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Heather Schwedel

    A Beloved ’90s Movie Just Dropped a Sequel. Its Original Stars Came Back. There’s Just One Problem. (opens the original)

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    Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Practical Magic 2 is not the kind of movie whose details one is supposed to dwell over. It’s a nostalgia-fueled sequel to the late-’90s sleepover classic starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, and it expects its audience not to mind, for example, the minor point that its main plotline—the Owens sisters need to break the curse that has plagued their family for generatio

  5. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Heather Schwedel

    Well, That Was One Way for Ivanka Trump and Her Niece to Spend the Weekend (opens the original)

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    Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. This Labor Day weekend, not one but two Trump decendents managed to earn the internet’s ire, in suspiciously similar ways. Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, presumably taking a short break from her project of transforming Albania into a luxury tourist destination, posted a video to social media of her daughter riding a horse on a gorgeous beach, which she made that muc

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