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Today's Doonesbury
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The Explainer
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Conversations With Slate
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Conversations With Slate
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Conversations With Slate
Author Michael Lewis on why Moneyball almost wasn't made into a movie.
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Conversations With Slate
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The Evolution of Everyday Objects
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The Slate Book Review
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Mad Men
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Where Are the Champions?
An interactive map of every championship in the history of the MLB, NBA, NHL, and NFL.
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The Crisis in American Walking
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Death in Yellowstone
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Permanent Record
The surprising stories I uncovered in a trove of report cards from the 1920s.
By Paul Lukas
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The Exoneration of Bennett Barbour
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Where’s _why?
What happened when one of the most unusual, beloved programmers disappeared.
By Annie Lowrey
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The Conversion
How, when, and why Mitt Romney changed his mind on abortion.
By William Saletan
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The Greatest Paper Map of the U.S.
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Slate Writers on Facebook and Twitter
Follow John Dickerson, Emily Yoffe, Farhad Manjoo, and the rest of your favorites.
TOP STORIES
- Thursday, May 17, 2012
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A Touch Too Long
My mom let me play with her breasts for years after I stopped breast-feeding, and now she’s doing it with my sister. How do I stop it?
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- Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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The 2012 TV Upfronts
CBS shocker: A drama I might actually watch!
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Do Band-Aids Work?
Not really.
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Can the Anti-Gay Marriage Movement Bounce Back?
If so, in many states it will depend on black churches and their voters.
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The Dictator
Sasha Baron Cohen goes soft.
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Is Campaign Disclosure Heading Back to the Supreme Court?
Don’t expect to see Karl Rove’s Rolodex just yet.
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Not Every Schoolboy’s Fantasy
Arizona teacher Gabriela Compton sexually abused two teenage boys. Why did she get off with a slap on the wrist?
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Unleash the Hounds
Why Justice Souter should publish his secret dissent in Citizens United.
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Parent Traps
Don’t monitor your kids’ Web surfing.
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And the Greatest Ad of the Year Is …
The ad world celebrates itself at the Clios.
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The Mystery of the Vanishing IPO
Facebook may be going public, but very few other companies are. There are two good explanations for this and one bad one.
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Mad Men Style: The Drapers and the Francises
Inside the costumes of this week’s episode with Tom and Lorenzo.
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The Culture Gabfest, “Heeeeere's Johnny (Depp)” Edition
Listen to Slate's show about the new Dark Shadows adaptation, the documentary Johnny Carson: King of Late Night, and the furor over concussions in football.
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Brewing the Best
Pliny the Younger is supposedly the best beer in the world. What does that even mean?
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Avocados, Massages, and MacBooks
To start a successful small business, look for what the Web does poorly.
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- Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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Wes Anderson’s Last Meal
The Oscar-nominated director reveals a taste for rabbit while answering Slate reader questions
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Nobody for President
The inevitable, glorious, $35 million failure of Americans Elect.
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The 2012 TV Upfronts
The delicious programs ABC will stuff down your gullet come fall.
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Another Virginia Disgrace
The statehouse rejects the judicial nomination of a prosecutor—just because he’s gay.
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Mad Men, Season 5
Anachronism check: Roger's use of "impactful."
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Aiden, Brayden, Jayden ...
Why do so many of the most popular baby names rhyme?
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Dear Prudence: Husband Gone Wiccan
A weekly Dear Prudence video.
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Life in Stop-Motion
Wes Anderson loves stop-motion animation, but will he ever make another animated feature film again?
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Cellphones in Locker Rooms
Should gyms enforce a no-phone zone in areas where people are, you know, naked? Those phones have cameras after all.
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How To Pitch Manischewitz
John Swansburg chats with readers about Mad Men and kosher wine.
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The Wire vs. Treme
David Simon hosts a battle of the bands between Baltimore and New Orleans.
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The Marriage Trap
Republicans made gay marriage a wedge issue. Now that it hurts them, they call it “divisive.”
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How Space-Age Nostalgia Hobbles Our Future
Contrary to popular belief, public support for space exploration in the 1960s was far from universal.
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What Did Thomas Jefferson’s World Sound Like?
Recreating the soundscape of Monticello, from patriotic songs to the slap of the whip.
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The Silent Killer
Hybrids are so quiet that pedestrians never hear them coming. Now automakers are racing to make the car of the future sound like the gas guzzlers of old.
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Hello?
A visual history of the telephone.
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- Monday, May 14, 2012
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The Meaning of The
Why can’t lawyers agree on the meanings of basic words?
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Hang Up and Listen: The Live in Philadelphia Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on Buzz Bissinger’s After Friday Night Lights, how to fix college athletics, and sports’ most impressive feats.
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The 2012 TV Upfronts
NBC introduces its “postmodern family” and a new show from J.J. Abrams.
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Guys and Dolls
In a live chat, Prudie offers advice regarding a boyfriend whose “other woman” is a mannequin.
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Why Are Teen Moms Poor?
Surprising new research shows it’s not because they have babies. They have babies because they’re poor.
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For He/She’s a Jolly Bad Pronoun
Listen to Slate’s show about whether English needs a gender-neutral alternative.
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Mad Men, Season 5
Megan might be the most together character in the history of Mad Men.
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You Have $75 Billion To Save the World
How would you spend it?
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The Kozmo Trap
What small businesses can learn from a dot-com debacle.
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A Kingdom for Children
Director Wes Anderson on the childlike fantasies at the heart of his new movie Moonrise Kingdom.
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Flawed Dimon
The JPMorgan Chase fiasco reveals the huge structural flaws that persist on Wall Street.
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How Does Smash Get Written?
Hollywood writers on their collaboration.
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Smashtastrophe!
A tribute to NBC’s Broadway drama, the worst TV show I’ve ever loved.
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Big Government, Better-Off Kids
The case for spending a lot of money on programs that help children.
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The Most Important Issue Obama and Romney Aren’t Discussing
We need to take a hard, critical look at the way we fund federal research. But politicians aren’t interested.
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Private Equity vs. Private Jets
When firms like Bain Capital buy companies, they often cut jobs. But they also park the planes.
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Do the Real Housewives Remind You of Louis XIV?
The rise of implausibly abundant fake hair.
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Don’t Mess with Massachusetts
It may be everyone’s punching bag, but it’s time to face facts: The Bay State is best.
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- Sunday, May 13, 2012
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Europe’s Man-Made Disaster
The consequences of the rush to austerity will be long-lasting and possibly severe.
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- Saturday, May 12, 2012
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The Longform Guide to Gambling
Casinos, bingo parlors, and the best and worst bettors in the world—great stories about gambling.
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Gay Marriage, Ditching Google, and Remembering Sendak
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
- Friday, May 11, 2012
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Why Obama’s Words Didn’t Go Far Enough
Marriage equality is a federal constitutional right—not a state issue—and it’s time to start acting like it.
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The Men Who Love Mitt Romney
If the Republican nominee has a natural base, this might be it.
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Breast-Feeding in Prehistoric Times
Did cave-babies have attachment parents?
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Welcome to Walkerland
Gov. Scott Walker’s dominant position in Wisconsin is a thing of wonder.
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Romney at Cranbrook, Wasteful Charities, and Scary War Tactics
This week’s top MuckReads from ProPublica.
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America's Looming Default Crisis
House Republicans just reneged on the debt-ceiling deal, making a default in 2013 almost inevitable.
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The Stolen Makeni Children
A preidential commission finds that the adoptees from Sierra Leone were in fact kidnapped.
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Texas Wants To Drug a Prisoner So They Can Kill Him
It’s a macabre spectacle, and it should be stopped.
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The Eight Times the Vice President Did Something That Mattered
Veeps usually don’t do much. But once every 30 years or so, the president’s No. 2 does something worth remembering.
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Down With Training Wheels
They train kids how not to ride a bike! Why balance bikes are better.
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The Absolutely Comfortable Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about Obama’s support for gay marriage and Mitt Romney’s days as a prep school bully.
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Nevada Says I Do. Mississippi Says I Don’t.
A map of marriage rates, state by state.
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Scenes From a Marriage
USA’s Common Law puts two odd-couple cops on the therapist’s couch.
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Why Computers Still Can’t Translate Languages Automatically
We need to teach machines to understand the meaning of words. That’s really hard.
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Deep Space Mine
The crazy, awesome plan hatched by billionaires to mine asteroids for platinum.
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Corrections
Slate's mistakes.
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