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Today's Doonesbury
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The Guantánamo Memoirs
Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been detained for 11 years. Here is his story.
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Supervillian or Superhero?
If science gives us superpowers, will we use them for good or evil?
By Will Oremus
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Mad Men
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The Game of Thrones TV Club
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The Slate Book Review
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How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?
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The Passion of Lew Wallace
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Daily Rituals
How creative genuises find the time and inspiration for greatness.
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Is Camp Dead?
The past, present, and future of a cultural sensibility.
By J. Bryan Lowder
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Embrace the Void
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I Watched All of Star Trek
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Get Your Dog Away From Me
They’re lounging in our offices and licking us at our cafés. It needs to stop.
By Farhad Manjoo
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Running or Walking?
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Your Life Is in Pi
Everything in your past—and future—is encoded in its digits.
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The Gaybros
They like sports, hunting, and beer. And they make the gay community mad.
By J. Bryan Lowder
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The Great Chewing Fad of 1914
Henry James, Franz Kafka, and Arthur Conan Doyle chewed their food hundreds of times.
By Mary Roach
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Why Do People Hate Certain Words?
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They Used to Call Me Lindsay
Once I started identifying as a man, I needed a new name. Here's how I chose it.
By Silas Hansen
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The Lock Pickers
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The Idealist
Aaron Swartz wanted to save the world. Why couldn’t he save himself?
By Justin Peters
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The Death of the American Pun
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Being a Toddler Is Hard
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Abusive Parents
What do grown children owe the people who made their childhoods a living hell?
By Emily Yoffe
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The Recline and Fall of Civilization
Tilting your seat back on an airplane is pure evil.
By Dan Kois
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Simon Doonan
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Free To Be … You and Me
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The Case of the Mormon Historian
What happened when Michael Quinn challenged the history of the church he loved.
By David Haglund
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My Molesters
I was sexually assaulted three times before age 20. Here’s why I never told anyone.
By Emily Yoffe
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No More Strapless Wedding Gowns!
They're unflattering, unsophisticated, and annoyingly ubiquitous.
By Katherine Goldstein
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Blogging the Human Genome
Weird, wonderful stories about each of your 23 chromosomes.
By Sam Kean
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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 Explainer
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Slate Writers on Facebook and Twitter
Follow John Dickerson, Emily Yoffe, and the rest of your favorite Slate writers on social media.
- May 15 @ 6 p.m.
- Can Humanity Survive?
A Future Tense happy hour with io9 Editor Annalee Newitz in Washington, D.C. - GO »
- Thursday, May 23, 2013
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The Last of the World War I Vets Speak
No soldiers survive the first Great War. But the author of The Last of the Doughboys talked to some of the last vets before they passed.
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Is My Toddler Autistic?
How to identify the early signs of the developmental disorder.
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For the Private and Confidential Use of the Recipient
I responded to a Craigslist personal using my work email. Will I lose my job—and my wife?
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Today's Doonesbury
Pre-viralization prep.
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- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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The Highly Effective Idiot
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is crass, offensive, and may smoke crack. He is also a pretty good mayor.
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Culinary Racism
Why remarks about race and fried chicken elicit such raw feelings.
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Don’t Pray for Oklahoma
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters.
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Pottermania
Harry Potter tourism, where the pilgrims are adults and the books are a religion.
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Obama’s 301 Drone Strikes
A map of every reported drone strike in Pakistan.
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Stop Aid to Africa Now
A Zambian-born economist on how Bill Gates’ billions in international aid could be better spent.
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Game of Thrones, Season 3
An appreciation of the Hound.
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The Beauty of Bounded Gaps
A huge discovery about prime numbers—and what it means for the future of math.
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For the People, by the People
What I saw when I participated in one of the truest forms of democracy.
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“A Peculiar Moaning Sound”
How did people describe the sound of a tornado before the advent of trains?
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You Do Not Have Asperger’s
What psychiatry’s new diagnostic manual means for people on the autism spectrum.
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I Like Likable Characters
And I don’t like female novelists’ new method of dismissing other female writers.
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Prog Bots Into Darkness Edition
Slate's podcast about the Star Trek franchise, Daft Punk’s new album Random Access Memories, and Google Glass.
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Do Charter Schools Work?
Yes, but not always and not for everyone.
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The Pedestrian–Cyclist Armistice
A bilateral, 10-point resolution to end the decades-long conflict between walkers and bikers.
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The White House To-Do List
Tornadoes, scandals, and controversy. Is the Obama administration managing its priorities?
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The Inn of the Second-Act Happiness
Operating a bed and breakfast is a common starting-over fantasy.
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The Man in the Pink Suit
A cultural history of the dandy.
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Fear Itself
The more removed President Obama appears from the IRS scandal the more paranoid the Tea Party gets.
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Is Everyone Smoking Pot but Me?
In Canada everyone’s smoked pot, my best friends, my colleagues, even my mom. But I’ll stick to my prescription drugs.
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- Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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Stop Hating on the IRS
People are attacking the IRS from the left and right. Actually it does as good a job chasing tax cheats as we let it.
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Steve Jobs’ Dream Device Has Arrived
And it’s made by Microsoft. Meet the Xbox One.
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Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories
Totally undanceable, dafter than ever—and a wire-to-wire triumph.
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Is Anywhere Safe in a Tornado?
Why researchers pummel storm shelters with 15-foot-long planks at 100 mph.
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All Killer Tornadoes Since 1950
A map of killer tornadoes in the U.S.
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With a Little Love, and Some Tenderness
How Hootie & the Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker remade himself as a country star.
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Mad Men, Season 6
In praise of oily, soulless Jim Cutler.
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Apple and the Idiocy of Taxing Profits
Want Apple to stop dodging taxes? Then scrap the foolish corporate income tax.
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Can a City be a Tornado Magnet?
Moore, Okla., may be one of the unluckiest cities in the country, but it’s not alone.
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Where to Hide From Mother Nature
What’s the safest place in the United States for avoiding natural disasters?
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How Did "Tornado Alley" Get Its Name?
The deadliest twisters aren’t necessarily within its boundaries.
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