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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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Supervillain 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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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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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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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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- Friday, May 24, 2013
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Scalia vs. Roberts
The conservative justices faced off over Obamacare—now they’re dueling again.
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Before Midnight
A love once new has now grown old.
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How Accurate Are AAA’s Travel Forecasts?
Fact-checking the prediction that 31.2 million people will drive to Memorial Day destinations.
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Arrested Development, Season 4
Panic attack! What if the new episodes aren’t very good?
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A Red Carpet for Beijing
Economist Dambisa Moyo on why Africa is opening its arms to China and what the U.S. may be missing out on.
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The Calling
One man’s path to the priesthood.
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Bob Dylan’s World
For his 72nd birthday, a map of every street, town, and city Dylan has ever sung about.
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One Hundred Ways to Ruin Ice Cream
An evaluation of four artisanal ice cream cookbooks.
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Is Kaitlyn Hunt Being Punished Because She Is Gay?
It looks that way. But her case is about more than gay rights.
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Play the Slate News Quiz
With Jeopardy! superchampion Ken Jennings.
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Corrections
Slate’s mistakes.
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Today's Doonesbury
Brethren.
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- Thursday, May 23, 2013
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We Don’t Need Another Hero
But in this year’s oddball elections, it helps to sound like one.
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Obama’s Post-9/11 World
While the president said nothing new about drone strikes, he appears ready to take real risks to close Gitmo.
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President Ruthless
Don’t be fooled by Obama’s speech. On executive power, he’s just like Bush.
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How Do You Fake Your Own Death?
First, buy a boat.
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The Gin and Tonic
The summer blockbuster of mixed drinks.
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Keep the Candelabra Flame Burning
Liberace was a daring, fabulous showman, but he’s in danger of being forgotten. Don’t let his gay legacy die!
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Are Apostrophes Necessary?
Not really, no.
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From Africa to the Board Room
How a Zambian-born economist left home for Oxford, Harvard, and Goldman Sachs.
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Dating Superman
The ultimate superpower would let you find, woo, and mate with the perfect person.
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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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Does My Toddler Have Autism?
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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- 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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