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Santorum Surges to Second in National Poll
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Weigel
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Moneybox
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XX Factor
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Brow Beat
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Future Tense
A citizen’s guide to the future from Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State.
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The Reckoning
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The Wright Show
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Today's Doonesbury
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The Romney Income Calculator
How long would it take the GOP candidate to earn your annual salary?
By Dan Check
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The Explainer
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The 2011 Explainer Question of the Year
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The Downton Abbey TV Club
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The NFL Roundtable
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The GOP Horse Race
What the presidential campaign would look like if it were an actual horse race.
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The Mouse Trap
The dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease.
By Daniel Engber
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Robot Invasion
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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 Greatest Paper Map of the U.S.
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Stop Putting Two Spaces After a Period
It's totally, absolutely, indefensibly wrong.
By Farhad Manjoo
TOP STORIES
- Thursday, February 9, 2012
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Bad Cop
Woody Harrelson goes rogue in Rampart.
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The Last, Best Hope for Conservatives
Gingrich says that’s him. Then why is Santorum riding high?
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Is That All You Got?
How the proponents of a gay marriage ban just ran out of arguments.
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How Did Washington State and Washington, D.C., Get the Same Name?
Congress really, really liked the nation's first president.
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Power Pinners and Pink Handguns Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about the Susan G. Komen kerfuffle, Bringing Up Bébé, and Pinterest.
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The Complicated History of Catholics, Protestants, and Contraceptives
Today Christian leaders are united against Obama’s birth-control coverage rules. In the past, the Pill and condoms divided them.
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Romances for the Post-Bubble Homeowner
Why are home-renovation TV shows so seductive?
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Questions for Bronson Pinchot
“Dear God, let me find some bird-crap-colored wood,” and other words of wisdom from the home-renovation devotee.
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A Losing Proposition
Why gay-rights leaders don’t want their big Prop 8 victory to go to the Supreme Court.
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Chipotle Is Apple
The burrito chain is revolutionizing food: Why doesn’t it get more respect?
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Mobile Phones Will Not Save the Poorest of the Poor
The cost of cellphone-based services is hurting huge swaths of the developing world.
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Which Countries Have the Most Mobile Phones?
The Slate/New America Foundation map of the week.
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The Other Academic Freedom Movement
How scientists broke through the paywall and made their articles available to (almost) everyone.
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Syria’s First Family
An illustrated guide to the Assad clan. How long can it cling to power?
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The Ties That Blind
It’s tough enough making decisions about elderly parents. What if you don’t like the siblings you have to agree with?
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No Hetero
Hanne Blank’s lively history of straights.
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My Funny-Looking Valentine
Prudie gives advice on mismatched couples, quickie weddings, and secret affairs just in time for V-Day.
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- Wednesday, February 8, 2012
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How Many Kids Are Sexually Abused by Their Teachers?
Probably millions.
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It’s Time for Oscar Super PACs
A simple way to level the playing field for small movies.
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NFL 2011
Win a championship, lose a knee.
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Tampa or Bust
Forget what the pundits tell you. The Republican race will go on and on—and there’s nothing wrong with that.
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Uncle Sam Is Not Coming to Dinner
Who won the Slate/Intelligence Squared debate on whether obesity is the government’s business, and why.
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The Culture Gabfest, “Halftime In America” Edition
Listen to Slate's show about Smash, Oscar darling Hugo, and Super Bowl ads.
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Hallelujah for Leonard Cohen
When it comes to lyrics, he’s second to no one—including Dylan.
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Hoop Dreams
The crowded NBA schedule is hurting the quality of play. And creating one of the best seasons ever.
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The Best Novel About a “De-Gaying Camp” Ever Written
Emily Danforth’s new book, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, is a fantastic addition to the coming-of-age canon.
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The Vest Man Won
What Rick Santorum’s surprise victories mean for Mitt Romney.
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The Thermostat Wars
How Honeywell could beat popular upstart Nest.
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Battle of the Eco-Friendly Sports Cars
How the Fisker Karma has trumped the Tesla Roadster.
- Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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The Games Authoritarians Play
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s visit to Syria was little more than a game of pretend.
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For Prop 8, No Hollywood Endings
Today, the most liberal judges in the most liberal state could have made history. Instead, they opted for much less.
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How Do You Win the Claw Game?
Use a partner.
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How Komen Became a Tool
Defunding Planned Parenthood over “controversy” was politics by another name.
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NFL 2011
Math says if Wes Welker catches that ball, the Patriots win.
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
The mystery of P. Gordon’s finger-lip tic.
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A Florida Millionaire Adopted His 42-Year-Old Girlfriend. Isn’t that Incest?
Maybe. But it is also a good way to shield his fortune from the law.
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Read Dickens Now!
On his 200th birthday, two biographies remind us of his vast social imagination.
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You’ve Got It All Wrong!
Should I correct blatantly wrong info my friends post to Facebook?
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My Roommate, the Single Mom, Has a Cocaine Problem
Do I move out of this toxic situation at the risk of abandoning her?
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Marvel Comics’ Troubling Origins Story
Why I’m boycotting The Avengers.
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- Monday, February 6, 2012
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Beckham’s Bod and Clint’s Politics
Slate staffers chat with readers about this year’s Super Bowl commercials.
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Hang Up and Listen: The Tumbling Indecisively to Glory Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on the Giants’ Super Bowl victory over the Patriots.
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Clint Eastwood Gives America a Pep Talk
He says America is about to stand up. Is that a big win for Obama?
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Best Animal Actor, Term Limits for Voters, and No More Black Tie
Slate readers’ best ideas (so far) for fixing the Oscars.
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Cluck You
Why do we call giving someone the finger “flipping the bird”?
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Time for QE3
Forget the happy jobs report—the Federal Reserve needs to boost the economy again.
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Where Did That Sentence-Ending Preposition Rule Come From?
Listen to Slate’s new language show Lexicon Valley, with Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo.
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Workplace Rivalry
During a live chat, Dear Prudence advises a worker whose colleague impersonated her to sabotage a rival job candidate.
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
Lord Grantham would never bone the maid!
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Shut Your Mouth, Chris Christie
The whole Jersey fat-guy authenticity thing is over.
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Do Not Make It Easier To Type Exclamation Points!
Slate readers offer their suggestions for improving the computer keyboard.
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Invent Your Future
Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard and other highlights from Slate’s Chicago panel on entrepreneurship.
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NFL 2011
Did the Giants put 12 men on the field on purpose for Brady’s first Hail Mary?
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A Decent Life Is the Train That Hasn’t Hit You
Katherine Boo’s spellbinding story of a Mumbai slum.
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A More Perfect Union
An interview with Elizabeth Weil, the author of the marriage improvement memoir No Cheating, No Dying.
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Pass the Romney Rule!
The philosophical, economic, and political case for raising capital gains taxes.
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Dear Prudence: Trashy Sister
A weekly Dear Prudence video.
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The Best and Worst Super Bowl Ads
The Coke bears weren't cute enough, and Budweiser went Ken Burns.
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- Sunday, February 5, 2012
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
What’s with the mysterious P. Gordon’s Canadian accent?
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Penis Party
LMFAO’s delirious satire of manliness.
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In God We Must
Why won’t the U.S. accept its atheists?
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Slate Seeking Photo Intern
The art department is accepting applications.
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- Saturday, February 4, 2012
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Mitt Wins Nevada With Friends and Family
With the help of his fellow Mormons—and his second cousin—Romney had it all along.
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Better Than Burgers and Beers
The best football tailgates in America.
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In Tandem
The Dardenne brothers discuss their latest film The Kid With a Bike.
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Colbert v. the Supreme Court, Redesigning the Keyboard, and the Coming Divorce Boom
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
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- Friday, February 3, 2012
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The World’s Most Popular Online Newspaper
How the Daily Mail took the title from the New York Times.
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NFL 2011
Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, and the genius of the Patriots' no-huddle offense.
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There Are Only Actors
It’s time to stop separating the acting categories by gender.
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Freudian Slip
Is your psychologist allowed to publish your story?
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Super Bowl XLVI’s Darth Vader Kid
Join Slate’s critics for a live Facebook chat about this year’s crop of Super Bowl commercials.
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Smash
NBC's new musical about a musical may not have legs.
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Nevadans Know How To Fix America
In the land of boom and bust, even the economic winners are looking for a change.
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All Hail, Emperor Zuckerberg
How Facebook’s IPO gives a stunning and unprecedented amount of power to its CEO.
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Planned Obsolescence
How to drive Planned Parenthood out of the abortion business.
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Forgotten Fugitives, FDA Spies, and Who’s Paying for the Super Bowl
This week's top MuckReads from ProPublica
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The Rip Off Your Pink Ribbon Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about the Florida primary, the Komen/Planned Parenthood showdown, and the suicide of Tyler Clementi.
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The Longform Guide to Facebook
The best stories about Mark Zuckerberg and his company.
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Questions for John Mulaney
The Saturday Night Live writer talks about his stand-up special, New in Town.
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Fix the Oscars
Inept hosts. Dumb categories. Dance numbers. It’s time to reform the Academy Awards.
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Corrections
Slate's mistakes.
