- May 15 @ 6 p.m.
- Can Humanity Survive?
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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 »
- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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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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Today's Doonesbury
Of lippage and slippage.
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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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NBC Couldn’t Save Save Me
The latest attempt by a network to make a cable series failed, just like all the others.
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Learning to Love the Poems of Edward Thomas
Amid war, James Wright’s favorite poet found peace in nature.
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Second Acts
Tell us a story about how you started over.
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Mad Men, Season 6
Fairy tales are full of orphans for a reason.
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Thanks for Nothing
In a live chat, Prudie advises a woman whose husband sighs and rolls his eyes every time she asks him to do something.
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Who's Your Daddy?
The perils of personal genomics.
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- Monday, May 20, 2013
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Profiling Is Great ... Except When You Do It to Me
Will the IRS's scrutiny of Tea Party groups convince conservatives that all kinds of profiling are wrong?
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Obama’s Other Secret War
Are the president’s prosecutors criminalizing national security reporting?
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A Wealth of GIFs
Is Tumblr Really Worth $1 Billion?
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Obama’s Boyfriend Line
Why did the president insert gay marriage into a speech about manhood?
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The YouTube Preacher
How can Virginia’s GOP choose someone as crazy as E.W. Jackson to be lieutenant governor?
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Hang Up and Listen: The Falling Into the Truth Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on big vs. small in the NBA playoffs, the Kings staying in Sacramento, and whether the America’s Cup is too dangerous to continue.
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Pregnant Pause
Should I tell my new co-workers I'm pregnant before I start?
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But It's Not Fair!
In a live chat, Prudie counsels a young attorney who works late while the colleagues with kids leave early.
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The Coming Acquisition Wave
Yahoo and Tumblr are just the beginning. Conditions are ripe for merger mania.
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Letter to a Young Scandalmonger
If you want to harm an administration, don’t mention Watergate.
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Game of Thrones, Season 3
Prisoners of war.
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Stranger Than Fiction, Alastair Reynolds Edition
In the Future Tense podcast, the Revelation Space author discusses space travel, aliens, and more.
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