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Today's Doonesbury
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The Explainer
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Conversations With Slate
Director Wes Anderson on why he's obsessed with childhood fantasies.
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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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Slate Goes to the Movies
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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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No More Strapless Wedding Gowns!
They're unflattering, unsophisticated, and annoyingly ubiquitous.
By Katherine Goldstein
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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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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
- Wednesday, May 30, 2012
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Must-Fee TV
Why Hulu has a perverse incentive to make its online video service worse.
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Many Unhappy Returns
Can Amazon figure out how to sell clothes that fit?
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Someone’s Always Watching Me
Ai Weiwei on what it’s like to live under constant surveillance by the Chinese government.
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How Does Vatican City Deal With Criminals?
Do the Swiss Guards throw them in a Swiss prison?
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Mitt Romney Wins the Republican Nomination!
The media should have known it all along, but it’s OK that we didn’t.
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Part-Time Slugger
Do baseball players try harder in their contract years?
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The Coming Global Recession
China, India, and Brazil are all slowing down simultaneously, plunging the entire world into economic crisis.
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Mad Men Style: Joan’s Costume Secrets
When was the last time she wore that fur? You might be surprised.
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The Ultimate Small-Business Cheat Sheet
Presenting Slate readers' 10 best nuggets of entrepreneurship advice.
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Mad Men, Season 5
Is Don "the asshole who would buy this car"?
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Beyond the Kill List
On the dark side of the drone war, Obama’s rules don’t apply.
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The Culture Gabfest, “Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?” Edition
Listen to Slate's show about literary vs. genre fiction, the mobile publishing platform the Atavist, and the New York Times’ Vows column.
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Constitution Smackdown!
Our founding document is losing out to Canada? A Daily Show writer protests.
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The Quest for the Perfect Office Chair
Why we haven’t found it yet.
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The Cosmopolitan Condiment
An exploration of ketchup’s Chinese origins.
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- Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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Naked Lunch
Why do allegedly psychotic people such as the Miami face-eater take off their clothes?
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Mitt Gambles With the Donald
The Romney campaign thinks it can manage the risks of a night in Vegas with Donald Trump.
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Hang Up and Listen: The Everyone Flops Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on NBA floppers, a pair of NFL lawsuits, and Nate Kaeding’s Athletes’ Library.
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The Most Ignored Dynasty in Sports
The NBA’s most successful franchise reveals that America is a nation of hypocrites.
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Who Wants a Terrible Facebook Phone?
I’m guessing nobody.
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Facebook’s IPO Wasn’t Mispriced
It maximized benefit to the company, which is what an IPO should do.
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Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s in Her Bed
In a live chat, Prudie advises a woman whose nanny had an affair with her husband.
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The Olympics, Reality Shows, and Canadian Cop Dramas
Why broadcast TV is so lame in the summer—and how cable nets like USA pick up the slack with sunny, perfect shows.
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Dear Prudence: Suburban Dad Likes His Weed
A weekly Dear Prudence video.
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Permanent Record
Eva and Bee: Both children of the Depression, one ended up designing Mamie Eisenhower’s inaugural gown, the other was a mentor to Calvin Klein.
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Mad Men, Season 5
Whither Kenny Cosgrove?
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“The House is Building”?
Why you never learned the passival tense, even though it used to be proper English grammar.
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Workaholics Is Totally Tight Butthole
This Comedy Central show features dumb characters, familiar plots, and inane slang. It is hilarious.
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Dodgy Boffins
What's wrong with science journalism in the U.K.?
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The Bucket List
America’s most idiotic new pastime.
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The Coal Hard Facts
Environmentalists fervently wish for the end of coal. Here’s why it can’t be replaced anytime soon.
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- Monday, May 28, 2012
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Mad Men, Season 5
It's Peggy's time to shine.
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Papa Don’t Preach
HBO’s Hemingway & Gellhorn celebrates the cult of Ernest even as it laments his descent into self-caricature.
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What Fearmongers Get Wrong About Cyberwarfare
Cyberweapons aren’t easy or cheap to procure—and they could even promote peace.
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Hairy Eyeball
China’s new censorship model.
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Does Love Survive Loss?
Auden and Larkin each wrote powerful lines about love—and then had grave doubts about them. Why?
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- Sunday, May 27, 2012
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The Jury Is Out on the Euro
Severe mismanagement by European politicians has caused damage that will last for decades.
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- Saturday, May 26, 2012
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The Longform Guide to Space
Sex, a celebrity astrophysicist, and the Columbia disaster—great stories about space.
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Wes Anderson Bingo, the Two-Week Wait, and Colin Powell’s Cowardice
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
- Friday, May 25, 2012
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How Many People Are At Least 1/32 Native American?
Calculating tribal heritage.
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Chernobyl Diaries
Who’s up for a whirlwind tour of the smoldering corpse of the world’s worst nuclear disaster?
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Captains of Industry
Are CEOs who served in the military more trustworthy?
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How We Treat Our Troops
For Memorial Day, ProPublica rounds up the best journalism about U.S. soldiers in combat.
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Man of War
How combat changed Paul Fussell, and how Fussell changed American letters.
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Conservatives for Ignorance
The House GOP’s principled—and destructive—war on the long-form census.
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Happy 200th Birthday, War of 1812!
A primer on America’s most bumbling, most confusing, and most forgotten conflict.
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The Washington Is Just Awful, but You, Dear Listener, Are Wonderful Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about Bain Capital, the dismal state of political Washington, and Dharun Ravi’s sentencing.
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The Cowardice of Colin Powell
Is there anyone in American public life who gets so much credit for being a leader, while not truly leading?
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The World According to Wes
Director Wes Anderson talks to Jacob Weisberg as his latest film, Moonrise Kingdom, comes to theaters.
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The Foodie Hell Experience
What the ill-conceived and poorly executed Great GoogaMooga Festival says about urban food obsessives.
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From Baku, With Love (And Intolerance)
This year’s Eurovision is in Azerbaijan. Can the conservative country be a good host for Europe’s wildest party?
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Which Americans Shirk the Census?
A map of census response rates, county by county.
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Corrections
Slate's mistakes.
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- Thursday, May 24, 2012
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Unprotected Sects
When it comes to computer viruses, you’re now more likely to catch one visiting a church website than surfing for porn.
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Moonrise Kingdom
A gorgeously shot, ingeniously crafted, occasionally irritating Wes Anderson bonbon.
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What Constitutes “Good Behavior” in Prison?
A guide to early release for Dharun Ravi.
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Tumblr vs. Pinterest
A Tumblr executive explains the real difference between the two sites—and takes other reader questions.
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When No One Else Will Hire You
Entrepreneurship as a last resort.
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I Don’t!
How a bizarre legal case involving a mysterious billionaire could force 1.2 million Canadians to be married, against their will.
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BOMBSHELL: Business Insider Kinda Brilliant
A defense of the rapacious news aggregator.
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Polls Apart
Why are Americans becoming more liberal on homosexuality but not on abortion?
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America’s Love Affair With Garbage
An interview with Edward Humes.
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The Story of Oh, No
My boss walked in on me touching myself, and now he won’t stop flirting. What do I do?
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