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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 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 Romney Income Calculator
How long would it take the GOP candidate to earn your annual salary?
By Dan Check
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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
- Saturday, February 18, 2012
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Goodnight Sunshine
Germany is cutting solar-power subsidies because they are expensive and inefficient.
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When Did I Ever Refuse an Accommodation?
Francis Ford Coppola discusses opening his latest hotel.
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Posthumous Baptism, Project Narwhal, and Moderate Rick Santorum
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
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- Friday, February 17, 2012
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The Deepest Darkest Fantasies of Democrats and Republicans
Both parties are using the contraception debate to paint the other side as scary radicals. In others words, politics as usual.
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What? Me Worry?
It’s too early to say who will win in November. But Republicans increasingly seem to think it won’t be them.
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Bullhead
A powerful movie about the Flemish black-market trade in illegal beef hormones.
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The Celltex Affair
An ethics scandal strikes the world of bioethics.
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How Dangerous Is Asthma?
You’re more likely to die from drowning.
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Krugman vs. Brooks
The Times’ columnists are brawling about Charles Murray’s new book. They are both wrong.
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Battle-Hardened by the Climate Wars
The author of the "hockey stick" graph tells his story.
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Robo-Signing, Foreclosure Mills, and Problems at Fannie Mae
ProPublica’s look back at the stand-out reporting on the foreclosure crisis.
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The Embers of Desire Gabfest
Listen to Slate's live show about the GOP race, the possibility of a third-party presidential candidate, and Stephen Glass’ fight to join the California bar.
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Should You Donate to a Candidate or a Super PAC?
It depends on how nasty you want to get.
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The Longform Guide to Anthony Shadid
Some of the greatest dispatches from one of America’s greatest foreign correspondents.
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You Don’t Need a Kitchen To Be a Chef
The fine art of guerilla cooking.
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Mystery on the Hollywood Backlot
John Logan (Hugo) wrote a screenplay that could’ve been the best movie Michael Mann ever made. Here’s why you can’t see it.
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War Dogs
How an Irish setter helped my family get through the Bosnian War.
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Out on a Limb
The search for the perfect cinematic tree.
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The American Way of Eating
The truth about money and class at Applebee’s.
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Corrections
Slate's mistakes.
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- Thursday, February 16, 2012
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Virginia’s Proposed Ultrasound Law Is an Abomination
Under the new legislation, women who want an abortion will be forcibly penetrated for no medical reason. Where’s the outrage?
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Why Chris Brown Is Even Worse Than You Thought
He not only beats women—he makes a conscious choice to beat women.
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Undefeated
A stirring documentary about a hard luck inner-city high-school football team with the will to win.
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Slow Food
Explainer House Call: What does sloth meat taste like?
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Mormons in America
Where the country’s largest homegrown religion thrives—and where it doesn’t.
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Austerity. China. The Housing Market. The Middle East.
Four reasons to stay gloomy about the global economy.
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My Night With Raquel
Bombshell crashes Fashion Week!
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Bringing Up Bébé
Do supposedly superior French parenting methods have lasting effects?
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Citizenship for Sale
St. Kitts and Nevis will let you buy citizenship. The United States should do the same.
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The Big Robot Questions
The social, legal, and ethical problems posed by the coming robotics revolution.
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Backcountry Skiing
Is the sublime ride down worth the grueling hike up?
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Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life
An interview with David Treuer.
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Liberals, Don’t Homeschool Your Kids
Why teaching children at home violates progressive values.
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The American Way of Eating
Who eats at Applebee’s—and why?
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Brotherly Love
My twin and I share an earth-shattering secret that could devastate our family—should we reveal it?
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- Wednesday, February 15, 2012
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Can I Get on the Mormon “Do Not Baptize” List?
How to avoid being baptized after you’re dead.
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Apple’s Stock Is a Bargain
The company hasn’t peaked—huge growth lies ahead.
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A Kinder, Gentler Rick Santorum
Now that the man in the vest is surging in the polls, he’s toning down his talk on homosexuality, gay marriage, and abortion. Meet Santorum 2.0.
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Kill the Caucuses!
Maine, Nevada, and Iowa were embarrassing. It’s time to make primaries the rule.
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Obama’s White Whale
How the campaign’s top-secret project Narwhal could change this race, and many to come.
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The Culture Gabfest, “Silence Is My Breakup Album” Edition
Listen to Slate's show about Whitney Houston, Valentine’s Day playlists, and Midnight in Paris.
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The American Way of Eating
I got hired to do the hardest job at Applebee's.
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Facts Are Stupid
An essayist and his fact-checker go to battle over the line between true and false.
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Radical Solutions to Economic Inequality
If only Americans today were as open-minded about leveling the playing field as we were 100 years ago.
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Eugene Hoskins Is His Name
The long-forgotten story of a black autistic man in Oxford, Miss., who crossed paths with William Faulkner.
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The French Government Wants To Tone My Vagina
Inside my amazing and embarrassing postnatal “perineal re-education” class, paid for by la France.
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- Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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Bonding With Horses
Why are horses good for making glue?
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The Rise of the Enormo-Phone
A disturbing trend toward gargantuan devices like the new Samsung Galaxy Note.
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Dharun Ravi Should Cut a Deal
We may never know why Tyler Clementi jumped off the GW Bridge. Next week’s trial of his roommate won’t offer any answers either.
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Bringing Up Bébé
An American mom and a French dad discuss Pamela Druckerman’s controversial parenting book.
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The 10-Year Oscar Re-Vote
Let the academy correct the errors of Oscars past, on live TV.
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Singled Out
Why are Americans still so obsessed with single people—and so scared by them?
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
Downton needs more doors.
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Doubting Dater
What should I do when my Internet dates text lame excuses to cancel?
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Lin-Glorious Bastard
The thrilling, frustrating rise of Jeremy Lin.
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From the Book of Mormon to The Book of Mormon
What the South Park guys, Tony Kushner, and so many others get wrong about Mormons.
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Leave Cupid Alone, You Snobs
I'm not a brainwashed moron for sincerely loving Valentine's Day.
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We’re Living in a Golden Age of Documentary Filmmaking
But you’d never know it from watching the Oscars.
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Crazy in Love
For Valentine’s Day, a poem Ezra Pound called “the most beautiful sonnet in the language.”
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- Monday, February 13, 2012
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Because I Said So
Romney is the “assertion candidate.” But if he is going to beat Obama, he needs to do more than repeat himself.
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Why Super PACs Are Good for Democracy
They’ve made the race for the White House a lot more fair.
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What Happened to a Leaner, Meaner Military?
The Pentagon budget again calls for more pricey, big-war weapons than we need.
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Hang Up and Listen: The Stop the Linsanity Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on New York Knicks shooting star Jeremy Lin, HBO’s boxing series On Freddie Roach, and the Westminster Dog Show.
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How Do You Rig a Straw Poll?
Buy all the seats in the house.
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Get Your Own Damn Coffee!
Most unpaid internships are illegal. Why don’t more interns protest?
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Love in Three Photos: the 20 Winning Stories
Sweet and heartbreaking photo haikus from Slate readers.
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
Has Lord Grantham gotten his groove back?
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Tinkering With Tomorrow
Join Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State in Washington, D.C., for an event on the DIY revolution.
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Dog Days Are Over
In a live chat, Dear Prudence advises a woman whose friends want to dump their pooch at the pound so they’re free to travel.
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The Other F-Word
Listen to Slate’s show about the history and future of the word faggot.
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Dear Prudence: Barroom Cheapskate
A weekly Dear Prudence video.
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The Technologically Enhanced Memory
How will life change if we can’t forget anything?
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What Makes Toxicology So Slow?
Why it's taking so long to investigate the death of Whitney Houston.
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"Eyes Gazing Into the Distance As If in Memory of Ages Past"
The accidental poetry of American Kennel Club breed standards.
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The Shape of My Heart
Where did the ubiquitous Valentine's symbol come from?
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Will You Accept This Digital Rose?
How little flower icons could solve Internet dating’s biggest problem.
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Cuckoo for Cocoa
Are women really crazy about chocolate?
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- Sunday, February 12, 2012
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
Decoding the four big kisses of this week’s episode.
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Lunch With Dustin Hoffman
The movie legend is loving his transition to TV.
