- 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.
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- Monday, May 20, 2013
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Mad Men, Season 6
The entire agency feels the need for speed.
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Freeze!
Egg freezing is supposed to give women control over their biological clock. So why won’t more women do it?
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Give Spam a Chance
The maligned meat deserves a better reputation.
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Today's Doonesbury
Downplay of the day.
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- Sunday, May 19, 2013
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Particle vs. Antiparticle
A new fermion on a chip “opens up a new class of particles.”
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- Saturday, May 18, 2013
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Doctor Who, Season 7, Part 2
Clara discovers the Doctor's secret past in the season finale.
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The Longform Guide to Elephants
Six great (and often sad) stories about pachyderms
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Scandals Galore, Sensory Deprivation, and Bitter Beer Backlash
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
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Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite
You have nothing to lose but inflated bills and interrupted anecdotes.
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- Friday, May 17, 2013
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The Dreaded C-Word
Bryce Harper ran face-first into a wall. Why are the Washington Nationals afraid to say he had a concussion?
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A Den of Liberals
The IRS, like most government agencies, leans left. It’s just a fact of life.
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The Children of Pahiatua
They were orphaned, lost, and alone. Yet a generation of World War II Polish child refugees found a new life and happiness in distant New Zealand.
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What the State Birds Should Be
Seven cardinals but no hawks? Come on!
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Frances Ha
Or, Greta Gerwig Is Fun to Watch Do Stuff.
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Is Wal-Mart in Trouble?
How Amazon and the strengthening economy are threatening the once-invincible retail giant.
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Secrets and Scoops
Emily Bazelon and Eric Posner debate press freedom, national security, and the government’s grab of the AP’s phone records.
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Dangerous Minds
I'm worried my ex is warping my kids' view of reality.
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What’s the Matter With Portland?
The city has been fighting fluoridation for 50 years. Will facts trump fear this month?
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Privacy for the Other 5 Billion
Western-backed biometrics programs for the developing world could put data in the wrong hands.
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The Barack Obama Is Richard Nixon Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about Obama’s scandal trifecta. Plus, the murder conviction of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell.
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The Saturday Night Live Sketch Predictor
What will happen when Ben Affleck hosts tomorrow night? Argo see for yourself!
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The DSM-5 Is Not Crazy
Psychiatry’s new diagnoses of picking, bingeing, and tantrums sound silly, but they’re useful for me and my patients.
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Washington Is Outdoing California and Texas in Renewable Energy
Renewable-energy consumption by state.
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Google Glass Isn’t Lame
These goofy spectacles might even replace the smartphone some day.
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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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- Thursday, May 16, 2013
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Tax-Free Like You and Me
The GOP wants to protect tax-exempt organizations—until it realizes that it may want to target liberal groups one day.
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Scandal Jujitsu
How is Obama coping with multiple scandals? By playing them off against one another.
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How to Frame an Abortionist (VIDEO)
The deceptive editing of pro-life videos to make abortion clinics look bad.
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What’s a Vulcan?
Two Star Trek virgins boldly go where they’ve never gone before.
