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Today's Doonesbury
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The Game of Thrones TV Club
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Mad Men
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Arrested Development
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Slate's Wedding Issue
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The Slate Book Review
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The Guantánamo Memoirs
Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been detained for 11 years. Here is his story.
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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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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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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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The Gaybros
They like sports, hunting, and beer. And they make the gay community mad.
By J. Bryan Lowder
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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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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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Embrace the Void
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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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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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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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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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Slate Writers on Facebook and Twitter
Follow John Dickerson, Emily Yoffe, and the rest of your favorite Slate writers on social media.
- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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The Audio Book Club on Tenth of December
Our critics discuss George Saunders’ book of short stories.
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The Culture Gabfest “Hurry Up With My Damn Croissants” Edition
Slate's podcast about Kanye West’s new album Yeezus, Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot Man of Steel, and ambivalence.
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My Kind of Town, Stink Onions
The literal meanings of places in the U.S., mapped.
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They Deactivate Droids, Don’t They?
The unaddressed plight of Star Wars’ robotic underclass.
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The Pain Threshold
Banning abortions at 20 weeks is just the beginning of a plan to outlaw them altogether.
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Skyjacker of the Day
“We’re going to bomb Oak Ridge”: The hijacking that gave us airport security.
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Seven Seconds in Heaven
Ray Allen’s tying 3-pointer revealed everything that’s great about sports (and a few things that are terrible about sports commentary).
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The Messiah Will Be Tweeted
The Internet isn’t the problem for the Hasidic community; it’s its best chance for survival.
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Approaching Death
A nurse goes from the ER to a hospice, and changes the way she thinks about life and its end.
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Doonesbury Flashback
Old School chestwear.
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- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
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Trent Franks Feels Your Pain
The GOP’s tactics for passing the Arizona congressman’s unconstitutional abortion bill.
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The Second-Term Slump
Obama’s poll numbers are dropping. Does it matter?
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The Whitey Bulger Trial
Should John Martorano be at the defendant’s table, with Whitey testifying against him?
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Drop the Taper Talk
With inflation low, the Fed should stay far away from tighter money.
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Give Us Now Our Daily Croissant
Kanye West’s blasphemous, beguiling Yeezus.
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Getting in Bed With Europe
The biggest trade deal of all time is being negotiated and nobody’s paying attention.
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Beware the Lone-Wolf Terrorist
A former State Department counterterrorism officer on what keeps him up at night.
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Can You Inhale Calories?
The dietary impacts of smoking alcohol.
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Clarence Thomas, Liberal
In the strange world of the Supreme Court, sometimes being an archconservative can turn you into a liberal.
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Mad Men, Season 6
Don Draper really needs to go to a meeting.
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Trapped in an Underwater Air Bubble for Three Days
Harrison Okene’s shipwreck survival wasn’t a miracle. It was fascinating physics.
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Flattened Affect
I’ve spent a week with iOS 7 and I’m already bored.
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The End of Joy
Why do athletes look so angry when they do something great?
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The End of the Unpaid Internship
The judge who said interns should be paid is right.
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Mad Men, Season 6
Ken withdraws from Vietnam—er, Chevy.
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Bad Connection
Obama wants to bring better broadband to schools. But how will he pay for it?
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If You Could Eat Only One Thing …
You still wouldn’t want it to be Soylent.
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Skyjacker of the Day
This air pirate picked the wrong plane and the wrong captain.
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I Would Have Hired Edward Snowden
A former Google and Microsoft engineer explains why elitist, arrogant rebels often make the best employees.
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The Tyranny of the Smile
Why does everyone expect women to smile all the time?
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Strap In or Get Out
In a live chat, Prudie counsels a pregnant woman whose husband refuses to wear his seat belt.
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- Monday, June 17, 2013
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This Time, Scalia Doesn’t Want to See Your Papers
The Supreme Court declares Arizona’s voter registration law unconstitutional.
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The Whitey Bulger Trial
John Martorano killed 20 people. Why is he a free man?
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Obama Doesn’t Fight Like Bush
A former State Department official on how the president has kept a step ahead on counterterrorism.
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Hang Up and Listen: The Derecho Finals Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on the close-but-lopsided NBA Finals, the overtime-laden Stanley Cup Finals, and the U.S. Open at tiny Merion Golf Club.
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Obama’s Gamble in Syria
The president needs to explain his objective in arming the Syrian rebels, and why he thinks it’s a risk worth taking.
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The Lockbox Lie
If our phone records are protected by a “lockbox,” why can the NSA search them without a warrant?
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Let’s Make a Baby
Republicans are fretting about birthrates—and whether immigrants can give them the young conservatives they need.
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