-
Today's Doonesbury
-
The Explainer
-
Slate Goes to the Movies
-
The Evolution of Everyday Objects
-
The Slate Book Review
-
Mad Men
-
No More Strapless Wedding Gowns!
They're unflattering, unsophisticated, and annoyingly ubiquitous.
By Katherine Goldstein
-
The Crisis in American Walking
-
Death in Yellowstone
-
Permanent Record
The surprising stories I uncovered in a trove of report cards from the 1920s.
By Paul Lukas
-
Where’s _why?
What happened when one of the most unusual, beloved programmers disappeared.
By Annie Lowrey
-
The Conversion
How, when, and why Mitt Romney changed his mind on abortion.
By William Saletan
-
The Greatest Paper Map of the U.S.
-
Slate Writers on Facebook and Twitter
Follow John Dickerson, Emily Yoffe, Farhad Manjoo, and the rest of your favorites.
TOP STORIES
- Saturday, June 2, 2012
-
-
Meet the Most Fashionable Woman in the World
The Queen of England.
-
The Pharaoh Got Life! Long Live the Pharaoh!
Mubarak was convicted, but Egypt’s political system isn’t close to reformed.
-
-
-
Pros and Cons
The strivers and schemers and wankers and winners of John Lanchester’s Capital.
-
The New Handmaids
The future of reproductive rights, as seen in three young adult novels.
-
Is Gay Good?
Linda Hirshman’s history of gay rights argues that the moral battle has been won.
-
Kill Me Maybe
1975’s Looking for Mr. Goodbar and the never-ending panic over young women and casual sex.
-
The iPad of Babel
Tablet apps for kids make what once were books into something interactive, mind-bending—and not necessarily better.
-
I Like Big Bucks and I Cannot Lie
Inside the terrible variety show that was Washington Mutual.
-
Waiting in Line, Where Ketchup Comes From, and Our Search for the Perfect Office Chair
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
-
- Friday, June 1, 2012
-
-
The Android Head of Philip K. Dick
The unlikely story of the sci-fi author’s “robotic resurrection.”
-
Haunted
A bereaved father wonders if his son’s ghost has returned in an ambitious, wrenching debut novel.
-
What Will Be
Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312, a sci-fi novel so brilliant, it reads like an account of the past.
-
Clotted Cream
Christopher Hayes on America’s distrust of elites and the fall of the meritocracy.
-
No More Drama?
On Denis Johnson’s Two Plays, and why plays get published in book form at all.
-
The Snow Is Still in Beta
Engine Empire, a remarkable book of poetry about the speed at which we’re rushing toward the future.
-
All About the Love
In Bunch of Amateurs, tinkerers, putterers, and ham-radio enthusiasts can change the world.
-
The Audio Book Club on Are You My Mother?
Our critics on cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s follow-up to Fun Home.
-
How To Make Anything Out of a 3-Liter Bottle
A charming new graphic novel about a slow-moving small-town summer.
-
A Cat in Paris
A charming French animated film about a girl and a cat who break up a crime ring.
-
-
-
Obama and the Terrible, No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Day
The economic news is dire for his re-election campaign. But there are three bright spots.
-
Doctors. D-O-C-T-O-R-S. Doctors.
What do spelling-bee winners do when they grow up?
-
Obama’s War on Terror
ProPublica rounds up the best watchdog journalism on the president’s national security policies.
-
-
Art That Grew On You
Slate readers on Mozart, Brahms, Jackson Pollock, and other tastes that took some acquiring.
-
-
The Jobs Disaster
The closer you look at today’s employment report, the worse it looks.
-
What It Feels Like for a Virgin
Why MTV never should have pulled the plug on My First …
-
-
-
-
-
That Bites
Why do the snakes used in Pentecostal serpent handling have to be poisonous?
-
-
The “Yes, You Too Can Win Dinner With Donald Trump” Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about Romney and Trump, Obama’s drone war, and fixing the Constitution.
-
Safe Data
Amending the Constitution to protect informational privacy.
-
-
-
A Girl and Her Room
Photographs from a new book by Rania Matar.
-
Fetal Flaw
The abortion politics of new prenatal tests.
-
It All Comes Down to Race
Your opinions on health care reform, taxes, and even the president’s dog come down to racial bias.
-
-
Why Are Indian Kids So Good at Spelling?
Because they have their own minor-league spelling bee circuit.
-
-
-
-
Where Are Gas Prices Going Up Fastest?
A map of gas price hikes.
-
Big Bots in Little Agriculture
Will small-scale farmers use drones and other automated equipment?
-
The Future of Food: Five Frontiers
How nanotechnology, vertical farms, and lab-grown meat may change the way you eat.
-
What You Hate Most About Waiting in Line
(It’s not the length of the wait.)
-
-
Corrections
Slate's mistakes.
-
- Thursday, May 31, 2012
-
-
What Robert Caro Got Wrong
He is one of our greatest historians. So why is his retelling of the Cuban Missile Crisis so mistaken?
-
Please Don’t Play It Again, Sam
What’s the best music to use when you’re torturing someone?
-
-
A Cad Gets His Due
The world knows that John Edwards is loathsome. That’s enough.
-
What If Jason Bourne Were a Cyberweapon?
We may soon have to make room in our lives for self-reliant, highly autonomous software.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Snow White and the Huntsman
Fourteen percent more dwarfs, 100 percent less charm than the fairy tale.
-
-
-
-
The GOP Sees Dead People—Voting
Why Republican plans to fight voter fraud are based on nightmares, tall tales, and paranoid fears.
-
She’s Just Not That Into Jew
A dating coach for ex-Orthodox Jewish women.
-
-
-
-
DoubleX Gabfest: The Itty Bitty Cheapo Rock Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about Mark Zuckerberg’s new wife Priscilla Chan, the GeekDad movement, and women in combat.
-
-
-
False Fronts in the Language Wars
Why New Yorker writers and others keep pushing bogus controversies.
-
Who Watches the Watchmen’s Watchers?
Alan Moore is angry about DC Comics’ Watchmen prequels. He’s right.
-
Save the Jury
How to amend the Constitution to make the criminal justice system more fair.
-
A Separate Peace
I’m losing my battle with cancer and want to stop treatment, but my family thinks I’m giving up too soon.
-
-
- Wednesday, May 30, 2012
-
-
Must-Fee TV
Why Hulu has a perverse incentive to make its online video service worse.
-
Many Unhappy Returns
Can Amazon figure out how to sell clothes that fit?
-
Someone’s Always Watching Me
Ai Weiwei on what it’s like to live under constant surveillance by the Chinese government.
-
How Does Vatican City Deal With Criminals?
Do the Swiss Guards throw them in a Swiss prison?
-
-
-
Mitt Romney Wins the Republican Nomination!
The media should have known it all along, but it’s OK that we didn’t.
-
Part-Time Slugger
Do baseball players try harder in their contract years?
-
The Coming Global Recession
China, India, and Brazil are all slowing down simultaneously, plunging the entire world into economic crisis.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Mad Men Style: Joan’s Costume Secrets
When was the last time she wore that fur? You might be surprised.
-
The Ultimate Small-Business Cheat Sheet
Presenting Slate readers' 10 best nuggets of entrepreneurship advice.
-
-
Mad Men, Season 5
Is Don "the asshole who would buy this car"?
-
-
-
-
-
-
Beyond the Kill List
On the dark side of the drone war, Obama’s rules don’t apply.
-
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.
-
-
Constitution Smackdown!
Our founding document is losing out to Canada? A Daily Show writer protests.
-
The Quest for the Perfect Office Chair
Why we haven’t found it yet.
-
The Cosmopolitan Condiment
An exploration of ketchup’s Chinese origins.
-
- Tuesday, May 29, 2012
- Monday, May 28, 2012
- Sunday, May 27, 2012
