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Today's Doonesbury
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The Explainer
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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
- Sunday, June 3, 2012
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A Queen for the Ages
As Her Majesty celebrates her Diamond Jubilee, Britain stands up to admire the one celebrity who always does her duty.
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The Longform Guide to Airplanes
Air-traffic controllers, renegade airlines, and (of course) crashes—great stories about flying.
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- Saturday, June 2, 2012
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Meet the Most Fashionable Woman in the World
The Queen of England.
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The Pharaoh Got Life! Long Live the Pharaoh!
Mubarak was convicted, but Egypt’s political system isn’t close to reformed.
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Pros and Cons
The strivers and schemers and wankers and winners of John Lanchester’s Capital.
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The New Handmaids
The future of reproductive rights, as seen in three young adult novels.
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Is Gay Good?
Linda Hirshman’s history of gay rights argues that the moral battle has been won.
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Kill Me Maybe
1975’s Looking for Mr. Goodbar and the never-ending panic over young women and casual sex.
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The iPad of Babel
Tablet apps for kids make what once were books into something interactive, mind-bending—and not necessarily better.
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I Like Big Bucks and I Cannot Lie
Inside the terrible variety show that was Washington Mutual.
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Waiting in Line, Where Ketchup Comes From, and Our Search for the Perfect Office Chair
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
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- Friday, June 1, 2012
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The Android Head of Philip K. Dick
The unlikely story of the sci-fi author’s “robotic resurrection.”
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Haunted
A bereaved father wonders if his son’s ghost has returned in an ambitious, wrenching debut novel.
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What Will Be
Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312, a sci-fi novel so brilliant, it reads like an account of the past.
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Clotted Cream
Christopher Hayes on America’s distrust of elites and the fall of the meritocracy.
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No More Drama?
On Denis Johnson’s Two Plays, and why plays get published in book form at all.
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The Snow Is Still in Beta
Engine Empire, a remarkable book of poetry about the speed at which we’re rushing toward the future.
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All About the Love
In Bunch of Amateurs, tinkerers, putterers, and ham-radio enthusiasts can change the world.
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The Audio Book Club on Are You My Mother?
Our critics on cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s follow-up to Fun Home.
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How To Make Anything Out of a 3-Liter Bottle
A charming new graphic novel about a slow-moving small-town summer.
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A Cat in Paris
A charming French animated film about a girl and a cat who break up a crime ring.
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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.
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Doctors. D-O-C-T-O-R-S. Doctors.
What do spelling-bee winners do when they grow up?
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Obama’s War on Terror
ProPublica rounds up the best watchdog journalism on the president’s national security policies.
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Art That Grew On You
Slate readers on Mozart, Brahms, Jackson Pollock, and other tastes that took some acquiring.
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The Jobs Disaster
The closer you look at today’s employment report, the worse it looks.
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What It Feels Like for a Virgin
Why MTV never should have pulled the plug on My First …
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That Bites
Why do the snakes used in Pentecostal serpent handling have to be poisonous?
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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.
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Safe Data
Amending the Constitution to protect informational privacy.
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A Girl and Her Room
Photographs from a new book by Rania Matar.
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Fetal Flaw
The abortion politics of new prenatal tests.
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It All Comes Down to Race
Your opinions on health care reform, taxes, and even the president’s dog come down to racial bias.
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Why Are Indian Kids So Good at Spelling?
Because they have their own minor-league spelling bee circuit.
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Where Are Gas Prices Going Up Fastest?
A map of gas price hikes.
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Big Bots in Little Agriculture
Will small-scale farmers use drones and other automated equipment?
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The Future of Food: Five Frontiers
How nanotechnology, vertical farms, and lab-grown meat may change the way you eat.
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What You Hate Most About Waiting in Line
(It’s not the length of the wait.)
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Corrections
Slate's mistakes.
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- Thursday, May 31, 2012
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What Robert Caro Got Wrong
He is one of our greatest historians. So why is his retelling of the Cuban Missile Crisis so mistaken?
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Please Don’t Play It Again, Sam
What’s the best music to use when you’re torturing someone?
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A Cad Gets His Due
The world knows that John Edwards is loathsome. That’s enough.
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What If Jason Bourne Were a Cyberweapon?
We may soon have to make room in our lives for self-reliant, highly autonomous software.
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Snow White and the Huntsman
Fourteen percent more dwarfs, 100 percent less charm than the fairy tale.
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The GOP Sees Dead People—Voting
Why Republican plans to fight voter fraud are based on nightmares, tall tales, and paranoid fears.
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She’s Just Not That Into Jew
A dating coach for ex-Orthodox Jewish women.
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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.
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False Fronts in the Language Wars
Why New Yorker writers and others keep pushing bogus controversies.
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Who Watches the Watchmen’s Watchers?
Alan Moore is angry about DC Comics’ Watchmen prequels. He’s right.
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Save the Jury
How to amend the Constitution to make the criminal justice system more fair.
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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.
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