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Human Nature
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Killers in Kevlar
How many gun-toting criminals are wearing body armor? A Slate investigation.
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Armored and Dangerous
The scariest innovation in the Aurora mass shooting isn’t guns or ammo. It’s SWAT gear.
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Dr. Pepper and Mr. Hot Dog
Michael Bloomberg thinks hot-dog contests are fun, but soda and burgers are shameful.
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A Liberal War on Science?
Don’t bury Mark Regnerus’ study of gay parents. Learn what it can teach the left and right.
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Back in the Gay
Does a new study indict gay parenthood or make a case for gay marriage?
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Michael Bloomberg’s Wiener Orgies
If it’s bad to drink 17 ounces of soda, why is it good to eat 68 hot dogs?
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Fifty Shades of Gay
In the political war over ex-gay conversion therapy, sexually conflicted people get trampled.
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Slipping With the Yemenis
We’re escalating our drone campaign in Yemen. Are we getting into a war?
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The Aspirin Strategy
What happens to college sex when you stop subsidizing birth control? Rush Limbaugh won’t like the answer.
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Pills for Sluts?
Six questions for Rush Limbaugh about sex, promiscuity, and contraception.
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Disability Fraud
Did Rick Santorum lie through his teeth about partial-birth abortion?
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How Komen Became a Tool
Defunding Planned Parenthood over “controversy” was politics by another name.
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Planned Obsolescence
How to drive Planned Parenthood out of the abortion business.
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Occupy in the Sky
How do you control territory without troops? Ask the Israelis who fly drones over Gaza.
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Abortion Forever?
Pro-choice and pro-life absolutists say fetal development doesn’t matter. They’re wrong.
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Rule of Lord
The Republican plan to nullify the courts and establish Christian theocracy.
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Sex on the Brain
Are boys’ brains different from girls’ brains? Scientists debate the question.
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The Resurrection of Gabby Giffords
The congresswoman’s recovery, documented on video, shows how a brain reconstructs itself.
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Mississippi Birthing
Would Mississippi’s embryonic “personhood” amendment outlaw birth control? Apparently so.
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Help the Next Steve Jobs
If you want to honor Steve Jobs, do what somebody did for him: Donate your organs.
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Drones Are Death Warrants
Can the U.S. send drones to execute American citizens like Anwar al-Awlaki without trial? You bet.
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The Model-Plane Bomber
So much for airport security. The new terror threat is remote-controlled planes.
