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Go Ahead, Complain About Your Job on Facebook
It’s become harder to fire workers for griping online.
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How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?
Slate partners with @GunDeaths for an interactive, crowdsourced tally of the toll firearms have taken since Dec. 14.
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The House Republicans’ Primal Scream
And why their intransigence has become their own worst enemy.
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Putin the Pitiful
He came to power promising a stronger Russia. Now he leads a petty regime that picks on orphans.
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Play the Slate News Quiz—Special Year in Review Edition!
With Jeopardy! superchampion Ken Jennings.
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The Departed
Three soon-to-be-former congressmen talk about how bad things have gotten.
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Pundit Audit 2012
Here’s what I got wrong in the most exciting election year since 2008.
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Georgia’s Hunger Games
Fewer than 4,000 adults in the southern state receive welfare, even as poverty is soaring. How Georgia declared war on its poorest citizens—leaving them to fight for themselves.
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Today We Are Gathered … To Hear More About Me
President Obama was supposed to eulogize the memory of Sen. Daniel Inouye. Instead he told us about his favorite summer vacation.
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When Gun Nuts Write Gun Laws, Nuts Have Guns
We are living in the world the NRA has made.
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Wayne’s World
The NRA didn’t persuade its critics. But it did trick the media into discussing its popular, gun-industry-friendly master plan.
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America’s Next Diplomat
Kerry could be a great secretary of state—if Obama lets him.
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The Big Fail
Why John Boehner’s last, best hope at avoiding the “fiscal cliff” exploded in his face.
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Why the U.S. Shouldn’t Sign On to Empty Human Rights Treaties
They’re a propaganda exercise for many of the world’s most unsavory nations.
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We the People Fix the Budget
The best poll around shows exactly how Americans want to avert the fiscal cliff.
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Is the Second Amendment the Second Most Important?
The order of the Bill of Rights is an argument for gun control.
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It’s Not Just the Second Amendment Anymore
How the NRA is larding state constitutions with frivolous, redundant “right to hunt” amendments.
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Remembering Bork
He was my teacher 30 years ago. I’ve spent my career proving him wrong.
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Obama vs. the NRA
Obama always promised to take on the special interests. Now he is set to square off against the strongest interest group of all.
