What Makes Slate Slatey?
It's a Web site. It's a magazine. It's a club.
It was not painfully funny, but merely painful, to make the selection for our 10th-anniversary anthology, The Best of Slate. In 10 years, Slate has published something like 33,000 articles under 2,000 different bylines. These are some of our favorites. Whatever else you might say about them, they are some of the Slate-iest pieces we've published. If you are not already a member, they will initiate you into the club.
This article is adapted from the introduction to The Best of Slate: A 10th Anniversary Anthology. Click here to buy the book.
The Never-Before-Seen Memoir of a Guantánamo Detainee
How the United States Kept Mohamedou Ould Slahi Silent for 12 Years
Who Said It: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford or Simpsons Mayor Diamond Joe Quimby?
Jacob Weisberg is chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group and author of The Bush Tragedy. Follow him at http://twitter.com/jacobwe.
Illustration by Rob Donnelly.