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Christopher Beam
Christopher Beam is a writer living in Beijing.
Articles By Christopher Beam
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The Chinese Steve Jobs Is Probably a Pirate
China’s greatest innovators are the people ripping off companies like Apple and Nintendo.
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"Media Is Everything. It's Everything."
Slate's 2010 profile of Andrew Breitbart.
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What's the Deal With Mistletoe?
How the plant came to be associated with Christmas kissing.
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Slate's Hollywood Career-O-Matic
What Rotten Tomatoes data tell us about the best, worst, and most bizarre Hollywood trajectories.
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Tricky Dick
Was Anthony Weiner's Twitter account hacked? The evidence for and against.
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Repeat Offenders
America's Most Wanted and the weird practice of crime re-enactments.
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The Ombudsman
How one TV reporter tried to reveal the underbelly of the Pakistani media.
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Walk the Walk
Who decides whether a suspect like Dominique Strauss-Kahn takes a "perp walk"?
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Sex, Lies, and Ticker Tape
You think the French tolerate political infidelity? Look at the United States.
