David Grann

David Grann writes for The New Yorker.

Culture Gabfest

April 5 2011 1:41 PMThe Culture Gabfest, "Debonair Counterspy" EditionListen to Slate's show about AMC's new Nordic noir The Killing, Spike's reality series Coal, and David Grann's New Yorker report on the murder of Rodrigo Rosenberg.David Grann, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner

News & Politics

Politics

Jan. 28 2015 10:23 AM The History of the Pocket Constitution How mini-Constitutions became popular long before the Tea Party. Betsy Woodruff

George Pataki May Be Running the Saddest Campaign for President

How the Koch Brothers Could Make, Break, or Reshape Republican Politics in 2016

Why Obama Took So Many High-Powered Officials to Cozy Up to the Saudi Royal Family

Bobby Jindal Pins His Presidential Hopes on a Prayer Revival. It Was a Bust.

Why Do Judges and Politicians Flip-Flop? A Survey.

Why de Blasio Was Right to Take On Criminal Justice Reform

Business

Moneybox

Jan. 27 2015 7:31 PM West Virginia Is for Egalitarians Jordan Weissmann

The iPhone 6 Just Shattered Apple’s Own Sales Records

Yahoo Just Found a Way Around Its Potentially Multibillion Dollar Tax Bill

Looking for a Reliable, High-Yield Investment? Install LED Light Bulbs. Really.

Obama Wants to Tax College Savings Accounts. He Should Make Them Work for the Middle Class Instead.

The Myth That Middle-Class Students Don’t Get Financial Aid

Chipotle’s Sofritas Promotion Was So Popular That a Bunch of Locations Sold Out

Life

Quora

Jan. 28 2015 8:10 AM Are Astronauts Discouraged From Drinking Coffee While in Space? Quora Contributor

Would You Ride the Rusty, Creaking Cable Cars of Chiatura?

As the Catholic Church’s Influence Wanes, Ireland Is Having a Gay Moment

This Prefab Cube Shrinks an Entire House Into One Tiny Structure

Help! Our Baby Won’t Sleep Through the Night, Making It Hard to Have Sex.

Meet Kevin Daniels, the Actor Behind One of TV’s Most Interesting Gay Characters

A Victorian Argument That Snow Is Holy, Illustrated by a Beautiful Catalog of Flakes

Double X

The XX Factor

Jan. 28 2015 8:52 AM When Career Expectations Are Just About Getting Enough Money to Eat Jessica Grose

Watch the First Anti-Domestic Violence Super Bowl Commercial

New Orleans Was Supposed to Get a New Planned Parenthood Clinic. Here's Why It's Still Not There.

How the Great Blizzard of 1888 Killed the Petticoat

Study on Women’s Painkiller Use Causes Concern Over Hypothetical Embryos, Not Actual Women

Republican Women Stopped the 20-Week Abortion Bill. That’s Not Standing Up for Reproductive Rights.

Ultra-Orthodox Women in Israel Are Treated Horribly. So They Started Their Own Party.

Slate Plus

Jurisprudence

Jan. 27 2015 11:18 AM Slate Voice: “American Liar” Listen to Mark Joseph Stern read his piece about Jesse Ventura’s defamation suit against Chris Kyle. Mark Joseph Stern

A Spoiler-Filled Podcast on Downton Abbey Episode 4

Jeremy Stahl on What Slate Stories Broke Facebook This Week

A Spoiler-Filled Podcast on American Horror Story: Freak Show Episode 13

What Should Slate Do in 2015? Tell Slate’s Editor in Chief.

Arts

Culturebox

Jan. 28 2015 11:02 AM 50 Shades of Beige Why The Americans’ set design is far less simple than it looks. Sarah Archer

A Gorgeous Look at Some of the Oldest Trees on Earth

Let’s Clarify One Thing—You Can Make Store-bought Butter Better (Video)

How the Makers of White God Staged an Animal Uprising With 200 Dogs

Watch Stevie Nicks’ Wrenching, Candid Piano Performance of “Blue Water”

Who Ya Gonna Call? These Four Actresses, for the Ghostbusters Reboot.