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• Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue Nice guys finish last.
  Richard Thompson Ford Nov. 8, 2004
  
• Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue Forget Starbucks—head to Wal-Mart instead.
  Hank Sheinkopf Nov. 8, 2004
  
• Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue To win, you have to fight.
  Laura Kipnis Nov. 8, 2004
  
• Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue The fight for the middle.
  Bruce Reed Nov. 8, 2004
  
• Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue Tapping into the "Obama" factor.
  Donna Brazile Nov. 6, 2004
  
• Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue Morality is the new "race."
  Diane McWhorter Nov. 5, 2004
  
• Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue Maybe it's not as bad as we think.
  Walter Dellinger Nov. 5, 2004
  
• The Gay Marriage Myth Terrorism, not values, drove Bush's re-election.
  Paul Freedman Nov. 5, 2004
  
• Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue Let's talk about faith.
  Steven Waldman Nov. 5, 2004
  
• Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue The indomitable question that plagues liberals.
  Katha Pollitt Nov. 5, 2004
  
• Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue The party's message is low risk, low reward.
  Tom Tomorrow Nov. 5, 2004
  
• "Dear Limey Assholes ..." A crazy British plot to swing Ohio to Kerry—and how it backfired.
  Andy Bowers Nov. 4, 2004
  
• Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue The unteachable ignorance of the red states.
  Jane Smiley Nov. 4, 2004
  
• Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue More policy plans, please.
  Jason Furman Nov. 4, 2004
  
• Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue Depressed liberals analyze what ails them.
  Nov. 4, 2004
  
• Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue Gotta have faith.
  Robert Reich Nov. 4, 2004
  
• Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue Moralize, liberally.
  Robert Wright Nov. 4, 2004
  
• In Defense of Exit Polls You just don't know how to use them.
  Martin Plissner Nov. 4, 2004
  
• Popularity Contest In defense of the Electoral College.
  Walter Dellinger Nov. 1, 2004
  
• People Who Vote Twice A sudden crackdown on an old trick.
  Bill Gifford Oct. 28, 2004
  
• Slate Votes At this magazine, it's Kerry by a landslide!
  Oct. 26, 2004
  
• Political Poseur Pretending to be a Republican in Blue California.
  Richard Rushfield Oct. 22, 2004
  
• Manipulating Moynihan The late senator resented the White House's heavy hand on the Social Security panel.
  Ron Suskind Oct. 18, 2004
  
• Are the Democrats Buying Votes? For-profit canvassing: the DNC's secret weapon.
  Trey Popp Sept. 30, 2004
  
• Hoodwinked Why is Florida's voting system so corrupt?
  Ann Louise Bardach Aug. 24, 2004
  
• The Boston D Party A roundup of Slate's coverage of the Democratic National Convention.
  July 27, 2004
  
• Reagan, Reconsidered Slate's coverage of his death, his life, and his legacy.
  June 8, 2004
  
• Prenuptial Jitters Did gay marriage destroy heterosexual marriage in Scandinavia?
  M.V. Lee Badgett May 20, 2004
  
• Why We Hate Voting And how to make it fun again.
  Thomas Geoghegan May 20, 2004
  
• Kerry's Cuban Problem How the Democratic nominee is blowing Florida.
  A.L. Bardach April 26, 2004
  
• Kerry's Other War Record How Bush distorts his opponent's views on terrorism.
  Jonathan Chait April 13, 2004
  
• Who's Afraid of the PDB? Why Bush should show the 9/11 commission his briefs.
  Thomas Blanton March 22, 2004
  
• Dead Rev Walking Al Sharpton's disastrous presidential campaign hits bottom in New York.
  Fred Kaplan March 3, 2004
  
• John Kerry's Waffles If you don't like the Democratic nominee's views, just wait a week.
  Michael Grunwald March 3, 2004
  
• Edwards' Exit-Poll Exit Why and how the candidate bailed out.
  Martin Plissner March 3, 2004
  
• Campaign Links 2004 
  March 1, 2004
  
• The Free-Lunch Bunch The Bush team's secret plan to "reform" Social Security.
  Ron Suskind Feb. 28, 2004
  
• The Kerry Cascade How a '50s psychology experiment can explain the Democratic primaries.
  Duncan Watts Feb. 24, 2004
  
• The Quasi-Governmental Official Who Cried Wolf David Gunn's perpetual budget blackmail.
  Joshua Green Feb. 11, 2004
  
• The Old Man in S.C. The Democrats angle for the grandfather vote.
  Kevin Arnovitz Jan. 30, 2004
  
• Flinty Like Me My life as a New Hampshire primary voter.
  David Plotz Jan. 22, 2004
  
• Liberal Hawks Reconsider the Iraq War Final words.
  Jacob Weisberg Jan. 12, 2004