News & Politics
- What will the president say to get Democrats excited for the coming campaign?
- The New York Times' "Thursday Styles" section discovers flat-chested pride.
- Prosecutors can ask for a five-year sentence for Illinois' ex-governor.
- An exclusive look at the artwork of Guantanamo Bay prisoners.
- The broadening backlash against American Islam.
- The editorial lessons taught by the now-dead gunman who took hostages at the Discovery Channel today.
- Stunning photos of the Pakistani floods.
- What Tiger didn't understand about his mistresses.
- Obama's frustrating, unfocused speech on Iraq.
- Neither libertarians nor the Kochs should try to hide their relationship.
- The Los Angeles Times takes on the two L.A. sacred cows—teachers and unions—and lives to print again!
- Why killing "criminals" with drones is a war crime.
- Feisal Abdul Rauf defends his plan for an Islamic center near Ground Zero.
- The conservative rebellion against the establishment is doing wonders for the GOP. Seriously.
- On the trail of the question, Who first said (or wrote) that journalism is the "first rough draft of history"?
- How Obama's struggles with disaster and war may be casting Bush's presidency in a more favorable light.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg shows how feminism is done. Again.
- Glenn Beck's rally was large, vague, moist, and undirected—the Waterworld of white self-pity.
- Don't ridicule Glenn Beck's tribute to MLK. Celebrate it.
- What seven years of war in Iraq has done to American society.
- Glenn Beck's rally was about as angry as a Teletubbies episode.
- Will the presence of three women really change the court in any real way?
- How South Africa became the world's No. 1 asylum destination.
- The Proto-Internet of 1704: The small ways in which Colonial newspapers anticipated the Web.
- How can female Democratic pols advertise themselves in the age of Palin?
- Bush's GOP chairman comes out of the closet. Can he change the gay marriage debate?
- McCain's 2008 economic adviser dissents from the GOP knock on Obama.
- Why do Ken Cuccinelli's legal opinions always match his personal ambitions?
- Israeli-Palestinian direct talks and the art of low expectations.
- What it's like campaigning for governor in Vermont: a dispatch in comics.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Can you stop someone from posting your 911 tape?
- All the candidates Sarah Palin backed had a great night.
- How Joe Miller—the Palin-endorsed, Tea Party-supported candidate—surprised everyone in Alaska.
- Florida's Allen West may be crazy, but so far this year, that hasn't hurt Republicans.
Briefing
- How many uses are there for a dead body?
- The Slatest: Evening Edition
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Play Lean/Lock and test your skills as a political pundit.
- Welcome to Slate Labs: Experiments with multimedia journalism.
- George Clooney plays a professional assassin in The American. Are there full-time assassins in real life?
- How does booze extend your lifespan?
- Troy Polamalu's hair is insured for $1 million. How does body-part insurance work?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- How do you measure a crowd as big as the one at the Glenn Beck rally?
- How can the trapped Chilean miners keep from getting depressed?
- The art and science of carrying things on your head.
- Can you stop someone from posting your 911 tape?
- A roundup of questions on the salmonella outbreak.
- Why do people retire at age 65?
- Why do the Roma wander?
- Can you take a child away from an abusive parent?
- How many hurricanes? Slate readers try to predict the number of storms that will hit the United States this year.
- Newt Gingrich says Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign near the Holocaust Museum. Is that true?
- Slate's most memorable stories about Hurricane Katrina.
- Why are some pharmaceuticals so expensive?
- Is emergency food aid culturally specific?
- Is it legal to eat your cat?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Can you shoot a target of the President?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Meet Slate's new, free iPad app.
- Why do so many planes crash in Alaska?
- Robert Gates wants to eliminate 50 generals from the military. Will that save a lot of money?
- How come schools assign grades of A, B, C, D, and F—but not E?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Play Slate's new political prediction game, which tests your skill at forecasting the outcome of the midterm elections.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- What kind of orientation will Elena Kagan get as a new justice? And does she have to wear that frilly neck thing?
- Barack Obama's Facebook Feed
- The Slate Poll: Slate readers get it right on Elena Kagan's confirmation vote.
- Why is Fanta so much more popular abroad than in the United States?
- How many Americans can't swim?
- When did testicles become courageous?
- How does stoning work in Iran?
- Why there's no need for "safe departure" border checkpoints for illegal immigrants.
- The results are in: Slate readers fail miserably in predicting the date of Tony Hayward's downfall.
- How they know when a pet is overweight.
- Can praying for a dead person help get him into heaven?
- How communist is China, anyway?
- Can CIA agents marry foreigners like they do in Salt?
- Can Chinese fishermen sue over an oil spill?
Arts
- Drew Barrymore and Justin Long as slackers in long-distance love in Going the Distance.
- Is the New York Times' book section really a boys' club?
- A review of Kristin Hersh's memoir, Rat Girl.
- Joan Rivers shoots down the stars on Fashion Police.
- George Clooney spends a long time making a gun in The American.
- Mad Men Week 6: Is Peggy one great campaign away from being treated like Don?
- The Tea Party would love The Hunger Games.
- The prescient cultural criticism of Max Headroom.
- "Through a Glass Darkly"
- Taking the new Preppy Handbook for a test drive.
- An Emmy for the first sitcom character with Asperger's: The Big Bang Theory's Sheldon Cooper.
- How Huge and Fat Camp win our hearts.
- True Blood Episode 11: How many great characters have to die before the season is over?
- Jonathan Franzen's Freedom is an epic map of our imprisonment.
- The great 3-D debate: Eye muscles are overrated.
- A review of Joyce Maynard's The Good Daughters.
- The new miniseries by The Kids in the Hall finds their absurd sensibility intact.
- Frank Kermode, 1919-2010, exemplified an ideal that is dying.
- An all-access, totally non-exclusive interview with Kanye West, the would-be king of hip-hop.
- Is 3-D dead in the water? A box-office analysis.
- "Pocket"
- Who will die on True Blood next week?
- Eliza Griswold explores the fault line between Christianity and Islam in The Tenth Parallel.
- Huge: It's a great little TV show.
- Debating Mark Oppenheimer's debate memoir, Wisenheimer.
- Soul Kitchen: A slight but fun movie about bohemians and junk food.
- A talk with Laura Moser and Lauren Mechling, authors of Slate's serialized young adult novel, My Darklyng.
- How an OK movie and a circle of drinking buddies became an iconic American attitude.
- Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman almost save The Switch.
- How Hollywood represents foreign speech: a video slide show.
- Rediscovering the parking lot, the big-box store, the farmers market, the gas station.
- No one captured the passion and spontaneity of jazz like photographer Herman Leonard.
- The enigmatic and enduring art of John Clare, a mad pauper and brilliant poet.
- Was the Philadelphia Eagles' Todd Herremans on to something?
- In The Big C, Laura Linney struggles elegantly against Stage IV eccentricity.
- Jack London's many sides emerge in James L. Haley's Wolf.
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a delightful package of cinematic Pop Rocks.
- My Darklyng: The exciting conclusion of DoubleX's serialized vampire novel.
- Julia Roberts in Eat Pray Love.
- Cupcakes: A blight upon our land and our television screens.
- The Audio Book Club on Eat, Pray, Love.
- Literary agents are flooded with pitches for the next Eat, Pray, Love.
- The DoubleX Audio Book Club on Adam Ross' new novel, Mr. Peanut.
- The comic book that gave us Scott Pilgrim.
- Eat Pray Love and the trope of the woman liberated by divorce.
- Werewolves, shape shifters, swimming hippies—the world of True Blood is getting too crowded.
- "Blank Villanelle"
- The strange comforts of reading Mark Twain in the age of oppositional defiant disorder.
- Shirley Jackson between Library of America covers.
- Step Up 3D breaks all the "dance movie" rules—not in a good way.
- The deliberate, slow-paced, moody pleasures of Rubicon.
Life
- I changed my mind and now want to have a child, but my husband won't hear of it.
- How the original Preppy Handbook changed my life.
- The sports media celebrate Kevin Durant for being someone he isn't.
- My husband is finally home from his deployment to Iraq.
- What's with all the celebrities sentenced to community service? Do they really help anyone?
- The bliss of an 18-month, paid, Swedish paternity leave.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- "Modern Love" revenge.
- The evolution of the Minnesota State Fair.
- How do I handle the aftermath of domestic violence?
- Should the Pirates spend money to win ballgames?
- Scandals: They produce very useful scapegoats. Like Dr. Laura, for example.
- MoMA's exhibition of smart, stylish London transit posters.
- Are the offspring of therapists really more screwed up than the children of non-shrinks?
- How can I ensure that the clothing I donate to charity really helps the needy?
- An appreciation of soccer's ludicrous, misleading, and fabulously entertaining transfer rumor mill.
- What Jews misunderstand about Christian Zionism.
- Northern Spain has become a white-wine Valhalla.
- My boyfriend's drugged-out friend is causing trouble in our relationship.
- An American barbecue pilgrimage.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- The country's booming market for surrogacy.
- The lament of a summer landlord.
- How Katrina changed New Orleans and the way I think about my hometown.
- The most isolated man on the planet.
- A Slate discussion on twentysomething kids.
- I accused a man of inappropriate conduct as a child, but it wasn't true.
- An interactive visualization of Brett Favre's annual off-season waffling.
- In which I spend four years trying to repair andsell my flooded house in New Orleans.
- How to help preserve the historic homes of American artists and writers.
- Can you keep a zebra as a pet? And other runaway-zebra questions.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- Famous people photographed with Queen Elizabeth II.
- Should pro golfers pay attention to statistics?
- I'm quitting the Internet. Will I be liberated or left behind?
- On not owning a vacation home.
- I borrowed cash from Dad to care for my dying mom. Now he's demanding payback.
- The new science on chronically harsh and conflict-ridden households.
- How to encourage your child's love of animals.
- A new stat sheds light on the dark art of putting.
- Advice for a woman who wants to spend time with her friend without her children.
- The glorious, ludicrous feud between Pelé and Diego Maradona.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- A Fine Whine: An invective against birthday dinners.
- The man I thought was my daughter's father isn't.
- A brief history of the bikini.
- How to travel to Cuba to provide humanitarian aid.
- August: Let's get rid of it!
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- A dispatch from transgender camp for kids.
Business & Tech
- Are the next-generation Neato and Mint robo-cleaners better than the Roomba?
- The U.S. auto industry is smaller but healthier.
- Economists are making the case politicians are afraid to: Immigration is great for the U.S.
- Why is everyone always writing off Netflix?
- Corporate bosses are whining, even though they're reporting record profits.
- Cut down on e-mail chaos with Gmail's new Priority Inbox.
- How those foreign visitors in Times Square are helping to balance the trade deficit.
- Don't worry about a bubble in U.S. government bonds.
- Tech startups are changing the way workers are screened and hired.
- Web users in the United Arab Emirates have more to worry about than having just their BlackBerries cracked.
- Google's new Gmail phone service makes calling anywhere from home cheap and crystal clear.
- A tech autopsy of Google's failed communication platform.
- The two gangs of economists warring over the causes of high unemployment.
- Some people on Wall Street, and at the Wall Street Journal, speak as if the financial crisis never happened.
- Leaving big law behind:The many frustrations that cause well-paid lawyers to hang out their own shingles.
- Facebook Places will make it harder to lie to your friends.
- No, We're Not Turning Into Japan
- Slate's Farhad Manjoo answers your questions about how to sell an iPhone, Facebook impostors, and computer spies.
- Young Americans: International trade is the best way to make your fortune.
- JetBlue's Steven Slater isn't the only one: why more and more American workers are unhappy.
- Siggi's builds a niche market from an ancient Icelandic yogurt recipe.
- Why e-readers like the Amazon Kindle will soon cost less than $100.
- Are all rich people now liberals?
- Welcome to Slate Labs: Experiments with multimedia journalism.
- How black people use Twitter.
- Demand Media suffers a huge apparent traffic drop just as its IPO is announced.
- Employers shouldn't be surprised that Americans won't take their crummy, low-wage jobs.
- The alleged Google-Verizon deal that's endangering net neutrality.
- The listserv, one of the Internet's earliest innovations, is still one of its best.
- Are lower prices scarier than higher ones?
- Digital publishing levels the playing field for small publishers.
- Hugely profitable companies that won't restore the 401(k) match they ditched in 2008.
- Flipboard, the brilliant iPad app that has changed the way I read the news.
- What Daniel Gross gets wrong about electric car subsidies.
- Charles Lane's claim that electric car subsidies are snobby and foolish is dead wrong.
- The new GDP numbers aren't as bad as the doomsayers insist.
- President Obama's electric car subsidies are snobby and foolish.
- Electric cars like Chevy's new Volt are too expensive today, but they won't be for long.
- The WikiLeaks Paradox: Is radical transparency compatible with total anonymity?
- In Kenya's Rift Valley, a global business is blooming.
- Consumer confidence is down, so why are Americans spending more?
- How to give your creaky old Windows computer an Ubuntu makeover.
- Apple, Research in Motion, and the rest of the cell phone industry don't want you to know how often your phone drops calls.
- The billionaire, the union leader, and the heiress trying to bring back the tax on inherited wealth.
- Pity the poor investment banker. The IPO gravy train is making fewer stops these days.
Science
- How many uses are there for a dead body?
- Judicial activism is OK for embryos, but not for gays.
- How bathroom posture affects your health.
- The life story of the mosquito.
- A crazy judge throws out Obama's stem-cell policy—and Bush's.
- What the USDA and the FDA can learn from the recall of 500 million eggs due to salmonella.
- Are iPads and Kindles better for the environment than books?
- The medical revolution: Where are the cures?
- A history of quicksand in the movies.
- The rise and fall of quicksand.
- Are children today really going through puberty earlier?
- Why doctors are so bad at predicting how long their patients will live.
- The ecological impact of Hurricane Katrina, five years later.
- The U.S. should stop wasting billions to subsidize unreliable wind energy projects.
- Read Michael Agger's live chat about Moneygolf and the PGA Championship.
- Why you aren't a pro golfer: A video slide show.
- Does winning a golf tournament come down to skill or luck?
- Did Tigger and Donald Duck grope women at Disney World?
- A new stat sheds light on the dark art of putting.
- How much energy do escalators use?
- Why most golf statistics whiff and how to fix them.
- Moneygolf: Will new statistics unlock the secrets of golf?
- What the elements look like.
- Blogging the Periodic Table: Ununseptium.
- Does it really save gas to roll down your windows instead of flipping on the AC?
- How to tell emergency room patients that they're dying.
- How to pick an environmentally friendly gemstone.
- Why patients can't stay out of hospitals.
- Jose Canseco always made his teammates better power hitters. Can statistics be used to find juicers?
- Women aren't properly represented in scientific studies.
- How do you treat rabbit phobia?
- Soon You May Have Silk in Your Brain
- Slate's interactive models of the Deepwater Horizon spill.
- The BP leak has been plugged. Let the complaints begin.
- What are the health and environmental impacts of deodorants?
- Daniel Engber on the science and politics of obesity.
- The Washington Post reports on obesity in rural Kentucky and misses the point.
Podcasts & Video
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the Emmys, True Prep, and the songs of summer 2010.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Stephen Strasburg, Albert Pujols and Glenn Beck, and the Madden video-game series.
- The Political Gabfest for Aug. 27, 2010.
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on Sarah Palin's endorsement power, palliative care, and Jennifer Aniston's rom-com woes.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on twentysomethings, The Expendables, and Arcade Fire's latest.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Brett Favre, Roger Clemens, baseball finances, and legendary broadcaster Vin Scully.
- The Political Gabfest for Aug. 20, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Eat Pray Love, academic tenure, and the Starbucks bagel standoff.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on the PGA Championship, Hard Knocks, the World Basketball Championships, and tie games.
- Our critics discuss Tom Rachman's The Imperfectionists.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, spoilers, and Tony Judt.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on the National Scrabble Championship, A-Rod's 600th homer, golf's statistical revolution, and Friday Night Lights.
- The Political Gabfest for Aug. 6, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on The Real Housewives of Washington D.C., literary agent Andrew Wylie's big bet on e-books, and the new FX comedy Louie.
- The Political Gabfest for July 30, 2010.
- Listen to Slate's DoubleX gabfest on 12th & Delaware, Chelsea Clinton's wedding, and only children.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Angelina Jolie's Salt, Comic-Con and Mad Men.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on agents in college sports, Major League Baseball's "year of the pitcher," and Jeremy Lin.
- The Political Gabfest for July 23, 2010.
- The Culture Gabfest, "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" Edition
- Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen, for the week of July 19, 2010.
- Our critics discuss Bret Easton Ellis's Imperial Bedrooms.
- The Political Gabfest for July 16, 2010.
- Video: Slate readers' best and wildest ideas on how to fix our cities.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on The Kids Are All Right, Jezebel vs. The Daily Show, and the art of authenticating a masterpiece
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 12, 2010.
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on a Pew gender equality study, the New York cover story about why parents are unhappy, and The Real L Word.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on great writers under 40, Liz Phair's latest single, and Robert Christgau's last Consumer Guide column.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 6, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for July 2, 2010.
Blogs
- Brow Beat: Slate's culture blog.
- Human Nature: Science, technology, and life.
- Kausfiles: A mostly political Weblog.
- Moneyblog: A blog about business, finance, and economics.
- Procrastinate Better: Slate's guide to consuming culture.
- Scocca: A blog about politics, sport, media, stuff.
- Weigel: Reporting about politics and policy.
- The Wrong Stuff: What it means to make mistakes.
- XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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