Blogs
- Human Nature: Science, technology, and life.
- Kausfiles: A mostly political Weblog.
- XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
Briefing
- Big Three lost in fast lane.
- GM and Chrysler could run out of money by the end of the year without government help.
- Why is it so hard to tell boy polar bears from girl polar bears?
- What's new in Newsweek, TheNew Yorker, and the Weekly Standard.
- Investors panic as recession becomes official.
- Does Google Earth obscure images of sensitive locations?
- How to rent a house during inauguration week.
- Why did Bombay become Mumbai?
- More details on the Mumbai attacks are revealed as authorities try to find answers.
- With wounds still fresh, Mumbai begins to move forward.
- On Black Friday, a Respite
- Indian commandos gained some control in Mumbai, but clashes with militants continue.
- Militants launched coordinated attacks in Mumbai and killed at least 101 people.
- What it means for the Fed to start "printing money."
- The government will pump up to $800 billion into the credit markets.
- Are private jets safer than commercial airliners?
- What's new in Newsweek,TheNew Yorker, and GQ.
- Obama steps out of the shadows and takes on a more public role to deal with financial crisis.
- How do farmers produce so many turkeys for Thanksgiving?
- Government outlines a new plan to rescue Citigroup.
- The papers on Barack Obama's bridge-building, energy-producing plan to create jobs.
- Obama taps Timothy Geithner as treasury chief; Clinton looks likely to take secretary of state.
- How much can an incoming president change White House décor?
- When do soldiers face execution?
- What's new in the Economist, Portfolio, and the New York Times Magazine.
- A roundup of Explainer columns about the 2008 wildfires in Southern California.
- A roundup of Explainer columns about food contamination.
- A roundup of Explainer columns about same-sex marriage.
- How much gold can prospectors find in Washington's rivers and streams?
- A roundup of questions about pirates with answers from our archives.
News & Politics
- Inside the world's most annoying economic crisis.
- Can Obama give the press more of what it wants by giving cable TV less?
- The Supreme Court tries to imagine its way out of a sex discrimination case.
- How Detroit's lost clout in Washington may actually help the auto industry.
- Bushism of the Day
- How Barack Obama—and America—could benefit from more patronage.
- Sure, Russia has imperial ambitions, but who'd want to be in its empire?
- Michael Wolff's new Rupert Murdoch biography accepts the mogul on his own sordid terms.
- President-elect Barack Obama wants you to forget about candidate Barack Obama.
- Does Google Earth obscure images of sensitive locations?
- Obama's most important national-security pick isn't Hillary—it's Gen. Jim Jones.
- Pakistan was also a target of the Mumbai attacks.
- Bushism of the Day
- How many Clinton loyalists are there in Obama's White House?
- India is our most important ally; we must stand by our friends in Bombay.
- Loyalty is the most overrated virtue in politics.
- Applying the lessons of 9/11 to Mumbai.
- Can't we hold torturers accountable and still find out the truth?
- Not only does Obama hold press conferences, he actually pays attention to the questions.
- Keeping Robert Gates as secretary of defense is a great idea.
- Obama economics adviser Austan Goolsbee's contributions to Slate.
- Ammunition for settling—or starting—holiday political spats.
- Beware of Rumsfeld's revisionism.
- Can Hillary Clinton succeed as Obama's secretary of state?
- Why Bill Clinton needs to dissolve his foundation for Hillary's sake.
- Remembering the Marc Rich pardon.
- What should we do with the Yemenis in Guantanamo?
- What Obama's most reluctant supporters are expecting from him.
- Obama's threat to Catholic hospitals and their very serious counterthreat.
- The last thing we need is a Clinton in charge of foreign policy.
- Premature reassurance.
- Janet Napolitano's embarrassing history with Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
- How to solve the subprime mess.
- Eric Holder will have his hands full at the Justice Department.
- Could Secretary of State Clinton disagree with President Obama without undermining him?
- When will Chinese Democracy reach Beijing?
- A guide to Obama's national-security transition team.
- Henry Waxman's victory over John Dingell is the biggest gift Obama could have asked for.
- The West must not be distracted by Russian—or Georgian—propaganda.
- Bush's top pardon prospects.
- How to profit from Barack Obama's inauguration.
- What's new in New York, the Weekly Standard, and TheNew Yorker.
- Why is Barack Obama obsessed with reforming college football?
- In Idaho's First District, they don't make right-wing nuts like they used to.
- Barack Obama's life will be somewhat normal for exactly 64 more days. So why not wash the dishes?
- What would a Republican "green" agenda look like?
- Does Hamid Karzai really want to negotiate with Mullah Omar?
- The wrongheaded American belief that Barack Obama could only happen here.
- How wildfires get their names.
- Explaining the flattering treatment of Barack Obama in Rupert Murdoch's New York Post.
- Fidel Castro gets religion.
- The Iraqi cabinet approves the security agreement that must now be approved by parliament.
- Why Obama should fill his Cabinet with geniuses.
- Snazzy new technology isn't enough to bring transparency to the White House.
- Can the Catholic Church enforce excommunication?
- The disaster in Congo is all the more tragic because it was utterly avoidable.
- Racism is the wrong analogy for opposition to same-sex marriage.
- The attack on merit selection for judges.
- Slate on Day to Day for the week of Nov. 11.
- The press spooks its readers about increased gun purchases.
- The Washington Post drinks Dick Cheney's Kool-Aid.
- Paulson announces the obvious but still manages to confuse everyone.
- Barack Obama has promised the most transparent administration ever. Is that a good thing?
- What we didn't overcome, part 2.
- The Supreme Court grapples with the primordial ooze of the Summum case.
- Barack Obama and the politics of presidential pet care.
- Closing down the prison at Guantanamo is easier said than done.
- Which minority group will win the White House next?
- Dear Mr. President-elect, please take me off your spam list.
- Getting to know the men of Whiskey Six—and the loved ones they left behind.
- What's new in New York, the Weekly Standard, and The Nation.
- The post-election Obama euphoria will fade soon enough, but let's enjoy it while it lasts.
- What we didn't overcome on Election Day.
- What does Chicago want from President Obama?
- Don't count Matt Drudge out.
- How do different religions define death?
- In spite of the obvious challenges, Obama will enter the White House with some paths to success staked out.
- This is Nicolas Sarkozy. Is Sarah Palin available?
- Do world leaders still use telegrams?
- Barack Obama's victory didn't magically eliminate America's problems and enemies.
- How to ride an elephant into the future.
- Chinese hackers breached the White House computer network. Is that an act of war?
- John Dickerson takes your questions about how Obama can really change politics.
- A Darfur-supporting, time-tithing, self-deprecating newcomer unseats the incumbent in Virginia's big electoral surprise.
- No news at Obama's first press conference but a little sparkle.
Arts
- Can restoring Paul Rudolph's signature building rescue the architect's reputation as well?
- Elvis Costello's talk show.
- Why Kanye West named his new album, 808s & Heartbreak, after a drum machine.
- Kanye West's 808s and Heartbreak, reviewed.
- "Haydn Leaves London"
- Ant civilization in The Superorganism.
- Everything you need to know about Hitler's "missing" testicle.
- Wallace Shawn on Gossip Girl.
- If Gus Van Sant's Milk had come out earlier, would Prop 8 still have passed?
- Andrea Riccio at the Frick.
- Gus Van Sant's Milk reviewed.
- Baz Luhrmann's Australia reviewed.
- The stars of YouTube gather for a terrifying live show.
- Beyoncé, Sasha Fierce, and the rise of the pop doppelgänger.
- "The White Skunk"
- Mark Bostridge's Florence Nightingale.
- Chinese Democracy reviewed.
- Why movie vampires always break all the vampire rules.
- A new translation of the Quran.
- Twilight, reviewed.
- Why NCIS became a hit show.
- Abandoned Wal-Marts that become schools and churches.
- The quotidian beauty of Law & Order.
- Why you really do need to see Buster Keaton's The General.
- "Omaha Beach"
- Laurence Tribe's The Invisible Constitution.
- Part 4 in a discussion of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers.
- Quantum of Solace reviewed.
Life
- How (not) to find a pirate in the Strait of Malacca.
- A new advice column about how to make the world better.
- Rick Reilly's complete dental records.
- Reviewing the Audi A5 TDI, a clean diesel.
- The benefits of evidence-based gardening.
- That turkey samosa won't bring your Thanksgiving dinner back to life.
- Why high-school recruiting gurus are better than NFL scouts at finding gridiron talent.
- What my 3,000-pound steer has taught me about faith.
- The long, slow, torturous death of Zima.
- The sad demise of the tie game.
- How can I tell my classmate I've loved her for the last four years?
- What's the best vegetarian turkey? (Hint: It's not Tofurky.)
- Why food writers secretly hate Thanksgiving.
- Slate's guide to online Thanksgiving advice.
- Why Barack Obama should keep his BlackBerry.
- Kids' questions about Obama's victory, and their parents' attempts to answer.
- Great zinfandels to drink on Thanksgiving.
- Why mailmen don't deliver the mail.
- My family thinks an exorcism will cure my mental illness.
- Life classes on the Isle of Wight.
- Why hiring a new coach won't solve your favorite NBA team's problems.
- The embarrassing e-mails that will keep me from working in the Obama administration.
- How to polish your pro-basketball résumé.
- Advice on manners and morals (Nov. 13, 2008).
- Readers adding value.
- A short history of the bagel.
Business & Tech
- The best ways to back up your data.
- Who's the world's worst banker?
- Why it's so hard to predict how bad the recession will be.
- Six Black Friday bargains to avoid.
- Should Citi cancel its $400 million sponsorship of the new Mets stadium?
- A step-by-step guide to Skype.
- Why all those Great Depression analogies are wrong.
- Why Timothy Geithner is a strong choice for treasury secretary.
- Web video ads are annoying and repetitive. Here's how to fix them.
- Farhad Manjoo and Chris Thompson talk iPhones, Androids, and BlackBerry Storms.
- Sleater-Kinney's guitarist tries out Wii Music.
- Harvard University's investment errors.
- What the Google phone stole from the iPhone.
- How the subprime good guys give home loans to poor people, strengthen communities, and still make a profit.
- Why 20-year-olds should invest way more in the stock market, and 50-year-olds, way less.
- Josh Levin discusses online movie piracy and BitTorrent's No. 1 uploader, aXXo.
- GM, Ford, and Chrysler are a national disgrace, but we still need to save them.
- Seven more things you need for your computer.
- What will the financial crisis mean for philanthropy?
- The quest for the perfect morning routine.
- The secrets of aXXo, BitTorrent's top movie pirate.
- Can Barack Obama adapt his Web site the White House?
- Why the rich voted for Obama against their own economic interest.
- Why Obama has to take over economic policymaking—now.
- How to kill time on the Web now that the election's over.
- The day John McCain lost the election.
- What can "neuroeconomics" teach us about how we think about money?
- A radical business plan for Facebook: Charge people.
- Companies that are failing today were paying dividends a just few months ago. What gives?
- Rate-cut limbo.
- Why can't corporate America end its perverse love affair with the GOP?
Science
- How Obama tapped into a powerful—and only recently studied—human emotion called "elevation."
- Should you run your laptop off battery power or keep it plugged in?
- Sports, segregation, and environmental eugenics.
- Don't even bother with Web-based doc-rating systems.
- Weekly allergy shots might be history.
- Viagra as a performance enhancer … in sports.
- Honk if you know why you're honking.
- Is it always greener to take public transportation?
- Should we resurrect the neanderthals?
- Can you trust the medical advice you hear on the radio?
- When you get pregnant from your twin's ovary, who's the mom?
- The case for immunizing everyone against the flu.
- How did an iffy study on the neuroscience of bullies end up in a New York Times blog?
- Is getting takeout that much worse for the planet than cooking at home?
- How Pakistan learned to stop worrying and love the killing machines.
- What does the Supreme Court ruling on Navy sonar mean for the whales?
- Blacks, gays, and immutability.
- Why eBay's ban on ivory will end up hurting the environment.
- Impregnating your mother-in-law.
- The real reason ethanol won't—and can't—cut American oil imports.
- It's better to heat your home with gas than with wood.
- Dancing with skeletons and mocking dermatologists in medical-student comedy shows.
- Research into medicinal marijuana grows up.
- Is a French press better for the environment than a coffee machine?
- Negotiating with Pakistan over remote-controlled killing.
- A miracle drug carries some serious risks.
- Are terrorists regaining the advantage over our killing machines?
- Why the rich and powerful might get substandard medical care.
- Prenatal tests, genetics, and abortion.
Podcasts & Video
- Is Michael Scott Running NASA?
- MILF, and Proud of It
- Dear Prudence: Unwilling Other Woman
- The president-elect's favorite pie.
- Grand Unified Weekly: Supercomputer speed race.
- Slate's Political Gabfest for Nov. 26.
- Dear Prudence: Manipulative Cashier
- The Audio Book Club on The Great Gatsby.
- The Palin turkey–farm-interview outtakes.
- Slate on Day to Day for the week of Nov. 17.
- Musical Numbers: Bonds
- Grand Unified Weekly from Slate V.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest for Nov. 19, 2008.
- Dear Prudence: Pack Rat on Steroids
- Barney Cam: Lame-Duck Dog Edition
- Slate on Day to Day for the week of Nov. 11.
- How To Buy Gold
- Dear Prudence: Hermit Husband
- The Campaign's Last Week in Two Minutes
- Slate's Culture Gabfest for Nov. 6, 2008.
- Wolf Blitzer, Meet Princess Leia
- Update: Life Imitates "The West Wing"
- Slate's latest podcasts: Barack Obama favors redistributing wealth. So does John McCain.
- Dear Prudence: Cat Lady Mother-in-Law
- Slate's Political Gabfest for Oct. 31.
- From the Last Debate to the Final Week in Two Minutes
- What's at Stake on Election Day
- Introducing Charlie Rose on Slate.
- Today's Headlines
- [audio] Department Of Justice Adds Mounted Prosecutors
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