Arts
- The best fake news.
- Brüno, reviewed.
- After Brüno, Hollywood depictions of gays may never be the same. That's a good thing.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Michael Jackson's memorial service, Public Enemies, and Urbandictionary.com.
- Why do Scandinavians write such great crime fiction?
- Michael Jackson's tasteful farewell.
- Slate's Summer Movies issue.
- Why are we so fascinated with horror movies about homicidal children?
- A history of blowing up national landmarks in the movies.
- Wonderfully absurd escapes from mortal danger in the original G.I. Joe cartoon.
- "The Symbol"
- James MacGregor Burns' Packing the Court.
- The unbearable summer ritual of watching movies outdoors.
- Why journalists don't account for inflation when they report box office records.
- What stuntmen think are the best stunt films of all time.
- The man who invented the Hollywood schlock machine.
- The Chinese movies that Chinese people actually watch.
- Smokey Bear, McGruff the Crime Dog, and more of history's greatest pedagogical animals.
- Slate's create-your-own-toy-movie contest.
- Troy Patterson plays Remote Roulette.
- Back to the Futurists: Italy's first avant-garde turns 100.
- Is Michael Mann's Public Enemies historically accurate?
- A generation of plastic art objects are degrading like overused Tupperware. Can they be saved?
- Visiting Philip Johnson's Glass House.
- Public Enemies reviewed.
- Books, CDs, and movies Slate writers recommend.
- Marianne Moore's five-decade struggle with "Poetry."
- Richard Bernstein's The East, the West, and Sex.
- Hung reviewed.
- Thriller was Michael Jackson's curse.
- Kodachrome 64 is dead. It changed my photography career.
- Amazing photos of Michael Jackson.
- The Hurt Locker reviewed.
- The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow breaks all the rules of action movies. Thank goodness for that.
- What is Jeff Goldblum doing on Law & Order: Criminal Intent?
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen reviewed.
- NYC Prep reviewed.
Briefing
- Geithner urges more mortgage help.
- Bloodiest day in Iraq since American troops left cities; Kurds moving ahead with constitution.
- Can the kid who settled his child-abuse claim with Michael Jackson speak out about his case?
- World leaders reach an impasse on climate change; Mexican army accused of abuses.
- How does porn screenwriting work?
- Taking aim at oil speculators; Russian visit ends with lots of loose ends.
- What will Al Franken be paid this year?
- What's new in the Weekly Standard, the New York Review of Books, and Monocle.
- Why Google kept Gmail in "beta" for so many years.
- Seven U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan; death toll in Chinese riots increases to 156.
- Presidents Obama and Medvedev have agreed to a limit of between 1,500 and 1,675 nuclear warheads. Who picked those numbers?
- Why do hunters club seal pups instead of shooting them?
- Ousted president is prevented from landing in Honduras; two people killed in riots at airport.
- Iranian clerics voice support for reform movement; opposition details alleged electoral fraud.
- Gov. Sarah Palin resigns, fueling speculation about her political future.
- What are Fourth of July celebrations like abroad?
- Surprisingly high unemployment numbers mean recovery could be a long way away.
- What to do if you survive a plane crash over water.
- Iranian opposition leaders make it clear they're not giving up.
- Is it legal to bury Michael Jackson at Neverland Ranch?
- Minnesota Supreme Court rules in favor of Al Franken, giving Democrats 60th vote in Senate.
- What's new in The New Yorker, the New Republic, and the Oxford American.
- How do prisons deal with overcrowding?
- Did Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina break any laws?
- Judge sentences Madoff to 150 years; Supreme Court rules in favor of white firefighters.
- Why Madoff got a longer sentence than he can possibly serve.
- The cost of poppy production.
- Military ousts Honduran president; Iran continues crackdown of demonstrators.
- The papers take stock of Iran, national security, and the death of the King.
- What's new in Time, the New York Times Magazine, and Esquire.
- The legal complications of surrogacy.
- Is all pornography banned in China?
- Is the emergency room more expensive than the doctor's office?
- What's new in The New Yorker, New York, and Wired.
- Is it ever a smart idea to publicize a kidnapping?
News & Politics
- One of Rupert Murdoch's U.K. tabloids goes on a crime spree.
- Congress has only 22 working days left to reform America's health care system.
- More about NBC News' investigative infotainment series.
- Why Sarah Palin really quit us.
- Was Obama right to give Putin the cold shoulder this week?
- A dispatch from the Senate's first hearing on climate change.
- Why Obama wants to be as vague as possible about health care reform.
- Obama's deal on weapons could win Russia's cooperation on tougher issues later.
- What would a second stimulus package look like?
- The corrupting effect of the David Bradley's off-the-record Atlantic salons.
- What the 1965 Medicare debate can teach us about health care reform.
- Death of a whiz kid: Robert Strange McNamara, 1916-2009.
- The first iteration of Dan Abrams' Mediaite Web site leaves a bad aftertaste.
- Did the toppling of Saddam Hussein lead to recent events in Iran?
- A close reading of Sarah Palin's Facebook message to the nation.
- The wink that changed the world.
- Reinstating deposed President Manuel Zelaya would be a disaster for Honduras.
- In Sarah Palin's GOP, the leaders keep quitting and the troubles don't.
- Sarah Palin picked the wrong day to resign as governor of Alaska.
- Who decides how much White House staffers get paid?
- The Washington Post's boneheaded—and aborted—plan to lobby for lobbyists.
- The damage done by the Supreme Court in the New Haven firefighters case.
- Why reporters won't shut up about their encounters with Michael Jackson.
- Thanks to technology, we may be entering a golden age of journalism.
- Why ignoring the media is a serious threat to press freedom.
- Morocco makes peace with its past.
- Ricci shouldn't have happened this way.
- Why is polling about health care reform so unreliable?
- What the placebo effect can teach us about health care reform. An interview with Peter Orszag.
- The strange, underground world of Chinese counterfeit cigarettes.
- Citizens United v. FEC, the anti-Hillary ad case.
- What the Nixon tapes tell us about the Republican Party.
- Is there really much tension between quality and efficiency in health care?
- The Explainer's Michael Jackson roundup.
- Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
- How Obama is using the media to destroy and improve the traditional press conference.
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- What will happen when U.S. combat troops withdraw from Iraq?
- Six nonmilitary ways to influence Iran.
- A report from the pray-in for comprehensive health care reform.
- The history behind Ricci v. DeStefano, the Supreme Court case that will decide who gets the good jobs in cities across America.
- The strange, heartless glee at Sanford's downfall.
- Did Mark Sanford admit to a sin worse than sex?
- Iran's ayatollahs are fighting. Who will come out on top?
- Cubby Culbertson, the man Mark Sanford calls a "spiritual giant."
- Aimee Semple McSanford.
- What to say about Mark Sanford: a guide to politicians' reactions to sex scandals.
- How to counter-program against an inconvenient Nixon tapes release.
Life
- My son is better than me at baseball.
- Boyfriend lied about his college education.
- How will Prosperity Gospel ride out the hard economic times?
- Whatever happened to the Segway?
- Should I go work for a green nonprofit or start my own?
- Lance Armstrong: Sarah Palin in spandex?
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- The Manny To End the Steroids Era
- Back to the Futurists: Italy's first avant-garde turns 100.
- The past and future of competitive eating injuries.
- On not owning a vacation home.
- My fiance is irrationally jealous of an old boyfriend.
- Fireworks really suck.
- I avoid street canvassers for do-gooding organizations. Does that make me a jerk?
- What your enjoyment of sleep-away camp, or lack of same, says about your character.
- The best Web-based task managers.
- What you should know about free-range pigs.
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- A brief history of the bikini.
- Major League Baseball's outdated, misleading offset camera angle.
- How McDonald's conquered France.
- A couple feuds over what kind of computer to buy.
- How the Michelin guide crippled France's restaurants.
- The best ways to support worthy causes by shopping.
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
Business & Tech
- Five reasons why Google's new Chrome operating system is a bad idea.
- Both Obama and his critics are wrong about the stimulus package.
- Soon you'll be able to buy any top-level domain you want: .yourname, .america, .whatever. Don't do it.
- Are the new Scientology ads persuasive?
- This Is Why You're Fat and other great single-topic blogs.
- Will my video get 1 million views on YouTube?
- What if Paul Krugman was a Japanese woman?
- The Fed botched banking regulation once already. So why does Obama want to give it more power?
- Do peer-to-peer lending sites like Prosper and Lending Club work?
- Firefox 3.5 reviewed.
- Why does Japan, the world's most efficient economy, have so many elevator operators and gas station attendants?
- Why so many green jobs are sprouting in Colorado.
- Japan saves energy by keeping office buildings at 82 degrees. Is this foresighted or perverse?
- How the Internet helps Iran silence activists.
- The United States is experiencing what Japan did in the 1990s, but seven times faster.
- Do we really need link-shortening services like Bit.ly?
- Conservatives' new share-the-wealth plan to destroy capitalism and make you $5 richer.
- The Black Eyed Peas' Target ad is an abomination.
- Why is American food so popular in Japan?
- Why the newspaper still beats the Amazon Kindle.
- The Myth of the Rational Market: a podcast with author Justin Fox.
- Step aside, Windows. The Web browser is coming to save the day.
- The strange allure of unboxing and tearing apart new gadgets.
- The housing and finance sectors caused the economic mess. Here's why they can't fix it.
Science
- Just how religious is Francis Collins, Obama's nominee for director of the NIH?
- The pro-life case for masturbation.
- Dr. Feelgood: The joys and perils of giving celebrities what they want.
- Is washing out my paintbrushes worth all that water?
- Is it better for the planet to grill with charcoal or gas?
- E-mail, adultery, and Mark Sanford.
- Breaking your legs to make yourself taller.
- What celebrity patients like Farrah Fawcett can teach us about cancer.
- Why ban the tobacco industry when you can hijack it instead?
- What's the best way to keep an eco-friendly aquarium?
- Will Canada's oil sands make us choose between energy security and climate disaster?
- Should nonprofit hospitals be forced to stop behaving like greedy corporations?
- The greenest way to buy your beans.
- Bombs, man-apes, and ancient cities: images from Nature through the years.
- The long debate over adding ununbium to the periodic table of the elements.
- Abortion, morality, and the law.
- How to choose eco-friendly pots and pans.
- The confessions of a reluctant vivisector.
- Four recommendations for Obama's common-ground talks.
- The increasingly irrelevant fight to protect dogs from medical experimentation.
- How to avoid medical mistakes.
- The irrational war on electronic cigarettes.
- A 1965 dog-napping leads to the passage of the Animal Welfare Act.
- Pepper arrives at a laboratory in the Bronx.
- How to wash your car without dirtying the planet.
- Is it wrong to murder an abortionist?
- Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science.
Podcasts & Video
- How to Save Newspapers
- The Power-Cling, Iran's New Wonder Product
- Dynamite Ahead!
- Introducing Slate's sports podcast, "Hang Up and Listen."
- Dear Prudence: Preschool for Grown-Ups
- The Political Gabfest for July 3, 2009.
- Reviews of: Public Enemies, Ice Age, and I Hate Valentine's Day
- Medical Pot Expo
- Hunting Cigarette Pirates
- The Audio Book Club on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
- Dear Prudence: Riding Shotgun With Tipsy Pal
- The Political Gabfest for June 26, 2009.
- Reviews of: Transformers, My Sister's Keeper, and Chéri
- Moonwalk: Michael Jackson's YouTube Legacy
- Spike Lee Does the Right Thing
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Whatever Works, True Blood, and A Vindication of Love.
- Pinball Wizard, Second-Class
- Dear Prudence: Evangelizing Vegan
- Reviews of: Year One, The Proposal, and Whatever Works
- Our critics discuss John Cheever and Flannery O'Connor.
- Killer Apps: iPhone Radio Guide
Blogs
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News of the World Hush-Money Scandal: How Much Did Rupert Murdoch Know?
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I'm Having a Dinner To Celebrate My Divorce
Can the Kid Who Settled Child-Abuse Claims With Michael Jackson Finally Speak Out?
Fake News You Can Dance To