Podcasts & Video
- Reviews of: 2012, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Pirate Radio
- The Political Gabfest for Nov. 12, 2009.
- Clinton: The Rise of China Is Inevitable
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Precious, the novel Black Dogs (and the fall of communism), and a Vanity Fair article on the rise of cute.
- Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen, for the week of Nov. 9, 2009.
- Dear Prudence: Live-In In-Laws
- Reviews of: The Men Who Stare at Goats, Precious, and A Christmas Carol
- President Obama on the Fort Hood Shootings
- Microsoft's Marketing Misfires
- "This Bitch Owns Her Own Harley"
- My Taliban Captors Googled Me
- Dear Prudence: Engaged and Feeling Trapped
- The Political Gabfest for Oct. 30, 2009.
- Reviews of: This Is It, Gentlemen Broncos, and The House of the Devil
- Hey Penny: Smoking Kills... Productivity
- The Survivor
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on 30 Rock, Baby Einstein, and Brad Paisley.
- Vampires, Goblins, and Trolls, Oh My!
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Oct. 26, 2009.
- Dear Prudence: Lying Smoker
- A Wingman for Your iPhone
- Choice Apps for Foodies
- My Master Cleanse Odyssey
- Dear Prudence: Picky About Garbage
- Michael Agger, Meghan O'Rourke, and Troy Patterson discuss The Anthologist.
- Reviews of: Where the Wild Things Are, Black Dynamite, and Law Abiding Citizen
- Obama's Other Premature Awards
- The High School Crush
- Revolving or Swinging? The Best Exit Strategy
- Dear Prudence: A Preacher's Pet Peeve
- Reviews of: Good Hair, Couples Retreat, and An Education
- Baseball's Warped Camera Angle
- Last Man Standing: a podcast with author Duff McDonald.
- Cute Cats Incorporated
- Deep-Fried Everything
- Dear Prudence: Hot-Flashing Boss
- Reviews of: A Serious Man, The Invention of Lying, and Whip It
- Strip Poker for Day Traders
- More Ways To Waste Time on Facebook
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Sept. 28, 2009.
- Dear Prudence: Bed-Making Blues
- Reviews of: Capitalism: A Love Story, Surrogates, and Fame
- The Political Gabfest for Sept. 25, 2009.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on on Obama's Letterman appearance, the Keats movie Bright Star, and Neil Patrick Harris at the Emmys.
- Hey Penny: My Grubby Co-Worker
- Dear Prudence: Dimwit Niece
- Reviews of: The Informant!, Jennifer's Body, and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
- Selling Sex: World's Best Condom Ads
- Dear Prudence: Left Behind By Childless BFF
- Reviews of: 9, The September Issue, and Whiteout
- The NFL Hits the Oregon Trail
- Dear Prudence: Culturally Insensitive Parents
- Reviews of: Extract, All About Steve, and Gamer
- Cougars Gone Wild!
- Outrage, Now in Pill Form
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Aug. 31, 2009.
- Dear Prudence: Is Short Hair Ruining My Love Life?
- Reviews of: Taking Woodstock, Final Destination, and Big Fan
- The Political Gabfest for Aug. 28, 2009.
- A Killer Mobile Dictionary
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Inglourious Basterds, Project Runway,and the "Sketch Steve" contest.
- Urban Euro Bikes
- Dear Prudence: Boozy Mom
- Reviews of: Inglourious Basterds, Post Grad, and My One and Only
- POTUS as House Guest: A Short History
- Obama's Secret Health Care Nightmare
- Dear Prudence: The Ethics of Scoring Pot
- Reviews of: District 9, Ponyo, and The Time Traveler's Wife
- So You Found My iPhone ...
- In Fed We Trust: a podcast with author David Wessel.
- The Many Voices of Meryl Streep
- A Wrestler's Wisdom
- How the World Might (Almost) End
- Dear Prudence: Dad Caught Cheating
- The Political Gabfest for July 31, 2009.
- Reviews of: Funny People, The Cove, and Thirst
- Conned Into a Life of Magic
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Funny People, the death of the music magazine, and the DSM-V.
- Killer Apps: Sim City
- We, Robots
- Dear Prudence: Flashing Too Much Skin?
- Reviews of: G-Force, The Ugly Truth, and Orphan
- HEY PENNY! The Yes Men cometh.
- Listen to the Mountain
- Dear Prudence: Layabout Loser Boyfriend
- If Man Walked on the Moon Today
- Alyssa Katz on Our Lot.
- Reviews of: Harry Potter, (500) Days of Summer, and The Way We Get By
- Drilling for Clues About Global Warming
- Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss Gay Talese's Thy Neighbor's Wife.
- Dog Rescue Gone Wrong
- Killer Apps: Oregon Trail Revisited
- Dear Prudence: Creepy Twin Co-Workers
- Reviews of: Brüno; I Love You, Beth Cooper; and Humpday
- 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
- 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
Briefing
- More Madoff accomplices nabbed.
- Why are newspapers calling Maj. Nidal Hasan the "alleged" Fort Hood shooter?
- A couple of questions about water on other planets.
- The Slatest: Morning Edition
- Why were they playing bagpipes at the Fort Hood memorial service?
- Is accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan a "terrorist?"
- Profit not Satanic, says wealthy banker.
- Can you carry a concealed weapon on military bases? And other Fort Hood questions answered.
- What do "stable," "critical," and other medical conditions mean?
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Do wolves kill for sport?
- An Explainer roundup on food contamination.
- How does the U.S. make sure Afghan policemen aren't terrorists?
- How can DeJuan Blair play without an anterior cruciate ligament in either knee?
- Why are helicopters always crashing?
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- Why can't the International Criminal Tribunal drag Radovan Karadzic to court?
- How does France distinguish between "cults" and organized religions?
- Why do we use definite articles for some place names, like The Hague?
- Could those Northwest pilots really have slept through an hour of radio calls?
- How did the Red Cross deliver messages to Taliban hostage David Rohde?
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- Is copyright law in China any different from in the United States?
- Can the New York Times accept charitable donations?
- What are nuclear secrets, anyway?
- Can the government charge the Heene family for the costs of the balloon boy rescue?
- How do they name Leonardo da Vinci paintings like the Mona Lisa?
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Balloon boy FAQ.
- Do I have a "Cadillac plan"? And other frequently asked health care questions.
- What did those people who died in the Arizona sweat lodge think they would get out of being so hot and uncomfortable?
- What are the risks of having twins?
- What will Barack Obama do with his Nobel Peace Prize money?
- Corrections from the last week.
- What's Angus beef?
- How do news organizations get in touch with terrorist groups?
- Is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad eligible for Israeli citizenship?
- How doctors decide what form a drug will take.
- How do inspectors know whether a nuclear facility is being used for peace or war?
- How scientists predict tsunamis.
- How GPS voice-overs work.
- The Explainer's Roman Polanski roundup.
- How does interpretation work at the United Nations?
- Why orange dust turned the Sydney sky red and yellow.
- How mean are drill sergeants in real life?
- ACORN gave tax advice to a fake prostitute. How would a real one pay her taxes?
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- Max Baucus' bill makes you pay a fine if you don't have health insurance—unless you're American Indian.
- How do psychologists know that babies who are spanked become more aggressive toddlers?
- Congress reprimanded Joe Wilson for yelling "You lie!" at Obama. What else could they do to him?
- What do the Jehovah's Witnesses make of Serena Williams' cursing?
- In the Dan Brown books, Robert Langdon is a "professor of religious symbology." Is there really any such thing?
- Shawne Merriman detained Tila Tequila against her will. Is that ever legal?
- Is Obama the first president to get heckled during an address to Congress?
- Does Norway engage in international espionage?
- Do they Photoshop pictures of outer space?
- How good does a tennis pro have to be to make a living?
- Introducing News Dots.
- Why do news networks cover presidential addresses if they lose so much money?
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Forecasting and estimating the number of jobs lost in a given month.
- Who named the Station fire—and other questions about the 2009 wildfires in Southern California.
- Can Gmail users sue Google for bad service?
- How we know that Chanel, the world's oldest dog, was really 147 dog-years old.
- Reading Ted Kennedy's In Critical Condition: The Crisis in American Health Care.
- How did high ankle sprains get so popular in professional sports?
- Why didn't a parole officer notice that Phillip Garrido had a kidnapped teenager living in his backyard?
- Will we ever run out of dinosaur bones?
- How far in advance do newspapers write obituaries?
- A roundup of Ted Kennedy questions.
- Why did Plaxico Burress hire a "prison consultant"?
- How much could the police learn from Jasmine Fiore's fake breasts?
- Introducing "The Slatest," a better news aggregator.
- The Pentagon releases detainee names to the Red Cross.
- Bankers upbeat about economic growth; CIA reportedly staged mock executions of detainee.
- What's new in Time, Texas Monthly, and Mother Jones.
- Can the cocaine on dollar bills be used to track drug use around the country?
- Corrections from the last week.
- Afghanistan doesn't bring out the vote.
- Is 1,000 pages long for a piece of legislation?
- CIA hired private contractors to take part in its al-Qaida assassination program.
- Why we don't use Galileo's last name.
- How to perform a gender test.
- Democrats go it alone on healthcare reform; Afghanistan prepares to go to the polls.
- The Brits have taken over Turks and Caicos. Is Canada next?
- What's new in New York, Newsweek, and the Weekly Standard.
- Troops might have to leave Iraq earlier than scheduled; Army launches new training program.
- How accurate is pre-election polling in Afghanistan?
- White House signals it is ready to give up the government-run insurance option.
- Republicans wary of boisterous healthcare-reform activists; Obama calls for rational debate.
- Obama tours the West, consumers still not bullish on the economy.
- What's new in the Economist, the New York Times Magazine, and The Nation.
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- France and Germany rebound; new hope for cancer treatment.
- Are you heating the planet when you breathe?
- Health care protests are influencing independents; Fed ends one piece of intervention.
- Can we stop saying retarded yet?
- How can New York City hot dog vendors afford to pay half a million dollars in rent?
- The president gets personally involved in selling health care overhaul to Americans.
- What's new in Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, and Texas Monthly.
- Wave of violence hits Iraq; Obama says he'll pursue comprehensive immigration reform in 2010.
- Why would Billy Mays have taken three different painkillers?
- Military to hunt down Afghan drug traffickers; Northern countries preparing for H1N1 comeback.
- Justice Department to investigate CIA interrogations; nine killed in New York plane crash.
- What do the new employment figures really mean?
- Do political "town halls" have rules?
- What's new in Time, New York Times Magazine, and Rolling Stone.
- Why are Georgia and Georgia both named Georgia?
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
News & Politics
- Does Obama need to speak more harshly about Islam?
- Sarah Palin gives the GOP an early start on its Thanksgiving family fight.
- How the United States' never-ending legal mess at Gitmo is spilling over into Canada.
- How rockets transformed the Middle East arms race and made Russia the big winner.
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Will Sen. Harry Reid tax the rich to pay for health reform?
- What do they talk about in all those Afghanistan strategy sessions?
- A photojournalist recalls the tumultuous days of the Iranian revolution.
- A taxonomy of left-liberal opposition to the health care reform bill.
- President Obama's small masterpiece of a speech at Fort Hood.
- Can a prisoner request anything for his last meal?
- Photographs of the places where the D.C. shooters struck.
- What's behind Rupert Murdoch's trash-talking of Google?
- The Supreme Court looks at life sentences for teen offenders.
- A guide to the shifting political factions in the health care debate.
- Why insurers aren't complaining about the House bill's anti-abortion amendment.
- Health care reformers' million-dollar thank-you card to moderate Democrats.
- Was it difficult for the Fort Hood shooter to fire 100 shots in seven minutes?
- Obama needs to show Americans how health care reform, Wall Street reform, and the stimulus are connected.
- After the Fall of the Wall, Central Europe's fate was supposed to be uncertain and bleak. Today the region prospers more than ever.
- The lessons of 1989.
- How the Senate will whittle away at the House health care reform bill.
- Slate's online guide to the health care reform bill.
- What's the deal with "cat ladies"?
- How does the government keep track of job-loss numbers?
- Why was Berlin the key to the Cold War?
- If women can defend Fort Hood, they can defend America.
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- Socialized medicine intrudes on the march against Obamacare.
- Michele Bachmann invites tea partiers to Washington for another swig.
- Are shootings at military bases common, or was Fort Hood unusual?
- President Obama on the Fort Hood Shootings
- President Obama on the Fort Hood shootings.
- Death is different, but is it all that different from life without parole?
- Much of the current deficit debate is for the birds.
- The Political Gabfest for Nov. 6, 2009.
- The unanswered phone calls and misunderstood memos that helped bring down the Berlin Wall.
- Does the Constitution protect prosecutors who fabricate evidence?
- Abortion foes and Rep. Bart Stupak meddle with private health insurance.
- Despite the one-child policy, millions of Chinese citizens don't know how to have sex without getting pregnant.
- Did Joe Harris Sullivan have a fair trial?
- How last night's election results were bad for Obama.
- How does the president decide whether your cause deserves a proclamation?
- Sri Lanka shows what it looks like to win a war on terror.
- "Robust," the unlikely new leader in health reform buzzwords.
- Will Sen. Joe Lieberman filibuster health care reform, or won't he?
- Angela Merkel's quiet revolution.
- Calling the president a liar has been good for Joe Wilson's career. But is it good for the GOP?
- The United Nations' shameful complicity in this year's corrupt Afghan elections.
- Why gay marriage, getting high, and going to Cuba will soon be legal.
- The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook feed.
- Did the Congressional Budget Office just kill the public option?
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Is 60 the new 50? How many votes will it take to pass health care reform in the Senate?
- Why the House health reform bill is better than the Senate's.
- Unsolicited advice for Jim Brady upon starting a D.C. news site for the owner of Politico.
- Why the president will be setting low expectations in Afghanistan.
- The worst thing about President Karzai's brother's CIA gig.
- How to create a government-run, government-financed health insurance program without the government.
- Jim Jones calls a two-state solution a top priority at the J Street conference.
- Joe Lieberman's stance on health care reform makes him even less popular among Democrats.
- Did Sen. Joe Lieberman just kill the public option?
- Running the White House Web site on Drupal is a political disaster.
- How the Angelides Commission can crack open the Wall Street scandal—if it dares.
- What next week's congressional election in New York won't tell us about the Republican party.
- The Obama-Fox press war can't hold a flame to the one FDR waged in the 1930s.
- Dump Olympia Snowe: Why the White House should forget about bipartisan health reform.
- What I've learned from debating religious people around the world.
- Obama's nominees to the bench are waiting too long.
- Maybe Baby Einstein's founder isn't an American hero after all.
- Dick Cheney isn't the first ex-vice president to criticize a sitting president—and he won't be the last.
- Why you can't cancel a family the way you can cancel a TV show.
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Black firefighter Michael Briscoe is suing New Haven.
- The Wall Street Journal's editorial page lies about public-option polls.
- Cynical reporters have a soft spot for anybody who claims victimhood.
- How the Pentagon sowed confusion with an incomplete recruitment report.
- Were hundreds of criminals given the wrong sentences because lawyers messed up a basic work sheet?
- Motivational speaking advice for George W. Bush.
- How John Kerry got the Afghan leader to see sense.
- How does fair-use law work?
- Can Bill Clinton help Creigh Deeds get elected as Virginia governor?
- Why the Washington Post is hyping the public option.
- New York cops are arresting gay people on unconstitutional charges.
- What does "off the record" mean?
- There is little sense of Afghanistan as being an international operation.
- Will Obama's new medical marijuana directive actually change anything?
- Is Chris Christie too fat to win an election in New Jersey?
- Connecticut's Chris Dodd, the "senator from Aetna," fights for the public option.
- Why on earth would we wait to disarm Iran?
- Obama's right. It's time to stop taking Fox's skewed news seriously.
- Barack Obama's Facebook Feed
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- The Army says it exceeded its 2009 recruiting goals. But the numbers are very fishy.
- How one company of Marines is helping to bring Afghan insurgents home.
- Why health care reform will cost more than Congress and Obama say it will.
- Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak can't stoppositioning himself as Bruno Bettelheim's victim.
- The Los Angeles DA on Roman Polanski.
- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce must be stopped. Here's how to do it.
- Paul Clement schools the high court on why some attorneys are worth every penny.
- Senate Democrats threaten repeal of the insurance industry's antitrust exemption.
- New Yorkmagazine echoes the spectacular covers George Lois produced for Esquire decades ago.
- The health insurers stumble into an argument for a public option.
- Obama can solve the Afghanistan mess without sending a lot more troops or leaving the country entirely.
- Real-time reporting from the Senate finance committee vote on health reform.
- Why do Italians keep voting for Silvio Berlusconi?
- Why the far left and the far right both oppose swine flu vaccinations.
- Sydney's spectacular dust storms remind Australians of their history.
- The Guantanamo detainees ordered released who are stuck there.
- The Baucus bill makes Washington live within its means again.
- Who cares who wins the Nobel Peace Prize?
- Why did Obama win the Nobel? Since the committee didn't really say, he can.
- Forget about McChrystal; Obama's real problem is MacArthurism.
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- How Iranian nukes would reshape the Middle East.
- Why do so many Greenlanders kill themselves?
- What will Obama do with his Nobel Peace Prize?
- When should we stop faulting Bush for the economy and start blaming Obama?
- Why are Somali pirates mistaking warships for cargo vessels?
- The Newseum erects a relic-filled shrine to Tim Russert.
- Public option lite: What a Senate compromise on health care might look like.
- The high court looks at religious symbols on public lands.
- Hey, blogger! The consumer protection police would like a word with you.
- Why would someone bomb a World Food Program office?
- The Supreme Court mauls the law banning animal-cruelty videos.
- How the Senate can finesse the Constitution to pass health care reform.
- How health reform will cost millionaires but save the middle class money.
- Should Gen. McChrystal stop speaking publicly about Afghan war strategy?
- Robert Gates wants all Afghanistan advice to the president to stay private.
- The selection of the EU president will tell us all we need to know about European unification.
- How Condé Nast is like General Motors.
- What does Roman Polanski's victim have in common with a Yemeni child bride?
- The American Way of Dentistry: Healthy teeth for all.
- Irving Kristol saved the right from intellectual bankruptcy in the '60s. Who will save it now?
- Is the Iran nuke talks breakthrough genuine, or is Tehran stringing us along?
- The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook feed.
- Sam Tanenhaus and Reihan Salam discuss The Death of Conservatism.
- The battle between jocks and nerds over Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Why women might make better judges.
- Why Obama may want to ask Bush what to do in Afghanistan.
- Why it's so hard to quantify false rape charges.
- None of the Obama administration's banking reforms help middle-class Americans.
- The American Way of Dentistry: Why poor folks are short on teeth.
- Liberal economists think we should reduce the deficit. Just not yet.
- The downside of MinnPost, Voice of San Diego, Washington Independent, et al.
- Two questions Obama must ask before sending more troops to Afghanistan.
- A primer on the word racism.
- The American Way of Dentistry: How dentists think.
- The painful history of dentists in the movies.
- Taylor Branch's The Clinton Tapes.
- The Senate finance committee strangles health reform's best idea.
- Meg Whitman shouldn't apologize for not voting.
- Sarah Palin took the name of her memoir from this (unflattering) Slate article.
- Save the Google Book Search deal.
- Health care reform may depend on Obama's ability to mend fences in his own party.
- The American Way of Dentistry: Why does it cost so much?
- Tehran's worst fear is a sustained and well-funded human rights campaign.
- Is the penalty for not buying health insurance a fee or a tax?
- Flack, political operative, speechwriter, novelist, columnist, and hack.
- A pollster asks: "Do you think the government should stay out of Medicare?"
- The promises and perils of treating patients more like consumers.
- The terrible consequences of Egypt's swine slaughter.
- The American Way of Dentistry: Where have all the dentists gone?
- The American Way of Dentistry: The story of my teeth.
- Americans' continued love affair with the John Roberts Court.
- Why would Iran need so many centrifuges to make a nuclear warhead?
- How did Russians get so good at chess?
- Metal detecting is the world's worst hobby.
- The Senate finance committee isn't really debating 564 amendments.
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- The federal rescue may have saved the banking sector, but it hasn't fixed the housing market.
- The Atlantic, the Aspen Institute, and the Newseum team up for the year's most tedious event.
- The case for not reading the legislation you're voting on.
- Sometimes it takes an outsider like Andrew Breitbart to show the press corps the way.
- We still don't understand how fringe conservatism went mainstream.
- Barack Obama says he wants climate change legislation. But can he get it?
- There's a lot more to the Afghan strategy than how many troops we send.
Arts
- Roland Emmerich's 2012.
- Fantastic Mr. Fox reviewed.
- The many charms of Glee.
- Mad Men: The TV Club has been sold to McCann-Erickson.
- How John Cassavetes' Shadows changed American movies forever.
- Nabokov's The Original of Laura (Dying Is Fun).
- "Daily Threads"
- The music of the castrati.
- Two books about the revolutions of 1989.
- Mad Men: Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.
- A Christmas Carol reviewed.
- A journey through the Travel Channel.
- On Denialism and the role of science in America.
- Richard Kelly tries to direct a mainstream movie in The Box.
- Sorry, I didn't like Precious.
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens, America's greatest public sculptor.
- The new V reviewed.
- Does casual talk have a place in poetry?
- Two biographies of Ayn Rand.
- Saving Face: A chick-lit novel written in real time. With your help.
- Troubling new revelations about Arendt and Heidegger.
- A TV critic journeys through the cheerful hell of exercise shows.
- Paranormal Activity reviewed.
- The surprising beauty of portraits on gravestones.
- Is it OK to like Chris Brown's new single featuring Lil Wayne?
- Michael Jackson's incredibly moving This Is It.
- How the AvantGrand, Yamaha's new electronic piano, improves upon a 300-year-old instrument.
- Finally, a great comedy about fantasy football.
- We have a winner! The results of Slate's Significant Objects contest.
- The quaint pleasures of "On the Road With Charles Kuralt," now on DVD.
- "Thoreau's Beans"
- Jeffrey L. Sheler's Prophet of Purpose: The Life of Rick Warren.
- A show about the people who actually buy guns.
- Amelia reviewed.
- Why I'll never watch another Lars von Trier movie.
- Is Antichrist director Lars von Trier a misogynist?
- Bow down before the awesomeness of Tony Jaa in Ong Bak 2.
- FlashForward was a genius idea for a show. Too bad it's flailing.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Balloon Boy, circumcision, and Monty Python.
- Creed is totally underrated.
- "The Horses"
- Donald Kagan's Thucydides: The Reinvention of History.
Life
- Animal research and your child's behavior.
- I'm too plain to flirt.
- Bill Simmons' The Book of Basketball reviewed.
- Are holiday "adopt-a-family" programs a waste of my charitable giving?
- The best automated breadmaker.
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- How the old-as-dirt New York Yankees won the 2009 World Series.
- I'm 16, and I want a vibrator.
- A defense of jaywalking.
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- Books, music, and movies Slate writers recommend.
- Lifehacking: How to be more productive.
- Lifehacking tips from actress Elizabeth Banks, Judd Apatow, and other accomplished people.
- Let's have fun with the Google search box.
- What I learned from my global surf-and-turf challenge.
- What Jonathan Nossiter's Liquid Memory gets wrong about wine.
- Why Halloween can be an organizational nightmare for pagans.
- How did skulls go from scary to chic?
- Why do kids crave magic?
- People whose hobby is visiting cemeteries and photographing graves.
- Dispatch from Game 1 of the 2009 World Series.
- My boyfriend won't stop tickling me.
- How a Porsche can be better for the environment than a Prius.
- Integrating Major League Baseball retroactively with Strat-o-Matic cards.
- New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi is too smart for his own good.
- Shopping with coupons.
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- The young couple and the sea: sailing the Caribbean.
- Freaky Fortnight: What I learned from swapping lives with my husband.
- My fiance and his sister are too intimate.
- Meet Harun Yahya, the leading creationist in the Muslim world.
- Do microfinance Web sites like Kiva really help alleviate poverty?
- How to fix the WNBA.
- Slate's 80 over 80: The most powerful octogenarians in America.
- It's time to bring relics back to the Catholic Church.
- How do we get bikers to obey traffic laws?
- Should I reveal my affair with a college professor?
- Does the Nobel Peace Prize improve the world, or is it just a money-wasting ego trip?
- The cast of Seinfeld on Twitter.
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- Saving Face: A chick-lit novel written in real time. With your help.
- My wife won't shut up about my big penis.
- The cult of the vintage Honda.
- What's the absolute best way to help after a natural disaster abroad? Should I send cash?
- How to fake your way through the 2009 baseball playoffs.
- The search for the best yogurt on the market.
- Gourmet is closing, but we'll always have the cookbook.
- Prudie answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- Tweets from an experiment in switching lives.
- Finding a new way to manage my day.
- What ever happened to the plain white diaper?
- How should Florida respond to Tim Tebow's concussive brain injury?
- Get ready for the rebirth of cider in America.
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- Advice on duplicitous dads, sneaky sisters, and mendacious mates.
- Will clicking on all the ads help your favorite Web site?
- How the Internet has democratized drinking.
- It's becoming increasingly difficult for Israel to unplug for Yom Kippur.
- How I humiliated myself working on the Washington Nationals grounds crew.
- Tempted to reveal an ex's deviant sexual secrets.
- How can I take an ethical vacation and still have a good time?
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- What to do when all else has failed to change your kid's behavior.
- How do I tell my kids they crushed their hamster to death?
- Photographs of Ramadan around the world.
- Readers don't think the recession is over.
- I want to help the health reform efforts, but I don't remotely understand the issues. What should I do?
- The most promising iPhone apps for drivers, bikers, and commuters.
- Can a book teach you how to be a man?
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- Why your kids have such terrible handwriting and what to do about it.
- How should Roger Federer—the greatest tennis player on earth—talk about his own greatness?
- More Americans over age 50 are smoking marijuana than ever before. Are my parents among them?
- The planned bridge that could ruin Germany's cherished Mosel wine region.
- My wife's sister is hotter than her.
Business & Tech
- The job market will rebound a lot sooner than you expect.
- Murder, looting, pizza theft, and other hazards of cooperative video-gaming.
- Are men really more competitive than women?
- Apocalypse Then: a two-part series on the lessons of Y2K.
- Fix your terrible, insecure passwords in five minutes.
- Why the last decade has been an economic disappointment for most Americans.
- New AIG CEO ready to walk.
- The winner of the Google Suggest contest.
- How nagging text messages can make you healthier and richer.
- An off-puttingly sexual ad for Halls Refresh.
- Why Arby's is so low on the restaurant food chain.
- Slate's Farhad Manjoo answers your questions about Facebook, Gmail, and more.
- The Greatest Trade Ever: A podcast with author Gregory Zuckerman.
- If the economy's stagnant, why are stocks up? The answer is disturbing.
- Four essential tips for extending the battery life of your computer, cell phone, and every other gadget.
- The vitamin business thrived through the recession. Why?
- Newspapers aren't doing as badly as you think.
- How GeoCities invented the modern Internet.
- The Chamber of Commerce pursued failed policies during the Bush years, so why should Obama listen to it?
- Levi's commercials, now starring Walt Whitman.
- What pick-your-own-apple orchards teach about the American economy.
- Why Wall Street bonuses won't go away.
- Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy.
- Windows 7 is the best operating system on the market.
- Anti-Obama paranoia is good for at least one American business.
- How does the music-identifying app Shazam work its magic?
- Companies like Citi and GM were failing before the government took over.
- Will Wi-Fi Direct finally kill Bluetooth?
- The late Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein understood journalists, and journalism.
- Private equity firms are trying to cash out of their investments. Uh-oh.
- The Google Wave chatting tool is too complicated for its own good.
- Conservatives claim the stimulus has already failed. But it has barely started.
- Is it smart to put your CEO in your ad campaign?
- Lifehacking: How to be more productive.
- Slate readers submit their to-do-list techniques.
- Meet the new progressive CEOs.
- Thank new FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski for giving us a better mobile Internet.
- Could the closing of Gourmet mark a bottom for the magazine business?
- AT&T should dump the iPhone's unlimited data plans.
- The obscenely high new bank fees for ATM usage and overdrawn checks.
- Don't worry about the U.S.-China trade war over chicken feet. Worry about the coming conflict over T-bills and derivatives.
- The real reason Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis suddenly quit.
- Slate's new tech advice column "Dear Farhad."
- The publishing conspiracy that's blocking an electronic version of Palin's memoir.
- Apple's hypocritical move to block competitors from accessing iTunes.
- Google's ingenious plan to spruce up outdated versions of Internet Explorer.
- How the feds are collecting billions in fees from bailed-out banks.
- The dangers of social spam.
- The Netflix Prize was brilliant. Google and Microsoft should steal the idea.
- So now Miracle Whip is mayonnaise for hipsters?
- The well-deserved success of Mint.com, and what other Web businesses can learn from it.
- Why won't anyone give me a credit card?
- How to fix Craigslist.
- How to tell a West Coast businessman from an East Coast businessman.
- What Facebook can learn from Gmail.
- America can't be the world's tech leader without immigration reform.
- Why Lehman's failure in September 2008 was so much more devastating for the rest of the world than for the United States.
- Employment-based health insurance is in big trouble, but don't blame Obama.
- The iPod is dead.
- A greener, cheaper way to deal with garbage.
- A better way to market computers: Say what they can actually do.
- Boston's Hancock Tower and the coming commercial real estate crisis.
- Why do we freak out every time Gmail goes down?
- The cupcake boom is here. The cupcake crash is coming.
- Wikipedia's new editing policy isn't the end of the encyclopedia's democratic age.
- Who's rooting for the economy to fail again? These guys.
- Does venting consumer outrage on Twitter actually work?
- TARP could have cost taxpayers $700 billion. Now it looks like it might break even.
- How to beat Amazon's Kindle.
- Does your e-mail reveal how productive you are?
- Why corporate IT should unchain our office computers.
- Cash for Clunkers helped car dealers. But did it also help the economy?
- How Google can knock the iPhone from its perch.
- One Citi employee is entitled to a $100 million bonus. Should the company stiff him?
- Microblogging has become too important for Twitter to rule the field.
- Who Won the Recession?
- Tr.im just closed up shop. Will other URL-shortening outfits like Bit.ly be next?
- An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country.
- The Wall Street Journal'spreposterous editorial about AIG and me.
- Could changes in advertising kill television?
- The lamest business excuse of 2009.
- Should the FCC force Apple to sell Google's iPhone apps?
- Why you've stopped watching CNBC.
- Is the president helping Hawaii?
- How government programs are saving insurance companies from disaster.
- Four ways to redesign Facebook.
- The Department of Justice should take a hint from the Microsoft suit: Don't go after Google.
- Apple's rumored tablet PC augurs the next phase of the netbook craze.
- The recession is over; now we need a new kind of recovery.
- Why is America losing millionaires?
- Fix your terrible, insecure passwords in five minutes.
- Do people take out payday loans because they're desperate—or because they don't understand the terms?
- Slate's new, improved mobile site.
- How Amazon's remote deletion of e-books from the Kindle paves the way for book-banning's digital future.
- Japan mellows as its population ages.
- Spotify streams every song you'd ever want to hear—for free.
- The recession is over! (Technically.)
- Typography on the Web is basic and dull. A startup called Typekit will fix it.
Science
- Is protecting consumers from uncooked oysters a rotten plan?
- Which fruits, vegetables, and other crops have the smallest environmental footprints?
- How to reform the broken medical malpractice system.
- Selling out abortion rights for health care reform.
- On Denialism and the role of science in America.
- The financial and personal ramifications of a doctor apologizing to a patient.
- Are invasive species really that bad for the environment?
- Swine flu: What you need to know.
- What ever happened to the Amazon rainforest? Did we save it?
- What we can learn from the shortage of H1N1 vaccine.
- Why big farms can treat their workers better than small farms.
- Why couldn't we tell that the balloon boy's parents were faking their distress?
- Driving should be more like Northwest Flight 188.
- It doesn't make sense to charge fat people higher insurance premiums.
- Exactly how bad should I feel about taking hot showers?
- Napping, sex, and abstinence.
- Do criminals with Asperger's syndrome deserve special treatment?
- Your tax dollars at work, penalizing fat people.
- My son has cancer. He can't go into day care because of unvaccinated children.
- How green is tofu?
- Is the Coke mini can the new light cigarette?
- Why vaccinate girls but not boys against HPV?
- Can you tell if a man is dangerous just by looking at his face?
- Is charging your cell phone overnight a major waste of energy?
- The life story of a skunk.
- Creating a better way to diagnose swine flu and other ailments.
- Is it better for the planet to listen to CDs, records, or MP3s?
- The health effects of discrimination against fat people.
- The new addiction is taxing addictions.
- No smoking in your own apartment.
- The American Way of Dentistry: Inside the dental safety net.
- The pro-choice argument against health care reform.
- Whatever happened to the hole in the ozone layer?
- The American Way of Dentistry: Why does it cost so much?
- Does poverty make people obese, or is it the other way around?
- The American Way of Dentistry: Where have all the dentists gone?
- The American Way of Dentistry: The story of my teeth.
- Leave giant squid alone.
- The growing ambitions of the food police.
- Which is better for the planet, beer or wine?
- What a fat tax really means for America.
- The United States' swine flu vaccines will leave millions worldwide unprotected.
- Are outdoor smoking bans scientifically justified?
- The disappearing boundaries of cigarette prohibition.
- Did black box warnings on antidepressants have any effect on teen suicide?
- Is fake-wood furniture bad for the environment?
- Trying to decide whether to have brain surgery.
- Are blackboards greener than whiteboards?
- How bad for the environment are cruise ships?
- The people profiting from food allergies.
- What kind of environmental impact do toilets have?
- Constance Casey's profiles of revolting creatures.
- A tour of wildlife conservation efforts in South Africa.
- The problems with broadcasting live surgeries.
- Whatever happened to acid rain?
- A physicist looks at The Time Traveler's Wife.
- Does it really save gas to roll down your windows instead of flipping on the AC?
- The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting.
- Does snorkeling damage coral reefs?
- Evolution's place in a created universe.
- The organic vs. conventional debate is getting us nowhere.
- How much will the Cash for Clunkers program really do for the environment?
- The pro-life movement's contraception problem.
- Is it OK to impregnate a 60-year-old woman?
- Why more young women should start using IUDs.
- Are we being too tolerant of gluten-intolerance?
- The most eco-friendly way to go on a camping trip.
- The right-wing assault on abortion reduction.
- The diagnostic madness of DSM-V.
- The life story of a snapping turtle.
- Should we blame overdiagnosis for rising health costs?
- How to stop cell-phone use behind the wheel.
- How scared should I be of bisphenol A?
- Why are doctors still measuring obesity with the body mass index?
- Do animals masturbate?
- Why using Social Security numbers for identification is risky and stupid.
- How to pick out sustainable seafood.
- Race, genes, and cancer.
- Trying to stop the spread of swine flu at summer camp.
- 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.
Blogs
featured advertiser links
Is Hasan a Terrorist? And Other Great Stories From Slate This Week.
How Sarah Palin Is Dividing the Republican Party
Can We Apply the Lessons of Y2K to Swine Flu?
They Made a Movie About the Wrong Aviatrix
Jamie Foxx's New Single Is Extremely Lewd
The Week's Best Editorial Cartoons