The conventional wisdom debunked.

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• Mr. Hitler, Do You Have the Time? The despicable U-Boat watch.
  Richard Cohen Dec. 15, 2006
  
• Counting Corpses The Lancet number crunchers respond to Slate's Fred Kaplan. (And Kaplan replies.)
  Gilbert Burnham Nov. 20, 2006
  
• Is Global Warming Causing Bigger Hurricanes? The nasty scientific battle behind one of our most important weather mysteries.
  John McQuaid Oct. 13, 2006
  
• What To Call Foley The congressman isn't a pedophile. He's an ephebophile.
  David Tuller Oct. 4, 2006
  
• Christopher Hitchens Responds There's only one reason to go to Niger.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 26, 2006
  
• Sorry, Hitch—You're Wrong About Niger Plus: Christopher Hitchens responds.
  David Corn Sept. 26, 2006
  
• An Open Letter Alan Dershowitz vs. the Guardian.
  Alan M. Dershowitz Sept. 20, 2006
  
• Fact-Checking ABC A Slate video remix.
  Andy Bowers Sept. 13, 2006
  
• Witness for the Prosecution? The New York Times is still victimizing innocent Dukies.
  Stuart Taylor Jr. Aug. 29, 2006
  
• Get Out of My Closet Can you be white and "on the Down Low?"
  Benoit Denizet-Lewis Aug. 11, 2006
  
• Lieberman Without Tears One unctuous hawk's demise is not a trend.
  Michael Tomasky Aug. 10, 2006
  
• The Rotarian Menace What does Osama have against Rotary clubs?
  Jonathan Schwarz July 11, 2006
  
• My Mommy War The reader said she didn't want children. I urged her to reconsider. Here's what happened next.
  Emily Yoffe June 14, 2006
  
• Biting the Hand That Doesn't Feed Me Internships for college credit are a scam.
  Sonia Smith June 8, 2006
  
• Killer Workout Are gyms, not mosques, the main breeding ground for Islamic terrorists?
  Brendan O'Neill June 1, 2006
  
• Workus Interruptus Sure, take a break—and help cost the U.S. economy $588 billion.
  Jeff Merron March 16, 2006