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The Tea Party Protesters Are Getting Smarter
The Slatest: Why Are So Many American Men Listening to Soft-Rock Stations?
Who Is Mrs. Cohen From Hadera, and Should Israelis Care Where She Puts Her Money?
What Wired, Esquire, and Hooters Magazines Think You Should Give for Christmas
Save the Planet. Eat More Brie.
How Easy Is It To Hike Into Iran Accidentally?
The Best Jazz Albums of the Decade
How Oral Roberts Launched the Prosperity Gospel—and Why It's Coming Back
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Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009
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Avatar is the first broadband blockbuster. - The YouTube Bully and the Sex-Messaging Cop
Courts stick up for the constitutional rights of online troublemakers. - The Slatest: Evening Edition
GOP reads Senate to a halt; U.S. piles another lawsuit on Intel; astronomers discover most Earthlike planet outside our solar system. - The Music Club
Let's talk more about sex—and country music. - The Gaming Club
The ultimate in cooperative play: fighting off zombies. - Going Down in Flames
I attempt to cookalong with Gordon Ramsay. - "I Do Things the Accountants of Truth Would Not Do"
Werner Herzog discusses his two new films. - The Questions We Never Answered in 2009
Digging through the bottom of the Explainer mailbag. - A Little Charity Goes a Long Way
Donating internationally packs more punch than giving money locally. - Oral Roberts and His Green Buick
He launched one of America's few homegrown theologies, the prosperity gospel. - The Culture Gabfest, "Better Than an Emery Board to the Eyeballs" Edition
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Why we should embrace the boozy, dense, candied cake. - Health Reform Scorecard
The Senate postures over taxes and endorses Obama's flip-flop on drug imports. - Hellfire Holidays
Was Sir Francis Dashwood, the man behind the most notorious Hellfire Club, an incorrigible pervert or an enlightened scholar? - Trojan Horse
Prime time's first countercultural hero was a palomino named Mr. Ed. - Has Goldman Sachs Lost Its Luster?
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Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009
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The tea partiers get smarter in undermining health care reform. - What If It Fails?
A glimpse into the abyss of health reform's (unlikely) defeat. - Trail Mix-Up
How easy is it to hike into the Islamic Republic of Iran by accident? - The Gaming Club
Modern Warfare 2's airport-terrorism scene is shocking and meaningless. - The Music Club
From Adam Lambert to Maxwell, the year in musical sex. - The Myth of the "Typical" Investor
Who is Mrs. Cohen from Hadera, and should Israelis care where she puts her money? - The Best Jazz Albums of 2009
It's tough to top Ella Fitzgerald. Plus: A bonus list—the best albums of the decade. - Chanel Handbags, iPod Nanos, and Decorative Tissues
What Esquire, Hooters, Wired, and other magazines recommend you give for Christmas. - Hellfire Holidays
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The climate change movement gets nowhere by claiming it is. - Torture Roulette
The Obama administration has picked the worst possible case for its first torture trial. - Why Do Rappers Hold Their Guns Sideways?
Because it looks so Hollywood. - The Music Club
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The pessimists are wrong. - The Maccabees and the Hellenists
Hanukkah as Jewish civil war. - America's Armageddon Revisited
Getting beyond romanticism about the Civil War.
Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009
- Why Isn't December Colder?
It's the darkest month of the year, but the weather's usually not so bad. - The Invisible Hand of God
Adam Smith thought competition among religions was a good thing. Does Hanukkah prove him wrong?
Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009
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- The Slatest: Why Are So Many American Men Listening to Soft-Rock Stations?
- Who Is Mrs. Cohen From Hadera, and Should Israelis Care Where She Puts Her Money?
- What Wired, Esquire, and Hooters Magazines Think You Should Give for Christmas
- Save the Planet. Eat More Brie.
- How Easy Is It To Hike Into Iran Accidentally?
