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• Coming Soon to a Newsstand Near You The magazine industry digs itself into a deeper niche.
  Seth Stevenson Dec. 30, 1999
  
• The War on Video Crack Who's running the sleaziest gambling operations in America? State governments.
  David Plotz Dec. 17, 1999
  
• In the Biblical Sense A guide to the booming Christian sex-advice industry.
  Mark Oppenheimer Nov. 30, 1999
  
• What Do You Say to a Naked Alien? For starters, ask it about its mother and father.
  Joel Achenbach Nov. 23, 1999
  
• Fight Clubbed Ultimate fighting ought to be a great American sport. Instead, cable companies, Sen. John McCain, and a squeamish public are killing it.
  David Plotz Nov. 17, 1999
  
• Know When To Hold 'Em, Know When To Log Off How to wager on the Internet.
  Seth Stevenson Nov. 16, 1999
  
• I, Antichrist? I'm Jewish. I'm male. I'm alive. By Jerry Falwell's standards, that puts me on the short-list of candidates.
  Jeffrey Goldberg Nov. 5, 1999
  
• White-on-White Crime It's time to end the conspiracy of silence.
  Jefferson Morley Oct. 30, 1999
  
• Elephants in Pinstripes Republicans trounce Democrats, take World Series!
  David Plotz Oct. 28, 1999
  
• My Father's Estate The IRS can't touch the most valuable things he left us.
  Ben Stein Oct. 26, 1999
  
• Rep. Blanton Foghorn 
  Gregg Easterbrook Oct. 21, 1999
  
• Flushed Why South Carolina killed its gambling industry.
  David Plotz Oct. 15, 1999
  
• Fatal Attraction The battle for the Reform Party isn't Ventura vs. Buchanan. It's the latest installment of the centurylong war between progressives and populists.
  Michael Lind Oct. 12, 1999
  
• The Torah Codes, Cracked OK, so maybe God didn't write the Bible.
  Benjamin Wittes Oct. 7, 1999
  
• The Party of Buchanan Would today's congressional Republicans have voted to stop Hitler?
  Joshua Micah Marshall Sept. 30, 1999
  
• Sins of the Tongue Bill Clinton, Ken Starr, and traditional Christian values.
  Debora Shuger Sept. 15, 1999
  
• Dissension in the Rankings U.S. News responds to Slate's "best colleges" story.
  Brian Duffy Sept. 8, 1999
  
• Scouting for Boys The alternative lifestyle of Lord Baden-Powell, the first Boy Scout.
  Geoffrey Wheatcroft Aug. 27, 1999
  
• Hail to the King What Jimmy Carter has in common with Henry VI.
  Steven E. Landsburg Aug. 24, 1999
  
• Library Cad Bill Clinton wants to build his library in Little Rock. Will Little Rock let him?
  Erica Werner Aug. 20, 1999
  
• Defining Decay Down Why dentists still exist.
  David Plotz Aug. 18, 1999
  
• The Last Word How it feels to finish a 10-year writing project.
  James Atlas Aug. 17, 1999
  
• Got Osteoporosis? Maybe all that milk you've been drinking is to blame.
  Emily Yoffe Aug. 3, 1999
  
• Flight Stimulator How the government subsidizes the risky business of private aviation.
  Steve Chapman July 29, 1999
  
• Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye JFK Jr.: My Story
  Mickey Kaus July 28, 1999
  
• Florida Juice The Sunshine State's love affair with the electric chair.
  Ellen McGarrahan July 22, 1999
  
• Proxy War Liberals denounce racial profiling. Conservatives denounce affirmative action. What's the difference?
  Michael Brus July 10, 1999
  
• A Philistine's Guide to Italy When in Rome, order beans for dinner, take the bus instead of renting a car, and get to know your Jesuses.
  William Saletan July 9, 1999
  
• Harvard's $200,000 Question "Why are law students unhappy?" Gee, that's a tough one.
  Eve Gerber July 8, 1999
  
• William Buckley Quotes Himself in Self-Defense 
  July 2, 1999
  
• Praise the Lord, Pass the Ammo If teen violence is the question, religion isn't the answer.
  Steve Chapman July 1, 1999
  
• J.D. Salinger, Failed Recluse Hey, Jerry, want your privacy? Take a few lessons from Thomas Pynchon.
  Alex Beam June 29, 1999
  
• The Godzilla SUV 
  Gregg Easterbrook June 18, 1999
  
• Shooting Script Hollywood's screenwriters take a meeting and wring their hands over movie violence.
  Nancy Griffin June 17, 1999
  
• Death Stamps No joke: Oregon will pay you to die.
  Cyrus Sanai June 3, 1999
  
• Hold That Martyrdom Why Kenneth Starr's prosecution of Julie Hiatt Steele was not so ridiculous.
  Mickey Kaus May 19, 1999
  
• The War in Kosovo Links to Slate's recent coverage.
  May 16, 1999
  
• Slate, Version 2.0 
  Kathleen Kincaid May 8, 1999
  
• Kill and Die for "Credibility"? There are good reasons for what we're doing in Yugoslavia. This one isn't.
  Matthew Cooper May 6, 1999
  
• Community Kills The last thing American high schools need is more warm fuzzies.
  Cyrus Sanai April 30, 1999
  
• Stop Making Sense Lessons from the New York Times on turning innuendo and incomprehensibility into a Pulitzer Prize.
  Bruce Gottlieb April 25, 1999
  
• The Reverse Domino Theory We can't stop every genocide in the world? Why on earth not?
  Lucy Russell April 24, 1999
  
• The Last Gringo And then there was just one U.S. daily reporter left to report from Managua.
  Glenn Garvin April 4, 1999
  
• Spikey's Hypocrisy What makes Michael Isikoff think he's better than Linda Tripp?
  Lucianne Goldberg March 31, 1999
  
• Slate Does Linux 
  Eliza Truitt March 28, 1999
  
• A Labor of Linux The exquisite torture of installing Linux as a computer novice.
  Eliza Truitt March 28, 1999
  
• Geek Love In which Boy Developer Andrew Shuman goes on a date with Linux but declines to marry it.
  Andrew Shuman March 28, 1999
  
• The Poisoned Dogs of Tuscany In Italy, they'd just as soon kill you as scratch you behind the ears.
  Alexander Chancellor March 21, 1999
  
• Why You're So Screwed Up Rating the explanations.
  Emily Yoffe March 20, 1999
  
• The Agony of Victory Online auctions and the winner's curse.
  Bruce Gottlieb March 19, 1999
  
• A Message to My Enemies Fighting words from an online financial journalist for his off-line competitors.
  James J. Cramer March 17, 1999
  
• Mau-Mauing the Dogcatcher Is it racist to dislike a dachshund?
  Jonah Goldberg March 11, 1999
  
• Me on Me on Garrison Keillor In an exclusive interview with himself, a lesser god of public radio explores his feelings about the Lord of Lake Wobegon.
  Michael Feldman March 6, 1999
  
• Heads Up! Slate's 100 Top Headlines of the Century
  Kurt Luchs March 6, 1999
  
• Make Love Not War The hidden cost of Flytrap.
  V.J. Pappas Feb. 18, 1999
  
• Linda Tripp's Payoff She screwed the president and got a cushy job. No, not Monica.
  Scott Shuger Jan. 28, 1999
  
• Federalize the Schools! In praise of Clinton's State of the Union power grab.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 22, 1999
  
• Restoration Joe's Vanity, thy name is hardware.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 1, 1999