Previously published Slate articles made new.

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• How Wildfires Get Their Names The story of Burnt Bread and Dirty Face.
  Daniel Engber Nov. 17, 2008
  
• "This Is Nicolas Sarkozy. Is Sarah Palin Available?" How world leaders make phone calls.
  Daniel Engber Nov. 10, 2008
  
• Do World Leaders Still Use Telegrams? Don't they have e-mail like the rest of us?
  Brendan I. Koerner Nov. 10, 2008
  
• John Leonard, RIP Remembering the great New York Times Book Review editor.
  Meghan O'Rourke Nov. 6, 2008
  
• Dead by Inauguration Day What happens if a president-elect passes away at the last minute?
  Nina Shen Rastogi Nov. 6, 2008
  
• Michael Crichton, RIP Remembering Planet Earth's novelist of doom.
  Bryan Curtis Nov. 5, 2008
  
• Can a Dead Woman Vote? Obama's late grandmother's absentee ballot will count in Hawaii, but not every state has the same policy.
  Chris Wilson Nov. 4, 2008
  
• Highlights From Slate's Political Coverage Memorable articles about an election that is finally over.
  Nov. 3, 2008
  
• Vote! Why your ballot isn't as meaningless as you think.
  Jordan Ellenberg Oct. 31, 2008
  
• What If We Banned Polling? A Slate thought experiment.
  Daniel Engber Oct. 28, 2008
  
• Who Gets Obama's Spare Change? What happens to war chests when the campaign's over.
  Brendan I. Koerner Oct. 28, 2008
  
• The Haunted Credit Card An ode to store-bought Halloween costumes.
  Emily Bazelon Oct. 17, 2008
  
• Baby-Sitting the Economy The baby-sitting co-op that went bust teaches us something that could save the world.
  Paul Krugman Oct. 13, 2008
  
• What Do Pirates Want From Us? Booty, of course.
  Daniel Engber Sept. 26, 2008
  
• Packing Heat in Helsinki Why do Finns own so many guns?
  Michelle Tsai Sept. 23, 2008
  
• Exploit and Click The fuss over Jill Greenberg's photography.
  Jim Lewis Sept. 16, 2008
  
• How Do They Estimate Hurricane Damage? Why do the Ike numbers vary all the way from $6 billion to $18 billion?
  Daniel Engber Sept. 15, 2008
  
• An Unlikely Hero The Marine who found two WTC survivors.
  Rebecca Liss Sept. 11, 2008
  
• Kim Jong, Ill? North Korea's international man of mystery may be sick.
  Chris Suellentrop Sept. 9, 2008
  
• A Visit to My Future What happens when I try to live like a senior citizen.
  Emily Yoffe Sept. 9, 2008
  
• Naughty Nursing Homes Is it time to let the elderly have more sex?
  Daniel Engber Sept. 9, 2008
  
• Life on an Alaskan Fishing Boat A weeklong diary.
  Laurie Snyder Sept. 5, 2008
  
• The Evolution of the Minnesota State Fair How 4-H kids run the show.
  Ben Crair Sept. 3, 2008
  
• Snowmobiling Slumming on the slopes.
  Bryan Curtis Sept. 3, 2008
  
• Meet the Charlatans Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have made yet another terrible spoof movie. Audiences, beware!
  Josh Levin Aug. 28, 2008
  
• Summer-House Lit On not owning a vacation home.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 22, 2008
  
• Return of the Cold War A dispatch from South Ossetia.
  Joshua Kucera Aug. 8, 2008
  
• August Let's get rid of it.
  David Plotz Aug. 6, 2008
  
• Letters to the Summer Tenants The lament of a self-martyred landlord.
  Jodie T. Allen July 22, 2008
  
• You Are How You Camped What your enjoyment of sleep-away camp, or lack of same, says about your character.
  Timothy Noah July 14, 2008
  
• God's Venture Capitalist The strange quest of Sir John Templeton.
  David Plotz July 8, 2008
  
• Death by Cheese and the Dreaded Ruptured Stomach The past and future of competitive eating injuries.
  Jason Fagone July 3, 2008
  
• How To Plan a Fireworks Show Those big fireworks displays don't choreograph themselves.
  Daniel Engber July 2, 2008
  
• What Kind of Terrorism Does North Korea Sponsor? It sells missile technology.
  Brendan I. Koerner June 26, 2008
  
• Itsy-Bitsy, Teeny-Weeny A brief history of the bikini.
  Julia Turner June 25, 2008
  
• Do Kids Need a Summer Vacation? Why schoolchildren get to take three months off.
  Juliet Lapidos June 23, 2008
  
• White Weddings The incredible staying power of the laws against interracial marriage.
  David Greenberg June 17, 2008
  
• Tim Russert, 1950-2008 Highlights from Slate's coverage of Tim Russert over the years.
  June 13, 2008
  
• Jim Johnson Leaves Obama Veep Search Team The man who was once a Medici with your money.
  Matthew Cooper June 11, 2008
  
• Federal Judge Alex Kozinski's 1996 Slate Diary His attendance at a lingerie party and more.
  Alex Kozinski June 11, 2008
  
• David Sedaris and Exaggeration A new book raises the same old questions.
  Jack Shafer June 11, 2008
  
• The Future Plastic China's plastic-bag ban.
  Juliet Lapidos June 9, 2008
  
• Harriet McBryde Johnson, RIP The disability rights lawyer's take on the rights of terminally ill patients.
  Harriet McBryde Johnson June 9, 2008
  
• They Shoot Chickens, Don't They? How they kill birds infected with avian flu.
  Daniel Engber June 4, 2008
  
• Why the Mafia Loves Garbage Hauling trash and organized crime.
  Michelle Tsai June 3, 2008
  
• The Grown-Up Sydney Pollack's alternative cinema for the old.
  Bryan Curtis May 27, 2008
  
• What—and Where—Is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve? 
  Brendan I. Koerner May 14, 2008
  
• Disaster by Numbers If the earthquake doesn't kill you, the clichés will.
  Jack Shafer May 13, 2008
  
• Why Did Eight Belles Have To Be Euthanized? The reason a broken leg is such bad news for a horse.
  Daniel Engber May 4, 2008
  
• How Much Do Racehorses Pee? Horses really do possess great powers of urination.
  David Sessions May 1, 2008
  
• Beware of the Blob A town celebrates the famous horror movie brought to the screen by Kate Phillips.
  Torie Bosch April 28, 2008
  
• The Fate of Nabokov's Laura A Slate critic helps save Nabokov's last novel from destruction.
  Ron Rosenbaum April 25, 2008
  
• Keep Your Roses I hate Admin Day.
  Melonyce McAfee April 23, 2008
  
• Queen for a Day Danica Patrick just won her first race, but is she a great driver?
  Robert Weintraub April 21, 2008
  
• Haggadah Better Idea Let's stop improving Passover.
  Mark Oppenheimer April 17, 2008
  
• Anti-Gay Auto-Da-Fé The perverse and vicious campaign to ban homosexuals from Catholic seminaries.
  Michael Sean Winters April 16, 2008
  
• To Do: Skip Newseum Opening Why you should boycott journalism's monument to itself.
  Jack Shafer April 10, 2008
  
• When Poetry Meets Politics What a new Pulitzer Prize winner tells us about age and public writing.
  Nathan Heller April 8, 2008
  
• You Won a Pulitzer. Whoop De Do. Does anyone besides journalists care about the Pulitzers?
  Jack Shafer April 8, 2008
  
• Questions for Junot Díaz An interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
  Meghan O'Rourke April 8, 2008
  
• Hero Worship Would Charlton Heston have made a good president?
  David Plotz April 7, 2008
  
• The April Fools' Day Defense Kit This year, don't be taken for a sucker by the media.
  Jack Shafer March 31, 2008
  
• Should I Sell Grandma's Locket? Why high gold prices don't mean it's time to sell your jewelry.
  Daniel Engber March 25, 2008
  
• Productivity Madness What's that crazy stat about the NCAA Tournament and distracted workers?
  Jack Shafer March 20, 2008
  
• St. Patrick Revealed The man behind the green beer and the myth.
  David Plotz March 17, 2008
  
• Eliot's Erotic Games When is a massage more than a massage?
  Michelle Tsai March 10, 2008
  
• Lies and Consequences Why are book editors so bad at spotting fake memoirs?
  Meghan O'Rourke March 4, 2008
  
• Favre From Heaven Why journalists deify the Green Bay Packers quarterback.
  Robert Weintraub March 4, 2008
  
• Calling the President at 3 A.M. Who wakes up the chief executive in the middle of the night?
  Daniel Engber March 3, 2008
  
• Recalling William F. Buckley Through His Diaries William F. Buckley dies at 82.
  William F. Buckley Jr. Feb. 27, 2008
  
• One Last Shake How the soon-to-be-extinct Polaroid changed the American snapshot.
  Mia Fineman Feb. 19, 2008
  
• Adios, Comandante How did Fidel Castro stay in power for so long?
  Ian Bremmer Feb. 19, 2008
  
• How To Blow Up a Satellite First, fire your kill vehicle.
  Daniel Engber Feb. 15, 2008
  
• Who Says Poetry Doesn't Pay? Slate contributor Tom Sleigh wins $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award.
  Feb. 14, 2008
  
• Great Poems for Valentine's Day You don't need teddy bears or roses to express your love.
  Feb. 14, 2008
  
• Dog Dancing My beagle and I try America's weirdest pet hobby.
  Emily Yoffe Feb. 13, 2008
  
• Why Steal Famous Paintings? How could you possibly sell them?
  Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 11, 2008
  
• Where Do Mob Nicknames Come From? The origin of "Tommy Sneakers," "The Greaseball," and "Bobby the Jew."
  Daniel Engber Feb. 7, 2008
  
• The Late State Gets the Worm What happens next in the primaries.
  Jeff Greenfield Feb. 6, 2008
  
• How Do You Fix an Undersea Cable? Electrical repairs on the ocean floor.
  Lindsay Goldwert Feb. 5, 2008
  
• Is My Super Bowl Party Illegal? How to watch the game without breaking the law.
  Daniel Engber Feb. 1, 2008
  
• What Happens to Edwards' delegates? Sixty-one are up for grabs.
  Brendan I. Koerner Jan. 31, 2008
  
• Can Vaccines Cause Autism? Eli Stone's questionable medicine.
  Arthur Allen Jan. 30, 2008
  
• The Kingmaker How Bobby Fischer brought chess to America.
  Ann Hulbert Jan. 18, 2008
  
• Gitmo Turns Six A look at the world's most talked-about prison.
  Paolo Pellegrin Jan. 11, 2008
  
• Not That There's Anything Wrong With That Jessica Seinfeld's cookbook is unoriginal, but it's not plagiarism.
  Steven A. Shaw Jan. 8, 2008
  
• Family Values Dr. Phil's opportunistic parental-advice franchise.
  Ann Hulbert Jan. 8, 2008
  
• Lethal Injection 101 Why states still use three drugs to kill when one will do.
  Daniel Engber Jan. 7, 2008
  
• The Wire on Fire Analyzing the best show on television.
  Jacob Weisberg Jan. 4, 2008
  
• Behind The Wire David Simon on where the show goes next.
  Meghan O'Rourke Jan. 4, 2008
  
• The Southern Speed Myth LSU isn't any faster than Ohio State. Why does everyone insist otherwise?
  Jonathan Chait Jan. 4, 2008
  
• Survival of the Yummiest Should we buy Michael Pollan's nutritional Darwinism?
  Daniel Engber Jan. 2, 2008