Business & Tech
- Newsmakers: Timothy Geithner on the financial crisis and the government's response.
- Slate's tech endorsements: our favorite apps, games, and gizmos of the year.
- If billionaires don't feel guilty about walking away from their debts, should homeowners?
- Slate's year-end gaming club.
- The surprising reason why banks are suddenly repaying their TARP funds.
- Who is Mrs. Cohen from Hadera, and should Israelis care where she puts her money?
- Is Google really making its own phone? Does it matter?
- The best iPhone apps for kids.
- The surprisingly steep decline in world trade.
- A collection of older, cheaper gadgets that still make great gifts in 2009.
- How Tiger Woods and other cheating men are getting busted through e-mails and cell phone notes.
- The economic argument for never giving another gift.
- The misleading new cell phone ads from AT&T and Verizon.
- When indie sweethearts (Zooey Deschanel, Ellen Page, and Luke Wilson) pitch products (cotton, Cisco, and AT&T).
- Four reasons that rosy November jobs report was even better than it seemed.
- Why the world is overreacting to the Dubai crisis.
- Are cell phone covers, films, and jackets worth the money?
- Can anyone stop Facebook?
- Slate readers solve mystery: Why can't you find a chocolate bar in China?
- The early economic reports about holiday shopping are confusing, contradictory, and useless.
- AOL's dumb plan to mimic the universe's worst news site.
- Like Lehman Bros., Dubai assumes it's too big to fail. We'll see about that.
- The gadget that could make you a better driver.
- How a smart Ketel One campaign alludes to the recession.
- The iPhone is the ultimate kid-pacification device.
- China is a Communist country, but I have yet to meet an actual Communist.
- C'mon, you can do better than a gift card.
- Netbooks, e-book readers, and other Black Friday bargains to avoid.
- A dam tour. Plus a bonus question: Why doesn't China have chocolate bars?
- Made in China—and sold there, too.
- What a meal of beef stomach and duck throats taught me about the new China.
- Microsoft Office 2010 reviewed.
- Like New Yorkers, Chinese people just can't stop talking about real estate.
- Why the American brand Mary Kay is thriving in China.
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 made me feel terrible about myself, and I loved it.
- Pharmaceutical ad winners at the Clio Healthcare Awards.
- 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?
Briefing
- The Slatest: Weekend Edition
- Bailed-out Freddie Mac says mortgages will be more expensive.
- Why syndicated TV shows are programmed out of sequence.
- A roundup of Christmas-related questions from the Explainer archives.
- What the coroner's office means when it says Brittany Murphy died from natural causes.
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- What should we call the decade that started in the year 2000?
- Why companies bother making free Internet browsers.
- The Questions We Never Answered in 2009
- How easy is it to hike into the Islamic Republic of Iran by accident?
- If you love Slate, we want to hear from you.
- Why do rappers hold their guns sideways?
- New! Read The Slatest on Slate's mobile site.
- December is the darkest month of the year. So why isn't it the coldest?
- How dangerous is golf-ball-size hail?
- Can Kendra Wilkinson breast-feed her baby even though she has implants?
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- The best stories of the year.
- How long does it take to dissolve a human body?
- Ohio now uses a single drug for its lethal injections. Why do other states use a three-drug cocktail?
- Why is Congress always meddling with sports?
- Explainer's Amanda Knox roundup.
- Tiger Woods' car crash caused $200 worth of damage to a tree. How do you measure that?
- Does it matter which countries contribute to NATO's Afghanistan contingent?
- Climategate: How vital to our understanding of climate change are the data from the United Kingdom?
- Did the Salahis break any laws by crashing the White House state dinner?
- If Tiger Woods really was stuck, should Elin Nordegren have busted open the car window to get him out?
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- How do movie blurbs work?
- Why do we eat turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas?
- How can you tell whether someone was asleep when he committed murder?
- A day in the life of a refugee.
- How do farmers produce so many turkeys for Thanksgiving?
- What's the best way for the Twilight vampires to drink blood?
- How dangerous is the radiation from a mammogram?
- How does the federal government know how much money it's spending improperly?
- Obama's getting flak for bowing in Japan. Early Americans bowed all the time.
- What makes a prison state of the art?
- Why are newspapers calling Maj. Nidal Hasan the "alleged" Fort Hood shooter?
- A couple of questions about water on other planets.
- Why were they playing bagpipes at the Fort Hood memorial service?
- Is accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan a "terrorist?"
- 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?
News & Politics
- President Obama is popular, but world leaders are finding it easy to say no to him.
- Pious Lies and Obits
- The year's best editorial cartoons.
- Slate tracks every amendment to the Senate's health care reform bill.
- Jeff Bezos on Amazon's success.
- Why the House-Senate conference should lose the tax on high-value "Cadillac" health insurance.
- President Obama, don't waste your time on Russian-American nuke talks.
- Slate examines some of the season's best political holiday cards.
- Electronic tablets can't possibly save magazines and newspapers.
- Henry Kissinger and Hillary Clinton on what it's like to be secretary of state.
- Why does Pakistan hate the United States?
- The Obama family's holiday card.
- James Cameron and Peter Jackson on making films in the age of technology.
- A gun-nut win on health reform.
- The deal that won Sen. Harry Reid (we think) a filibuster-proof majority for health reform.
- Why Al Franken told Joe Lieberman to stop talking.
- Barack Obama's Facebook feed.
- The week's most interesting Slatestories.
- Why the "war on Christmas" is basically over.
- Can Senate Democrats count on Joe Lieberman to vote for health reform?
- Why reading aloud the Senate's health care bill is a waste of everyone's time.
- How does a new piece of legislation get delivered to the president?
- Haley Barbour's bizarre pardon record.
- How Obama plans to get the Democrats excited about health care and 2010.
- The stupid drug story of the week—the Washington Post on heroin pills.
- The YouTube bully and the cop who sent text messages about sex on the job.
- Oral Roberts launched the prosperity gospel.
- Tea party protesters' last-ditch effort to derail health care reform.
- A glimpse into the abyss of health reform's (unlikely) defeat.
- Environmentalists should stop saying the world is ending.
- The Obama administration has picked the worst possible case for its first torture trial.
- America says it wants a third party. Why not the Modern Whigs?
- Why liberals won't get anything for giving up the public option.
- Slate's interactive guide to what's in the new public-option alternative.
- Iraq wasn't a war for oil, but the oil fields are the nation's best hope for recovery.
- If you want to understand the American crisis, you must read these three books.
- Jobs are on the way!
- Are Republicans serious about health care? No, and here's the proof.
- The Political Gabfest for Dec. 11, 2009.
- Why Americans can't talk about religion and the Supreme Court.
- In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Obama resurrects his favorite rhetorical device: rejecting false choices.
- With his Nobel speech, Obama shows an idealistic tough-mindedness.
- How Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize while escalating the war in Afghanistan.
- What Congress should do about the war in Afghanistan.
- Al Gore talks about global warming, those e-mails, and his new book.
- The Obama administration finally announces its brave new transparency policy.
- What are the delegates actually doing at the climate change conference in Copenhagen?
- The scariest thing Gen. McChrystal told Congress about Afghanistan.
- Why kids self-destruct with cell phones and online.
- Isn't a Medicare buy-in more "socialistic" than a public option?
- Vote for the most important stories of the year.
- Half the journalists in jail work online, and most of them are freelancers.
- The Swiss vote to ban minarets wasn't driven by bigotry; it was about fear of extremists.
- Is it possible to determine how big the Tea Party movement is?
- The New York Times expresses astonishment at members of the tribe living in out-of-the-way places.
- How a smoking engine became a Russian mafia hit.
- Sarah Palin's brand of populism is dangerous and deceptive.
- Why the critics of the KSM trial are wrong.
- How can Sen. Tom Coburn say 60 percent of all health spending is by the government?
- The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- Are "Medicare Advantage" cuts Medicare cuts?
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Obama's Guantanamo betrayal.
- Why are the Promise Keepers reaching out to women and Messianic Jews?
- How did blocking traffic become Argentina's favorite way to protest?
- Why is more than half of Congress still not on Twitter?
- Should the big banks monitor risk for credit-default swaps?
- The results of Slate's "write like Sarah Palin" contest.
- The best Supreme Court case ever about partying on the beach.
- Obama's top aides go to Congress.
- Why Democrats should stop talking about medical inflation.
- Why we can't get enough of the stories about Tiger Woods and the Salahis.
- Obama's war begins—but where does it end?
- Obama's Afghanistan speech was confusing.
- Without democratic reforms in Chad, peace is impossible in Darfur.
- Photos of Obama's Secret Service detail.
- The KSM trial will be fair enough.
- Will health care reform lower insurance premiums?
- Why Tiger's not talking about his accident.
- My mixed feelings about the war in Afghanistan.
- Prime Minister Singh's visit was almost eclipsed by the silly Salahi story.
- The Salahis and the long history of social climbing.
- The Salahis and the long history of social climbing.
- Obama is having the best first year of any president since Franklin Roosevelt.
- How the gun lobby groped its way into the health reform debate.
- The New York Times Magazine delivers a journalistic cliché in its Joe Biden feature.
- Baltimore tells crisis pregnancy centers to say they don't do abortions.
- On Afghanistan, President Obama will have to answer Sen. Obama's questions.
- What is on the other side of Siberia? The Jewish Autonomous Region.
- Stop comparing Sarah Palin's approval ratings with Barack Obama's.
- Why Obama supporters ought to count their blessings.
- Joan Biskupic's American Original.
- No one wants America to be the sole global superpower, but no one wants to share the load.
- The Senate wants to put a "botax" on plastic surgery. That's a bad idea.
- A Slate contest: Can you write like Sarah Palin?
- To win in Afghanistan, our military must cooperate with local militias.
- The Congressional Budget Office changes its mind about the House health reform bill's cost.
- The new AIG report reveals how Geithner—and U.S. taxpayers—were fleeced by Wall Street banks.
- The "war on terrorism" didn't cause the Fort Hood shootings.
- The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
- Sen. Blanche Lincoln's Web site can't make up its mind about the public option.
- How to amend, and not amend, the Senate health reform bill.
- Judge David Hamilton and the fight over God's secular title.
- Why Sarah Palin is unlikely to be the future of the Republican Party.
- Stupid drug story of the week: NBC's Today show discovers huffing.
- Slate writers and editors debate the ramifications of new cancer-screening guidelines.
- What it will cost you to deny health insurance to illegal immigrants.
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- What's inside Harry Reid's "blended" Senate health care reform bill.
- The real price of trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
- Does it matter that Obama is behind schedule on most of his major plans?
- Sen. Harry Reid's health reform strip tease.
- What watching ESPN could teach us about mammograms.
- The attorney general tries to sell us on New York terror trials.
- Slate's unauthorized index of Sarah Palin's autobiography, Going Rogue.
- The man who watered down the public option explains what government economists got wrong.
- Sarah Palin = Dan Quayle.
- Sarah Palin goes on Oprah to discuss her new book, Going Rogue.
- Why has the global response to swine flu been so politicized?
- The right's nonsensical arguments against trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York.
- Seven salient facts about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
- A new government report says health reform will "jeopardize access" to Medicare.
- 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.
- Socialized medicine intrudes on the march against Obamacare.
Arts
- Guy Richie is hardly the first director to get Sherlock Holmes wrong.
- The 26 top cultural moments of the 2000s.
- Saving Face: A chick-lit novel written in real time. With your help.
- It's Complicated reviewed.
- Slate's interactive guide to the best movies of the decade.
- Robert Herrick's Christmastime tribute to springtime pleasures.
- Sweden's bizarre tradition of watching Donald Duck (Kalle Anka) cartoons on Christmas Eve.
- Heath Ledger, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and what to do when the star of your movie dies.
- The best movies of the year and the decade.
- The man who told A Christmas Story.
- Our critics discuss Nabokov's The Original of Laura.
- Michael Scammell's biography of Arthur Koestler.
- The musical Nine is bad in a compelling way.
- A final farewell to Michael Jackson.
- A terrifying show about compulsive hoarders.
- The three television Christmas plotlines.
- Why did it take 12 years for James Cameron to make Avatar?
- Jeff Bridges gives the performance of the year in Crazy Heart.
- Revisiting the Replacements' Let It Be on the album's 25th anniversary.
- Avatar is the first broadband blockbuster.
- I attempt to cookalong with Gordon Ramsay.
- Jacob Weisberg talks to Werner Herzog about Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans and My Son,My Son, What Have Ye Done.
- Is Mister Ed still funny? Of course.
- Ella Fitzgerald, Keith Jarrett, and the best jazz albums of 2009. Plus: The best jazz albums of the decade.
- "Morphine"
- John Keegan's The American Civil War: A Military History.
- Why I love the Rockette holiday show.
- The Princess and the Frog reviewed.
- Clint Eastwood's Invictus reviewed.
- Is Avatar destined to flop?
- The best books of 2009.
- The Lovely Bones reviewed.
- Gomorrah, the brutal Italian gangster film that tore up the mob-movie rulebook.
- Douchebags gone wild.
- "Dead Mother"
- Thomas Mallon's Yours Ever.
- Glenn Beck's Christmas show.
- Natalie Portman ruins Brothers.
- Up In the Air reviewed.
- Alice reviewed.
- How did a buttoned-up shirt become costuming shorthand for "special."
- A photo essay about the most complicated, disturbing, and lively intersection in New York City.
- Books, music, and movies Slate writers recommend.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the White House gatecrashers, the worst decade ever, and Eva Tanguay, the first rock star.
- You really should be watching NBC's Parks and Recreation.
- The enduring influence of architect Christopher Alexander, author of A Pattern Language.
- Don't give DVD box sets as gifts.
- In search of Eva Tanguay, the first rock star.
- Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, and the art of kvetching in a poem.
- California as an island, utopia in the shape of a skull, and other strange maps.
- Paul Johnson's Churchill.
- Bill Hayes, the producer behind Jon and Kate, Table for 12, and 18 Kids and Counting.
- Is The City destroying America?
- Nostalgia for the contact sheet.
- The Road reviewed.
- Would Roald Dahl have liked Wes Anderson's adaptation of Fantastic Mr. Fox?
- Joan Biskupic's American Original.
- "Funeral"
- Gail Collins's When Everything Changed.
- How to score chicks on the Disney Channel.
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleansreviewed.
- The Blind Side reviewed.
- Retracing the path of the iconic movie on its 40th anniversary.
- The Twilight Saga: New Moon reviewed.
- Why vampire movies always break all the vampire rules.
- When have we not been in the midst of a vampire craze?
- Vampires suck.
- Do books really need Hollywood-style trailers?
- The surreal, high-concept showmanship of Urs Fischer.
- The best preschool programming on TV is Nick Jr.'s Yo Gabba Gabba!
- "Consciousness"
- Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discussRaymond Carver's "A Small Good Thing" and "The Bath."
- Philip Roth's The Humbling.
- 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?
Life
- OK, Kwanzaa is made up. But it brought my family together.
- The joy of celebrating a godless Christmas.
- Hail Mary: You have more in common with the mother of Jesus than you think.
- What makes a Christmas "authentic"?
- My sister insists I ship her Christmas gifts door-to-door.
- It's a great time to buy great Champagne, cheap.
- How Obama should give away his Nobel Prize money.
- How the Nativity scene, a Christmas staple, has evolved.
- What if Mary wasn't a virgin?
- The little-known Jewish holiday of Christmas Eve. Seriously.
- The best ways to support worthy causes by shopping.
- How to fix the NFL's instant replay system.
- The disgraced-public-figure holiday form letter.
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- Why, exactly, do our brothers and sisters drive us so crazy?
- Last-minute gift ideas from Slate readers.
- How to streamline your holiday shopping by purchasing the same gift for everyone on your list.
- Witches' brew at winter solstice.
- Hellfire holidays: Round 2 of the Pervert's Grand Tour.
- Two expectant dads refuse to diaper their twins.
- Donating internationally packs more punch than giving money locally.
- Embrace the fruitcake!
- What Elle, Esquire, Hooters, and other magazines recommend you give for Christmas.
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- Hanukkah as Jewish civil war.
- Can Hanukkah save the Jewish faith from assimilation?
- Has the American romance with the drive-through gone sour?
- Celebrating Hanukkah with menorah parades.
- My boys love astronomy. I couldn't care less.
- Christmas for Jews.
- We shouldn't call Tiger's many girlfriends "mistresses." They're just hookups.
- My child is questioning Santa's existence.
- The latest updates from Tiger Woods' Facebook feed.
- Chez Cosmo, Slate's Plates, and seven more restaurants based on magazines. Plus, a reader contest.
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- Should I pay friends to clean my house?
- Books, music, and movies Slate writers recommend.
- What to do about the rising U.S. hunger statistics.
- The unsolved mysteries of consciousness.
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- How could two crossword constructors come up with puzzles that are almost exactly alike?
- The case against Thanksgiving leftover recipes.
- Saving Face: A chick-lit novel written in real time. With your help.
- The NFL Network's RedZone channel reveals the future of fandom.
- God told my boyfriend to stop having sex with me.
- Green beans have no place on a Thanksgiving menu.
- What's the best vegetarian turkey? (Hint: It's not Tofurky.)
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- The best vehicles for pumpkin.
- Does watching football lead to domestic violence?
- What to drink on Thanksgiving: Napa cabernet.
- Losing my son in the woods wasn't fun.
- The gloomy wonders of Prague.
- I won't sit for a holiday photo with my in-laws.
- How the NFL became the American war game.
- Psychologists have been watching us on the subway. Here's what they've learned.
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- 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.
Science
- The fight over abortion insurance is smaller than it looks.
- The greenest way to make a holiday fire.
- The statistical games behind "off-label" prescription drug use.
- Copenhagen was the climate conference to end all climate conferences.
- Can you really be "addicted" to shopping or using the Internet?
- A mysterious crime in Peru revives a vampire legend that's more than 400 years old.
- The disappearance of Flight 188.
- What's the environmental impact of cheese?
- Stop complaining. Obama's proposed emissions cuts are good enough for now.
- How did they figure out that 19 inches of snow fell in the Midwest this week?
- How celebrities should go about making their health recommendations.
- Whatever happened to the Exxon Valdez spill?
- Can buying organic produce and natural shampoo turn you into a heartless jerk?
- Abortion and the fraud of legislative precedents.
- Our best hope against drug resistance isn't better antibiotics. It's better tactics.
- Should you be flushing your old prescription drugs down the toilet?
- Did Franklin D. Roosevelt actually die from cancer?
- What kind of Thanksgiving turkey is best for the environment?
- What's the greenest way to get home for Thanksgiving?
- When it comes to cancer screening, more isn't always better.
- What impact do rockets have on the environment?
- How can we communicate the dangers of nuclear waste to future civilizations?
- 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.
Podcasts & Video
- The Political Gabfest for Dec. 24, 2009.
- Yule Log TV
- Reviews of: Sherlock Holmes, It's Complicated, and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the year and decade in TV and film and MTV's reality show Jersey Shore.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Dec. 21, 2009.
- Dear Prudence: Chinese Jewish Christmas
- Our critics discuss Nabokov's The Original of Laura.
- Reviews of: Avatar, Nine, and Did You Hear About the Morgans?
- James Cameron's Near-Death Tirade
- TV's Worst Christmas Specials
- Slate's weekly Poetry Podcast.
- Dear Prudence: Holiday Moochers
- Reviews of: The Lovely Bones, Invictus, and The Princess and the Frog
- Julie Powell: On Butchery and Marriage
- My 7-MPH Escape
- Obama Interruptus
- Dear Prudence: Jealous Boyfriend in Afghanistan
- Reviews of: Up in the Air, Everybody's Fine, and Brothers
- Is Tiger Feeling Lucky Today?
- Dear Prudence: Salsa-Dancing Fool
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Nov. 30, 2009.
- The Political Gabfest for Nov. 26, 2009.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Bob Dylan's Christmas album, sprinter Caster Semenya, and the new documentary Le Danse.
- Reviews of: The Road, Ninja Assassin, and Old Dogs
- The Time Scalia Got It Wrong
- Dear Prudence: Go Ask Your Own Doctor!
- Reviews of: Twilight: New Moon, The Blind Side, and Planet 51
- Hey Penny: The Boss From Hell
- The Pork Bun Challenge
- Dear Prudence: I Got My Co-Worker's Sister Pregnant!
- Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discussRaymond Carver's "A Small Good Thing" and "The Bath."
- Reviews of: 2012, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Pirate Radio
- Clinton: The Rise of China Is Inevitable
- 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
Blogs
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Daniel Gross Asks Tim Geithner: What Do You Worry About?
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Slate's Culture Gabfest on Why People Can't Get Enough of Jersey Shore
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