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Weigel
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Moneybox
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XX Factor
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Brow Beat
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Future Tense
A citizen’s guide to the future from Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State.
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The Reckoning
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The Wright Show
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Today's Doonesbury
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The Romney Income Calculator
How long would it take the GOP candidate to earn your annual salary?
By Dan Check
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The Explainer
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The 2011 Explainer Question of the Year
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The Downton Abbey TV Club
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The NFL Roundtable
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The GOP Horse Race
What the presidential campaign would look like if it were an actual horse race.
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The Mouse Trap
The dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease.
By Daniel Engber
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Robot Invasion
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Permanent Record
The surprising stories I uncovered in a trove of report cards from the 1920s.
By Paul Lukas
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The Greatest Paper Map of the U.S.
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Stop Putting Two Spaces After a Period
It's totally, absolutely, indefensibly wrong.
By Farhad Manjoo
TOP STORIES
- Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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Inevitability Restored
Romney crushes Gingrich with a big Florida win.
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You’re Just Going To Have To Hold It
Do animals that hibernate get up to go to the bathroom?
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Police Tape
Is Chicago really planning on detaining anyone who records protestor arrests at the G-8 summit?
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Introducing the iFactory
Apple reinvented gadgets. Now it should reinvent how gadgets are manufactured.
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Team Spielberg Bites Back
Bill Wyman takes questions from Steven Spielberg fans about his contentious Spielberg takedown.
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NFL 2011
After the scalpel, out come the knives for Peyton Manning.
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
Is Lady Mary a black widow?
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Help America: Get Divorced!
The coming boom in failed marriages and why it’s exactly what the economy needs.
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Somewhere Between Magical Territory and Crazytown
Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child has trouble finding its place in the literary world.
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Offline Lover
Help! My fiancée demands that I show her more attention online.
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Meat of the People
Boar’s Head is everywhere. But what do we really know about it?
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Mass Hysteria in Upstate New York
Why more than a dozen teenage girls are exhibiting Tourette’s-like symptoms.
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The Secret of American Health Care
Surprise! It's already socialized.
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Consent of the Networked
How Googledom, Facebookistan, and other sovereigns of cyberspace are handling their unprecedented power.
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Fix the Oscars
Inept hosts. Dumb categories. Dance numbers. It’s time to reform the Academy Awards.
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- Monday, January 30, 2012
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Mute Gingrich
How Romney stole Gingrich's voice in Florida.
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Hang Up and Listen: The Rhodes to Nowhere Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on the Australian Open, the Yale Rhodes scholarship scandal, and HBO’s Joe Namath documentary.
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Can You Be a Pirate on Land?
Only if you’ve already become a pirate on the sea.
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Is Obesity the Government’s Business?
Watch—and participate in—the Slate/Intelligence Squared live debate on Feb. 7.
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Double the Stars
Why expand best picture? It’s the acting categories that need more names.
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Is Polygamy Really So Awful?
A new study shows that despite what you see on reality TV, plural marriage isn’t very good for society.
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NFL 2011
Homemade Infographic: What were the gayest (and straightest) Super Bowl halftime shows?
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From Gloria Estefan to the Blues Brothers
The gayest and straightest Super Bowl halftime shows: a video slide show.
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One-Night Stand or Rape?
In a live chat, Prudie advises a woman whose friend revised the story of a drunken encounter with a stranger.
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Pipe, Baby, Pipe
Why Republican voters are so angry about Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Copying Is Not Stealing
And other ideas about copyright that Caleb Crain and I agree on.
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Dear Prudence: My Mom Won’t Shut Up!
A weekly Dear Prudence video.
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She’s Not What She Seems
Pop stars reinvent themselves all the time. Why has Lana Del Rey’s reinvention caused such a stir?
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
Mrs. Bates has transformed into the Wicked Witch of the West.
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The Curse of the White Powder
How fake bioterrorism attacks became a real problem.
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Consent of the Networked
How can digital technology be structured and governed to maximize the good and minimize the evil?
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For Sale: Detailed Voter Profiles
The RNC and DNC are getting into the data mining business. Will they trade sensitive, strategically valuable information for an influx of cash?
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Fix the Oscars
Inept hosts. Dumb categories. Dance numbers. It is time to reform the Academy Awards.
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Introducing MySlate
A personalized version of Slate, just for you.
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I Watched Every Spielberg Movie
Now I almost wish I hadn’t.
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All of Steven Spielberg’s Movies, Ranked
From the sublime to the schlock—and beyond.
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- Sunday, January 29, 2012
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
Daisy! Do the right thing!
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Fine Novelty Dining
The world’s weirdest restaurants.
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Lunch With Anwar Ibrahim
The former Malaysian deputy prime minister discusses Shakespeare and his six years in prison.
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- Saturday, January 28, 2012
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A Little Bit of Luck
David Milch’s new horse racing-drama surges toward greatness.
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Middle Age Is Just a Story We Tell Ourselves
An interview with Patricia Cohen.
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The Longform Guide to Saturday Night Live
Amazing stories about life on set and life after the show, from Belushi to Fey.
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All Day Pajamas, Boisterous Debates, and Fixing the Oscars
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
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- Friday, January 27, 2012
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The Mystery of the Puerto Rican Voter
Why do Puerto Ricans turn out in such high numbers on the island but not in Florida? And who will win their all-important support in 2012?
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What a Drag
There’s much to admire but little to love in Albert Nobbs.
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Train in Vain
The idiotic Department of Transportation rule that’s hobbled America’s mass transit—and the wonderful regulation that may soon replace it.
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Anti-Muslim Training, Sex Predators, and the Labor Behind iPads
This week’s top MuckReads from ProPublica.
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Matt Yglesias Is Wrong About Copyright
And I will prove it. By eating his lunch.
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The Biggest Political Donations of All Time
How the Adelsons’ $10 million Gingrich gift stacks up.
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Let Me Finish
Stand-up comics assess how Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich handle hecklers.
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The Shortz Factor
Introducing a new measure of crossword-related fame.
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To the Moon, Newt!
Gingrich’s wasteful, scientifically unsound plan to put colonists on lunar soil.
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The Mormons Are So Good Looking Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about the State of the Union, Mitt Romney’s taxes, Newt’s funder Sheldon Adelson, and the indictment of ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou.
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AWOL Abbey
Did World War I soldiers get as much vacation as Downton Abbey suggests?
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How Hard Is It To Open a Swiss Bank Account?
Mitt Romney had one. Can you get one, too?
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Fix the Oscars
Inept hosts. Dumb categories. Dance numbers. It’s time to reform the Academy Awards.
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Rabbit at Rest
The bizarre and misguided critical assault on John Updike’s reputation.
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Corrections
Slate's mistakes.
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Romney Fights Back
Mitt pounds Newt in the final debate before the Florida primary. Will it be enough?
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- Thursday, January 26, 2012
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The Grey
Hot Neeson-on-wolves action.
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Inside In
Gingrich and Romney are both consummate insiders. So why is only Gingrich able to portray himself as an outsider?
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NFL 2011
Eli Manning and the NFL’s trouble with goodness.
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A Scalpel, Not a Hatchet
Why is Obama cutting so little out of the Pentagon budget? He could cut even more.
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Literature of the 0.1 Percent
At Last, the latest of Edward St. Aubyn’s masterful novels of privilege and the ways it warps its victims.
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The Oscar Act-Off
Make the nominees sing for their supper.
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Dirty Money
The astonishing new data showing that simply eliminating inefficient fossil fuel subsidies could achieve half the world’s carbon reduction goals.
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How To Fight off a Pack of Hungry Wolves
Can you use broken miniature liquor bottles like in The Grey?
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Fix the Oscars
Inept hosts. Dumb categories. Dance numbers. It’s time to reform the Academy Awards.
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No Pet For You
Want to adopt a dog or cat? Prepare for an inquisition at the animal rescue.
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Weasel Face Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about how much looks matter in politics, how small group dynamics affect women, and the blogger Dooce’s separation.
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The High Price of Long Life
If anti-aging drugs are possible, they will require dangerous—and ethically troubling—clinical trials.
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Compassion Without Passion
My husband’s brain injury ended our romance. Should I take a lover?
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- Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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The Pajama Manifesto
Wear them to work. Wear them to the store. Wear them everywhere.
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What Does an Office Secretary Have in Common With the Secretary of Defense?
A short history of executive assistance.
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Unleash the Crowds
Newt Gingrich is right: We need more debates. And more yelling!
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NFL 2011
The New England Patriots are not out for revenge.
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The Political and the Personal
What the Supreme Court can learn from Gabby Giffords and Jeff Flake.
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If Dooce Can’t Make an Egalitarian Marriage Work, Who Can?
Why fans of the “Queen of Mommy Blogs” were upset by news of her separation.
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The Maximum-Gluten Diet
Wheat gluten is healthier, tastier, and more versatile than tofu. Vegetarians should be eating it all the time.
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The Culture Gabfest, “Sh*t Tuskegee Airmen Say” Edition
Listen to Slate's show about Red Tails, workplace collaboration, and the “sh*t people say” meme.
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The Three-Thank-Yous Rule
A modest proposal for rewarding great acceptance speeches.
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How Much Do Looks Matter in Presidential Politics?
It’s not just attractiveness that counts among voters—it’s a cluster of physical traits.
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A Size 2 Is a Size 2 Is a Size 8
Why clothing sizes make no sense.
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Insider Trading and Spilled Milk
The juiciest moments of the State of the Union.
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The Swing States of Our Union Are Strong
Obama's tepid election-year State of the Union attempts to lay a trap for Republicans.
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That’s Obama’s Jobs Plan?
His muddled SOTU scheme to boost the economy by hindering trade.
