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Weigel
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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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Today's Doonesbury
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The Explainer
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Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party
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Steve Jobs, the "Blue Box," and Me
He said my 1971 Esquire article inspired him to found Apple.
By Ron Rosenbaum
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The Cartoon-Character Color Wheel
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The Perfect Day
His dog was dying. But they could spend one last day together.
By Jon Katz
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Trutherism
The rise and fall of 9/11 conspiracy theories.
By Jeremy Stahl
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Twins!
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Stop Putting Two Spaces After a Period
It's totally, absolutely, indefensibly wrong.
By Farhad Manjoo
TOP STORIES
- Monday, October 17, 2011
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Introducing Slate’s Negotiation Academy
A series of short podcasts to teach you the basic rules for getting the best deal.
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Is the Occupy Movement Anti-Democratic?
The global protests may actually undermine democracy rather than strengthen it.
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Our Incredibly Dull Energy Future
Even if we make big strides toward clean energy, the future won’t look very different from today.
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Alms for the Rich
How policies meant to promote alternative energies are actually hurting the middle class.
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Romney’s Mormon Problem
Mitt Romney and the weird and sinister beliefs of Mormonism.
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The Case for Discrimination
Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, and the diversity of blacks and Mormons.
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Questions for Roz Chast
The New Yorker cartoonist talks about missing Manhattan and why she hates superheroes, elevators, carnivals, hammerheads …
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The Philosopher of the Post-9/11 Era
Why have the right and the left resurrected Reinhold Niebuhr?
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- Sunday, October 16, 2011
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From Dung Power to Solar Power
How billions without electrical access will benefit from clean energy.
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Lunch With Mitsuko Uchida
The Japanese concert pianist explains why she feels European.
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- Saturday, October 15, 2011
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The Longform.org Guide to Impostors
Fake Rockefellers and fake rock stars: five amazing stories of deception.
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Depressed Dogs, a Parent’s Guide to Star Wars and Monster Truck Moms
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
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- Friday, October 14, 2011
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Black Swan
The surprise rise of Herman Cain has the Tea Party asking: “Who’s racist now?”
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Women Who Run With the Wolves
Jill Abramson’s The Puppy Diaries, Julie Klam’s You Had Me at Woof, and why dog women get more respect than cat ladies.
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Could Beyoncé Get in Trouble for Stealing Dance Moves?
Plus: Can a town really ban dancing, like in Footloose?
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Deadly Day Cares and Questionable Donations
This week’s top MuckReads from ProPublica.
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Laura Dern Is Enlightened
Her magical face is just one reason to watch her new show.
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The No Longer Deductible Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about Herman Cain, Occupy Wall Street, and kids on Facebook.
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The Five Best Ways to Fight AIDS
What happened when we asked economists to identify the most effective responses to the epidemic.
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Don’t Count Oil Out
Alternative energies won’t replace oil, gas, and coal anytime soon.
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Why You Can’t Invest in My Awesome Start-Up
The dumb SEC rule that prevents small businesses from getting “crowd-funding” from investors.
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- Thursday, October 13, 2011
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Simply Appealing
One explanation for the popularity of Herman Cain among Republicans.
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Everything You Need to Know About Occupy Wall Street
A complete guide to the anti-corporate protests taking place around the nation.
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Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party: Compare and Contrast
One looks cooler. The other smells better. Do they agree on anything?
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Prisoner Inflation
Israel traded 1,000 Palestinians for one soldier. Is that the going rate?
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A Gestational Issue
Why millennials care more about the rights of gays to marry than about the rights of women to get abortions.
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Talk To Her, All About My Mother, Broken Embraces …
Almodóvar’s films, ranked from best to worst.
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The Apple Color Cycle
White to black to bondi blue ice to titanium ... and back to white again.
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World Class Warfare
Why almost every continent on Earth is experiencing social and political turmoil.
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Occupy Wall Street Has Already Won
How the movement has already shaken up American politics, and where it should go from here.
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What the New Deal Accomplished
651,000 miles of highway. 8,000 parks. The Triborough Bridge. Do conservatives who attack the New Deal actually know what America gained from it?
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Monster Truck Mamas
Who knew that crushing junk cars is an excellent part-time job for working mothers?
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Use the Force, Daddy!
A guide to the Clone Wars for parents of inquisitive children.
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Weapon of Choice
My husband insists we buy a gun to protect our family, but I disdain firearms.
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- Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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Go Ahead, a Little TV Won’t Hurt Him
Why doctors’ prohibitions on screen time for toddlers don’t make sense.
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Nine! Nine! Nine!
Why Republicans are having such a hard time dismissing Herman Cain’s goofy tax plan.
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Are Americans Secretly Homesick?
According to a new history, we were never a nation of rugged individualists. We were—and still are—nostalgic homebodies.
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Present at the Creation
Frank Kameny, the modest, stubborn man who helped start the gay rights movement.
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Go Slow To Go Fast
Why highways move more swiftly when you force cars to crawl along at 55 mph.
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For the Love of Science Fiction
Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination.
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The Culture Gabfest, “Bronze Ball of Regret” Edition
Listen to Slate's show about the new romantic comedy Weekend, Dancing With the Stars, and the legacy of Steve Jobs.
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Last Leotard Standing
The United States women’s gymnastics team keeps winning gold, but at what cost to the athletes?
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Mitt Romney, Liberal
In the Post/Bloomberg debate, Romney shows his liberal side.
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Where Has the Sex Gone?
Why Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel is missing his usual explicitness.
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Running the Table
Mitt Romney shows why he’s still the man to beat in the Republican field.
- Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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Occupy Whatever Street We Can Find
Where are protesters camping out in cities that don't have a "Wall Street"?
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99 Percenters, Meet the 53 Percenters
In response to Occupy Wall Street, some conservatives are blasting the 47 percent of Americans who don’t pay federal taxes. Do they have a point?
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Hang Up and Listen: The Crown Prince of Paranoia Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on the baseball playoffs, Al Davis, Morgan Spurlock’s The Dotted Line, and the WNBA.
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The Many Lives of Hazel Bryan
In the most famous photo of the Civil Rights era, she was the face of white bigotry. You’ll never believe what she did with the rest of her life.
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Too Many American Kids Go To College
How you can watch—and participate in—the live Slate/Intelligence Squared U.S. debate Oct. 12 at the Spertus Center in Chicago.
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The Future Is Machine-Readable
Robots and automated cars will require our cities to become machine-readable, and soon.
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That’s Italian
A new book reveals why Silvio Berlusconi’s countrymen put up with him.
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Take Our Free Money, Please!
Why Obama’s $30 billion small-business loan program has flopped.
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The Case of the Cross-Dressing Newbie
Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe discuss whether a woman should tell her new-to-Facebook friend just how public his provocative comments are.
