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Moneybox
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Weigel
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XX Factor
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Brow Beat
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The Reckoning
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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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The 2011 Explainer Question of the Year
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The Downton Abbey TV Club
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The NFL Roundtable 2011
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The Presidential Horse Race
What the GOP 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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Marilyn's Secret
What I learned about the icon by folding her capri pants.
By Simon Doonan
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Stop Putting Two Spaces After a Period
It's totally, absolutely, indefensibly wrong.
By Farhad Manjoo
TOP STORIES
- Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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The Obamas
I feel bad about Michelle Obama’s unworn sweatpants.
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He Wrote the Book on Raylan Givens
But FX’s Justified understands Elmore Leonard’s greatest character better than Leonard does.
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Pregnant Pause
In a live chat, Dear Prudence advises an expecting woman who isn’t sure she wants to move closer to her baby’s father.
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NFL 2011
Mike Martz gave us something to believe in, even if we shouldn't.
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The Very Real Paranoia Over Genetically Modified Foods
Can your body "absorb information" from lab-engineered fruits and vegetables?
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The End of Retail
Troubles at Sears are just the latest sign that big-box chains may never recover from the Great Recession.
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The End of the Echo Chamber
A study of 250 million Facebook users reveals the Web isn’t as polarized as we thought.
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
Stop it with the slut-shaming, Bates.
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Newt’s Bright Night
Gingrich helped his case that he’s the alternative to Romney but it might not be enough.
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The Four Stages of Introducing New Technologies
A futurist explains how society moves from fear to acceptance of smartphones, computers, and other advances.
- Monday, January 16, 2012
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Pay No Attention to What I Said Last Week
A few days ago, Huntsman was tearing into Romney. Now he’s gushing about him. Why so big a switch, so fast?
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NFL 2011
The view from the wrong side of an NFL instant classic.
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Don’t Believe the Good News
Consumers are income-challenged, wealth-challenged, and debt-constrained. That doesn’t bode well for 2012.
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Partisans, Reviewed
A new book suggests we can’t understand the downturn without looking at the pitched battles going on in Washington.
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The Obamas
Of course Michelle got Yoko Ono-ified by Barack’s aides.
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- Sunday, January 15, 2012
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
Why I love the Very Serious Looks of Downton.
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“I Like Being Manipulated”
Charlotte Gainsbourg discusses her music, her father, and her work with Lars von Trier.
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The Obamas
The first lady is Barack Obama’s Department of “Let’s Get Real.”
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- Saturday, January 14, 2012
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Lunch With Zbigniew Brzezinski
The former national security adviser explains why he’s worried about Obama’s approach to China.
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An Aging Amateur Enters the Octagon
A new podcast about nonfiction books and their authors.
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The Longform Guide to the Campaign Trail
Great stories from Joan Didion, DFW, and others about the art of campaigning.
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Guantanamo’s Anniversary, Explainer of the Year, and the Golden Age of Publishing
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
- Friday, January 13, 2012
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Working Class Heroes
Can Mitt Romney’s opponents capitalize on his weakness with blue-collar voters?
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In Praise of the Golden Globes
They’re more fun than the Oscars, and they pick better winners, too.
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A History of Violence
A journalist who worked for Gabrielle Giffords tries to understand her 2011 shooting.
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The Obamas
I would never assassinate anybody without talking to you first.
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What if Natalee Holloway Comes Back?
How to declare someone legally undead.
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NFL 2011
I caught Tebow fever, and I don't want to be cured.
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Project Dreamcatcher
How cutting-edge text analytics can help the Obama campaign determine voters’ hopes and fears.
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Lost on The Rock
Alcatraz delivers a mystery but could use a little light.
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ACI
A new way of measuring pretentiousness.
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Small Is Still Beautiful
The trendy—and wrong—new argument that because big businesses innovate better, we should let them become monopolies.
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“Ron Paul Is My Homeboy”
Why the candidate appeals to men under 30.
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Romney and Bain, Doctors Who Cheat On Tests, and $100,000 Bus Shelters
This week’s top MuckReads from ProPublica.
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The Head Made of Green Cheese Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about Jodi Kantor’s new book The Obamas, the New Hampshire primary, and a Supreme Court case on religious freedom in employment.
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So Much Hot Air
Negotiators achieved yet another hollow “breakthrough” in the latest round of climate talks.
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The Other Film Critic at The New Yorker
Penelope Gilliatt split reviewing duties in the 1970s with the famous Pauline Kael. Her career took a very different turn.
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Corrections
Slate's mistakes.
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- Thursday, January 12, 2012
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Compassion. Loyalty. Revenge. Money.
The real reasons political leaders grant pardons.
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Contraband
A nonsensical heist movie partially made up for by liberal Wahlberg shirtlessness.
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What Type of Clergy Get the Highest Salaries?
A priest, a rabbi, and an imam walk into a bar. Who buys the drinks?
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NFL 2011
What we can learn about football (and Bill Belichick) from "The Belestrator."
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I Said Mad Men, Not Mad Money!
Companies like Apple want to replace the TV remote with voice recognition. There’s got to be a better way.
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Not Just a Bunch of Mitt Romneys
A new survey reveals that Mormons’ beliefs aren’t always what you’d predict.
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The DoubleX Gabfest: The Kitten Calendar Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about Caitlin Flanagan’s Girl Land, Rick Santorum’s anti-abortion rhetoric, and Babyoncé.
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An Invisible Woman Taught Me German
Try this amazing and free online language course.
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Schoolgirl Fantasy
My boyfriend wants me to call him "Daddy" during sex. Gross!
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- Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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The Great Gitmo Blackout
The 10th anniversary of Guantanamo Bay and whether we should remember about forgetting.
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“The Dancingest Denomination”
How do Mormons celebrate?
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I’m Not Here To Make Friends
Google’s disastrous decision to muck up its search results with stuff from your social network.
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Fire Congress, Dump Mississippi and Alaska
How a private-equity firm would refurbish the United States for quick resale to China.
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Are You There, Are You There, Chelsea?
Chelsea Handler’s new sitcom, reviewed.
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It’s Time for the U.N. To Admit Palestine
Who won the Intelligence Squared debate, and how.
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The Truth About Epidurals
Are they really so bad?
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See No Evil
Justice Clarence Thomas rehabilitates an eyewitness who may not have seen anything.
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Girl Trouble
What Caitlin Flanagan’s new book Girl Land gets wrong about girls.
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NFL 2011
Let the Jets’ mutiny against Mark Sanchez begin.
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The Culture Gabfest, “Flexuous Brainsicle” Edition
Listen to Slate's show about House of Lies, the dangers of yoga, and the closing of Filene’s Basement.
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Encounters With Arianna
The most important moment of my career happened in the back of a town car with Arianna Huffington … and a film crew.
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The End of Cred
Rick Ross isn’t the gangster he says he is, but his fans don’t mind in the least.
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Good Enough
Romney wins solidly in New Hampshire. Will the victory finally persuade conservatives to support him?
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