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Today's Doonesbury
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The Explainer
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Conversations With Slate
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Conversations With Slate
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Conversations With Slate
Author Michael Lewis on why Moneyball almost wasn't made into a movie.
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Conversations With Slate
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The Slate Book Review
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Mad Men
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Where Are the Champions?
An interactive map of every championship in the history of the MLB, NBA, NHL, and NFL.
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The Crisis in American Walking
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Death in Yellowstone
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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 Exoneration of Bennett Barbour
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Where’s _why?
What happened when one of the most unusual, beloved programmers disappeared.
By Annie Lowrey
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The Conversion
How, when, and why Mitt Romney changed his mind on abortion.
By William Saletan
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The Greatest Paper Map of the U.S.
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Slate Writers on Facebook and Twitter
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TOP STORIES
- Thursday, May 10, 2012
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After Further Review
Why concussion lawsuits won’t bring an end to football.
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How Bad Was Mitt Romney’s Prep School Bullying?
Did this kind of thing happen all the time, or should he have known better? Or both?
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Exploring Family History in Words and Pictures
An interview with Alison Bechdel.
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How Do You Start A Small Business That Works?
We need your help to pick the 10 best rules for entrepreneurial success.
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Mommie Dearest
Dear Prudence offers Mother’s Day advice about undermined looks, competitive gift-giving, and poison.
- Wednesday, May 9, 2012
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His Evolution Is Our Evolution
Why gay people see themselves in President Obama.
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Gay Marriage, Black Voters
Why Obama is able to endorse gay marriage in a way a white Democratic president couldn’t.
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The Wisconsin Rematch
The state’s Democrats have the fight they want against Gov. Scott Walker, but they can’t like their odds.
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The Audacity of Evolution
Obama could blame Biden for forcing the timing of his support for gay marriage, but he really should thank him.
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Then Comes Marriage
How gay marriage went from the fringe to the White House.
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What Do Limp Wrists Have To Do With Gay Men?
Ask the Romans.
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Mad Men Style: Is Beth Dawes a Dark Betty Draper?
The ghost of Betty’s clothes hovers over this week’s episode.
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The Concussion Panic
Why are we so convinced that football head injuries lead to suicide?
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I Ditched Google for a Week
Is it possible to survive on the Internet using Bing and only Bing?
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The President’s Gift
What Obama’s personal support for gay marriage means for the law.
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America’s War on Tourists
Foreign visitors are a goldmine for the U.S. economy, so why do we make it so hard for them to get here?
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War Is a Long, Messy Hell
And it’s more important than ever that we try to prevent it in the first place.
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Why Washington Can’t Be Fixed
And is about to get a lot worse.
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The Culture Gabfest, “Wild Rumpus” Edition
Maurice Sendak, art market economics, and the phenomenon of hate-watching.
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Machines Shouldn’t Grade Student Writing—Yet
Standardized tests will finally ask good essay questions. But robot grading threatens that progress.
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“Wield a More Subversive Sword!”
Writing advice from the scabrously funny, theatrically kvetchy, lovingly profane Maurice Sendak.
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College Football Should Be Banned
How Malcolm Gladwell and Buzz Bissinger won the Slate/Intelligence Squared live debate on May 8.
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All Churned Around
How buttermilk lost its butter.
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- Tuesday, May 8, 2012
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Fat Chances
How accurate are obesity predictions?
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The Crackdown on the Kosher King
No one is saying Sholom Rubashkin was a good guy. But did the government and the judge go too far in bringing him to justice?
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How Wild Was the Work of Maurice Sendak?
Do his books celebrate wildness—or teach us to master it?
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Saying No to Social Networking
Is it possible to opt out without being labeled a weirdo?
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Can You Really Make Clouds Whiter and More Reflective?
Scientists are getting there, and it might be the one of the best ways to fight climate change.
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Master of Terror
Maurice Sendak understood that children need to be terrified.
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Twilight of the Moderates
An early obituary for Sen. Richard Lugar, brought to you by the Tea Party.
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Mad Men, Season 5
How do we know Pete's actually good at his job?
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The Power of the Petition
How the effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker could swing the 2012 presidential election.
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Smoothie Operator
The Jamba Juice that sold turkey sandwiches, and other rogues of the franchise world.
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Sodom and Greensboro
Vote for North Carolina’s amendment to ban gay marriage, or God will strike you dead.
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Kale of Duty
Why I choose to eat nothing but kale, ever, for the rest of my life.
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What Will Become of the Paper Book?
How their design will evolve in the age of the Kindle.
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Lucrezia Borgia’s Hair and Forgotten Names
Walter Savage Landor can write a memorable poem about almost anything.
- Monday, May 7, 2012
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Romney’s Secret Relationship With Voters
His campaign says Mitt meets with middle-class Americans all the time. They would tell us more, but it’s strictly hush-hush.
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Hang Up and Listen: The Brains and Brawn Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on Junior Seau’s suicide, the morality of horse racing, and Mariano Rivera.
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Why Parrots Parrot
When birds mimic human speech, do they know what they’re saying?
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Sylvia Plath in Mad Men
Julia Turner chats with readers about "Lady Lazarus."
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Francois Hollande: “France Isn’t Just Any Country”
France’s new president talks about Obama, Europe’s economy, and whether he is afraid of Angela Merkel.
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Was Paul’s Boutique Illegal?
How dumb court decisions and bad laws have made it all but impossible for musicians to sample the way the Beastie Boys used to.
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Pink Slime Is Just the Beginning
A ProPublica roundup of the best investigative reporting on food processing and safety.
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Marco Rubio Is Experienced
Just not in the way that Romney says a vice president should be.
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We Still Need To Save the Rain Forests
Biodiversity efforts are often targeted toward saving cute animals. But the real problem is disappearing forests, wetlands, and mangroves.
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Get Rid of College Football (But Keep the NFL)
Why Buzz Bissinger will argue that college football should be banned at the Slate/Intelligence Squared live debate on May 8 in New York City.
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Dear Prudence: Boyfriend Too Kinky?
A weekly Dear Prudence video.
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Mad Men, Season 5
Megan's departure is no mere fly in the Cool Whip.
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The Mad Men Scorecard: Roger Makes His Move!
Who cheats the most? Whose bedpost needs more notches? Tally the conquests of Don, Peggy, Roger, and more on Slate’s interactive guide to Mad Men romance.
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How English Lost Its Genders
Listen to Slate’s show about how a simple quirk of grammar may affect the way we think.
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Alexis Bledel Talks Mad Men
The Gilmore Girls actress on her unstable character and Pete Campbell’s confused passion.
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Europe’s Extremists on the March
Many of the parties winning across the continent have one thing in common: They want to withdraw from the world.
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Help! My Shrink Tried To Friend Me
Doctors with bad social media etiquette.
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Laboratory Confidential
Should scientists be more forthcoming about their flaws?
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- Sunday, May 6, 2012
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The Longform Guide to Restaurants
The mania of David Chang, the secret to McDonald’s fries, how to bribe a maitre d’—great stories about the restaurant business.
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- Saturday, May 5, 2012
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Hope, Change, and Fear
President Obama launches his re-election campaign.
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Hilary Mantel’s Heart of Stone
A brilliant follow-up to Wolf Hall from an author whose anger “would rip a roof off.”
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A Mother Is a Story With Neither Beginning Nor End
Alison Bechdel’s follow-up to Fun Home examines her difficult relationship with her difficult mom.
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“How Could He Possibly Have a Nose Left?”
Wine-tasting with Jay McInerney.
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Your Breasts Are Trying To Kill You
A smart new history takes boobs seriously.
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You Are Very Cold, and This Feels Like an Adventure
A hair-raising self-published novel of an epically bad love affair.
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Walking and Talking
Gideon Lewis-Kraus went on a pilgrimage with Tom Bissell. Only one of them wrote a book about it.
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The Critic as Memoirist
Jonathan Lethem’s new book on Talking Heads is the latest entry in an exciting new hybrid form.
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When I’m Sixty, More
Boomers grow old in country homes, and Anna Quindlen is on it.
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The Defense Never, Ever Rests
A wildly overstuffed debut about a Manhattan public defender, empanadas, girls in hats, and the perfect crime.
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The Bewildering Art of the Air Kiss
An expatriate's memoir explains how this is no longer your parents’ Paris.
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Organized Noise
A debut novel attempts to visually represent the music inside its hero’s head.
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Announcing the Return of the Audio Book Club
In June we’ll be discussing Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel.
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Richard Feynman vs. Robot Wernher von Braun
The Manhattan Projects imagines a World War II won—or maybe lost—by paranormal research.
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The Yankees From Both Sides of the Plate
Two new books paint very different pictures of the House That Ruth Built.
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Oh My, That’s Not What I Thought You Had Up There
Alex MacLean’s Up on the Roof peeks in on NYC’s most mysterious (and underutilized) spaces.
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The Fox and the Farmer, Junior Seau’s Death, and the Snake Eaters
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
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- Friday, May 4, 2012
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The Libertarian (Ever) Hopeful
When Ron Paul fails, Gary Johnson will be waiting in the wings.
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Should We Ship American Coal to China?
The brewing fight over the construction of Pacific Coast coal ports could determine the health of an industry—and the planet.
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Islamo-Foolish
Why Bin Laden missed Bush’s “war on terror.”
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An Ounce of Prevention ...
It’s harder for poor countries to respond to natural disasters. We should help them be better prepared before hurricanes and earthquakes strike.
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France’s Turn for the Worse
On Sunday, France will elect a new president. But Europe’s far right has already won.
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Exit Sandman
A torn ACL may have ended Mariano Rivera’s career. Why are ACL injuries so common?
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Is Horse Racing Immoral?
How we should think about deaths on the racetrack.
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First Position
Like Spellbound, but about a ballet competition.
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The Mint Julep
A complicated refreshment best consumed cold, in a silver goblet, while wearing your second best seersucker jacket.
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The I’m Not David Plotz Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, the anniversary of Osama Bin Laden’s death, and Tim Noah’s book, The Great Divergence.
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The Sarah Palin Defense Strategy
George Zimmerman’s lawyer is using social media like a pro.
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Reflections of a Terrorist
Osama Bin Laden’s documents show him grappling with the moral and political failure of terrorism.
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Ruffians, Pickpockets, and Jewel Fences
What was crime-fighting actually like in Sherlock Holmes-era London?
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Obama’s Tough Nut To Crack
John Dickerson and Dave Weigel talk with readers about the start of the general election campaign.
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Elementary, My Dear Viewer
Steven Moffat and Benedict Cumberbatch explain what makes PBS’s Sherlock tick.
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I (Robot) Thee Wed
Researchers claim robot-human marriage is in our future. But is our society really headed in that direction?
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Corrections
Slate's mistakes.
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