Briefing
- Is there freedom of speech in China?
- The Slatest: Evening Edition
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Readers try to predict the average consumer's daily spending.
- How do Army helicopter pilots know when they've crossed into Pakistan?
- Try to predict how many seats the GOP will have in the House and Senate.
- Play Lean/Lock and test your skills as a political pundit.
- Welcome to Slate Labs: Experiments with multimedia journalism.
- What's the best way to stop a fleeing car?
- How does a travel alert affect your vacation plans?
- Rick Sanchez says Jews control the media. Is that true?
- How long has the "dumb blonde" meme been around?
- Mad Men Poll: Did Joan go through with it?
- Why is there so much anti-Muslim rhetoric in the Netherlands?
- Scientists have found an Earthlike planet. Can we go there?
- Will Mark Zuckerberg be bigger as a philanthropist or at the box office?
- Accused child molester Eddie Long is bishop of a Baptist mega-church. When did Baptists start consecrating bishops?
- Why is India in the Commonwealth?
- Why do states conduct autopsies on executed prisoners?
- Could David Letterman sue Joaquin Phoenix for using his Late Show appearance in I'm Still Here?
- The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
- Is it hard to get into Iran's revolutionary guard?
- Why are obesity rates so low in Colorado?
- Try to predict the average price of a house for August 2010.
- Why does the president have so many economic advisors?
- How can the FDA tell whether genetically modified fish are safe?
- Why isn't Brooklyn Tornado Alley?
- How did meteorologists determine whether a tornado touched down in New York City?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- What happens if you misspell a write-in vote?
- How'd golf get to be a businessman's sport?
- Where do dictators get their wardrobe inspirations?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Slate readers try to predict the price of a share of GM stock.
- How has Cuba's socialist economy weathered the recession?
- Steve Jobs tried to carry ninja stars on a plane. Do ninjas really use those?
- Could hiker Sarah Shourd really cross the border into Islamic Republic of Iran without knowing it?
- How did engineers inspect the pipeline that caused the San Bruno gas explosion?
- Does Obama actually work in the Oval Office?
- Obama economics adviser Austan Goolsbee's contributions to Slate.
- Naming practices in Nigeria.
- What's the best way to set fire to a book?
- John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, failed another parole interview. What did they ask him?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- How did Operation Iraqi Freedom turn into Operation New Dawn?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- How many uses are there for a dead body?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- George Clooney plays a professional assassin in The American. Are there full-time assassins in real life?
- How does booze extend your lifespan?
- Troy Polamalu's hair is insured for $1 million. How does body-part insurance work?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- How do you measure a crowd as big as the one at the Glenn Beck rally?
- How can the trapped Chilean miners keep from getting depressed?
- The art and science of carrying things on your head.
- Can you stop someone from posting your 911 tape?
- A roundup of questions on the salmonella outbreak.
- Why do people retire at age 65?
- Why do the Roma wander?
- Can you take a child away from an abusive parent?
- How many hurricanes? Slate readers try to predict the number of storms that will hit the United States this year.
- Newt Gingrich says Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign near the Holocaust Museum. Is that true?
- Slate's most memorable stories about Hurricane Katrina.
- Why are some pharmaceuticals so expensive?
- Is emergency food aid culturally specific?
- Is it legal to eat your cat?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Can you shoot a target of the President?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Meet Slate's new, free iPad app.
- Why do so many planes crash in Alaska?
- Robert Gates wants to eliminate 50 generals from the military. Will that save a lot of money?
- How come schools assign grades of A, B, C, D, and F—but not E?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Play Slate's new political prediction game, which tests your skill at forecasting the outcome of the midterm elections.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- What kind of orientation will Elena Kagan get as a new justice? And does she have to wear that frilly neck thing?
- Barack Obama's Facebook Feed
- The Slate Poll: Slate readers get it right on Elena Kagan's confirmation vote.
- Why is Fanta so much more popular abroad than in the United States?
- How many Americans can't swim?
- When did testicles become courageous?
- How does stoning work in Iran?
- Why there's no need for "safe departure" border checkpoints for illegal immigrants.
- The results are in: Slate readers fail miserably in predicting the date of Tony Hayward's downfall.
- How they know when a pet is overweight.
- Can praying for a dead person help get him into heaven?
- How communist is China, anyway?
- Can CIA agents marry foreigners like they do in Salt?
- Can Chinese fishermen sue over an oil spill?
News & Politics
- Is there freedom of speech in China?
- Why no one will miss Jim Jones, the departing national security adviser.
- Will the Democratic focus on first-time voters cost them control of Congress?
- The Norwegians can award the Nobel to a Chinese dissident, but the rest of the world can't afford to be so critical of China.
- The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook feed.
- Rebecca Traister, Hanna Rosin, and others on why you can't own feminism.
- What's the endgame for Obama's judicial nominees?
- New research shows precisely how the prison-to-poverty cycle does its damage.
- Students and teachers photograph the best—and worst—places in their schools.
- American classrooms are outdated. Slate seeks your great ideas for how to modernize them.
- Harry Reid pleads with Nevadans to remember all the good deeds he's done.
- The 60 Plus Association's conservative message isn't new, but its wealth is.
- How do Army helicopter pilots know when they've crossed into Pakistan?
- A solution for the troubled prosecution of Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani.
- What the Mexican press can learn from the Colombian experience.
- Is it wrong to compare 9/11 to an Israeli settler's slaughter of Muslims?
- Staring at North Korea from Dandong, China.
- The Westboro Baptist Church politely shows the court how to be rude.
- How much has the Citizens United case changed campaign finance in 2010?
- What's the best way to stop a fleeing car?
- How the military's shift to renewable fuel could lower the entire nation's energy costs.
- How does a travel alert affect your vacation plans?
- What marriage counseling can teach liberals and conservatives.
- The skeevy business of payday loans.
- Rick Sanchez says Jews control the media. Is that true?
- How conservative critics of conservatism are explaining the conservative comeback.
- Neither Richard Blumenthal nor Linda McMahon did much in their debate to woo undecided voters.
- Supreme Court case: Can a man exonerated of capital murder sue the prosecutor who convicted him?
- With a month to go before the election, how do Slate readers' political predictions compare with the pros?
- Examining the Democratic claim that the race is tightening.
- Is it so offensive to note the effectiveness of the Jewish lobby?
- The State Department's vague security warnings to Americans in Europe do more harm than good.
- How the Roberts Court disguises its conservatism.
- The right's favorite scare word is "elitism." What does it mean?
- Why is there so much anti-Muslim rhetoric in the Netherlands?
- The Washington Post and New York Times pour sugar all over Pete Rouse.
- Democrats hope the Republican battle for 2012 begins now.
- How Citizens United's latest movie, Battle for America, tries to motivate conservative voters.
- The New York Times wheels out a bogus-trend story about fashionable women on bicycles.
- Accused child molester Eddie Long is bishop of a Baptist mega-church. When did Baptists start consecrating bishops?
- Responses to President Obama's call to "buck up" define the Democratic mood.
- How does the German government calculate the cost of a decent life? By saying no to booze and cigarettes.
- Should Jews build a synagogue near a site of Jewish terrorism?
- Why liberals will be glad to see Rahm Emanuel go.
- A new calculation makes it harder to deny the 30-year income-inequality trend.
- Why is India in the Commonwealth?
- A Way Out of Afghanistan?
- Take a gander at the pathetic ad campaigns magazines and newspapers are running to promote their industries.
- President Obama tries to push Democratic voters out of their seats.
- Wisconsin DA Ken Kratz's "sexts" were predatory.
- China succeeds by behaving more like a multinational company than a global superpower.
- Why income distribution can't be crowd-sourced.
- A press scholar explains how the New York Times op-ed page got started.
- Why don't Americans worry about how an understaffed federal bench is hazardous to their health?
- Tragedy at the Virginia Quarterly Review.
- Men like Bishop Eddie Long are fouling the legacy of the civil rights movement.
- How political operatives get us to believe the worst about their opponents.
- Weekend update: The Wall Street Journal remakes its Saturday edition.
- Will Sarah Palin's power hold through to the general election?
- The press joins the Drug Enforcement Administration's public-relations campaign.
- Could David Letterman sue Joaquin Phoenix for using his Late Show appearance in I'm Still Here?
- Why the Fox News suit against Robin Carnahan's campaign is bogus.
- Images of the anti-Obama T-shirts and posters from this month's Tea Party protest in Washington.
- Socialism, masturbation, and Christine O'Donnell.
- Did JFK really win because he looked better on television?
- Will the Republicans' "Pledge to America" help then win over independents?
- Is it hard to get into Iran's revolutionary guard?
- Len Downie calls Arianna Huffington a parasite. She calls him a schoolyard intimidator.
- The D.A. who charged the defendants in the Phoebe Prince bullying case will be out of office when the trials begin.
Arts
- Mind if I put this grenade between your thighs?
- Is the Facebook movie sexist?
- Why we love Secretariat.
- Bio-pics of John Lennon and Secretariat make an oddly fitting pairing.
- Why art books won't become e-books any time soon.
- Nobel-prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa's The Bad Girl.
- MoMA's massive new Abstract Expressionism show will change the way you think about the movement.
- Old folks love Tom Selleck's family of cops.
- Mad Men, Season 4: Stan's good side.
- The Facebook Movie Facebook Feed: the story behind The Social Network.
- A new DVD of The Thin Red Line suggests Terrence Malick is as much a mystery to his actors and crew as he is to us.
- "Seven Octets"
- Emma Donoghue's amazing ventriloquism in Room.
- The school reform documentary Waiting for "Superman" is urgent, heartbreaking, and incomplete.
- The curious history of chain letters.
- How the couple behind the Idiots books really collaborate.
- Mark Zuckerberg gets portrayed as a joyless dweeb in The Social Network.
- What The Social Network gets wrong about Harvard—and Facebook.
- The alternate reality of Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network.
- My life with Liberace.
- My parents may have been swingers.
- Law & Order goes to L.A. and to England.
- "The World of Khubilai Khan" at the Met.
- "Doggy Heaven"
- Wrestling legend Mick Foley explains how Tori Amos changed his life.
- No Ordinary Family leaves no cliche unbounded.
- SUPERSTAR Rajinikanth!: The biggest movie star you've probably never heard of.
- Philip Roth's Nemesis explores the perils of decency.
- The Event
- How "Howl" changed the world.
- When Allen Ginsberg was a cute, soulful gay boy.
- A nostalgic review of Troop Beverly Hills.
- Michael Douglas returns as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street 2.
Life
- A Civil War road trip.
- My husband is too close to his best male friend.
- Confessions of a used-book salesman.
- Advice for a woman whose friend is a bigot.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on the MLB playoffs, the Ryder Cup, Australian Rules Football, and lowering the rim in women's hoops.
- Prudie chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- The bizarre, sad tale of Togo's fake national soccer team.
- Jeff's take on his platonic friendship with Juliet.
- Shopping for the most expensive possible dinner for two at Whole Foods.
- What happens to cross-sex friendships in adulthood?
- Why the very concept of male-female friendship makes people uncomfortable.
- How do you and your partner manage your finances? Slate wants to hear from you.
- My parents may have been swingers.
- Before the 20th century, friendship was single-sex.
- Can men and womenreally be friends?
- How to give your old shoes new life by donating them to charity.
- In Hollywood movies, men and women are never "just friends."
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- The origins of the term "platonic friendship."
- Jeff & Juliet: The story of a platonic friendship.
- What to do about the rising U.S. hunger and poverty statistics.
- Is the "natural wine" movement anything more than a marketing ploy?
- I was bullied by a teacher. How can I stop her reign of terror?
- What does Tide's Loads of Hope program actually do?
- Inside the bizarre tourist trade at Harlem's Sunday church services.
- Does my best friend prefer her iPhone to me?
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- England's greatest soccer teams and American owners, a match made in hell.
- Am I hurting my local public schools—and hurting America—by sending my kids to expensive private schools?
- How'd golf get to be a businessman's sport?
- The centuries-long controversy over Yom Kippur's Kol Nidre.
- My daughter's fiance has done sexually inappropriate things to me.
- How to ensure that your contributions to Pakistani flood relief go to the right place.
- Taste-testing the Fuddruckers elk burger.
- We're all scandal addicts now. And that's a good thing.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- In defense of Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds, jaywalkers, and all the other scofflaws that make America great.
- NFL 2010: I still love football, but I'm no longer a football fan.
- Photographs of flags from the aftermath of 9/11.
- My fiance's ex gave us an exorbitant engagement gift. Should we keep it?
- Roger Clemens, James Frey, and the thrill of watching the overly ambitious fall.
- Why a series of Indian actresses have been arrested for prostitution.
- How to volunteer in a community garden.
- My vacation at a nudist camp.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- Will the great American rabbi please stand up?
- Advice for a woman whose friend has a crush on her husband.
- The case against long-distance relationships.
- I changed my mind and now want to have a child, but my husband won't hear of it.
- How the original Preppy Handbook changed my life.
- The sports media celebrate Kevin Durant for being someone he isn't.
- My husband is finally home from his deployment to Iraq.
- What's with all the celebrities sentenced to community service? Do they really help anyone?
- The bliss of an 18-month, paid, Swedish paternity leave.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
Business & Tech
- Readers try to predict the average consumer's daily spending.
- Can the government recall a book?
- Things you post on Facebook have a way of reaching more people than you want. Now the site has a solution.
- The dangers of USB drives.
- How an ecology app for sharing nature photos built a community—and became a business.
- Does unemployment make us sick?
- What's better than Wi-Fi? Super Wi-Fi!
- Why did Columbia's Campus Network lose out to Harvard's Facebook?
- The strange but inevitable rise of pornography for the Amazon Kindle.
- Will Mark Zuckerberg be bigger as a philanthropist or at the box office?
- Why I won't stop writing about Apple and Google.
- Does knowing your colleagues' salaries make you happy or disgruntled?
- The egg producers most responsible for the salmonella outbreak face the klieg lights.
- What I've learned in eight years of covering business for Slate.
- Why the small business jobs bill won't create that many jobs.
- Try to predict the average price of a house for August 2010.
- At Elizabeth Warren's debut, a spotlight on incomprehensible mortgage disclosures.
- The troubling disappearance of salesmen and how it helps explain America's economic woes.
Science
- Should you crowdsource your medical problems?
- An oncologist who's had breast cancer considers the problematic phrase "cancer survivor."
- Experimentation, orgasms, and the rise of anal sex.
- Is it really possible to waste water?
- Webcams, sex, and the death of privacy.
- Scientists have found an Earthlike planet. Can we go there?
- Inviting raffish scientists to the party.
- Does male menopause actually exist?
- Do animals masturbate?
- Explore geoengineering's most interesting strategies with Slate's interactive guide.
- What will happen when geoengineering comes to Washington?
- Geoengineering promises simple answers in a complicated world.
- Rep. Bart Gordon on the policy implications of geoengineering.
- Why are obesity rates so low in Colorado?
- Why we shouldn't buy into geoengineering fantasies.
- Weather as a weapon: The troubling history of geoengineering.
- Could an obscure international treaty protect developing countries from geoengineering gone wrong?
- Geoengineering might sound crazy, but it's worth talking about.
Podcasts & Video
- The Political Gabfest for Oct. 8, 2010.
- Slate's DoubleX editors discuss the new novel Freedom.
- Video: Up in Your Business
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Twitter activism, Law & Order Los Angeles and Civil War tourism.
- Video: Fighting AIDS: An Oral History
- Dear Prudence: Always a bridesmaid … literally!
- The Political Gabfest for Oct. 1, 2010.
- Video: Introducing "Up in Your Business"
- Slate V: Killer Apps.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on The Social Network, Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel, and the new NBC sitcom Outsourced.
- Cash-ocracy in America.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Michael Vick, Ken Burns' The Tenth Inning, Joe Torre, and Australian Rules Football's grand final.
- Keep Your Hands to Yourself: A weekly Dear Prudence video.
- Video: Sally Quinn interviews Slate columnist Christopher Hitchens.
- The Political Gabfest for Sept. 24, 2010.
- The DoubleX Gabfest on Christine O'Donnell, Rebecca Traister's Big Girls Don't Cry, and Susan Faludi.
- Try to predict how many seats the GOP will have in the House and Senate.
- Video: Making your own beer at home is hard work but totally worthwhile.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Boardwalk Empire, Catfish, and creative collaboration.
- Dear Prudence: Cat-calling creeps.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Troy Tulowitzki, Ines Sainz, and Derek Jeter.
- Video: Christopher Hitchens won't attend a prayer day in his honor.
- Our critics discuss Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story.
- The Political Gabfest for Sept. 17, 2010.
- The Culture Gabfest endorses The Room.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the VMAs, Machete and adult ads on Craigslist.
- Pop Tarts: Not Just for a Lazy Breakfast Anymore
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Kevin Durant, Calvin Johnson's non-catch, and the U.S. Open.
- The Political Gabfest for Sept. 10, 2010.
- DoubleX Gabfest on the gender pay gap, Franzenfreude, and women on SNL.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on The American,income inequality, and the British phone-hacking scandal.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Boise State, the new NFL season, and football tailgating.
- The Political Gabfest for Sept. 3, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the Emmys, True Prep, and the songs of summer 2010.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Stephen Strasburg, Albert Pujols and Glenn Beck, and the Madden video-game series.
- The Political Gabfest for Aug. 27, 2010.
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on Sarah Palin's endorsement power, palliative care, and Jennifer Aniston's rom-com woes.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on twentysomethings, The Expendables, and Arcade Fire's latest.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Brett Favre, Roger Clemens, baseball finances, and legendary broadcaster Vin Scully.
- The Political Gabfest for Aug. 20, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Eat Pray Love, academic tenure, and the Starbucks bagel standoff.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on the PGA Championship, Hard Knocks, the World Basketball Championships, and tie games.
- Our critics discuss Tom Rachman's The Imperfectionists.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, spoilers, and Tony Judt.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on the National Scrabble Championship, A-Rod's 600th homer, golf's statistical revolution, and Friday Night Lights.
- The Political Gabfest for Aug. 6, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on The Real Housewives of Washington D.C., literary agent Andrew Wylie's big bet on e-books, and the new FX comedy Louie.
- The Political Gabfest for July 30, 2010.
- Listen to Slate's DoubleX gabfest on 12th & Delaware, Chelsea Clinton's wedding, and only children.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Angelina Jolie's Salt, Comic-Con and Mad Men.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on agents in college sports, Major League Baseball's "year of the pitcher," and Jeremy Lin.
- The Political Gabfest for July 23, 2010.
- The Culture Gabfest, "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" Edition
- Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen, for the week of July 19, 2010.
- Our critics discuss Bret Easton Ellis's Imperial Bedrooms.
- The Political Gabfest for July 16, 2010.
- Video: Slate readers' best and wildest ideas on how to fix our cities.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on The Kids Are All Right, Jezebel vs. The Daily Show, and the art of authenticating a masterpiece
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 12, 2010.
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on a Pew gender equality study, the New York cover story about why parents are unhappy, and The Real L Word.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on great writers under 40, Liz Phair's latest single, and Robert Christgau's last Consumer Guide column.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 6, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for July 2, 2010.
Blogs
- Brow Beat: Slate's culture blog.
- Human Nature: Science, technology, and life.
- Kausfiles: A mostly political Weblog.
- Moneyblog: A blog about business, finance, and economics.
- Procrastinate Better: Slate's guide to consuming culture.
- Scocca: A blog about politics, sport, media, stuff.
- Weigel: Reporting about politics and policy.
- The Wrong Stuff: What it means to make mistakes.
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