Life
- Advice column: Cheating, wedding etiquette, racist children, and druggie relatives.
- NFL Playoffs 2011: Jets over Patriots, Steelers over Ravens, Packers over Falcons, Bears over Seahawks.
- Geoff Dyer on Utah.
- The ominous rise of amateur ornithology.
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua, is the Slate Audio Book Club pick for January.
- My boyfriend demands a sex act that I don't like.
- Streetcars vs. monorails: The fight for the future of urban transportation.
- Friend or Foe: Advice for a woman whose friend doesn't respect her sex addiction.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- What the Retirement Living cable channel can tell us about how the boomers are changing retirement.
- Does it make sense to start overtime with a surprise onside kick?
- How will Crystal Harris like life as Mrs. Hugh Hefner?
- Should we allow a sex offender in our home?
- The sexy faces of women eating chocolate in stock photos.
- Why my son will not be wearing a sledding helmet.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- Swords: The murder weapon of nerds.
- How to make a decent cup of tea, following George Orwell's golden rules.
- A history of the hangover.
- How do astronauts celebrate New Year's Eve? Plus, having the first baby of the year.
- My ex-wife is angry I'm having a kid after telling her I wasn't ready for parenthood. Am I a jerk?
- Champagne: It's not just for the holidays.
- The Worst Cads of 2010, from Charlie Sheen to Mel Gibson.
- A defense of "May-December" marriages like Hugh Hefner's.
- How Diana Vreeland's Allure changed fashion-speak.
- Prudie hears back from advice-seekers about how helpful her guidance turned out.
- Slate illustrated, 2010.
- Jean Shepherd, the man who told A Christmas Story.
- Kwanzaa might be made-up, but it was useful for one family.
- Hail Mary: You have more in common with the mother of Jesus than you think.
Briefing
- Pakistan earthquake FAQ.
- The Slatest: Evening Edition
- Reince Priebus is the new RNC chairman. How do you pronounce that?
- Jared Lee Loughner may plead insanity. How do mental health workers figure out whether someone is crazy?
- A Daniel Hernandez tribute: Slatereaders name the greatest interns in history.
- The latest updates to Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
- Why boys like sticks: the Explainer's 2010 question of the year.
- Jared Lee Lougher is still being called the "alleged gunman" in Arizona. Why?
- Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head, but has so far survived. How often does that happen?
- Which country has the simplest taxation system?
- Please join us for a live Political Gabfest on Jan. 12 at 7 p.m. in Washington, D.C.
- Which backyard insects are best to eat?
- Slate's iPad app now lets you save articles. And use Instapaper.
- Introducing Trending News Channel, Slate V's crowdsourced video newscast.
- Can you tell a person's race from his or her skull?
- What's so great about Israeli security?
- How do astronauts celebrate New Year's Eve? Plus, having the first baby of the year.
- What do anarchists want from us?
- Best Slate Covers 2010: Vain Senators, Obama the Antichrist and Gettysburg on a segway.
- What's life like in a Chinese leper colony?
- Slate's 10 most popular stories from 2010.
- Do dogs need sweaters when it's cold? Plus: Is road salt edible?
- A roundup of Christmas-related questions from the Explainer archives.
- How did mistletoe come to be associated with Christmas kissing?
- What happens to the money in your flex spending account if you don't spend it?
- Winter solstice is the darkest day of 2010. So why isn't December the coldest month?
- Congress voted to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Will gay soldiers who were kicked out of the military be able to re-enlist?
- Why do college students get such long winter vacations?
- What's the point of stealing $1.5 million in casino chips from the Bellagio?
- Did the Militia Act of 1792 set a precedent for Obama's health insurance mandate?
- Readers try to predict how much the New York Times will charge for an online subscription.
- Do 3-D glasses work on cats? Plus 30 more unanswered Explainer questions from 2010.
News & Politics
- Barack Obama Anonymous Novel: What if Tom Friedman or Rahm Emanuel wrote it?
- General Dynamics v. United States: The state secrets privilege at the Supreme Court.
- Pakistan earthquake FAQ.
- Herman Cain, 2012 GOP candidate for president? The Tea Party darling and pizza magnate's chances.
- Federal judges are getting older—and more often senile.
- Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution: progress or regression?
- Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution," which ousted President Ben Ali, is about demography, not democracy.
- If everything breaks right, the global economy could grow by 4 percent in 2011.
- Jared Lee Loughner may plead insanity. How do mental health workers figure out whether someone is crazy?
- A Daniel Hernandez tribute: Slatereaders name the greatest interns in history.
- Customer complaint letters: A reader contest.
- John McCain on Obama's speech: Can he return to his old bipartisan self?
- Jared Lee Loughner's Nietzsche: Why the philosopher is misunderstood by angry young men.
- John Mearsheimer's new book, Why Leaders Lie, catalogs the lies nations tell each other.
- Eisenhower's "military-industrial complex": His farewell address has been completely misunderstood.
- Jared Loughner's world of illusion.
- The Lebanese government collapsed; why you should care.
- Lebanese government collapse: The sectarian reality for Christians, Sunnis, and Shiites.
- Jared Lee Loughner was obsessed with dreams. Do crazy people have extra-crazy dreams?
- Nobel laureates have figured out the eight investments that will help the planet most. No. 1: micronutrients.
- Obama's Tucson memorial speech: How it elevated the political debate.
- The shooting of Gabrielle Giffords leaves members of Congress at a loss in more ways than one.
- What happens when Supreme Court justices try to think like criminal suspects.
- Assessing the Day 4 newspaper coverage of the Giffords shootings.
- Sarah Palin's response to the Tucson shooting is defensive, illogical, distracting—and late.
- Sarah Palin Blood Libel: Palin opposes collective blame for monsterous crimes, unless they are committed by Muslims.
- Are assassins like Jared Lee Loughner more likely to target liberals?
- How Obama can talk about tolerance without trivializing a tragedy.
- If Jared Lee Loughner is too insane to be influenced, he's too insane to be executed.
- China's new stealth fighter jet shouldn't make Americans worry.
- The Don't-Tread-on-Meter: Life after Jared Lee Loughner.
- Could Gabrielle Giffords be forced to resign for health reasons?
- Daniel Hernandez may have saved Gabrielle Giffords' life. Send us other examples of memorable interns!
- Jared Lee Lougher is still being called the "alleged gunman" in Arizona. Why?
- Jared Loughner is ready for his photo op.
- Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik is not the anti-Joe Arpaio.
- Arizona's response to the Gifford shooting: Only guns can stop gun violence.
- Why was it so hard to kick Loughner out of Pima Community College?
- Jared Loughner, Gabrielle Giffords, and the Tea Party
- Jared Loughner: Of course his actions were politically motivated.
- Mumtaz Qadri shot Salman Taseer 28 times; in Pakistan, he's a hero.
- South Sudan votes for secession, worries later.
- The individual health care mandate is a conservative concept that conservatives now say they despise. What gives?
- Mumtaz Qadri: Salman Taseer's killer has no excuse for resorting to political violence.
- Gabrielle Giffords shooting: Rep. Bob Brady shouldn't try to legislate civility.
- Kent Slinker, Jared Lee Loughner's philosophy professor, on the shooting in Arizona.
- After the Arizona shootings, can Obama—or anyone—bring America back from the brink?
- Jared Lee Loughner, Gabrielle Giffords' suspected shooter, has three names. So do lots of famous assassins. What gives?
- The awesome stupidity of the calls to tamp down political speech in the wake of the Giffords shooting.
- Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head, but has so far survived. How often does that happen?
- The Giffords Shooting: Rolling thoughts about the press, the Web, and political assassination.
- WikiLeaks and Glenn Beck show that journalism is becoming more influential—but also more reductive.
- If conservatives want to deny "anchor babies" U.S. citizenship, they'll have to change the Constitution.
- The press neither flatters nor captures Obama's new chief of staff.
- When did radio announcers start talking like Ted Williams, the homeless man with a great voice?
- A compromise on the debt ceiling and another promised-but-meaningless health care vote.
- How conservatives could inadvertently revive the public option.
- Could using less cash drive down crime?
- NPR purged Juan Williams without clear due process. Is it doing the same to Ellen Weiss?
- One year after the earthquake, Haitians wonder if international aid is keeping their country poor.
- William Daley, the president's pragmatic new chief of staff, shows the White House's new approach.
- Secretary Robert Gates' dramatic (but limited) plan to cut defense spending.
- What House Republicans left out when they read (parts of) America's founding document.
- The Senate may finally curb the filibuster. Hallelujah.
- The Don't-Tread-on-Meter: Republicans make good on two promises: trimmer federal spending and starting the repeal of health care reform
- Members of the House try to sit still for a reading of the Constitution.
- How to end the filibuster.
- Deadly Images: A Q&A with Barbie Zelizer, author of About to Die: How News Images Move the Public.
- Will John Boehner's House rules screw up the GOP?
- Vanity Fair portrays WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a shrewd negotiator and master shape-shifter.
- House Speaker John Boehner makes a big deal on his first day about being humble.
- The decline of the serial killer.
- It makes no sense to blacklist Obama adviser Gene Sperling because he worked for Goldman Sachs.
- Which backyard insects are best to eat?
- Robert Gibbs' successor as press secretary may have a lot of competition.
- The Don't-Tread-on-Meter: Tracking the promises made by and to conservative officials and activists.
- Why Republicans are better at fomenting outrage, real and pretend, than Democrats are.
- In the new House, Republicans sound like Democrats—and vice versa.
- How the Tea Party's fetish for the Constitution as written may get it in trouble.
- As the oil price rises, so does Russian belligerence.
- At an RNC debate, Michael Steele half-heartedly asks to keep his job.
- John Boehner's Michele Bachmann problem.
Arts
- Nicki Minaj, Lil B, Kanye West, Rick Ross: the triumph of the weirdo rapper.
- The slow-photography movement asks what is the point of taking pictures?
- "Lines in Memphis, Tennessee"
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg's angry, tender Heavenly Questions.
- The British film industry: What's holding it back?
- Sandra Bullock and Jesse James, Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson: Why opposites don't attract.
- Barney's Version reviewed: A bracing jolt of pure, uncut Paul Giamatti.
- Brooklyn Kinda Love: a new Playboy TV show signals the end of Brooklyn.
- Friday Night Lights: I want Julie to transfer to Northwestern.
- Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz: The secret of his genius.
- The Green Hornet reviewed: Michel Gondry, Seth Rogen, and Jay Chou attempt a superhero movie.
- Enrique Norten and architecture in the Great Recession—it's for the better.
- Ted Williams, Kate Gosselin, Susan Boyle: Why overnight celebrities get in so much trouble.
- "3 Arkonska Street"
- Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother: Her new book will make readers gasp.
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua, is the Slate Audio Book Club pick for January.
- Jonathan Watts' When A Billion Chinese Jump shows China's green revolution has barely begun.
- Herbert Katzman at the Museum of the City of New York.
- We Are Soldiers, Helmand Asault, and other recent books about the armed forces.
- Let us now praise Dwight Garner, New York Times daily book critic.
- Jesse Eisenberg, James Franco, Michelle Williams: The understated, Oscar-worthy performances of 2010.
- Elizabeth McGovern is delightful in the upstairs-downstairs drama Downton Abbey.
- Your soul is the star of the show on Oprah's new network.
- From Clangings
- Samuel Moyn's The Last Utopia traces the history of human rights policy.
- Blue Valentine, with Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, reviewed.
- How an obscure British skit has become Germany's most popular New Year's tradition.
- Why is Lady Antebellum, the world's dullest band, also one of its most popular?
Business & Tech
- A pre-existing health-conditions study says half the country is uninsurable.
- Steve Jobs' medical leave: Apple CEO is keeping the reasons for his absence private. Is that fair to investors?
- Steve Jobs' medical leave: Apple's CEO will leave the company—even if he's healthy.
- What industrial safety can teach us about preventing financial meltdowns.
- Wikipedia's 10th birthday, and what Jesus' page can tell us about it.
- Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.
- How Groupon's success could bring dozens of coupons to your inbox.
- Republicans are right: Obamacare's high-risk pools were a dumb idea. But it was their dumb idea.
- How the company that made Jared Lee Loughner's gun became so successful.
- An interactive map of 15 years of UFO sightings.
- Verizon iPhone release: Five reasons why you might want to hold off on buying one.
- Why Verizon's decision to pass on the iPhone six years ago is looking better and better.
- What is the debt ceiling, and does the United States really need one?
- Goldman Sachs' Facebook investment: Wall Street favoring the big guys.
- Just how tied in with Wall Street is the Obama administration?
- Which country has the simplest taxation system?
- The case against the Consumer Electronics Show.
- If they read their own research, economists might disclose conflicts of interest more often.
- Why couldn't the Democratic Congress conduct an ethics trial for Rep. Maxine Waters?
- The Nissan Leaf, an electric car that doesn't drive like an electric car.
- The Dave Matthews Band shows how to make money in the music industry.
Science
- Football concussions and brain damage, from high school to the NFL.
- Secondhand car seats and breast pumps: Eco-friendly tips for expecting parents.
- Misoprostol, Malta, and DIY abortions.
- Have women evolved to protect themselves from rapists?
- Gabrielle Giffords and the perils of guns: How an armed hero nearly shot the wrong man.
- Desalination: How eco-friendly is it?
- Thalidomide's comeback.
- If suspect Jared Lee Loughner has schizophrenia, would that make him more likely to go on a shooting spree in Arizona?
- The common statistical thread between psychiatric diagnosis and grad school rankings.
- When will the Gulf of Mexico finally be free of BP-spilled oil?
- How can we make pharmaceutical drugs less toxic to the environment?
- What's the greenest way to shave?
- Is grass-fed beef better for the environment?
- India is fencing off its border with Bangladesh. What will that mean for millions of potential climate refugees?
- "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the future of sexual morality.
- An evolutionary case for cannibalism.
- Why don't more Americans use their free health insurance?
- The David Epstein incest case: If homosexuality is OK, why is incest wrong?
- Who's rougher on the environment: China or India?
- Evangelical environmentalists are getting serious. Now if only they could all get along.
- How to identify a shark on a biting rampage.
- Face it: There's not much any one person can do about climate change.
- Most scientists in this country are Democrats. That's a problem.
- How should we use data to improve our lives?
- Can rich nations pay Indonesia to protect its rainforests?
- The case against peer review.
- The NASA study of arsenic-based life was fatally flawed, say scientists.
- Do real men like to cuddle?
- What's the greenest way to cook up classic holiday fare?
- What should we make of Arizona's new law for rationing organ transplants?
- Blogging the Periodic Table: Arsenic.
- Why babies need more tummy time than they're getting.
Podcasts & Video
- Hang Up and Listen on the NFL playoffs and the Sports Illustrated series "The Black Athlete: A Shameful Story."
- Dear Prudence: Smothering Friend
- The Political Gabfest for Jan. 14, 2011.
- Jared Loughner's parents, Claire Dederer's Poser, and Caitlin Flanagan's "Hazards of Duke" on this week's DoubleX Gabfest podcast.
- Downton Abbey, the censored Huckleberry Finn, and Ted Williams of the "Golden Voice" on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Slate's sports podcast on the NFL playoffs, the BCS title game, Andrew Luck, and Jim Harbaugh.
- House of hoarders.
- The Political Gabfest for Jan. 7, 2011.
- Please join us for a live Political Gabfest on Jan. 12 at 7 p.m. in Washington, D.C.
- Blue Valentine, the year in movies, and Google's Ngram database on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on the NFL playoffs, the Rose Bowl, the NHL's Winter Classic, and Allen Iverson in Turkey.
- Dear Prudence: Singalong Nuisance.
- The Political Gabfest for Dec. 31, 2010.
- 2010: The Year That Wasn't
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on the new translation of Madame Bovary.
- Video: Killer Apps With Farhad Manjoo
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Sofia Coppola's latest film, Somewhere; the best TV shows of 2010; and New Year's resolutions.
- Slate's sports podcast on the rebirth of the Knicks, college football bowl mania, and the UConn women's basketball team's place in history.
- The Coen brothers' True Grit, the case against caps lock, and the death of Captain Beefheart on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Giants-Eagles, NBA super-teams, and HBO's 24/7 Penguins Capitals.
- Dear Prudence: Holiday Ingrate
- The Political Gabfest for Dec. 17, 2010.
- Video: Up in Your Business.
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, John Boehner's crying, and holiday cards.
- Video: Motion Video Games
- Community on NBC, NASA's arsenic scandal, and The King's Speech on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on the badness of the NFC West, Jayson Werth's big contract, and ESPNW.
- The Political Gabfest for Dec. 10, 2010.
- The Culture Gabfest, "It's Not Me, It's Me" Edition
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Cam Newton, the World Cup in Qatar, LeBron James, and Tiger Woods
- Video: Up in Your Business
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the new film Burlesque, MFAs and today's writer, and Microsoft's latest gizmo Kinect.
Blogs
- Brow Beat: Slate's culture blog.
- Human Nature: Science, technology, and life.
- 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.
- XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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