Science
- How bugs and virus help children develop immunity.
- Five recycling stumpers.
- Climate scientists are getting a little too angry for their own good.
- How can doctors practice medicine safely without compromising on care?
- What's the environmental impact of my period?
- Why the experimental label should be removed from egg freezing.
- Slate wants your best ideas for how to live a cheaper, more energy-efficient life.
- Rep. Eric Massa tickled his staff. Is that normal?
- Let's give contraceptive researchers their due.
- Science won't tell us what to do about climate change, but it can make the controversy worse.
- A baby starves to death while its parents play online.
- Are most emergency room visits really unnecessary?
- Some tips for understanding the war on child obesity.
- How toxic is dry cleaning?
- The selective crusade against black women's abortions.
- Our long, troubled relationship with whales—the largest, oldest, most mysterious creatures on the planet.
- Did we save the whales or what?
- Readers solve the problem of oversize air travelers.
- DNA testing makes it easy to find the identity of anonymous sperm donors.
- Readers debate the problem of oversized air travelers.
Briefing
- Why the U.S. wants to build a Marine Corps base in Guam.
- The Slatest: Afternoon Edition
- Frequently asked questions about the health care reform bill.
- Can Congress punish the member who shouted "baby killer" at Bark Stupak?
- Slate's Whipometer: The leader of the anti-abortion holdouts is mollified. Passage is nearly certain.
- Jesse James' alleged mistress is a "tattoo model." What does that mean?
- How to become the Senate parliamentarian.
- How the Congressional Budget Office figures out the cost of the health care reform bill.
- Can you get in trouble for not filling out your Census form?
- Can the pope be fired?
- An interactive map of how every story in the news is related, updated daily.
- Why is it called "March Madness"?
- An infant saw her parents murdered in Ciudad Juárez. Will it affect her?
- The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook Feed.
- If a NASCAR driver died in a crash, would the racer who caused it be liable?
- What does whale taste like?
- Do newspapers ever correct a speaker's broken English?
- Health insurance in Theodore Roosevelt's America.
News & Politics
- Politico, the Atlantic,and the iffy memo they rushed to publish.
- What the Republicans can learn from Britain's Conservative Party.
- Was the bipartisan health-care summit a fraud?
- Rep. Bart Stupak, at the heart of health care and abortion.
- WTF Did Biden Just Say? A brief history of bad language in Washington.
- How and when will we know whether health care reform worked?
- The Supreme Court must decide whether five minus three equals three.
- What New York Times columnist Ross Douthat misses about fringe thinkers.
- Tear down the wall of silence in the Roman Catholic Church.
- Inside Pyongyang, the North Korean chain with restaurants across Asia.
- The GOP's risky plan to run against health care reform.
- Student loan reform's lessons for health care reform.
- Obama and Democrats gamble on health care.
- Slate's Whipometer: After 14 months, the Democrats pass their flagship legislation.
- Scenes from the Capitol in the final showdown over health care reform.
- Why did Bart Stupak hold out for a meaningless executive order?
- Bill Clinton stands in for President Obama at the Gridiron dinner.
- Israel and liberal Jews are moving apart.
- Let's trade with Iran. After all, Iranians love to shop, and Americans love to sell.
- The author of the "torture memos" loves a good fight way more than a good debate.
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- Is the Afghan army in danger of growing too strong?
- What's in the health care reform bill's final draft.
- The tricks Congress uses to get better CBO scores for their legislation.
- A federal court rebukes a district attorney who cracked down on three girls over seminude photos.
- Has Obama turned against Israel? The charge is ludicrous.
- The San Francisco Chronicle takes the honor for the worst "pharm party" story ever.
- By shaming the Israelis, Obama has hurt American interests in the Middle East.
- Slate Editor David Plotz and Daily Caller Editor Tucker Carlson chatted about health care, Israel, and Tiger Woods. Read the transcript.
- Insurance companies deny fertility treatment coverage to unmarried women.
- House Democrats are worried the Senate won't survive "vote-a-rama."
- What's wrong with the Washington Post op-ed page?
- The unfathomable Supreme Court penchant for talking politics.
- How do you get an apartment in East Jerusalem?
- Ginni Thomas brings the Tea Party to the Supreme Court.
- More regulation won't fix Wall Street, but a shareholder revolution will.
- Britain and America both have center-left leaders, but the two nations are further apart than ever.
- Health reform's virgin birth.
- Big Breitbart: Andrew Breitbart is messing with you.
- How Stupak's stubbornness may lead to more abortions.
- The pope's entire career has the stench of evil about it.
- Your vote on health care is more important than your re-election.
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- The Republicans' mistreatment of Sen. Robert Byrd in their fight against health care reform.
- What would happen if people just refused to buy health insurance even if a law ordered them to?
- Please, Mr. Denton, will you restore full-text RSS feeds to Gawker Media?
- How House Democrats can pass health care reform without voting for the health care bill.
- John Roberts' nonpartisan attack on presidential partisanship.
- Will health reform's first political casualty be Mitt Romney?
- Slate Editor David Plotz and Daily Caller Editor Tucker Carlson chatted about Eric Massa, the al-Qaida 7, and "Jihad Jane." Read the transcript.
- The bizarre religious roots of the abortion tweeter.
- Why aren't Republicans raising holy hell about Obamacare's payroll tax hike?
- Rahm Emanuel can thank the president for the attention he's getting.
- The bogus Republican claim that Obamacare is a government takeover of one-sixth of the economy.
- Germany is tired of paying Europe's bills.
- History reveals a centuries-long authority to regulate guns. Shouldn't that matter?
- A nasty attempt to coerce Danish newspapers into apologizing for the cartoons of Muhammad.
- The dead end of Obama's no-nukes dream?
- Eight reasons why the health-insurance industry should change its position and support reform.
- How Obama can get behind the idea of limited government.
- Liz Cheney says terrorists have no rights. Also, you're a terrorist.
- The Catholic Church interferes with a rival doctrine: the U.S. Senate's.
- The March 7 election is a test of the permanence of the division between Iraq's Sunnis and Shiites.
- A look at the everyday lives of Iraqi refugees in Jordan.
- Obama held only one health care event in his first four months in office?
- Why pledges to "clean up Washington" never work.
- The Senate bill doesn't fund abortions. Here's why Stupak thinks it does.
- Slate Editor David Plotz and Daily Caller Editor Tucker Carlson chatted about Charles Rangel, David Paterson and health care reform. Read the transcript.
- Obama and Romney say the same thing about health care reform.
- Nuclear policy matters, but the Nuclear Posture Review doesn't.
- What does a congressional "whip" actually do?
- Courts should offer domestic violence victims mediation for a divorce.
- A former military interrogator unearths the errors and fear-mongering in Marc Thiessen's Courting Disaster.
- Obama's end game for passing health care reform.
- What the president's health reform letter really means.
- Bogus trend story of the week: The Wall Street Journal discovers a zillion playwrights writing for TV!
- The mathematics of a reconciliation health reform bill.
- Is there any relationship between the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti?
- The Supreme Court tosses a bad ruling in Kiyemba v. Obama.
- Chile will survive the earthquake because its democracy works.
- Chile survived its huge earthquake relatively well. Iran would be a different story.
- Can a family court prevent a parent from taking his daughter to church?
- Searching for Saddam: Why social network analysis hasn't led us to Osama Bin Laden.
- Obama and Republicans seemed reasonable. That's bad news for Democrats.
- Maybe America's ruling class isn't frightened enough to create health reform.
- The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
- Did Amy Bishop kill because of workplace discrimination?
- The GOP says it's too humble to support comprehensive health reform.
- Searching for Saddam: Closing in on the "Fat Man."
- Why the GOP's current brand of hypocrisy is worse than the Democrats'.
Arts
- Lost: Why Richard wants to live forever.
- The Sabbath World: Everyone's least favorite subject: rules and why we need them.
- Avatar fans are learning how to speak Na'vi.
- Why are professors at Harvard, Duke, and Middlebury teaching courses on David Simon's The Wire?
- Dancing With the Stars debuts in all its glory.
- "The Witch and Macduff Exit My Neighbor's House"
- The Runaways reviewed.
- Pavement's Quarantine the Past reviewed.
- Greenberg reviewed.
- The Pavement reunion and the end of baby boomer cultural hegemony.
- Why do we put up with the narcissists and misanthropes who populate Noah Baumbach films like Greenberg?
- Idol vs. the Rolling Stones.
- Why omega males are cropping up in TV and movies like Greenberg.
- Lost: Sweet mother of God.
- The complete Walker, Texas Ranger, starring Chuck Norris, reviewed.
- Before the tabloids, there were ballads like "The Cruel Mother."
- Ira Berlin's The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations.
- Bong Joon-Ho's new film, Mother, is terrific.
- All the news from American Idol.
- The Green Zone reviewed.
- Diane Ravitch's The Death and Life of the Great American School System.
- Tinsley Mortimer's new reality show, High Society.
- Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and why we're still fascinated by the Bauhaus.
- "Wait"
- Oscars Dialogue: Gather ye Ringwalds.
- A dissection of John Gottman's love lab.
- Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Johnny Depp's latest adventure in gender-bending.
- How Slate readers fared in predicting the Oscars.
- Martha Nussbaum's From Disgust to Humanity.
- What Slate's writers and editors said about the Oscar telecast.
- Slate on the 82nd annual Academy Awards.
- Jason Reitman's Up in the Air has nothing to say about America in 2009.
- Alice in Wonderland reviewed: Don't follow Tim Burton down this rabbit hole.
- How to understand late-period Steve Martin.
- A review of a new graphic novel based on the pornographic Story of O.
- Jenny Woolf's The Mystery of Lewis Carroll.
- Tarantino will win best picture, if history can be believed.
- 12 movies that pandered to the academy but didn't even get a nomination.
- An aggregated list of expert Oscar predictions.
- "Playing With Pictures," at the Met.
- Why do filmmakers like Joel and Ethan Coen use pseudonyms?
- Leno returns to the Tonight Show.
- Revisiting A Serious Man, the most puzzling of the best-picture nominees.
- A conversation with The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow.
- The four rules of action movies that The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow breaks every time.
- Why you've never really heard the "Moonlight" Sonata.
- "Hydrangea"
- Books, music, and movies Slate writers recommend.
- Joanna Newsom's Have One on Me, reviewed.
- Sam Lipsyte's The Ask.
- Kell on Earth star Kelly Cutrone's secret spiritual side.
Life
- The great baseball card bubble.
- Advice for a woman who is worried her friend is a little too close to her guy.
- My brief, booty-shaking gig as a bar mitzvah motivational dancer.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- With Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican is finally taking a hard line on child abuse.
- Why young women are showing off their shopping sprees in online videos called "hauls."
- Can I plant some vegetables in the vacant lot nearby?
- Crossing the Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2.
- Joslyn James' secret text messages to Tiger Woods.
- The dilemma of suicidal college students.
- Should I tell my classmate his grandfather molested me?
- Junk economics and the NCAA tournament effect.
- St. Patrick: No snakes. No shamrocks. Just the facts.
- Is "voluntourism" all it's cracked up to be?
- Kentucky's John Calipari is the sleaziest coach in a sleazy game.
- How to win your NCAA pool: Pick Duke, and act like a hedge-fund manager.
- Searching for the best online tax-prep service on the market.
- Slate wants your best ideas for how to live a cheaper, more energy-efficient life.
- Good wines for under $10.
- How to land a plane on a highway.
- Why I hate wedding Web sites.
- Could GPS create a world without signs?
- Hey, Charlotte, about that thing you wrote last night …
- My wife got an STD but says she never cheated.
- The at-home preservation trend.
- Am I hurting my local public schools—and hurting America—by sending my kids to expensive private schools?
- Advice for a woman who is concerned about her friend's attraction to her husband.
- The big red word, the little green man, and the international war over exit signs.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- The best and worst Oscar dresses.
- All the news from American Idol this week.
- Slate on the 82nd annual Academy Awards.
- An appreciation of blogs by military wives.
- Send Slate your hand-drawn maps!
- Can better signs help pedestrians understand London?
- Should I sleep with the nanny?
- An admittedly irrational screed against popcorn.
- Because of the recession, kids are leaving private school.
- When should sexting be illegal?
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 1, 2010.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- Why are the signs at New York's Penn Station so confusing?
- Signs: The most useful thing you pay no attention to.
- Canada's classic win over Team USA redeemed a crummy Winter Olympics.
- The Sap-o-Meter says an emotional goodbye to Vancouver. Plus: the Sappiest Word of the 2010 Olympic Games.
Business & Tech
- Why political futures markets got the health care bill so wrong.
- Can the FCC fix America's crummy broadband network?
- EnerNOC pays companies to cut energy use. Why won't someone pay homeowners to do the same?
- Beware of corporate consulting firms offering awards for corporate ethics.
- What Warren Buffett's Geico ad says about him—and about American CEOs.
- Scandal strikes the tomato-paste industry.
- The one simple rule you need to know to have perfect texting etiquette.
- TigerText, CheaterRegistry, and other digital means to aid or shame cheaters.
- The world's oddest financial instrument: an insurance policy that pays off only if the U.S. goes bankrupt.
- Slate wants your best ideas for how to live a cheaper, more energy-efficient life.
- What's wrong with the FCC's plan to bring high-speed Internet access to rural America.
- Why it's not idiotic to buy an iPad when it goes on sale April 3.
- The best ideas generated at Slate's live discussion about "The Efficient Life."
- Here's a surprise: AIG might pay back $170 billion of its $182 billion bailout.
- Help Slate set some ground rules for cell phone etiquette.
- Do you realize how much you could save if you insulated your house better?
- The forbidden game: China's on-again, off-again war against golf.
- Apple's multitouch lawsuit is both dumb and dangerous.
- I've cut my electricity use because I can measure exactly how much I'm using. I want to do the same for heating oil, but …
- How to suss out bad tech predictions.
- Why the economic model predicting Olympic medal counts drastically underestimated the U.S. haul.
- Slate invites you to have drinks and brainstorm ideas about energy efficiency on March 10 in Washington, D.C.
- If you paid your utility bills in cash, you'd use a lot less energy.
- Can Vail's ski resort cut its energy use 10 percent?
- You must get a home energy assessment. It will save you a ton of money.
- Why I will use less energy if my utility tells me how much energy you use.
- BioShock 2, the rare video-game sequel that builds on the original (and not just by adding better guns).
- The Efficient Life: Do I have to use compact fluorescent lightbulbs?
- A parable about how one nation came to financial ruin.
- Google's brilliant new plan to provide super-speedy Internet access.
- Don't listen to those Republicans. The stimulus has been a big success.
- Should we be worried that our cars are controlled by software?
- Barack Obama momentarily drops his outrage over banker bonuses.
- Why does Google keep copying itself?
- Forget those stories about Japan and Europe outpacing America.
Podcasts & Video
- Slate's Culture Gabfest onthe death of singer-songwriter Alex Chilton, the state of music criticism, and William Safire's replacement.
- Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen, for the week of March 22, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for March 19, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on HBO's new miniseries The Pacific, Variety's fired critics, and mommy blogging.
- Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen, for the week of March 15, 2010.
- Our critics discuss Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall.
- The Political Gabfest for March 12, 2010.
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on Liz Cheney, Kathryn Bigelow, and why married people are too tired for sex.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the Oscars, the terrible signs at New York's Penn Station, and the National Enquirer's Pulitzer eligibility.
- Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen, for the week of March 8, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for March 4, 2010.
- Post-bailout novel: A conversation with Adam Haslett, author of Union Atlantic.
- How to Judge the Best Art Direction Oscar
- The Political Gabfest for Feb. 26, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Joanna Newsom, The Marriage Ref, and rules for writing fiction.
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on women's figure skating, Michelle Obama's childhood-obesity campaign, and Judith Warner's book We've Got Issues.
- How to Judge the Best Sound Editing Oscar
- Dear Prudence: Hot Friend Leaves Me Cold
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the film critic Roger Ebert, The Ricky Gervais Show on HBO, and ChatRoulette.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Feb. 22, 2010.
- Reviews of: Shutter Island, The Ghost Writer, and Happy Tears
- How to Judge the Best Editing Oscar
- Dear Prudence: Stop Posting My Picture on Facebook!
- The Political Gabfest for Feb. 12, 2010.
- Reviews of: Valentine's Day, The Wolfman, and The Lightning Thief
- Presenting Mr. Lincoln
- Dana's Home Theater: Bright Star
- Reviews of: From Paris with Love, Dear John, and Frozen
- The Political Gabfest for Feb. 5, 2010.
- If Filmmakers Directed the Super Bowl
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's weekly Poetry Podcast.
- Dear Prudence: Toilet Tech
- The Political Gabfest for Jan. 29, 2010.
- DIY Catcher in the Rye
- Dana's Home Theater: In the Loop
- The Green Beyond
- Slate's weekly Poetry Podcast.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Jan. 25, 2010.
- Dear Prudence: Sick of Cancer Survivor
- Reviews of: Legion, Tooth Fairy, and Extraordinary Measures
- Obama's First Year: Hell in a Handbasket
- Obama's First Year: The Feel-Good Trailer
- Our critics discuss Mary Karr's Lit.
- Forget 3-D. Try 1-D!
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Conan's plight, French film director Eric Rohmer, and The Simpsons.
- Hot for Firefighters
- Dear Prudence: My Fiance Read My Diary!
- Reviews of: Youth in Revolt, Leap Year, and Daybreakers
- Point Me to the Nearest Beer
- Farewell to the Aughts
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