News & Politics
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Ignoring Maher Arar won't make his torture claims go away.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Are firing squads a better means of execution than lethal injection?
- When will Tony Hayward lose his job? A Slate poll.
- What Obama's speech on the BP oil spill was lacking.
- Bogus trend stories of the week: The Post on tradesmen who've gone to college; the Times on teenage jackassery.
- How a Supreme Court decision has changed life in the nation's crime labs.
- Gen. David Petraeus' collapse is a grim metaphor for the prospects of the Kandahar offensive.
- Is the ninja a pop-culture cliché or poised for a comeback?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Barack Obama can't stop the oil spill; acting otherwise just makes us look weak.
- Is Obama willing to say—and do—something dramatic about America's dependence on oil?
- It's time for legislators to look more closely at familial searches of DNA databases.
- How President Obama can stop the spreading plume of national despair.
- Prince Charles' sinister speech attacks science and good sense.
- Why lawsuits based on looks discrimination—even good ones—are a bad idea.
- Why Brazil and Turkey's nuclear deal with Iran is worse than useless.
- Why Obama, like his predecessors, can't get angry in public.
- The oil blowout will mean more subsidies for the ethanol industry. That's bad news for consumers.
- Sanctions were the key to ending apartheid. They can help bring democracy to Iran.
- Why did Iran's pro-democracy movement stall?
- Obama made me do it: How Rod Blagojevich plans to turn his trial into a political spectacle.
- Police are shooting rock-throwers along the U.S.-Mexico border. How many officers have been killed by rocks?
- David Souter finally tells Americans to grow up.
- A mathematician figures out the best way to jam an extra star onto the American flag.
- How Nikki Haley and Blanche Lincoln pulled off their astonishing victories.
- Should Obama have called BP executive Tony Hayward?
- Peter Beinart and Frank Luntz blame old Jews for the fading Zionism among young Jews.
- Does Gen. James Clapper have the DNA to be DNI?
- Fiorina vs. Boxer: The best female political showdown ever.
- Elena Kagan should use her confirmation hearings to defend the Constitution. All of it.
- A short history of "feminist" anti-feminists.
- All crime-scene evidence should be DNA tested.
- The emergence of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is the best thing to happen to the Middle East in ages.
- Germany needs to recognize that some conflicts have a military solution.
- A preview of this week's primary elections.
- Screw you, Mr. President.
- The flotilla foul-up pits former friends Israel and Turkey against each other.
- A review of Deborah Rhode's The Beauty Bias.
- Reporters fall for Fred Malek's modified limited hangout.
- What if political scientists covered the news?
- Americans have lost their commitment to shared sacrifice. The Gettysburg Address can help them recover it.
- The international response to the flotilla incident signals the final abandonment of Gaza.
- Bogus trend smorgasbord: sack-tapping, vodka eyeballing, and "little girl" parties.
- Did Washington bring down the Japanese prime minister?
- What happens to Thailand's sex tourism during the riots?
- Exclusive excerpts from Christopher Hitchens' memoir, Hitch-22
- Eric Holder says he will prosecute BP. But will it be enough?
- Obama's extended critique of the Republican opposition.
- A Georgia prosecutor tells a judge to give the boot to a defense lawyer.
- Looking for creativity in Obama's response to the oil spill.
- Does the Constitution really protect a right to "academic freedom"?
- Is Israel's blockade of Gaza against the law?
- How Israel botched what should have been a straightforward military operation.
- How Rupert Murdoch won the Wall Street Journal and lost billions in the process.
- Why are we always killing al-Qaida's "No. 3" operative?
- Sarah Wildman's Slate series "Paper Love: Inside the Holocaust Archives" wins the Peter Weitz Prize.
- What's to investigate? We know what happened to the Gaza flotilla.
- If Britain's Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition succeeds, there's hope for bipartisanship around the world.
- Why is the Obama administration siding with the Vatican?
- Western conservatives and Southern conservatives battle for the soul of the Republican Party.
Briefing
- Can someone be "talked through" landing a jumbo jet?
- The Slatest: Afternoon Edition
- Why does England get its own team in the World Cup?
- A ship siphoning oil in the Gulf of Mexico was struck by lightning. What are the odds?
- What are the Kyrgyz and Uzbeks fighting about, anyway?
- Why did Alvin Greene have to pay so much just to get his name on the ballot?
- Who will win the World Cup? A Slate poll.
- How the White House Correspondents' Association will fill Helen Thomas' seat.
- Most countries think of the World Cup as a football tournament. Why do we call the game soccer?
- When will Tony Hayward lose his job? A Slate poll.
- Police are shooting rock-throwers along the U.S.-Mexico border. How many officers have been killed by rocks?
- An Explainer roundup on the World Cup.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Why did Israeli commandos use paintball guns aboard the Mavi Marmara?
- Do doctors use Nazi data in their research?
- How will they fix the giant sinkhole in Guatemala City?
- China says any U.N. sanctions against Iran shouldn't hurt ordinary Iranians. Is that feasible?
- Does Israel use "disproportionate" force?
- The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
- An Explainer roundup on the BP disaster.
- An interactive map of how every story in the news is related, updated daily.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- How violent can a farmer get with his livestock?
- Why won't Israel admit it has nukes?
- The United States and South Korea want to suspend trade with North Korea. What are they trading now?
- What would happen if a hurricane hit the oil slick in the Gulf?
- The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
- Is former Harvard student Adam Wheeler a pathological liar, or just a liar?
- What do Thailand's protesters want, and why are they wearing red shirts?
- Why is BP trying to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil leak with golf balls?
- Iran has agreed to send its uranium to Russia for enrichment. How will the Russians ship it back?
- We have job openings at Slate.
- Are children more likely to survive plane crashes than adults?
- Did David Cameron sleep in a bedroom full of Gordon Brown's stuff Tuesday night?
- Why is the oil slick colored orange? Why is oil spewing into the Gulf on its own?
- What would happen if terrorism suspects like Faisal Shahzad lost their Miranda rights?
- How do you measure a flood?
- Is Elena Kagan related to Donald, Robert, or Frederick Kagan?
- Barack Obama's Facebook Feed
- When polar bears and grizzlies breed, they can produce fertile offspring. Why can't other species?
- How will the BP disaster affect the U.S. economy?
- When did the Gulf oil spill become visible from space?
- Failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad paid cash for his ticket to Dubai. You can still do that?
- How many surveillance cameras are there in Manhattan?
- How do you clean an oiled bird?
- How do you assess damages to a natural resource?
- How did central Kentucky become horse country?
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
Arts
- Pick up just about any novel and you'll find the phrase "somewhere a dog barked."
- Belinda Carlisle's memoir covers her punk youth and her pop success.
- "Picasso Looks at Degas" at the Clark Art Institute.
- Paul Bloom and Peter D. Kramer discuss How Pleasure Works.
- The unjustly unheralded work of director Michael Winterbottom.
- "Suttee"
- True Blood's very sexy, very gay Season 3 debut.
- An obscure British thriller that's eerily prescient about the Gulf oil spill.
- Friday Night Lights: This series is so good at handling teen love.
- Drake raps about how hard it is to be rich and famous on Thank Me Later.
- The big-screen A-Team is every bit as ridiculous and kitschy as the original.
- My Darklyng: The first installments of DoubleX's new serialized young-adult novel.
- The Karate Kid reviewed.
- The genius of Karate Kid star Jackie Chan.
- More confessions from Henry Roth in An American Type.
- The naughty nuns that inspired Lady Gaga.
- Aziz Ansari, Mindy Kaling, and the sudden rise of Indians on television.
- How Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless reinvented the movies.
- "The Quaintness of the Past"
- The Glee seasonfinale reviewed.
- In The Shallows,Nicholas Carr asks how the Internet is changing minds.
- Exclusive excerpts from Christopher Hitchens' memoir, Hitch-22
- Slate introduces My Darklyng.
- Get Him to the Greek reviewed.
- RIP, Rue McClanahan.
- Why we love The Shack, the self-published novel by William P. Young.
- Daniel Okrent's Last Call revisits Prohibition.
- The lunatic genius of Dennis Hopper.
- Is the daytime talk-show dead?
Life
- Why do dads lie on surveys about fatherhood?
- Nimble Cities: Help Slate improve urban transportation.
- Dear Prudence answers Father's Day questions.
- I'm quitting the Internet. Will I be liberated or left behind?
- International soccer managers like Diego Maradona are the strangest men in sports.
- A history of well-done meat in America.
- Is AmEx's Members Project a worthy avenue for charity?
- Advice for a woman whose friend is self-medicating.
- An investigation into the startling fraud accusations that have upended the fine wine world.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- Rob Green's World Cup blunder: Keepers past and present have their say.
- A festive mood in South Africa after the United States' 1-1 draw with England.
- The view from England after the United States and England play to a 1-1 tie.
- Slate on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
- Why do graduating students wear academic robes?
- A dispatch from England on the eve of the World Cup.
- We Are Scientists, the band behind "Goal! England," explains how to write a World Cup anthem.
- Why doesn't the new Karate Kid do karate?
- The loneliness of the American soccer fan.
- A review of former model Avis Cardella's shopping-addiction memoir, Spent.
- Who will win the World Cup? A Slate poll.
- Dave Eggers on America and the World Cup.
- I wish I'd never read my late mother's confessions.
- What happens when GPS systems cause car crashes.
- How soccer almost became a major American sport in the 1920s.
- Soccer and the intellectual.
- Is Kobe Bryant really the best clutch player in the NBA?
- Which (cheap) digital audio recorder works best?
- What to do with the kale, turnips, and parsley that overwhelm your CSA bin.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- The greatness of gin.
- Can Major League Baseball change Jim Joyce's decision and give Armando Galarraga a perfect game?
- Ken Griffey Jr. has retired. Lots and lots (and lots) of copies of his 1989 Upper Deck rookie card will live on.
- To become a Catholic saint today, it takes money, a medical miracle, and a compelling vita.
Business & Tech
- President Obama's BP speech was almost lousy enough to make you miss George W. Bush.
- Why Starbucks is smart to offer free Internet access.
- Why the United States and Europe can't cut their way to economic prosperity.
- Slate's Farhad Manjoo answers your questions about Verizon and the iPhone, Facebook, and more.
- Help Slate find better words for tweet, like, and other social-media jargon.
- When will Tony Hayward lose his job? A Slate poll.
- Tom Bissell's Extra Lives asks whether video games are art or an addiction.
- Apple hopes the iPhone 4 is enough to stay at the top of the smartphone heap.
- Why BP CEO Tony Hayward hasn't been fired yet.
- Alejandro González Iñáritu's epic, witty, wonderful World Cup ad for Nike.
- The dangerous new era of "extreme energy."
- How Android, Chrome, and the iPad are shielding us from malware.
- Will the United States suffer a "double-dip" recession?
- Rockstar's fantastic new Western Red Dead Redemption is even better than Grand Theft Auto.
- Your most creative, incisive, and sadistic ideas for how to punish BP.
- Why AT&T was right to dump its unlimited iPhone data plans.
- Should you blame yourself for the suicides at Foxconn, the Chinese electronics factory that makes products for Apple, Dell, and Microsoft?
- How Hitler is making the European economic crisis even worse.
- Luxury shopping is making a comeback.
- Clio Awards dispatch: These are the year's best ads?
- Facebook has improved its privacy controls. Should we trust it not to screw up again?
- What's the best way to punish BP for the oil spill?
- Iran's video-game developers find inspiration in America's best-selling Prince of Persia franchise.
- Will the European economic crisis ruin America?
- Daniel Okrent talks about his book Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.
- The new Hotmail gives Gmail a run for its money.
- Enough hot air about inflation—there are other things to worry about right now.
- How the CIA got the world to buy American during the Cold War.
- How Google's music-streaming venture will change the gadget and entertainment worlds forever.
- The Senate reform bill is much kinder to Wall Street than it deserves.
- The most damaged part of the American economy—consumer credit—may finally be recovering.
- How BP's bumbling CEO Tony Hayward is making the Gulf oil-spill disaster even worse.
- Why iPad apps won't help magazines.
- Users hate Facebook's approach to privacy. They'll get over it.
- What trucking statistics—yes, trucking—can tell us about the economy.
- Want girls to do better in school? Surround them with smart classmates.
- How I learned to love my electric bicycle.
- Is Microsoft Office 2010 good enough to fight off its free competitors?
- The new jobs report is great news. Why are economists still so glum?
- Admongo, the government video game that teaches kids about the perils of advertising.
- Why BP's rivals should be doing much more to stop the Gulf oil spill.
- Why the Federal Trade Commission should let Google and Apple do what they want in the mobile-ad business.
- How Greece's efforts solve its fiscal crisis may have caused a market crisis.
- Microsoft's PowerPoint isn't evil if you learn how to use it.
- Can the Fed unload the $2.3 trillion in assets it acquired during the meltdown without crashing Wall Street again?
- What is "social license," and has Goldman Sachs lost it?
- The one thing that will reduce U.S. energy use more than all Priuses, CFLs, and solar panels combined.
- Can Blockbuster be saved?
- Broadband access in the United States is even worse than you think.
- Why you shouldn't blame YouTube for removing all of those Hitler videos.
- A brief history of alarmist—and wrong—Wall Street predictions about the effect of new regulations.
- Is Goldman Sachs simply a gambling operation? Does it do anything that helps America?
- How the volcano eruption exposed the vulnerability of the global supply chain.
- Broadway has a new play about Enron. Where's the one about Madoff?
- Will all those "like" buttons make Facebook bigger than Google?
- Your favorite idea for improving home energy efficiency. Plus, the four other great ideas I will try at my home.
- Has Apple's new iPhone hit the limits of industrial design?
- Corporations love to talk about going green, but not many are planning for a changing climate.
- Why Texas is doing so much better economically than the rest of the nation.
- The SEC's lawsuit shows how Goldman Sachs put its own interests ahead of its customers'.
- The co-founders of Twitter say it will change the world. They should remind people that it's also fun.
- Conan's move to TBS is brilliant—and not just because he'll make a fortune.
- Is Google's Eric Schmidt scared of Apple's Steve Jobs?
- Why the U.S. recovery will be bigger, faster, and stronger than economists and politicians expect.
- Why is Steve Jobs trying to convince us that iAd is good for Apple customers?
- Remember Colombian coffee-picker Juan Valdez? He has a new job.
- Slate's Farhad Manjoo answers your questions about the iPad, Foursquare, and more.
- Here are the finalists in Slate's energy-efficiency crowdsourcing contest. Please vote for your favorite.
- An Indian consulting firm with a branch office in … South America?
- Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and the long road to the iPad.
- You don't need an iPad. But once you try one, you won't be able to resist.
- Study shows that preschoolers can recognize brand names.
- Watch video of the Slate/New America Foundation discussion of American mobile technology.
- A close look at Apple's "guided tour" of the iPad.
- When I reduce my home's energy costs, who should reap the benefit?
- The Cell Phone Bill of Rights: Four rules to fix mobile phone service in America.
- YouTube's original sin.
- Electronic tablets can't possibly save magazines and newspapers.
- The psychedelic new Friskies ad.
- The right man for the job: Why Mitt Romney should run Obamacare.
- The economy is recovering, which means Democrats may not get routed in November.
- Rework, by the founders of 37signals, explains that it's easy to start your own company.
- American companies—and consumers—are borrowing much, much less. That's good news.
Science
- Why do we overmedicate babies for heartburn?
- A 90-year-old maritime law gets BP off the hook for workers killed on the Deepwater rig.
- Slate runs the numbers on one of the climate skeptics' favorite arguments.
- Give us your best tips for curbing food waste.
- New study shows sperm-donor kids suffer.
- Paul Bloom and Peter D. Kramer discuss How Pleasure Works.
- How will the BP oil spill affect White House strategy on climate legislation?
- The insanity of deepwater oil wells.
- How to get rid of ratty old clothes and hairballs. Plus: the case for dimmers.
- All of Slate's articles on the BP oil spill.
- Andrew Wakefield tried to connect the MMR vaccine to Crohn's before implicating it in autism.
- Cleansing our minds of crime and vice.
- The soda tax tells us what we can't do. That's not a good way to change bad behavior.
- Better living through memory modification.
- The environmental impact of eggs.
- Finding good uses for mental manipulation.
- Exploiting psychology in law and advertising.
- A cookbook for memories of sexual abuse.
- The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: What happens when three men who identify as Jesus are forced to live together?
Podcasts & Video
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the Joan Rivers documentary Piece of Work, Bravo's reality show Work of Art, and an Atlantic piece on "the end of men."
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 14, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for June 11, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Stieg Larsson's Swedish crime novels, how the Internet changes our brains, and World Cup mania.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 7, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for June 4, 2010.
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on Carly Fiorina, Sex and the City 2, and Al and Tipper Gore's split.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest onM.I.A.'s beef with the New York Times, the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, and whether the Internet is making us dumber.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 1, 2010.
- "The Sporkful" podcast on smorgasbord strategies.
- The Political Gabfest for May 28, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Law & Order, Godard's Breathless, and Janelle Monáe.
- "The Sporkful" podcast compares apple and oranges.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 24, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for May 21, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest (live!) on Robin Hood, Sam Lipsyte's novel The Ask, and Facebook's privacy controversy.
- NPR's Robert Krulwich on the science of the sandwich.
- A podcast with author Sarah Ellison.
- The Political Gabfest for May 14, 2010.
- The Disrupters podcast for May 13, 2010
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Betty White, the birth control pill, and Iron Man 2.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 10, 2010.
- "The Sporkful" podcast tries new s'mores recipes.
- The Political Gabfest for May 7, 2010.
- DoubleX Audio Book Club on Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Oprah Winfrey, the "data-driven life," and Please Give.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 3, 2010.
- "The Sporkful," a guest food podcast.
- The Political Gabfest for April 30, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest onperformance artist Marina Abramović, South Park censorship, and Al Pacino's turn as Jack Kevorkian.
- The Political Gabfest for Apr. 23, 2010.
- Slate'sDoubleXGabfest on Sarah Palin's speaking tour, Sarah Brown and other British political wives, and comedian Sarah Silverman.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Kick-Ass, the intersection of neuroscience and literature, and the Library of Congress' decision to archive Twitter.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 19, 2010.
- Our critics discuss Michael Lewis' The Big Short.
- The Political Gabfest for April 16, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Treme, Malcolm McLaren, and Tina Fey.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 12, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for April 9, 2010
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on "The Half-Hooker Economy," Brittney Griner and violent women.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Seth Stevenson's book Grounded, the Google tool that lets you buy TV ads, and Apple's new iPad.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 5, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for April 2, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest onUndercover Boss, Ricky Martin's announcement that he's gay, and the Web site TVTropes.org.
- Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen, for the week of March 29, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for Mar. 26th, 2010.
- 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.
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