Life
- How Elizabeth Edwards showed us the distortions of illness and grief.
- Which glossy magazine has the most useful holiday shopping advice?
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- A new data set from Firefox reveals our browsing habits.
- How should we use data to improve our lives?
- Lunch with Tamara Mellon, founder of Jimmy Choo.
- Some of the most inspiring self-tracking projects.
- Why the United States lost out on its bid to host the 2022 World Cup.
- Should my husband visit a dominatrix?
- René Redzepi's NOMA cookbook, distilled.
- How infidelity has become accepted and even expected in Russia.
- Five weeks on a container ship.
- What would happen if Facebook made its data available for research?
- I reconnected online with a college friend who dumped me. Should I trust her?
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- Who will host the 2018 World Cup?
- Diabetes has forced me to become a self-tracker, and I can't stand it.
- Thanksgiving turkey: The mortal struggle between dark meat and white meat.
- Why food writers secretly hate the November feast.
- Is the long, proud history of the coin toss in professional sports coming to an end?
- An overprotective mother stunts her son's social development.
- How the Thanksgiving cooking is passed down from mother to daughter.
- What Bon Appétit, Food and Wine, Saveur, and other magazines recommend you make for Thanksgiving.
- Burghound, For the Love of Port, and other great niche wine sites.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- Tools that mine your inbox, bank accounts, and Google searches.
- If we try to engineer perfect children, will they grow up to be unbearable?
- My year in waxing school.
- Women like Sarah Palin are calling themselves "housewives." What does the term mean?
- How Ping-Pong created the American suburb.
- Dear Prudence answers your Thanksgiving-themed questions.
Briefing
- The Slatest: Afternoon Edition
- If publishing the WikiLeaks cables were against the law, could the New York Times go to jail?
- Why does Congress have a lame duck session?
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been accused of "sex by surprise." Is that against the law in the United States?
- The latest updates to Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
- The Pentagon says repealing "don't ask, don't tell" may affect unit cohesion. What's that?
- Slate is hiring an editorial assistant.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- WikiLeaks has released thousands of confidential diplomatic cables. What's a cable, and why are we still using them?
- A map showing the stunning rise of adult diabetes across America during the past five years.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- A couple of Thanksgiving Explainers from the archives.
- President Obama wants to know why turkeys have wattles. The Explainer has the answer.
- Ireland is applying for a loan from the EU. Is there a standardized form for that?
- What's in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper?
- Is Catholicism in China different from elsewhere?
- Charles Rangel will be censured or reprimanded by Congress. What's the difference?
- Does the TSA ever catch terrorists?
- Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani's trial took five years. Is that speedy?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
News & Politics
- The Supreme Court hears about Arizona's other controversial immigration law.
- If publishing the WikiLeaks cables were against the law, could the New York Times go to jail?
- How the Republicans fleeced President Obama in tax-cut poker.
- How Elizabeth Edwards rewrote the script for political wives.
- How the tax-cut deal exposes Republican hypocrisy and Democratic anxiety.
- The Great Game, a new play that explains why wars in Afghanistan always end badly.
- President Obama gets stern with his liberal base.
- The Supreme Court tries to determine if your fiance can be fired for your sex-discrimination complaint.
- Our ever-reasonable president needs a bit more spite.
- Elizabeth Edwards, best-selling author, political wife, and health care activist, dies.
- Obama struck a bipartisan deal on tax cuts. Can he do the same on deficit reduction?
- Julian Assange's great luck: Why the WikiLeaks founder's jailing is good news for him.
- An interview with Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's president-elect.
- President Obama presents the tax cut deal as a victory for the sensible center.
- Why the WikiLeaks cables won't bring down governments.
- Why the technical "standing" issue properly decides the gay marriage appeal.
- How much will Obama's tax compromise actually help the economy?
- Gay marriage has a good day before the 9th Circuit.
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been accused of "sex by surprise." Is that against the law in the United States?
- The Democratic House should use its final weeks to demand every single document about the bank bailouts.
- Conservative legislators take lessons on how to subvert the feds.
- The WikiLeaks founder is an unscrupulous megalomaniac with a political agenda.
- When did prisoners start dressing in orange?
- The conservative mission to destroy the Constitution in order to save it.
- The Political Gabfest for Dec. 3, 2010.
- The real legacy of Bush v. Gore.
- Why liberals are increasingly frustrated with Obama's efforts at bipartisanship.
- A free pamphlet about illicit drugs that every reporter should download.
- Why the First Amendment won't necessarily protect WikiLeaks.
- How not to solve the European debt crisis.
- If Democrats are the big spenders, why do Republican states get the money?
- Five weeks on a container ship.
- The Republican National Committee welcomes its new Tea Party overlords.
- John McCain has run out of reasons to block the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
- The Pentagon says repealing "don't ask, don't tell" may affect unit cohesion. What's that?
- The WikiLeaks cables as literature.
- How does North Korea make its announcements?
- Why do voters tend to stick with whatever political party they join when they turn 18?
- President Obama and Republican leaders finally get in the same room.
- Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles try to scare America into doing something about the deficit.
- How did FBI agents convince Mohamed Osman Mohamud they were fellow jihadis?
- I love WikiLeaks for restoring distrust in our most important institutions.
- How Republicans are using WikiLeaks to indulge their spy-thriller fantasies.
- A seven-point plan to save Obama's presidency.
- Slate's 80 Over 80: The most influential octogenarians in America (2010).
- The presidency has become one emergency after another. How should Obama handle it?
Arts
- What has the new Archie spin-off done to our cheery red-head?
- Best Books 2010: Check out Slate's picks.
- Barack Obama, entertainer-in-chief, appears on Mythbusters.
- The Warrior's Way has the mind of a fifth-grader, but not the soul.
- The pleasure and pain of listening to Ke$ha.
- "The Man Tree"
- I Love You, Phillip Morris is irresistibly self-assured in its weirdness.
- Ann Beattie's New Yorker Stories help a generation understand itself.
- Why projectionists will soon be no more.
- Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: a new "reality" show.
- Friday Night Lights: You are so wrong about that episode, Emily.
- Natalie Portman as an unstable dancer in the inert Black Swan (with optional spoilers).
- Why are so many great architects short of stature?
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on Nicole Krauss' Great House.
- The melancholy, menacing third season of Sons of Anarchy.
- Allan Metcalf's OK downplays the word's ambiguity.
- "Salt Water"
- Why The Scottsboro Boys shouldn't close.
- Antonio Damasio explores consciousness in Self Comes to Mind.
- Lunch with Roberto Saviano.
- What can the first how-to book for fiction still tell us?
- MFA vs. NYC: America now has two distinct literary cultures. Which one will last?
- The Nutcracker 3D screws up the classic story in every conceivable way.
- Kate Middleton needs a radical haircut—and other style tips for the princess-to-be.
- Real burlesque is so much sexier than the movie.
- Skating With the Stars: tiny costumes, forgotten celebrities, and fun for the whole family.
- Tele-Tubbies: The rise of the obese actor on TV.
- Burlesque is a worthwhile trifle for Cher and Xtina fans.
- What Mark Twain's Autobiography doesn't reveal.
- Love and Other Drugs careens from bathos to bromance to naked sexytime.
- "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
- Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the best album of the year and the best of his career.
- The new Fran Lebowitz documentary is an outstanding waste of time.
- A review of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team.
- Günter Grass reckons with the past in The Box.
- Basquiat's first European retrospective, at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris.
- A.N. Wilson on Tolstoy's life and work, 100 years on.
- Members of the Anthology of Rap's advisory board speak out about the book's errors.
- How Deathly Hallows won the heart of this Potter skeptic.
- Yoshitomo Nara's art is undeniably adorable. Is it meaningful?
- Stacy Schiff can't help adding to myth in Cleopatra: A Life.
- Noah Feldman scrutinizes FDR's Supreme Court in Scorpions.
- Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Lie" and the art of the poetic takedown.
- The frathouse sitcom Glory Daze is a stale keg.
- A short history of corsetry, from whalebone to Lycra.
Business & Tech
- How should America improve its economy? Don't ask Americans for guidance.
- Don't believe the rhetoric behind Google's new, "open" e-book store.
- If you want Web privacy, stop being such a freeloader. Pay for it.
- Poll: Readers try to predict next week's average price for a gallon of gas.
- Is the Better Business Bureau a protection racket?
- Why the president agreed to Republican demands on the Bush tax cuts.
- Auctioning nostalgic brands.
- Consumers go online to get better prices, but Web merchants have their own tricks.
- A five-part plan to cut the deficit, narrow inequality, and strengthen the economy—and why special interests would block it.
- The Obama administration's efforts to grow small-business exporting, and how Congress could derail them.
- Facebook's grand plan for the future.
- Those dreadful new unemployment numbers are even worse than they look.
- The Federal Reserve comes (almost) clean about all the crazy stuff it did in 2008.
- This Christmas, why not make your gifts especially expensive and thoughtless?
- Will Comcast destroy net neutrality?
- What's in those free-trade agreements—and do they really boost exports?
- A Senate committee puts the spotlight on the crap health insurance given fast-food workers.
- Republican opposition to extending unemployment benefits makes no sense.
- Breaking up with Hotmail: Why I'm ending my longest online relationship.
- Slate readers' alternatives to the FDA's proposed anti-smoking graphics.
- The days of keeping your data locked inside a big hard drive on one machine are over.
- Nine economic thoughts to nibble on as you recover from Thanksgiving dinner.
- Facing public outrage, the Kardashians cancel their especially sleazy prepaid debit card.
- Last year, foreign students contributed $18.8 billion to the American economy. How can we grow that figure?
- Improving Obama's wishy-washy plan to hurt some workers without helping others.
- A map showing the stunning rise of adult diabetes across America during the past five years.
- The world doesn't need more entrepreneurs. It needs more people for entrepreneurs to hire.
- The ultimate Black Friday survival guide.
- Why Black Friday could actually live up to the hype this year.
- Amazon's cloud computing has revolutionized American small business, but can Amazon beat rising competitors?
- Slate's Farhad Manjoo answers your questions on Wi-Fi security, proxy servers, and Google Chat contact confusion.
- How small farmers defeated agribusiness on food-safety regulations.
- How U.S. policies are driving away foreign visitors, and harming the American economy.
- Why the federal deficit reminds me of Enron.
- Slate's guide to sneaky airline fees.
- My visit to the offices of Rapiscan, which makes airport scanners.
- The export revolution will be air-conditioned.
- Readers try to predict what kind of holiday the retail industry will have.
- How Amazon.com undersells Best Buy, the Apple store, and almost everybody else.
- The Kardashians try to cash in on the bad economy's hottest new trend: the prepaid debit card.
- With interest rates at record-lows, the U.S. government should borrow more to invest in infrastructure, not stop spending.
- The Internet gaming service OnLive now has a tiny console that lets you play video games anywhere.
- How to avoid paying the sucker rate for a New York Times subscription.
- What Congress does—or doesn't do—about the Bush tax cuts and how it will affect you.
- Why the housing bubble's burst failed to align the home-appraisal business with reality.
- How Germany's proposed debt remedies could drive many European countries into default.
- What can a tiny software firm show us about the future of American exports?
- A study confirms every suspicion you ever had about high-school dating.
- President Obama's disastrous Asia trip reveals the monumental decline in American power.
- Do-it-yourself anti-smoking propaganda.
- Steve Jobs, a new mogul with old methods.
- The Facebook-Google spat over who controls your data.
Science
- 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.
- An answer to Ross Douthat on birth control and second-trimester abortions.
- What's the greenest way to exercise in the winter?
- An easy way to boost women's scores in physics.
- The pope, condoms, and the ethics of contraception.
- Don't buy into the apathy about this year's climate negotiations in Cancun.
- Thanksgiving eco-mysteries, solved.
- Scrappy American companies are exporting their controversial drilling techniques to Asia and Europe, where "fracking" could face less regulation.
- The idiocy of airport-scanner "Opt-Out Day."
- The Climate Next panelists debate new strategies for curbing global warming.
- Climate Next: Jobs—with benefits.
- What pro-choicers can learn from the Princeton abortion conference.
Podcasts & Video
- 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.
- Video: Killer Apps.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Boise State's loss, the NFL's Spygate II, Derek Jeter, and Blake Griffin.
- Dear Prudence: Pugilistic Partners
- The Political Gabfest for Nov. 25, 2010.
- TSA scanning procedures, CBS sitcom Mike & Molly, and HBO's new Fran Lebowitz documentary: Slate's Culture Gabfest.
- Video: Up in Your Business.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, Greg Oden's injuries, and Scott Raab's rage against LeBron James.
- The Political Gabfest for Nov. 19, 2010.
- Video: Up in Your Business.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on college basketball, the BCS, and women's soccer.
- Sarah Palin's Alaska, jihadi comedy Four Lions, and Sinatra bio Frank: the Voice, discussed onSlate's Culture Gabfest.
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on breast cancer awareness efforts, Aung San Suu Kyi, "Housewives of God," and Thanksgiving traditions.
- Dear Prudence: Meddlesome Matchmakers
- Our critics discuss Tom McCarthy's Remainder.
- Video: Up in Your Business.
- The Political Gabfest for Nov. 11, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Conan, James Franco, and the errors in Yale's Anthology of Rap.
- Slate's sports podcast on Zenyatta, Cam Newton, and The Best That Never Was.
- Dear Prudence: Double-D dilemma.
- The Political Gabfest for Nov. 5, 2010.
- The history of the Tea Party in four minutes.
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on how women fared in the midterm elections.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the Rally To Restore Sanity, The Walking Dead, and Sherlock.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on the World Series, Vince Lombardi, and marathon runners.
- Damned Spot: Best political ads of the 2010 campaign.
- The Political Gabfest for Oct. 29, 2010.
- Video: Killer Apps.
- Video: Up in Your Business.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the documentary Inside Job, the FX show Terriers, and the reported demise of the hipster.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on the World Series, Oregon's high-scoring offense, and NBA contraction.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen at North Carolina State University
- Dear Prudence: Help! I'm scared of getting herpes.
- An animated rendering of Thomas' recent eyebrow-raising voice mail.
- The Slate Political Gabfest for Oct. 22, 2010
- Video: Up in Your Business.
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on Krystal Ball, Ginni Thomas, and Yale frats.
- Video: The mother of all egg and cheese sandwiches.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Jackass 3-D, dueling profiles of Gawker's Nick Denton, and how to handle celebrity sightings.
- Slate's sports podcast on helmet-to-helmet hits, Death to the BCS, "Confessions of an Agent," and the NBA's new anti-whining policy.
- Dear Prudence: resemblance envy.
- The Political Gabfest for Oct. 15, 2010.
- Video: Up in Your Business.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the It Gets Better campaign, a newly unearthed Ted Hughes poem, and HBO's Bruce Springsteen documentary.
- Slate's sports podcast on the baseball playoffs, Brett Favre, the new NHL season, and George Dohrmann's Play Their Hearts Out.
- Dear Prudence: OCD neat freak?
- 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.
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.
- XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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