Arts
- Friday Night Lights: FNL enters the YouTube age.
- Fast Five reviewed: a tenderhearted family drama starring Vin Diesel.
- Royal Wedding on TV: spouting nonsense at 4 a.m.
- Joel Kinnaman from The Killing: An Interview
- The Voice reviewed: Mark Burnett's new reality-TV hit.
- Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams: If you are a member of the human race, you should see this movie.
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Werner Herzog's new cave-painting documentary may be the best 3-D movie ever made.
- Steve Carell leaving The Office: He made the show bleaker, funnier, and more sadly American.
- Alvar Aalto's unpretentious houses hold many lessons in our perilous economic times.
- "The Mouth of the Mind"
- Kate Middleton's see-through dress: sampling the investigative journalism inspired by the royal wedding.
- The politics of Parks and Recreation.
- Jim Shepard's You Think That's Bad: short stories about massive catastrophes.
- Water for Elephants: Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson find love among the pachyderms.
- Cinema Verite reviewed: Diane Lane and James Gandolfini in a drama bout the first reality-TV family.
- Treme: David Simon's strange spat with New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
- Tim Hetherington's Diary: the short film that showed where he was going as a director.
- Why David Foster Wallace inspires such devotion in his fans.
- Democracy by Henry Adams: why it's the best anonymous Washington novel.
- Lester Bangs' Basement: What it means to have all music instantly available.
- Game of Thrones premiere reviewed: wolf pups, nubile nobles, some dude named Eddard.
- "Ever So Many Hundred Years Hence"
Briefing
- Prison Breaks, conspiracy theories, and electronic waiters: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Wedding up-dos: When did it become fashionable to get married with your hair in a bun?
- The Budweiser diet: How long can you survive on beer alone?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia: Do monarchs keep their titles when their country disappears?
- Pulling Out: When can a lawyer abandon his client?
- The Slatest: Slate relaunches its news blog.
- Could we ever default on the national debt?
- Advice for Kate Middleton, acne and Seder performance anxiety: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- War-Zone insurance: getting covered for war- and terrorism-related accidents.
- World's freest nations: how to measure liberty.
- What's up with Muammar Qaddafi's hats?
- What happens when two tornadoes collide?
- Mark Zuckerberg, dinosaur sex, and the Do-Nothing Budget Plan: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- A roundup of Explainer questions about tax day.
- Kobe's NBA fine: How commissioner David Stern determines the price of misconduct.
- The Slatest: Morning Edition
- Corrections from the last week.
- Tax Day 2011: The Double Irish and the Dutch Sandwich: A field guide to exotic tax dodges.
- How did dinosaurs have sex?
- How can you keep Pakistani terror groups straight?
- Texas wildfire witnesses say they saw horses on fire. Are horses flammable?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Tina Fey's Bossypants memoir, Britney Spears' Femme Fatale album and other stuff Slate writers liked last month.
- Will and Kate's royal wedding: why wellborn Brits often have hyphenated names.
- Do they have special spam filters at Pfizer?
- How Much Ivory is in the Ivory Coast?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Is it safe for humans to take animal drugs?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Hole in Southwest jet: Why didn't anyone get sucked out of the airplane?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Arab countries don't like the United States much. Do they like Europe any better?
- Barefoot Contessa and Make-A-Wish: What's off-limits when it comes to charity wish-granting?
- Can falling bullets kill you?
- Does it matter that Belgium has no government?
- Sievert, gray, rem, and rad: Why are there so many different ways to measure radiation exposure?
- Slate's Android app is here!
- The Lululemon murder, robots, and ancient art-filled caves.
- Arab unrest: Why Qatar seems immune from the Middle East's revolutionary fever.
- Which countries are least vulnerable to natural disaster?
- What happens at a pregnancy help center?
- How do inspectors monitor aging nuclear reactors?
- Radiation protection: How safe is potassium iodide?
- Japan in crisis, lionfish, and student athletes: the week's most interesting Slate stories.
- When did we start signing our names to authenticate documents?
- The latest updates to Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
- Sarah Palin favorability ratings: Will she run for president?
- How much radiation is too much?
- Are there really places where NPR is the only news source?
- Slate wins for general excellence at the National Magazine Awards for Digital Media.
- When tectonic plates shift, does GPS still work?
- New York bus crash: Why don't coach buses have seat belts?
- Japanese Tsunami: How do you know if you've absorbed too much radiation?
- Mauritius, Libya, and Sophie the Giraffe: the week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Japan tsunami: How to survive a tsunami.
- Earthquake in Japan: In an emergency, who wakes up the president?
- Illinois abolished the death penalty: What will happen to the inmates on death row?
- Do birds go through menopause?
- How do doctors know how much sleep we need?
- A no-fly zone for Libya: What would it take to ground Qaddafi's jets?
- Unemployment rates, Qaddafi, and Sarah Palin: Read these Slate stories to be the hit of your weekend cocktail party.
- Religion and taxes: Could Westboro Baptist Church lose 501(c)(3) status?
- Slate is looking for summer interns.
- Barack Obama's Facebook Feed: The latest updates.
- Premarital sex at BYU: How common is it?
- Libya's money was printed in the U.K. How many countries outsource their currency?
- Qaddafi's frozen assets total $30 billion. What happens to that money?
- Slate job: We're looking for an energetic newshound to write for the "Slatest."
- How can Wisconsin stop employees from bargaining collectively?
- Why isn't cricket popular in America?
- Academy Awards 2011: Our Oscars pool rewards knowledge and risk.
- Qaddafi's mercenaries: How much does it cost to hire a thug?
- Gadhafi, Gaddafi, Qaddafi: How the heck do you spell this guy's name?
- Age-of-consent laws: Since when does sex have an age requirement?
- Wisconsin protests: Can sergeants-at-arms really drag legislators back to work?
- CBS correspondent Lara Logan was a victim of sexual assault. Is that the same as rape?
- Libya protests: Why hasn't Qaddafi promoted himself above colonel rank?
- Japan might cancel this year's whale hunt season. What does whale meat taste like, anyway?
- Japan might cancel its whale hunting season. How do you kill a whale?
- How does the NYSE make money?
- Black History Month: Amazing murals of black history from America's inner cities.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
News & Politics
- Lunch with Mohamed ElBaradei: Will the Nobel Peace Prize winner be Egypt's next president?
- Michael Ignatieff: Is he too ambitious to become Canada's prime minister?
- George Soros at Cato: It's all about Hayek.
- Santorum on Obama: His critique of the president's foreign policy makes no sense.
- The Budweiser diet: How long can you survive on beer alone?
- Why America loves serial killers: They give us an alibi for our murderous culture.
- Palin on Obama's birth certificate: "Stay focused, eh?"
- Petraeus to CIA, Panetta to Defense, and other shrewd moves by President Obama.
- Fast-food crime: Why is there so much violent crime at fast-food restaurants?
- Obama's birth certificate: The issue will last as long as his presidency.
- Michael Kinsley's first Bloomberg View column: What it should say.
- Obama's birth certificate released: It's not the media's finest moment, or Trump's, or Obama's.
- Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia: Do monarchs keep their titles when their country disappears?
- Rising gas prices: Can Obama do anything about them?
- Paul Clement leaves King & Spalding: Even opponents of DOMA should want it to get a vigorous defense.
- Obama's open-government initiative: Why is it failing?
- Pulling Out: When can a lawyer abandon his client?
- Chernobyl anniversary: Magnum photographs of children born in the wake of the nuclear disaster. (PHOTOS)
- Wikipedia's "Macaca" entry: Read it with care.
- Royal wedding: William and Kate might not control their future, but they have embraced it.
- Could we ever default on the national debt?
- How America became the land of Truthers, Triggers, Birthers, and Dan Brown fans.
- Prison break: It's harder than ever to escape from prison. How do inmates still do it?
- Boycott the royal wedding: Americans are supposed to hate monarchs, not worship them.
- Did Goldman lie to Congress? A damning new Senate report savages the Wall Street giant.
- New York Times Public Editor Arthur S. Brisbane's stupid ideas on how to cover the press.
- War in Libya: America needs an entrance strategy, not an exit strategy.
- How can judges decide when threats against judges are protected by the First Amendment?
- Donald Trump for president? The case for taking his campaign more seriously.
- War-Zone insurance: getting covered for war- and terrorism-related accidents.
- If the Ryan budget is so unpopular, where are the town-hall meltdowns?
- World's freest nations: how to measure liberty.
- Paul Ryan vs. Barack Obama: How they're improving the debate over government's role in America.
- Gary Johnson for president: Is the Republican Party big enough for two libertarian candidates?
- What's up with Muammar Qaddafi's hats?
- Trying to understand income inequality, the most profound change in American society in your lifetime.
- Roe v. Wade: Is it still the law of the land?
- Orrin Hatch says you can send a few extra bucks along with your tax return. Is that true?
- "Not a revenue problem, a spending problem": Tracing the history of a Republican talking point.
- What happens when two tornadoes collide?
- Sarah Palin in Wisconsin: "The 2012 elections begin here."
- Royal wedding: Does Kate Middleton really want to marry into a family like this?
- 2011 Pulitzers: The Oscars of Journalism are announced today. Who cares?
- Mark Zuckerberg, dinosaur sex, and the Do-Nothing Budget Plan: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Above the law: Why don't judicial ethics rules apply to Supreme Court justices?
- Donald Trump for president: How will his 2012 campaign explain his 2000 campaign?
- Apology cheat sheet: Who to call when you've made an offensive remark.
- Civil War anniversary: 1861 author Adam Goodheart discusses an amazing new exhibition of soldier portraits. (PHOTOS)
- Palin comments on Trump's birtherism: Will they both run for president?
- Tax Day 2011: The Double Irish and the Dutch Sandwich: A field guide to exotic tax dodges.
- NATO's last mission? Obama and European leaders' disagreement over Libya.
- Nigerian elections: Technology may not swing the election, but it will prove a point.
- Menu Obama budget speech: The president enters the fray and tries to stay above it.
- Debt ceiling: How Republicans are framing the debate and Democrats are playing along.
- How did dinosaurs have sex?
- Who confesses to a crime they didn't commit: Frank Sterling and mistaken confessions.
- Mitt Romney's Aquafresh fiasco: What are other infamous campaign slogans and graphics?
- How can you keep Pakistani terror groups straight?
- Huffington Post lawsuit: The bloggers' class action against Arianna's site is pure bunk.
- Texas wildfire witnesses say they saw horses on fire. Are horses flammable?
- Budget compromise: The Tea Party gets most of what it wanted in the budget showdown and sets the table for the debt ceiling fight
- Budget compromise protest: D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray arrested.
- Libya unrest: It's completely bogus to say the mission in Libya is a "NATO operation."
- When Republicans question Obama's "leadership," do they have a point?
- Middle East Protests: An animated map.
- Obama and the budget disaster: How the president should fight Paul Ryan's catastrophic plan.
- Robert Mugabe: Peter Godwin's The Fear tries to explain how he has remained in power so long.
- Shutdown averted: Democrats and Republicans finally make a deal.
- Government shutdown: Will Republicans throw women under the bus?
- Will and Kate's royal wedding: why wellborn Brits often have hyphenated names.
- Phoebe Prince: What really happened?
- Would a shutdown of tax refunds cost you a government service, or your own money?
- Government shutdown: As it gets more likely, Washington politics gets more immature.
- Do they have special spam filters at Pfizer?
- 2012 Republican budget: Why Paul Ryan's numbers don't add up.
- Afghanistan War: Why the U.S. has less power than you think there and in the Middle East.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Government shutdown: How Democrats and Republicans are already spinning it.
- Paul Ryan budget: Does it show why we need to raise taxes?
- How Much Ivory is in the Ivory Coast?
- Japan's nuclear disaster and the Wall Street crash: We've learned nothing about how to avoid catastrophic risks.
- Obama steps in: Can he avert a government shutdown start a new budget debate
- Paul Ryan: How he used his budget plan to become the most courageous man in Washington.
- Winn v. Arizona Christian STO: The Supreme Court muddles through tax and religion.
- Paul Ryan's budget proposal and Medicare: The Republican's plan is brave, radical, and smart.
- Sarah Palin E! True Hollywood Story: It doesn't bode well for her chances in 2012.
- Ai Weiwei: Is China scared of one of its most fearless artists?
- Internet freedom: The State Department can combat Internet censorship, but it's not. What gives?
- Sharia questions: The conservative panic about Muslim laws in Oklahoma.
- Katie Couric, the other network anchors, and their evening programs no longer matter.
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed military trial: Obama's cowardly, stupid, and wrong decision to try the 9/11 mastermind at Gitmo.
Life
- Wedding up-dos: When did it become fashionable to get married with your hair in a bun?
- Poker Black Friday: An online poker pro ponders how he'll make a living.
- Kate's wedding dress: Could it signal the end of porno chic?
- Arbor Day: A slide show of some of the forest's most influential trees.
- What is grief really like?
- Child bride, Dutch dater, organ donor, and batty bridesmaid—Dear Prudence offers advice at Slate.com.
- Turning words into touchdowns: Does a player's speech predict how he'll perform in the NFL?
- My editor, my wife: I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters.
- The Facebook Astrology test: Are your friends compatible with your sign?
- Frank McCourt: The Los Angeles Dodgers owner provided a public glimpse into the hypocrisy of recession-era America.
- Stepchildren, texting, alcoholism, idiot in-laws—Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- The perfect summer dress: It must be sleeveless but not too short.
- Lunch with Vidal Sassoon: The celebrity hair mogul at Manhattan's Monkey Bar.
- How Easter stubbornly resists commercialism.
- Overweight date, family competition, racial insensitivity, and shyster landlord—Dear Prudence offers advice at Slate.com.
- Anxiety gender gap: Are women really more anxious than men?
- Kate Middleton and Prince William are rahs—an English version of preps but with more paisley.
- Passover's fifth question: Who's going to lead the Seder?
- The two minute haggadah.
- Wedding drama, tardy friends, desperate for a boyfriend—Friend or Foe advises readers at Slate.com.
- Pharaoh's "hardened heart": Passover and the nature of biblical justice.
- Judgmental in-laws, nosy co-workers, noisy neighbors, and absentee parents—Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- Kobe's NBA fine: How commissioner David Stern determines the price of misconduct.
- Kate Middleton's ladies-in-waiting: What will they do?
- Dove's Go Sleeveless ad campaign creates body anxieties women didn't know they had and sells them the solution.
- The Long Goodbye: Recovering from the death of a loved one.
- Stan Kroenke's Arsenal: Will the American billionaire change the culture of England's most glamorous soccer club?
- Midwest living: The weather factor, the friendliness factor, the clog factor.
- Selective eating, distant sibling, cancer snub, tightwad in-law—Dear Prudence advises readers at Slate.com.
- Mandatory retirement: How the abolition of mandatory retirement continues to change America in unexpected ways.
- El Bulli to close in 2011, but food writers can't stop bragging about eating at Ferran Adria's restaurant.
- Irish hurling: The ball moves 100 miles per hour. So why don't goalkeepers want to wear facemasks?
- New-mom traditions from around the world: Cuarentena and "doing the month."
- Rude commuters, quitting tobacco, Facebook overshare, gay acceptance—Dear Prudence advises readers at Slate.com.
- The Civil War's 150th anniversary: A road trip.
- Dave Grohl: The perfect rock star.
- Great recipes from the 18th century.
- Lunch with François Pinault, the elusive billionaire art collector.
- Katie Roiphe on her Twitter battle with "Mrs. C."
- Blogger Rafael Martínez Alequin on his reputation for asking NYC mayors uncomfortable questions.
- Tax cuts, MILFs, and singing Mormons: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Unsolved codes and ciphers from across the ages.
- Celebrity journalism has been running the same clichés for 100 years.
- Disinterested or uninterested? How long we should cling to a word's original meaning.
- Snooping boyfriend, smelly commuters, cheating high-schooler, and bickering parents—Dear Prudence advises readers at Slate.com.
- The Masters 2011: The stats show that Tiger Woods is getting his game back.
- The Masters 2011: An expert's guide to watching golf on television.
- Kate Middleton and Prince William marry this month: What are the wedding customs for British royals?
- Overweight friends, money scams, and helicopter moms: Friend or Foe advises readers.
- Marriage jitters, ugly boyfriend, forgetful co-worker, and fake letters—Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- Traffic tweeting: Will Twitter change the way we drive?
- Interview with Jim Lovell: Apollo 13 veteran
- Alex and Aki's Ideas in Food: A new book brings technological cuisine within reach of the everyday cook.
- Military hate, trampled dog, charity demands, cheating fiancé: Dear Prudence advises readers at Slate.com.
- A poem for the opening day of baseball season: "If I ran the team …"
- Bill James, Solid Fool's Gold: Why can we develop athletes and not writers?
- Slate invites you to join us for an all-star conversation about childhood obesity at the Cleveland Clinic on April 21.
- Nude photos on the PC, reluctant adoption, chatterbox friends, and nagging husband: Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- Women funeral directors: starting to dominate the death care industry.
- Shaka Smart, VCU: What it's like being related to the hottest name in March Madness.
- What is grief actually like? A Slate survey.
- Jimmer Fredette 2011: The virtues of college basketball's biggest ball hogs.
- The story of Rhys Vineyards: What happened when a software entrepreneur caught the wine bug.
- Starting a business in retirement: four women who've figured out how to make money working at their retirement community.
- Leaving money to a mistress, tsunami etiquette, disinviting a party guest: Dear Prudence advises readers at Slate.com.
- Elizabeth Taylor's life was full of delightful vulgarity.
- Celtic Rangers rivalry: What happens when a soccer feud gets out of hand.
Business & Tech
- Royal Wedding Economics: Is the royal family good for the British economy or a drain on it?
- Tornadoes and mobile homes don't mix.
- Bernanke's press conference: The Fed chairman's grand plan to do absolutely nothing about unemployment, GDP growth, and gas prices.
- Will robots steal your job? Let us know what types of work are most vulnerable to automation.
- Great Recession: The Federal Reserve shouldn't brag about its response.
- Amazon outage: Will the company's server failures slow the rise of cloud computing?
- Bernanke's press conference: Why the Fed chairman won't reveal anything to reporters on Wednesday.
- iPads and restaurants: How waiters will be replaced by tablet computers.
- U.S. debt ceiling: What's the worst-case scenario if the United States comes even close to default?
- EarthTainer: How to build your own container garden.
- Why focus on the size of banks? Great Britain shows other ways to achieve financial reform.
- David Hobby: A Baltimore Sun photographer took a buyout, started a website, and changed photography forever.
- Bad credit? Borrowing money from other people online could be the solution.
- The Slate Jobs Map: before and after the recession.
- McDonald's National Hiring Day: What does it mean for the economy's recovery?
- Better software, better employees: Computer simulations can help make workers and businesses more efficient.
- U.S. credit rating: S&P issues a warning, but not a downgrade.
- BlackBerry Playbook: How did Research in Motion lose its way?
- Where do tax dollars go? The idealistic—and probably hopeless—plan to educate Americans about the budget by sending them itemized "tax receipts."
- A roundup of Explainer questions about tax day.
- Chinese bullet trains: Is Beijing investing way too much in infrastructure?
- Fukushima nuclear plant: The tragedy there shouldn't cause us to abandon nuclear power.
- Do computers cost too little? The surprisingly complicated economic debate about how much, exactly, our technology is worth to us.
- Facebook was invented by Mark Zuckerberg, not the Winklevoss twins. Get over it.
- Balanced-budget plan: How Congress could cut the deficit to zero in eight years by literally doing nothing.
- Government shutdown: How it will affect student jobs, home loans, unemployment data, and other economic activity.
- Google privacy: The good things that happen when Web companies use our personal data.
- Bugaboo Donkey: Would you pay $1,500 for a baby stroller?
- Google speech recognition software for your cellphone actually works.
- Amazon and Time Warner Cable are the latest companies to resort to tech brigandry.
- Too Big To Fail, too many houses, and other unresolved financial dilemmas.
- Heritage Health Prize: Is $3 million enough to improve the U.S. health care system?
- TARP: Success or failure? Depends on who you think it was supposed to help.
- Universal remote: Your predictions about the evolution of home entertainment.
- Nintendo 3DS review: Is 3-D the future of gaming?
- Future of social networks: Will Facebook remain the one network to rule them all?
- Google doodles: A gallery of the search engine's most obscure special logos (SLIDE SHOW).
- The PATCO Echo
- Online wedding registries: Are they crass, thoughtful, or both?
- Universal remote: When will we get all of our home-entertainment devices to play nicely together?
- FDIC and SEC: Suing banks over offenses government ignored.
- Gamification: Ditching reality for a game isn't as fun as it sounds.
- Record corporate profits: Why aren't they good for the U.S. economy?
- Future of innovation: Readers' predictions about the future of the Internet.
- Content farms: What do they say about what we care about?
- Rebecca Black music video: Did she really make $1 million from "Friday"?
- Will the Web have a place in a world full of apps?
- Future of innovation: Readers' predictions about mobile gadgets.
- Groupon's big discounts: how its coupon business could eventually cripple the merchants that rely on it.
- E-book sharing: Amazon and book publishers' stupid attempts to curtail lending sites.
- Is farmland the next bubble?
- AT&T T-Mobile merger: Why it's a bad deal for consumers.
- AT&T buys T-Mobile: Why consumers should give it a shrug.
- Japan's damaged nuclear power plant: Your solutions wanted.
- Drop in law-school admissions: Has the law-school bubble finally burst?
- Do higher wages make you work harder? Do lower wages make you slack off?
- Visa's new person-to-person payment system: Sounds great for consumers, but banks may not like it.
- Paying by phone is insecure and unnecessary.
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Some "Rogue"!
- Skype voicemail: Pay to play.
- The future of mobile gadgets: How many will we carry? What will they look like? What will they do?
- Infrastructure privatization: Can banks be trusted?
- Anonymous Bank of America e-mails: Where's the fraud and corruption?
- Middle East unrest: Could it lead to stagflation?
- Japanese tsunami: If you donate money to help the recovery, let the aid groups decide how to spend it.
- The future of innovation: Introducing a series on how technology will change over the next decade.
- It's still too early to tell what the economic impact of the disaster will be.
- Debit card fees: Why the big banks want you to blame Washington, not them.
- Biofuels, hunger, and global warming: Even Al Gore now agrees that ethanol subsidies are wasteful, stupid, and counterproductive. Why don't we end them?
- Anonymous comments: Why we need to get rid of them once and for all.
- Terrafugia Transition: Flying car available for mass market in one year.
- Consumer product database: Why the hysteria?
- The productivity paradox: Why hasn't the Internet helped the American economy grow more?
- Lunch with Napster co-founder Sean Parker.
- The Web site that finally liberates us from the worst gadget on earth.
- Latest jobs report: Unemployment is lower, but historically high.
- Drug company R&D: Nowhere near $1 billion.
- Bands that scalp their own tickets and other true tales from the world of live music.
- Libya's money was printed in the U.K. How many countries outsource their currency?
- Foreclosuregate settlement: Is $20 billion too much or too little?
- iPad 2 release: Apple's new tablet is just about the same as the old iPad ... but that's OK.
- Warren Buffett's letter to investors: Why the railroad is such a good investment.
- What the pharmaceutical industry can learn from the advertising world.
- Foreign aid by electronic transfer: How it would help the world's poor, cut waste, and reduce corruption.
- Harry Reid and prostitution: Are brothels bad for Nevada's economy?
- Intel Thunderbolt: brilliant innovation or worthless grasp at the past?
- The great iPad debate: Readers respond to "I Hate My iPad."
- Covenant-lite: The default crisis that never happened. Will it now?
- iPad, Apple: Why the company's products aren't just for rich people anymore.
- Tyler Cowen's Great Stagnation: The middle class is doomed.
- Two-factor authentication: Gmail's new system offers more security than just a password.
- I hate my iPad: Can my tablet-loving Slate colleagues convince me I didn't just waste $600?
- The invisible food crisis: Food prices are going up everywhere. Will they start rising in America, too?
- Cell phone taxes: Why so high?
- How does the NYSE make money?
- Google Public Data Explorer: Is it the first step toward a universal data format?
- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: They're not going anywhere.
- G-20 problems: Why there is no global leadership on climate change, trade policy, and energy.
- iPad 2, Xoom, TouchPad: The tablet age is upon us.
- What the "Infomercial King" and President Obama have in common.
- Spousonomics: Can economics teach us anything about relationships?
- The "green energy" myth: More efficient energy won't create more jobs.
- How Switzerland was able to freeze Mubarak's Swiss bank accounts.
- QRM rule matters as much as Fannie and Freddie.
- Air-traffic-control errors: Up 51 percent or not?
- Ron Paul vs. the Federal Reserve: Does he really want to End the Fed?
- Are tiger moms good for the American economy?
- Tax deductions: How long have they been around, and why do we have them?
- AOL and Huffington Post merger: Search engine optimization won't work forever.
- Businesses don't like regulation. What else is new?
- AOL and Huffington Post merge: A good deal for both sides.
- The best and worst Super Bowl ads.
- Slate 60: The largest American charitable contributions of the past year (PHOTOS).
- Michael Lewis and Tim Harford play a game of Saint Petersburg.
- Mixed jobs report: How can the unemployment rate drop so much when the economy adds so few jobs?
- Microsoft Kinect: Hacks for hands-free gaming. (VIDEO)
- Harvard financial aid: Does it screw the proles?
- 4G, Samsung Craft, MetroPCS: The worst cell phone on earth.
- The Great Panic of 2015: The next worldwide financial crisis could be a scary replay of the Great Recession.
- FCIC report: Wall Street's debt problem is different from yours.
- iPhone app store, Amazon Kindle: Why e-book sellers should stop playing by Apple's rules.
- Invisible Internet regulation: The obscure, legalistic, and alarming ways the government shapes the future of technology.
- Egyptian protests: How a food crisis is driving a political crisis.
- Lunch with Charlie Rose.
- Go ahead, give all your money to charity.
- Egypt Protest Internet Shut Off: How did the Egyptian government turn off the Internet?
- Net Neutrality and Internet Regulation: Government and politicians can help the Internet most by doing nothing.
- Return to the gold standard? It's just crazy enough for some state legislators to propose it.
- Kickstarter, the brilliant site that lets you fund strangers' brilliant ideas.
- BankUnited's resurrection illustrates everything that went wrong in the housing bubble.
- Google Voice, number portability: How to teach your old phone number new tricks.
- Obama's State of the Union speech will sound a lot like Bush's and Reagan's.
- The mancession is over: Women are the economy's new losers.
- Does Your Broker Love You?
- Economics is as popular as ever as a science, yet people don't trust economists. Why?
- Can Thingd make online shopping social?
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt out, Larry Page in: Was Schmidt too nice to beat Apple?
- "Precommitment devices" will help you to lose weight, stop drinking, and not sleep with jerks on first dates.
- Customer complaint letters: Pick the winner!
- Elon Musk's new spacecraft, the Dragon, should revolutionize American space exploration.
- Verizon iPhone data plan: Unlimited or pay as you go? Which will the carrier choose?
- European financial crisis over? The stock market disagrees with the credit markets. Which is right?
- Republicans claim the poor caused the global financial collapse. New economic evidence proves they're wrong.
- Patent trolls and IBM: Will Big Blue's meta-patent fix a broken system?
- 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
- Cursive writing will never die, so we might as well teach it in school.
- Alzheimer's diagnosis: When's a good time to tell someone they have an incurable disease?
- Japan's nuclear disaster and industry-government collusion: The price of compromised safeguards.
- How did readers do on Slate's energy consumption quiz?
- Folic acid is great for pregnant women—in the recommended doses.
- Chernobyl 25 years later: Do major nuclear accidents stop countries from building new nuclear reactors?
- Drones aren't robots. And to prevent civilian casualties, let's keep it that way.
- Terminators to Tripoli
- It's Earth Day: A look back at how we photographed the planet long before Google Earth and the Apollo program.
- How much energy do household appliances consume? Take our quiz to find out.
- Acne science: What makes pimples so peculiar to people?
- Chewing gum: environmentally friendly or not?
- Blacks and salt: Should the Dietary Guidelines single out African-Americans for low-sodium diets?
- Is there any safe level for radiation exposure?
- Drones vs. Raymond Davis: Why Pakistan should prefer CIA missiles to CIA agents.
- Slate invites you to join us for an all-star conversation about childhood obesity at the Cleveland Clinic on April 21.
- Hemp versus cotton: Which is better for the environment?
- Japan's Fukushima nuclear cleanup: Are human workers cheaper than robots?
- MILFs, cougars, and the mystery of gerontophilia.
- Movie popcorn, calories, and menu-labeling laws: Why should theaters be exempt?
- Zoo and animal safety: How can you tell if a zoo takes good care of its residents?
- Japan's nuclear disaster: Are we overconfident in the safety of U.S. nuclear plants?
- Can falling bullets kill you?
- Colchicine price increase: how drug companies are taking advantage of the FDA's Unapproved Drugs Initiative.
- Earthquake in Japan: How to avoid nuclear meltdowns.
- Is organic wine better for the environment?
- Robots and the Japan nuclear crisis: Don't start a reactor you can't shut down.
- The Fukushima nuclear disaster: How will U.S. energy policy be affected?
- The Japanese tsunami was among the worst in recent memory.
- Japan's nuclear disaster: How will we warn posterity about radioactive waste?
- St. Patrick's Day: The eco-guide to responsible drinking.
- "Open placebos" and the ethics of prescribing fake medicine.
- Japan's nuclear crisis: Will it end in meltdown?
- Endangered species: If you can save only one, which should you choose?
- Japan's nuclear crisis and the 2011 earthquake tsunami: Let's cool the political meltdown.
- Biofuels, hunger, and global warming: Even Al Gore now agrees that ethanol subsidies are wasteful, stupid, and counterproductive. Why don't we end them?
- Study: Most organic crops less productive than conventionally farmed crops.
- Do birds go through menopause?
- Fixing childhood obesity: A Slate "Hive" project.
- Gasoline Additives: How do the ethanol and nitrogen in your gas affect the environment?
- Styrofoam cups in the House cafeteria: The Republican's dishware switch isn't as bad as you think.
- Lesbians and anal sex: Why are bisexual women more likely to have tried it?
- Nymphomania and the brain.
- To fix food safety, bring back Wiley's poison squads.
Podcasts & Video
- The Political Gabfest for April 29, 2011.
- Farhad Manjoo reviews the latest augmented-reality apps for your phone. (VIDEO)
- Tornadoes: Watch storm chasers in Mississippi (VIDEO).
- Title IX and college sports, Obama and his mom, and Kate Middleton and the modern princess on this week's DoubleX Gabfest
- Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein: The Audio Book Club discusses.
- Manners for the Digital Age, with Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe.
- Atlas Shrugged Part 1, Gary Taubes' story "Is Sugar Toxic?," and theCivil War blog Disunion on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Smashing Crayons: The soft regulation of Wall Street and the financial meltdown.
- Hang Up and Listen on the NHL playoffs, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the NFL draft.
- A weekly Dear Prudence video.
- The Political Gabfest for April 22, 2011.
- Gastro Lab: What other foods can Thin Mints be used with (VIDEO)?
- Game of Thrones on HBO, Will Ferrell sends off Steve Carell on The Office, and new documentary Bill Cunningham New York on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Why is it that so many actresses talk about food in interviews? (VIDEO)
- Hang Up and Listen on the NBA playoffs, the Sacramento Kings' relocation, The Brady 6, and Justin Duchscherer's depression.
- Dear Prudence: Pushy lawn mower (VIDEO).
- The Political Gabfest for April 15, 2011.
- The Dress-Up President
- Planned Parenthood and the federal budget, Lynn Tilton and women in business, and Hanna on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- Sidney Lumet's classic films, Stanley Tucci on PBS' Vine Talk, and Meghan O'Rourke's new memoir The Long Goodbye on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Trick-shot doc: Dr. Denton is more than your family's friendly practitioner. (VIDEO)
- Hang Up and Listen on the Masters, Manny Ramirez, and Derrick Rose.
- The Political Gabfest for April 8, 2011.
- Diablo Canton: The California nuclear power plant that was built near two fault lines (VIDEO).
- Obama 2012: Analyzing the president's first video of his 2012 campaign.
- Hang Up and Listen on the NCAA title game, paying college athletes, and baseball's mythical origins.
- AMC's The Killing, Spike's reality series Coal, and The New Yorker's David Grann on the murder of Rodrigo Rosenberg on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- The Political Gabfest for April 1, 2011.
- Opening Day: Drawing connections between baseball players and politicians (VIDEO).
- Tina Fey's Bossypants, Michele Bachmann for president, and Dukes v. Wal-Mart on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- HBO's Mildred Pierce, Elizabeth Taylor, and the New York Times' paywall on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on VCU and Butler, the Barry Bonds trial, and Lionel Messi.
- Dear Prudence: Giver's remorse (VIDEO).
- Karen Russell's Swamplandia!: The Audio Book Club discusses the novel.
- The Political Gabfest for March 25, 2011.
- Rebecca Black's "Friday," Netflix's House of Cards, and the European Union's "right to be forgotten" on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on the NCAA Tournament, Jim Tressel and Bruce Pearl, and Jonah Keri's The Extra 2%.
- Dear Prudence: Fear of Heights
- Mel Gibson in The Beaver, Das Racist at SXSW, and the latest movie adaptation of Jane Eyre on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Manning Up by Kay Hymowitz, the all-girls Pink Academy preschool, and the Middleton family: On this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- Farhad Manjoo reviews apps for public speaking (VIDEO).
- The Political Gabfest for March 16, 2011.
- Dear Prudence: Un-Groomed Nether Regions
- The Fab Five, Runnin' Rebels of UNLV: Hang Up and Listen on the NCAA Tournament, two new sports documentaries, and Zdeno Chara.
- Alone Together; Blood, Bones, & Butter; Moonwalking With Einstein: Vote for the April Slate Audio Book Club selection.
- The Political Gabfest for March 11, 2011.
- Charlie Sheen and domestic violence, Callista Gingrich, NSFG sex survey: On this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- NPR's tedious letter-writers, B. R. Myers' "Moral Crusade Against Foodies," and the mystery of Stephen Metcalf's sleepy shrinks on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on Brandon Davies and the BYU honor code, greedy NFL owners, and North American v. European sports.
- The Political Gabfest for March 4, 2011.
- Dan Pashman and Mark Garrison of Gastro Lab, push the grilled cheese envelope in search of the ultimate. (VIDEO)
- Charlie Sheen's career meltdown, James Franco and Anne Hathaway at the Oscars, and the Justin Bieber documentary Never Say Never on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Charlie Sheen's rants mashed-up with a scene from Two and a Half Men with Jane Lynch.
- Hang Up and Listen on college basketball, Ryan Mallett and Cam Newton, and the Detroit Pistons' revolt.
- Dear Prudence: Crush on My Boss (VIDEO).
- The Political Gabfest for Feb. 25, 2011.
- Slate V: Oscars (VIDEO)
- The New Yorker's piece on Paul Haggis and scientology, FX's series Justified, and the future of marginalia on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on Carmelo Anthony, NFL labor, and Sepp Blatter.
- The Political Gabfest for Feb. 18, 2011.
- Lara Logan attack, a new bullying study, and alleged murderer Julie Schenecker: On this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- MoMA's Abstract Expressionist New York, John Adams' Nixon in China at the Met, and the Westminster Dog Show on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Dear Prudence: Housewarming blues (VIDEO).
- Hang Up and Listen on the San Antonio Spurs and Cleveland Cavaliers, Albert Pujols, the Mets and Bernie Madoff, and an epic hockey fight.
- When Hollywood tackles science.
- Slate V: The Worst Cinematic Crap That's Ever Been Made
- Watson on Jeopardy: IBM's game-show computer got his start on Wheel of Fortune and The Newlywed Game [VIDEO].
- The Political Gabfest for Feb. 11, 2011.
- You're invited to Slate's Political Gabfest in West Lafayette, Indiana! But you have to register for tickets.
- No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, shaken baby syndrome and "The Roommate" are discussed on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- Vote for Slate's March Audio Book Club selection
- Reagan's centennial, Rupert Murdoch's iPad newspaper The Daily, and the Google Art Project on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on the Super Bowl, the NFL's labor squabbles, and Dan Snyder v. Washington City Paper.
- Banned Super Bowl commercials [VIDEO].
- Egypt Unrest, Health Care Ruling: The Political Gabfest for Feb. 4, 2011.
- What if filmmakers directed the Super Bowl?
- Women and the Egyptian protests, Peggy Orenstein's "Cinderella Ate My Daughter," and couples and finances are discussed on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- Jason Statham in The Mechanic, the Onion News Network on IFC, and Jane McGonigal's Reality Is Broken on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on the Pro Bowl, Sidney Crosby's concussion, and football language.
- Dear Prudence advice VIDEO: Two-Timing Woman.
- The Political Gabfest for Jan. 28, 2011.
- Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother: The Audio Book Club discusses.
- The 2011 Oscar nominations, IFC's new sketch comedy show Portlandia, and Brock Enright's Videogames Adventure Services on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on the Packers and Steelers, Jay Cutler, Jimmer Fredette, and the Onion's SportsDome.
- Dear Prudence video: In the closet at work.
- Hu Jintao, health care repeal, and Joe Lieberman's retirement: The Political Gabfest for Jan. 21, 2011.
- Miss America Teresa Scanlan's political ambitions, "Darwin's Rape Whistle," and a new book about The Feminine Mystique on this week's DoubleX Gabfest podcast.
- 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.
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