Shopping for Votes:Slate stories on NPR's Day to Day. day to day, Aug. 11, 2004, 4:04 PM PT
America's Worst College:Let's choose our president by popular vote. Timothy Noah chatterbox, Aug. 11, 2004, 3:49 PM PT
Age of Orange:Learning to live with the fear of terror. Alexander Barnes Dryer, Josh Levin, and Sudhir Muralidhar in other magazines, Aug. 11, 2004, 3:21 PM PT
Chalabi Strikes Back:A counterfeit charge considered. Christopher Hitchens fighting words, Aug. 11, 2004, 3:13 PM PT
What "Buy" Means:Relating to ratings. Henry Blodget wall street self-defense, Aug. 11, 2004, 2:34 PM PT
Eleven Angry Men:Who says juries have to be unanimous? Brendan I. Koerner explainer, Aug. 11, 2004, 2:22 PM PT
Racist Like Me:Why am I the only honest bigot? Debra Dickerson high concept, Aug. 11, 2004, 9:09 AM PT
Blinding Us With Science:Readers make sense of the stem cell debate. Kevin Arnovitz fraywatch, Aug. 11, 2004, 7:33 AM PT
I'm Rick James, B*tch:The artist behind the Super Freak. Tony Green obit, Aug. 11, 2004, 5:15 AM PT
Boss Goss:A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers. Eric Umansky today's papers, Aug. 11, 2004, 12:58 AM PT
Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2004
Not So Fast, Senor Schumer!:Did a Pakistani blow our double-agent's cover? Mickey Kaus kausfiles, Aug. 10, 2004, 12:21 AM PT
Free Matt Cooper!:And Walter Pincus! And maybe even Bob Novak! Jack Shafer press box, Aug. 10, 2004, 4:20 PM PT
Revelation of the Nerds:The religion of stem-cell research. William Saletan human nature, Aug. 10, 2004, 4:11 PM PT
Shop the Vote:Wal-Mart = Bush. Costco = Kerry. Costco's Winning. Daniel Gross moneybox, Aug. 10, 2004, 2:40 PM PT
Spies Like Goss:How much of a hack is Bush's CIA nominee? Fred Kaplan war stories, Aug. 10, 2004, 2:39 PM PT
Indicting Bush:Checkpoint blurs the lines of fiction and politics. Ben Williams summary judgment, Aug. 10, 2004, 1:17 PM PT
Dispatches From Afghanistan:Médecins Sans Frontières' withdrawal from Afghanistan highlights the dangers of politicizing humanitarian aid. David Bosco dispatches, Aug. 10, 2004, 1:10 PM PT
John Madden Has Arrived:The return of sports' official arbiter of cool. recycled, Aug. 10, 2004, 9:23 AM PT
"Vanishing Act":A weekly poem, read by the author. Chris Forhan poem, Aug. 10, 2004, 4:16 AM PT
Sadr and Gomorrah:A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers. Eric Umansky today's papers, Aug. 10, 2004, 12:57 AM PT
Monday, Aug. 9, 2004
Stupid Budget Tricks:How not to discredit the Clinton surplus. Timothy Noah chatterbox, Aug. 9, 2004, 3:52 PM PT
Maxim 101:The lad magazine goes literary. Dan Chiasson books, Aug. 9, 2004, 2:19 PM PT
Sauce for the Hamster:Vets debunk Kerry's hamster rescue. William Saletan low concept, Aug. 9, 2004, 1:52 PM PT
Hamid Karzai and the Hopeless 22:Afghanistan's interim leader is unpopular and ineffectual. Chances are he'll easily win the October elections. Michael J. Kavanagh foreigners, Aug. 9, 2004, 12:36 PM PT
Testing Greece's Olympic Mettle:Will Athens win a gold for security? Carl Schrag international papers, Aug. 9, 2004, 12:35 PM PT
Dispatches From Afghanistan:Why is the NATO force doing such a poor job in Afghanistan? David Bosco dispatches, Aug. 9, 2004, 1:10 PM PT
One Giant Lift for Mankind:The race for the 1,000-pound bench press. Josh Levin left field, Aug. 9, 2004, 10:46 AM PT
Welcome to Cuba's Gulag:A weeklong journal of a journalist in Cuba. Eric Umansky diary, Aug. 6, 2004, 2:36 PM PT
The Temple of Doom:Why do gamers worship John Carmack? Clive Thompson gaming, Aug. 6, 2004, 2:33 PM PT
Wait Until Shark:Bone-chilling Open Water impresses critics. Ben Williams summary judgment, Aug. 6, 2004, 1:40 PM PT
Join the Kerryvan!:John Edwards' cheap bus, heat exhaustion, and other tales from the campaign. Alexander Barnes Dryer, Josh Levin, and Sudhir Muralidhar in other magazines, Aug. 6, 2004, 1:36 PM PT
He's (Not So) Bad:VH1 offers up a treacly valentine to Michael Jackson. Dana Stevens surfergirl, Aug. 6, 2004, 1:29 PM PT
Corrections:Slate's mistakes. corrections, Aug. 6, 2004, 12:57 PM PT
Scuba Snacks:From diver to shark-bait in 80 minutes: Open Water. David Edelstein movies, Aug. 6, 2004, 12:54 PM PT
Supersize Me:A pair of Trio documentaries take on the outsized personalities (and girths) of the Lone Star State. Dana Stevens television, Aug. 6, 2004, 12:23 PM PT
Bushenfreude Revisited:How the president's tax cuts have revived Democratic fund-raising. Daniel Gross moneybox, Aug. 6, 2004, 2:53 PM PT
Safe Cracking:The silliness of security alerts. Christopher Hitchens fighting words, Aug. 6, 2004, 8:50 AM PT
Coach Lit:How to succeed the Riley way. And the Coach K way. And the Shanahan way… Jeremy Derfner sports nut, Aug. 6, 2004, 8:15 AM PT
The Pet Entrepreneurs:What do you get the dog or cat who has everything? These folks know. Emily Yoffe heavy petting, Aug. 6, 2004, 5:55 AM PT
Mahdi Gras:A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers. Avi Zenilman today's papers, Aug. 6, 2004, 3:17 AM PT