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Briefing
  • cocktail chatter
    Trippy nakedness at Burning Man, the bears of that sell toilet paper, and R.E.M.'s music revolution: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
    Lauren Hepler
    Sep 24, 2011, 7:13 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • intelligence squared
    Intelligence Squared debate: Do Grandma's benefits imperil Junior's future? Oct. 4 at NYU.
    Sep 23, 2011, 3:46 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • explainer
    The supposed health risks of public nudity.
    Michael Thomsen
    Sep 23, 2011, 12:48 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • explainer
    Does my insurance cover falling satellites?
    Brian Palmer
    Sep 22, 2011, 6:28 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • explainer
    Georgia is about to execute Troy Davis. How many death sentences are actually carried out?
    Brian Palmer
    Sep 21, 2011, 5:34 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • explainer
    Suri Cruise is attending a Scientology-influenced school. What's that like?
    Brian Palmer
    Sep 20, 2011, 4:45 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • explainer
    A short history of toilet-paper marketing.
    Daniel Engber
    Sep 19, 2011, 4:56 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • explainer
    If a criminal swallows the evidence, how do police get it out of him?
    Brian Palmer
    Sep 19, 2011, 4:45 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • cocktail chatter
    Joining the mile-high club, an interview with Ahmadinejad, and the decline of 3-D films: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
    Peter Fulham
    Sep 17, 2011, 7:04 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
News & Politics
  • propublica
    Falsified medical records and shady dealings at Countrywide: This week's top MuckReads from ProPublica.
    Braden Goyette
    Sep 23, 2011, 5:27 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • war stories
    War in Afghanistan: Which side is Pakistan fighting for?
    Fred Kaplan
    Sep 23, 2011, 5:00 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • intelligence squared
    Intelligence Squared debate: Do Grandma's benefits imperil Junior's future? Oct. 4 at NYU.
    Sep 23, 2011, 3:46 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • foreigners
    Paul Kagame's Rwanda: Can the African nation have peace and prosperity without freedom?
    Anne Applebaum
    Sep 23, 2011, 1:05 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • politics
    Gary Johnson delivers the best line of the GOP debate and becomes a real candidate.
    David Weigel
    Sep 23, 2011, 8:24 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • frame game
    The Perry-Romney debates: Romney is from Mars, Perry is from Venus.
    William Saletan
    Sep 23, 2011, 7:28 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • politics
    Republican presidential debate: The more he debates, the worse Rick Perry gets.
    John Dickerson
    Sep 23, 2011, 2:06 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • the big idea
    Ron Suskind's Confidence Men: His book on Obama is as spurious as the ones he wrote about Bush.
    Jacob Weisberg
    Sep 22, 2011, 6:54 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • explainer
    Does my insurance cover falling satellites?
    Brian Palmer
    Sep 22, 2011, 6:28 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • crime
    Riots: Violent unrest has swept Europe and the Middle East. Is America next?
    Sudhir Venkatesh
    Sep 22, 2011, 6:13 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • foreigners
    Palestine's U.N. membership bid: How it could cause an international legal crisis over the potential prosecution of Israeli officials.
    Hussein Ibish
    Sep 22, 2011, 12:42 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • jurisprudence
    Troy Davis case: Will uncertainty in his case lead to uncertainty about the death penalty?
    Dahlia Lithwick
    Sep 21, 2011, 8:30 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • politics
    Republicans may not like it, but the law says the Fed can do whatever it wants.
    David Weigel
    Sep 21, 2011, 6:33 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • intelligence squared
    Apparently, men are finished: The fairer sex won big at Tuesday's Slate/Intelligence Squared U.S. debate
    Elizabeth Weingarten
    Sep 21, 2011, 5:44 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • explainer
    Georgia is about to execute Troy Davis. How many death sentences are actually carried out?
    Brian Palmer
    Sep 21, 2011, 5:34 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • the middlebrow
    Rick Perry: Can he ride the cowboy myth to the White House?
    Bryan Curtis
    Sep 21, 2011, 4:29 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • frame game
    Rick Perry's Christian Israel policy is a gift to Islamic extremists.
    William Saletan
    Sep 21, 2011, 8:48 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • politics
    OutServe magazine's gay soldiers: Don't Ask, Don't Tell's repeal allows military members to come out (PHOTOS).
    Katherine Goldstein
    Sep 20, 2011, 6:23 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • politics
    Ron Suskind's new book about Obama's failure, and other theories.
    David Weigel
    Sep 20, 2011, 5:26 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • jurisprudence
    Troy Davis execution set for Sept. 21: case proves the fallibility of eye witnesses.
    Brandon L. Garrett
    Sep 20, 2011, 3:52 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • politics
    Obama's deficit speech: Can he stay angry until next Election Day?
    John Dickerson
    Sep 19, 2011, 8:05 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
Arts
  • books
    Alan Wolfe's Political Evil: What It Is and How To Combat It. Why distinguishing among horrible behaviors is crucial.
    Michael Ignatieff
    Sep 26, 2011, 4:19 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • FT
    The MoMA's de Kooning retrospective offers a vivid portrait of a tragic artist.
    Ariella Budick
    Sep 25, 2011, 8:12 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • FT
    HBO: How it revolutionized television.
    Peter Aspden
    Sep 24, 2011, 7:14 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • cocktail chatter
    Trippy nakedness at Burning Man, the bears of that sell toilet paper, and R.E.M.'s music revolution: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
    Lauren Hepler
    Sep 24, 2011, 7:13 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • movies
     Pearl Jam Twenty reviewed: Cameron Crowe's cloyingly sweet Pearl Jam documentary.
    Dana Stevens
    Sep 23, 2011, 3:44 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • television
     Pan Am reviewed: ABC's new Jet-Age drama pays delightful attention to detail.
    Troy Patterson
    Sep 23, 2011, 7:08 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • movies
     Moneyball reviewed: A great sports movie for people who can't stand sports movies.
    Dana Stevens
    Sep 22, 2011, 6:59 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • music box
    R.E.M breaks up: the band sparked the indie revolution.
    Bill Wyman
    Sep 22, 2011, 2:44 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • television
     The X Factor reviewed: The heir to American Idol arrives.
    Troy Patterson
    Sep 22, 2011, 2:39 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • books
    Michael Kazin's American Dreamers: Why has the radical left sabotaged itself so often?
    Paul Berman
    Sep 21, 2011, 10:24 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • culturebox
    How to consume culture economically: an eight-step guide.
    Matthew J.X. Malady
    Sep 21, 2011, 7:29 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • music box
    Artistic legacy: the tricky task of preserving an artist's life and work.
    Jan Swafford
    Sep 20, 2011, 3:09 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • poem
    "Goodbye Billyburg"
    Spencer Short
    Sep 20, 2011, 6:50 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • television
     New Girl reviewed: Zooey Deschanel brings her niche sex appeal to the small screen.
    Troy Patterson
    Sep 19, 2011, 7:57 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • books
    Ken Jennings's Maphead: What makes people map obsessives?
    Seth Stevenson
    Sep 19, 2011, 6:48 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • FT
    Lunch with Michael Moore, controversial documentary filmmaker
    Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
    Sep 18, 2011, 12:31 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • FT
    A Mandarin Mamma Mia! brings Broadway to Shanghai.
    Patti Waldmeir
    Sep 17, 2011, 7:06 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • movies
     Gainsbourg: Une Vie Héroïque: I'd rather watch Music and Lyrics.
    Jody Rosen
    Sep 1, 2011, 12:21 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • tv club
     Friday Night Lights: Series finale: "It's my turn."
    Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and Hanna Rosin
    Jul 18, 2011, 6:52 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
Life
  • doublex
    Iris Krasnow's The Secret Lives of Wives: Is time alone the secret to a happy marriage?
    Jessica Grose
    Sep 23, 2011, 10:56 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • longform
    Longform.org's Guide to Michael Lewis: His best stories about money and/or balls.
    Max Linsky
    Sep 23, 2011, 11:21 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • permanent record
     Manhattan Trade School for Girls: Report cards from the 1920s and the stories they tell.
    Paul Lukas
    Sep 23, 2011, 7:08 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • well-traveled
     Burning Man: An alternate universe without brands or money.
    Seth Stevenson
    Sep 23, 2011, 7:05 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • Science
    Country collectors: How did wanderlust become a competitive sport?
    Ken Jennings
    Sep 22, 2011, 5:16 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • doublex
    Rick Perry and the HPV vaccine, dads and testosterone, and fall TV on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
    Daniel Engber
    Sep 22, 2011, 7:04 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • dear prudence
    Dear Prudence: My husband had a one-night stand.
    Emily Yoffe
    Sep 22, 2011, 7:03 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • doublex
    Jeffrey Kluger's The Sibling Effect: The latest book in an emerging canon that fetishizes large broods.
    Lauren Sandler
    Sep 21, 2011, 5:39 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • sports nut
     NFL 2011: What if HGH could cure Peyton Manning?
    Tommy Craggs
    Sep 21, 2011, 2:54 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • sports nut
     Moneyball movie: The numbers are good, but the story is still bunk.
    David Haglund
    Sep 21, 2011, 1:01 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • drink
    Oktoberfest: Try these five delicious styles of German beer.
    Mark Garrison
    Sep 21, 2011, 10:04 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • explainer
    Suri Cruise is attending a Scientology-influenced school. What's that like?
    Brian Palmer
    Sep 20, 2011, 4:45 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • project syndicate
    Attention is neither a commodity nor a currency, even thought the Web treats it that way.
    Esther Dyson
    Sep 20, 2011, 3:01 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • the good word
    Britishisms: cataloging how they're infecting American English.
    Ben Yagoda
    Sep 20, 2011, 12:57 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • friend or foe
    Friend or Foe: Should I make my friend shave her head?
    Lucinda Rosenfeld
    Sep 20, 2011, 6:56 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • explainer
    A short history of toilet-paper marketing.
    Daniel Engber
    Sep 19, 2011, 4:56 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • dear prudence
    Dear Prudence: My fiance thinks I'm a virgin, but I'm not.
    Emily Yoffe
    Sep 19, 2011, 3:08 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • food & wine
    Why novelist Chang-rae Lee buys his wine online.
    Chang-rae Lee
    Sep 18, 2011, 12:31 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • well-traveled
     Can Japan Recover? A tour of Sendai, Fukushima and places hit hard by the triple disaster.
    Daisann McLane
    Sep 2, 2011, 7:51 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
Business & Tech
  • robot invasion
    Pharmacy robots: Will my father lose his job to a gigantic pill-packing machine?
    Farhad Manjoo
    Sep 26, 2011, 4:21 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • robot invasion
    Will robots steal your job? If you're highly educated, you should still be afraid.
    Farhad Manjoo
    Sep 26, 2011, 4:20 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • project syndicate
    Anxiety economics: The story Americans tell about the economy may be more relevant than the numbers that describe it.
    Robert J. Shiller
    Sep 23, 2011, 1:18 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • technology
    Facebook Ticker: Mark Zuckerberg's terrible plan to get us to share everything we do on the Web.
    Farhad Manjoo
    Sep 22, 2011, 6:34 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • future tense
    Yahoo didn't mean to censor emails about Wall Street protests. The truth is much more insidious.
    Zeynep Tufekci
    Sep 22, 2011, 1:46 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • technology
    Facebook redesign: Hate the new features? You'll like them soon enough.
    Farhad Manjoo
    Sep 21, 2011, 12:27 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • technology
    Gears of War 3: Bayoneting reptilian humanoids never felt so ... right.
    Taylor Clark
    Sep 20, 2011, 5:28 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • moneybox
    Who is Debbie Bosanek? Warren Buffett's secretary declines to talk about tax reform.
    Annie Lowrey
    Sep 20, 2011, 1:27 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • technology
    Natural scrolling: Why did Apple change the way we scroll?
    Michael Agger
    Sep 20, 2011, 12:10 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • explainer
    Obama's millionaire tax, Warren Buffett, and trillionaires: How long until the world has its first trillionaire?
    Annie Lowrey
    Sep 20, 2011, 11:23 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • future tense
    Robot economy: Join Slate technology columnist Farhad Manjoo for an event about machines as doctors, lawyers, and creators.
    Sep 20, 2011, 11:16 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • technology
    Netflix Qwikster: The strange logic of the company's decision to divide itself in half.
    Farhad Manjoo
    Sep 19, 2011, 5:13 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • moneybox
    A second Great Depression: Eight drastic policy measures necessary to prevent global economic collapse.
    Nouriel Roubini
    Sep 19, 2011, 12:29 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • moneybox
    America's decline, China's rise: A fascinating new book argues that the United States has already been eclipsed as the world's dominant economic power.
    Simon Johnson
    Sep 19, 2011, 12:23 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • small business
    Do small businesses actually innovate? A new study suggests very few startup businesses are dynamic.
    Annie Lowrey
    Sep 19, 2011, 7:15 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • the best policy
    The poverty crisis is devastating young Americans. Here's what the president can do about it.
    Eliot Spitzer
    Sep 19, 2011, 7:12 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • future tense
     Transhumanism: Why can't we enjoy being human just a little while longer?
    Nicholas Agar
    Sep 16, 2011, 7:18 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
Science
Podcasts & Video
  • gabfest
    The Political Gabfest on Obama's debt plan, a new, unflattering book about the Obama White House, and the execution of Troy Davis.
    Emily Bazelon
    Sep 23, 2011, 11:28 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • slate v
    R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It," a YouTube mashup. (VIDEO)
    Sep 22, 2011, 12:23 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • culture gabfest
    "Drive," "Two and a Half Men," and Burning Man on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
    Stephen Metcalf
    Sep 21, 2011, 11:06 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • slate v
    Romney's Iowa Problem (VIDEO)
    Sep 20, 2011, 2:05 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • manners for the digital age
    Digital Manners: Is it acceptable to use emailed wedding invitations?
    Farhad Manjoo
    Sep 20, 2011, 1:27 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • hang up and listen
    Hang Up and Listen on Dave McKenna and Dan Snyder, Floyd Mayweather, and Taylor Branch's "The Shame of College Sports."
    Stefan Fatsis
    Sep 19, 2011, 5:59 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • slate v
    A weekly Dear Prudence video. (VIDEO)
    Sep 19, 2011, 1:44 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
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