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John Edwards Has Life-Threatening Condition, Doctors Say
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Moneybox
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Weigel
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XX Factor
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Brow Beat
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The Reckoning
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Future Tense
A citizen’s guide to the future from Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State.
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Today's Doonesbury
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The Explainer
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The Presidential Horse Race
What the GOP campaign would look like if it were an actual horse race.
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The Mouse Trap
The dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease.
By Daniel Engber
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Robot Invasion
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Permanent Record
The surprising stories I uncovered in a trove of report cards from the 1920s.
By Paul Lukas
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Stop Putting Two Spaces After a Period
It's totally, absolutely, indefensibly wrong.
By Farhad Manjoo
TOP STORIES
- Friday, January 13, 2012
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“Ron Paul Is My Homeboy”
Why the candidate appeals to men under 30.
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NFL 2011
Everyone thinks the underdog Giants will beat the Packers.
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Romney and Bain, Doctors Who Cheat On Tests, and $100,000 Bus Shelters
This week’s top MuckReads from ProPublica.
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The Obamas
The Obamas: They’re just like us!
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The Head Made of Green Cheese Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about Jodi Kantor’s new book The Obamas, the New Hampshire primary, and a Supreme Court case on religious freedom in employment.
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So Much Hot Air
Negotiators achieved yet another hollow “breakthrough” in the latest round of climate talks.
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The Other Film Critic at The New Yorker
Penelope Gilliatt split reviewing duties in the 1970s with the famous Pauline Kael. Her career took a very different turn.
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Corrections
Slate's mistakes.
- Thursday, January 12, 2012
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Compassion. Loyalty. Revenge. Money.
The real reasons political leaders grant pardons.
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Contraband
A nonsensical heist movie partially made up for by liberal Wahlberg shirtlessness.
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What Type of Clergy Get the Highest Salaries?
A priest, a rabbi, and an imam walk into a bar. Who buys the drinks?
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NFL 2011
What we can learn about football (and Bill Belichick) from "The Belestrator."
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I Said Mad Men, Not Mad Money!
Companies like Apple want to replace the TV remote with voice recognition. There’s got to be a better way.
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Not Just a Bunch of Mitt Romneys
A new survey reveals that Mormons’ beliefs aren’t always what you’d predict.
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The DoubleX Gabfest: The Kitten Calendar Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about Caitlin Flanagan’s Girl Land, Rick Santorum’s anti-abortion rhetoric, and Babyoncé.
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An Invisible Woman Taught Me German
Try this amazing and free online language course.
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Schoolgirl Fantasy
My boyfriend wants me to call him "Daddy" during sex. Gross!
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- Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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The Great Gitmo Blackout
The 10th anniversary of Guantanamo Bay and whether we should remember about forgetting.
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“The Dancingest Denomination”
How do Mormons celebrate?
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I’m Not Here To Make Friends
Google’s disastrous decision to muck up its search results with stuff from your social network.
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Fire Congress, Dump Mississippi and Alaska
How a private-equity firm would refurbish the United States for quick resale to China.
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Are You There, Are You There, Chelsea?
Chelsea Handler’s new sitcom, reviewed.
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It’s Time for the U.N. To Admit Palestine
Who won the Intelligence Squared debate, and how.
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The Truth About Epidurals
Are they really so bad?
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See No Evil
Justice Clarence Thomas rehabilitates an eyewitness who may not have seen anything.
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Girl Trouble
What Caitlin Flanagan’s new book Girl Land gets wrong about girls.
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NFL 2011
Let the Jets’ mutiny against Mark Sanchez begin.
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The Culture Gabfest, “Flexuous Brainsicle” Edition
Listen to Slate's show about House of Lies, the dangers of yoga, and the closing of Filene’s Basement.
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Encounters With Arianna
The most important moment of my career happened in the back of a town car with Arianna Huffington … and a film crew.
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The End of Cred
Rick Ross isn’t the gangster he says he is, but his fans don’t mind in the least.
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Good Enough
Romney wins solidly in New Hampshire. Will the victory finally persuade conservatives to support him?
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- Tuesday, January 10, 2012
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Ifs, Ands, and Butts
The Supreme Court gets the full-monty treatment.
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Why Are Smart People Usually Ugly?
An answer to the Explainer's 2011 Question of the Year.
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The Year of Microsoft
How the former tech giant can reclaim its throne in 2012.
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Vote for the Callous Jerk!
At Bain Capital, Mitt Romney was a cold, ruthless destroyer of jobs and families. Does America need someone like that in the White House?
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Hang Up and Listen: The Tide Rolls the Honey Badger Edition
A special edition of Slate’s sports podcast on Alabama’s BCS title game victory over LSU.
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Résumé Robbed
What to do when a colleague steals your job title and description for her LinkedIn profile.
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High Stakes
Do campaign signs work?
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
How lousy are those trench scenes?
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Free Willy
Should prison inmates have the right to masturbate?
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My Friend’s Fiancé Won’t Get a Divorce From His First Wife
He keeps making excuses, and it’s driving me crazy.
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- Monday, January 9, 2012
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New GOP Slogan: Down With Greed!
Will voters buy the new Republican attacks on Romney’s business record?
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Bain of His Existence
GOP rivals level new and surprisingly devastating attacks on Romney’s business record.
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Mess With Texas
The Supreme Court wrangles a runaway Texas redistricting case.
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Spy Games
Does the CIA really make video-game propaganda?
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Small Companies, Big Credit Problems
How banks’ reluctance to make small-business loans is a major driver of sluggish recovery, and what to do about it.
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Hang Up and Listen: The Tebow Is Stranger Than Fiction Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on the Broncos’ shocking playoff win and Chad Harbach’s novel The Art of Fielding.
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The Movie Club
The complicated hugs of Ralph Fiennes.
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Dear Prudence: Deep Sleep Sex
A weekly Dear Prudence video.
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
Why on earth is Matthew Crawley going off to war?
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Wife’s Best Friend Is Hubby’s Worst Enemy
In a live chat, Prudie advises a man whose wife’s best buddy is out to “destroy” him.
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Remember Sunday? Wasn’t Sunday Great?
The new CBS This Morning, with Charlie Rose and Gayle King, traffics in nostalgia for yesteryear and yesterday.
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Slate’s Accepting Applications
Slate is looking for a jack-of-all-trades paid intern.
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NFL 2011
Are NFL coaches getting smarter about fourth-down strategy?
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All the Young Dudes
A posthumous memoir goes behind the scenes at the celebrated publisher of Burroughs, Lawrence, and Malcolm X.
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Hand-Wringing on Health Care
Supporters of Obama’s health care act should stop second-guessing the way it was drafted.
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No One Can Win the Future
It's wrong to pit U.S. and Chinese scientists against each other in a research arms race.
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The Most Worthless Week in Tech
The case against the Consumer Electronics Show.
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Make Me a Baby As Fast As You Can
How a California surrogacy operation streamlines baby production by implanting clients’ embryos in two Indian surrogates at the same time.
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- Sunday, January 8, 2012
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NFL 2011
Why the Steelers lost to Tim Tebow.
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
Sir Richard wants Lady Mary to be the Wendi Deng to his Rupert Murdoch.
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My Baloney Has a First Name, It’s M-I-T-T
Will Newt Gingrich’s attack on Mitt Romney’s “pious baloney” change the New Hampshire race?
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The Great Republican Humor Crisis of 2012
Why is this crop of presidential candidates so incredibly unfunny?
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Weird but Not Wonderful
Lionel Shriver reviews Miranda July’s It Chooses You.
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Romney’s Great Escape
The front-runner skates through Saturday night’s debate unscathed.
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- Saturday, January 7, 2012
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Jon vs. Ron
Huntsman was the GOP’s great moderate hope. Now he can’t win liberal voters away from … Ron Paul?
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Taking Stock of Romney, Banishing Pepper, and Folding Marilyn Monroe’s Pants
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
