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Today's Doonesbury
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The Explainer
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The Slate Book Review
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NFL 2012
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The Louie TV Club
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The Breaking Bad TV Club
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Mad Men
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Why You Hate Cyclists
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Prog Spring
The brief rise and inevitable fall of the world’s most hated pop music.
By David Weigel
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Blogging the Human Genome
Weird, wonderful stories about each of your 23 chromosomes.
By Sam Kean
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The Wedding
The unlikely story of America’s first gay military union.
By Katherine Goldstein
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The Chickens and the Bulls
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My Molesters
I was sexually assaulted three times before age 20. Here’s why I never told anyone.
By Emily Yoffe
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How To Make a Viral Hit in Four Easy Steps
The secret to BuzzFeed’s monster online success.
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No More Strapless Wedding Gowns!
They're unflattering, unsophisticated, and annoyingly ubiquitous.
By Katherine Goldstein
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The Crisis in American Walking
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Death in Yellowstone
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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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Where’s _why?
What happened when one of the most unusual, beloved programmers disappeared.
By Annie Lowrey
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The Conversion
How, when, and why Mitt Romney changed his mind on abortion.
By William Saletan
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The Greatest Paper Map of the U.S.
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Slate Writers on Facebook and Twitter
Follow John Dickerson, Emily Yoffe, and the rest of your favorite Slate writers on social media.
TOP STORIES
- Monday, October 1, 2012
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Stop Pagination Now
Why websites should not make you click and click and click for the full story.
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“I’ve Barely Prepared for This Debate. Gonna Wing It!”—Mitt Romney
The race to lower expectations.
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Bad Therapy
California outlawed gay conversion therapy. Are other kinds of therapy illegal?
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Torture Inc.
The Supreme Court term begins with a knotty human rights claim against big oil.
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A Ray of Hope
Why today was a good day for Mitt Romney.
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A Ray of Hope
Why today was a good day for Barack Obama.
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How Much Money Do the Boy Scouts Have?
A mini-Explainer on how the Scouts cover sex abuse liabilities.
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How Does Live Television Censorship Work?
A mini-Explainer on bleeps, pixels, and the seven-second delay.
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NFL 2012
Was the Panthers' fourth-down decision dumb enough to change the NFL's punt-to-win philosophy?
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Smile for the Camera
The long lost photos of the Supreme Court at work—and what they reveal.
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Truth and Consequences
In a live chat, Prudie advises a woman pressured into an affair by her boss, who’s now running for office. Should she go public with her story?
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How To Measure for a President
The hardest attribute to gauge is a candidate’s temperament. How can we peer inside?
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Homeland, Season 2
Carrie is a mix of Chicken Little and Fox Mulder.
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Dexter, Season 7
Dexter murders people to cope with office stress. Why can't I try that?
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Private Music
Most of what I know about myself, I’ve learned from playing the work of Robert Schumann.
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The Mockery Feminists
Feminism used to be deadly earnest. Today it’s funny, sarcastic, and ironic. What happened?
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If Woodward and Bernstein Were Bulgarian
An excerpt from Andy Greenberg’s This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim To Free the World’s Information.
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A Conversation With Joe Dante
Why the Gremlins director’s new horror movie took three years to make it to theaters—even though it’s great.
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Wrong Number
The crucial Ohio voting battle you haven't heard about.
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Introducing Political Kombat '12
The presidential campaign told as a series of video game fights.
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Where Does It Come From?
Why traceability is the next great challenge in manufacturing.
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Return to Sender
What undeliverable mail can teach us about economic growth.
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- Sunday, September 30, 2012
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Homeland, Season 2
June Thomas and Asra Q. Nomani discuss the season premiere.
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Dexter, Season 7
Is Dexter feeling emotions, deeper than ever before?
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The Brains Behind the Eyes on Mars
What are the Mars Curiosity rover’s cameras looking for?
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- Saturday, September 29, 2012
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Why Is Romney Campaigning on Medical Quackery?
He's going after the ultimate niche voter: Virginia’s Lyme disease conspiracy theorists.
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Floating Cities? Bon Voyage, Rich Libertarians.
Seasteads will be communes for the wealthy.
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The Longform Guide to Sea Creatures
Keiko, Nessie, and giant squids: a collection of stories on animals from the deep.
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Bacon Shortages, Free Speech, and the Making of a President
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
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- Friday, September 28, 2012
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A Suicide Gone Viral
Fox News accidentally showed a man killing himself on live TV. BuzzFeed decided to share it with the world.
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We’ll Always Have Dan Rather
Conservatives gather in D.C. to mock the media and panic about Romney.
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Why Barclays Center? Why Not Nets Center?
A brief history of stadiums being named after corporations.
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The Deep Blue Sea
I ignored this movie for far too long. Don’t make the same mistake.
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A Ray of Hope
Why today was a good day for Barack Obama.
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A Ray of Hope
Why today was a good day for Mitt Romney
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Abolish the Minimum Wage
And Slate readers' other compelling ideas for reinventing American manufacturing.
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Louie, Season 3
Is it real, is it a dream, or is it whatever the third choice would be?
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Hate-Speech Hypocrites
How can we ban hate speech against Jews while defending mockery of Muslims?
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The Media Is Skewing the Polls Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about Romney’s challenges heading into the debates, alleged liberal bias in the media, and an update on tight Senate races.
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How To Leak a Secret in Bulgaria
An excerpt from Andy Greenberg’s This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim To Free the World’s Information.
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Looper
Joseph Gordon-Levitt meets his future-self, and he’s Bruce Willis.
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Sidelined
Why are there still no women coaching men’s sports? And why don’t we care?
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Don’t Let Them Disenfranchise You
Can Democratic organizers use voter ID laws to mobilize outraged supporters?
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What’s the Difference Between Life and Death?
We’re fretting too much about the distinction.
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Play the Slate News Quiz
With Jeopardy! superchampion Ken Jennings.
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Help! I Missed My Friend’s Big News on Facebook
Slate’s Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe on how to deal with the digital equivalent of missing the memo
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Avengers Assemble!
How Marvel went from Hollywood also-ran to mastermind of a $1 billion franchise.
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How To Measure for a President
Mitt Romney doesn’t give a great speech. No matter. A president’s ability to persuade has always been overrated.
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Corrections
Slate's mistakes.
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- Thursday, September 27, 2012
- Wednesday, September 26, 2012
- Tuesday, September 25, 2012