Briefing
- Perry campaign: What happens back home when the governor goes on the trail?
- Muammar Qaddafi is using Scud missiles. Why do so many dictators do the same?
- Rick Perry carries a gun while running. How does that work?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- To Rick Perry, which is worse—an atheist or a Muslim?
- Autofellatio, How to Write Faster, and the Tiniest Countries: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Copycat: Where does the term come from?
- College tours: When did applicants start visiting universities?
- Why are Londoners using baseball bats instead of cricket bats in the riots?
- Does it matter to a company if its stocks lose value?
- Is it important for a golfer to have a great caddie?
- Jumping the White House fence: Why is it so easy?
- A-Rod's poker game is illegal. Is mine, too?
- Can a heat wave make you insane?
- Somalia famine: When does large-scale hunger become a famine, and who decides?
- How they run clinical trials of contraceptives.
- The Kings of Leon canceled their summer tour citing Caleb Followill's exhaustion, but is that an acutal medical diagnosis?
- How nonpartisan is the Congressional Budget Office?
- Slate is looking for a photo/art intern. Here's how to apply.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- How much money is in the federal bank account? These two graphs, updated daily, tell the story.
- Slate is looking for a part-time culture blogger. Here's how to apply.
- Longform.org's guide to the geniuses of haute couture: Five incredible reads about the eccentric men of high fashion.
- Thomas the Imperialist Tank Engine, Christian terrorism and debtpocalypse: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Watermelon seeds: What's the difference between the white and black ones?
- Patent Trolls, Drug Cartels, and Kidney Transplant Patients: This Week's Top MuckReads from ProPublica.
- Did Amy Winehouse die from going cold turkey?
- Slate internships: intern for The Slatest.
- Does Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser, Nafissatou Diallo, have the most common surname in Guinea?
- Amy Winehouse rehab: Can you force someone to get substance-abuse treatment?
- Norway killing spree: Questions about political youth camps, Christian martyrs, and confirmed death tolls.
- Slate on Google+: Google plus accounts of Slate writers.
- Cranky little bastards, carmageddon, and Bachmann's "ex-lesbian" friend: the week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Why Do We Call the Gang of Six a "Gang"?
- Corporations crafting legislation, cheating cops, and how your credit score is made: This week's top MuckReads from ProPublica.
- Michele Bachmann's headaches: Why are migraines more common in women?
- Slate's new, improved iPhone app has slide shows, and lets you save stuff, and doesn't crash. And it's free.
- Phone hacking scandal: Could Sir Paul Stephenson lose his knighthood?
- Slate's hiring: Associate producer for video and podcasting.
- Does the federal government ever bounce a check?
- The Brain Fag Syndrome, Cuddly Men and Harry Potter Virgins: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- World Cup, Stanley Cup, America's Cup: What's with all the dishware trophies?
- Credit rating inflation: The United States might sink all the way to double-A.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Slate is looking for fall interns in D.C. and New York.
- Are dogs willing to eat the remains of their masters?
- Will climate change make the planet more humid, or just hotter?
- Do pilots have a preference between Boeing and Airbus?
- The great recession: Why are men gaining jobs more quickly than women?
- Driverless cars, Gaza's five-star hotel and the decline of summer jobs: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Silica gel: What happens if I eat it?
- Tabloid phone-hacking scandal: Could it happen here?
- Casey Anthony claims she buried her drowned daughter in the woods. Is DIY burial legal?
- Arab Spring: Join Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State for a "Future Tense" discussion about technology, social media, and democracy.
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn's dark, dark eyebrows.
- Slate paid internship: we're hiring an intern specializing in social media and news writing.
- Gay Bars, Sharkonomics, and Living on Groupon
- Fourth of July cookouts: a very brief history.
- How do you choreograph a fireworks show?
- Can fireworks cause a city to violate clean-air standards?
- Corrections from the last week.
- The Moneymaker effect: How online poker got so popular.
- Tom Petty vs. Michele Bachmann: Can he make her quit playing "American Girl"?
- Can Charlie Sheen take back his Mercedes from Natalie Kenly?
- Supreme Court video game ruling: Is it worse for a child to see pornography or graphic violence?
- Doctor shortage: Why can't we just churn out more physicians?
- The Longform.org Guide to Fugitives
- Angry yuppie parents, breast-pumping addicts, and Jose Antonio Vargas: The week's most interesting Slatestories.
- H&H Bagels closes: What makes New York City bagels so superior?
News & Politics
- Perry campaign: What happens back home when the governor goes on the trail?
- Will Rupert Murdoch's editorialists at the Wall Street Journal revisit the phone-hacking scandal?
- 2012 Primaries: Google search terms for Romney, Bachmann, and Gingrich.
- UK riots: Violence and destruction didn't start with the current round of cuts.
- Rick Perry campaign: When it comes to policy, he is both confident and tentative.
- Muammar Qaddafi is using Scud missiles. Why do so many dictators do the same?
- Leaving Behind "No Child Left Behind": Michele Bachmann and the changing Republican education agenda.
- Wolf Blitzer of CNN, the dullest journalist in the world.
- The Ron Paul effect: Why Republicans like Rick Perry feel comfortable criticizing Ben Bernanke.
- Murdoch's phone-hacking scandal produces new evidence.
- Obama's FDR moment: What the president should do about housing and unemployment.
- Rick Perry carries a gun while running. How does that work?
- Rick Perry on Ben Bernanke: Now the candidate is trying to temper his swagger.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- The Tea Party's revolt undermines the private sector more than it reins in "big government."
- To Rick Perry, which is worse—an atheist or a Muslim?
- Lean Six Sigma: Mike George's sitcom-approved idea for making the federal government more efficient.
- Rick Perry in Iowa: The Texas governor meets the voters.
- Iowa straw poll: Michele Bachmann wins, and the GOP presidential campaign kicks into a new phase.
- Little girl found: An abandoned baby on the streets of Shanghai.
- Autofellatio, How to Write Faster, and the Tiniest Countries: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Republicans swoon for Sarah Palin at the Iowa State Fair.
- Copycat: Where does the term come from?
- Shady doctors in California and more untested rape kits: This week's top MuckReads from ProPublica.
- Republicans 2012: Mitt Romney survives the third GOP debate.
- College tours: When did applicants start visiting universities?
- The GOP's war on the NLRB isn't just about airplanes and unions.
- Have the Arab uprisings made Israel less secure?
- John Chambers of S&P is an old friend of mine. You know him as a villain. I know him as a damn good reader of Milton.
- Mitt Romney in Iowa: A low-key campaign to befriend every businessman in the state.
- Bloggers who aren't parasites! An academic finds a species of blogger that pulls its weight.
- Tim Pawlenty in Iowa: Staying bland and playing it safe.
- London riots: Why are Britons rioting?
- London riots: England's novelists and filmmakers saw the riots coming. Why didn't its politicians?
- Tina Brown ridicules Michele Bachmann on the cover of Newsweek but humiliates herself.
- Michele Bachmann in Iowa: Unrepentant about her vote against raising the debt ceiling.
- London riots: "Social exclusion" is a real problem, but it doesn't excuse looting and lawlessness.
- Top Right: Introducing Slate's list of the 25 Americans who best combine inventive genius and practicality.
- Jonathan Gruber, Professor of Economics, MIT
- Michael Crow, the university president who is trying to remake the American public university.
- Marine Gen. James Mattis is fighting a constant battle to keep the military innovating.
- Janette Sadik-Khan, New York's transportation commissioner, cuts through the gridlock to build a greener city.
- David Bossie: How Citizens United changed the American political campaign.
- The Top Right in Government: Slate selects five American leaders who are both wildly inventive and incredibly practical.
- An appeals court allows a suit against Donald Rumsfeld to go forward.
- Standard & Poor's credit downgrade: Downgrade decisions are almost always political.
- Standard & Poor's credit downgrade: A mandate for moderation.
- Rick Perry leads prayers for jobs, becomes the great Republican hope.
- Fake Facebook Birthdays, Obama's Baby Electorate and Unhealthy Antioxidants: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Can the debt-deal supercommittee raise taxes?
- Medicaid Moguls, Destroying Evidence, and the Madoff of the Midwest: This week's top MuckReads from ProPublica.
- Jumping the White House fence: Why is it so easy?
- Kazakhstan's rapid rise and uncertain future.
- A-Rod's poker game is illegal. Is mine, too?
- Why can't we just vote on whether we pray to Jesus at legislative sessions?
- Nancy Pelosi on the nihilist GOP: Her plan to fight back against the Republicans.
- Debt-ceiling crisis: The debacle revealed that politics is broken in every possible way, and that there is no point in explaining complicated matters to the American people.
- Obama and children: How the president's most uninhibited constituents react when they meet him.
- Debt-ceiling deal: Do military budget cuts threaten our security?
- Shareholder activism: A shocking D.C. court decision that stops shareholders from nominating independent, new corporate directors.
- Can a heat wave make you insane?
- Somalia famine: When does large-scale hunger become a famine, and who decides?
- Famine in the Horn of Africa: The human face of drought and famine.
- Debt-ceiling deal: Why the GOP victory was a generational defeat for liberals.
- The Kings of Leon canceled their summer tour citing Caleb Followill's exhaustion, but is that an acutal medical diagnosis?
- How nonpartisan is the Congressional Budget Office?
- Torture: The conversation we should have had 10 years ago.
Arts
- Senna reviewed: a riveting Formula One documentary about the purity of sport.
- The Back to the Future mystery: Do we really know why Doc and Marty McFly were friends?
- How the Chinese edition of my book about the periodic table got such a risqué cover.
- The Hour reviewed: Ben Whishaw, Romola Garai, and Dominic West in a Mad Men-like drama set at the BBC in 1956.
- Phillip Lim, Fashion Designer
- Jonathan Ive, Apple: "A computer absolutely can be sexy."
- Jeanne Gang, Architect
- Ben Fry, Information Designer
- Blu Dot co-founders John Christakos and Maurice Blanks make durable, delightful furniture affordable.
- Slate selects five American designers who are both wildly inventive and incredibly practical.
- "Body of Dreams"
- Willard Sterne Randall's Ethan Allen:How much did land greed shape the American Revolution?
- The joy of watching concerts on morning television.
- Aziz Ansari interview: The 30 Minutes or Less star talks slim-cut suits, Twitter, and Tom Haverford's future.
- 30 Minutes or Less reviewed: One of the great disappointments of my cinematic year.
- Tom Perrotta, Francine Prose, and others on "great books" that aren't great.
- The Help reviewed: A feel-good movie that feels kind of icky.
- Hillbilly Handfishin' reviewed: Come along on this redneck safari.
- Watch the Throne: Who is more grossly materialistic, Kanye or Jay-Z?
- How to write faster.
- Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad: The Slate Audio Book Club for August.
- I watched every Coen brothers movie.
- What is the best Coen brothers movie?
- The short films and ad work of the Coen brothers.
- "Scrub Jays"
- Nicholson Baker's House of Holes: How entranced is American culture by pornography?
- Who stole the Mona Lisa? The world's most famous art heist, 100 years on.
- Author awarded damages for a "malicious" review.
- Lucille Ball: never-before-published images (PHOTOS).
- Jersey Shore Season 4 reviewed: Snooki is in Italy.
- The Change-Up reviewed: Ready for another icky sex comedy?
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes reviewed: an animal-rights manifesto disguised as a prison-break movie.
- Responding to William Pannapacker: Humanities grad students strike back.
- Beijing Welcomes You: What Chinese people are like.
- When security concerns trump architectural grace.
- Celebrity Rehab 2011: I watch it. You should too.
- Tracy Daugherty's Just One Catch and Erica Heller's Yossarian Slept Here: Was Joseph Heller the last of a breed?
- Catch-22: The awful truth people miss about Heller's great novel.
- Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America—interview with author Jeff Ryan.
- "Ghazal of the Goats"
- Martin Amis in Brooklyn: A few local tips for the tennis player and famous author.
- Lunch with Angelina Jolie.
- Almost cast: Who lost iconic roles? (PHOTOS)
- Cowboys & Aliens reviewed: Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford lasso extraterrestrials.
- Blue Smurfs and green Ninja Turtles: The cartoon-character color wheel.
- Should You See Crazy, Stupid, Love?
- Hey, that's my grandpa! A gallery of people rediscovered by relatives generations later on Flickr (PHOTOS).
- Same Name reviewed: watch the still-big-in-Germany David Hasselhoff switch places with a regular David Hasselhoff.
- The Search for Animal Chin: Without Stacy Peralta's path-breaking, kick-flipping skate movie, there would be no X Games.
- My Infamous Life: The audio book of Prodigy's memoir might be the best rap album of the year.
- Amy Winehouse: Why her music will last.
- Thomas the Tank Engine: The popular children's show is sadly nostalgic for British imperialism.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Keats, and the race to make the most of a short life.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone of The Book of Mormon reinvigorated the musical.
- Richard Martin and Meagan Hennessey, Archeophone Records: Helping us rethink popular music.
- Tina Fey, 30 Rock creator and Saturday Night Live queen, solved comedy's women problem by fighting chauvinism with funny.
- Lauren Dolgen, creator of 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom, makes advocacy TV that works.
- Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games trilogy author, is innovative because her dark, bloodthirsty books upend our notions of what young adult fiction should be.
- The Top Right in Culture: Slate selects five American entrepreneurs who are both wildly inventive and incredibly practical.
- Ryan Gosling interview: His definition of manhood, why John Hughes movies make him crave violence, and why his doctor told him to make a comedy after filming Blue Valentine.
- The El Bulli dish-name generator.
- Christopher Krebs' A Most Dangerous Book: How did Tacitus' Germania give Germans such bad ideas?
- Celebrity lifestyle gurus: Can they build brands that outlive their showbiz careers?
- Relativity's Ryan Kavanaugh: His meteoric rise and possible fall.
- Cranky little bastards, carmageddon, and Bachmann's "ex-lesbian" friend: the week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Bar Rescue reviewed: Can a sad sports bar be saved?
- Friends With Benefits reviewed: Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis have raunchy softcore sex in astronomically large New York apartments.
- Friends With Benefits: In Hollywood, there's no such thing as platonic friendship.
- Captain America reviewed: the best superhero movie of the summer.
- WTC 9/11: The real problem with putting a photo of the 9/11 attacks on the cover of Steve Reich's new album from Nonesuch.
- "Happy Birthday to You" copyright: Does the most infamous and resented copyright in musical history hold up to scrutiny?
- Three Golden Rules for book reviewing: What are they?
- Food TV: Which cooking show is best?
- Lisa Kudrow's Web Therapy reviewed: A shrink who does three-minute sessions via iChat.
- Lisa Kudrow interview: Web Therapy, women in comedy, pleasures of genealogy.
- Horns, harps, and hubcaps: The classical orchestra needs some new instruments.
- "Boy on Crutches"
- Friday Night Lights: Series finale: "It's my turn."
- David S. Reynolds' Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America: Did Harriet Beecher Stowe's book really start the Civil War?
- Michelin Guides: Can the once-revered restaurant bible become relevant again?
- The Brain Fag Syndrome, Cuddly Men and Harry Potter Virgins: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Longform.org's guide to castaways: six epic tales of tragedy and survival on the open seas.
- The Outdoor Channel reviewed: Imagine an entire network devoted to dogs jumping off of docks.
- Roseanne's Nuts reviewed: Roseanne Barr's new reality series is the second-worst show on television.
Life
- Estate sales: Intriguing and bizarre items on display. (PHOTOS)
- Slang tenacity: What makes words stick?
- Dear Prudence: My in-laws want to know all about my wretched childhood.
- A solution from hell: The perils of humanitarian intervention.
- Slate's advice columnist Prudence counsels a woman with a co-worker who treats her like a child.
- How Rick Warren made it big.
- Longform.org's Guide to Quarterbacks: Five incredible stories about playing the hardest position in pro sports.
- The Earl of Sandwich and other people who gave rise to common words. (PHOTOS)
- Tony Plush, Nyjer Morgan: Finding redemption through a baseball player's gentleman alter ego.
- A brief history of the bikini. (PHOTOS)
- Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Liechtenstein: A tour of Europe's small countries. (PHOTOS)
- Dear Prudence: I was a chronic liar.
- Why are Londoners using baseball bats instead of cricket bats in the riots?
- Spoiled food: Could it be safe to eat?
- The Makeni Children: Americans adopted 29 children from Sierra Leone in 1998. Their birth families say they were stolen.
- Friend or Foe: My ex-sorority sister acts like a drunken toddler.
- Is it important for a golfer to have a great caddie?
- Why we should shorten the month of August.
- Dear Prudence: My boyfriend had sex with an older woman when he was 12.
- Pisco recipes: How to drink the South American clear grape brandy.
- Longform.org's Guide to Siblings: Five exceptional stories about exceptionally close brothers and sisters.
- Sports ticket prices are collapsing. Is that good news for fans?
- Condolence notes and casseroles: How to help friends in mourning.
- Dear Prudence: I regret becoming a swinger.
- Nutella lawsuit: Why it's bunk.
- In honor of Obama's 50th birthday, an investigation into why people get happier after middle age.
- Hideki Irabu death: The Japanese pitcher's sad road in America.
- Dear Prudence chat: I regret adopting my baby.
- The diverging diamond interchange: A new kind of intersection eliminates dangerous, time-wasting left turns completely.
- Inside Match.com: It's all about the algorithm.
- Watermelon seeds: What's the difference between the white and black ones?
- Book clubs in America: Why do we love them so much?
- Dear Prudence: I'm dating a potential pervert.
- Aged rum: It deserves more respect.
- How to fix higher education.
- NFL concussion lawsuit: How the NFL is like Big Tobacco.
- Um, uh, ah: In praise of verbal stumbles.
- Friend or Foe: My friend is dating her jerky married boss.
- Dear Prudence live chat: My friends are mean girls.
- New York gay marriage photos: scenes of same-sex couples outside the Manhattan courthouse.
- A history of air conditioning.
- Predator priest: Thirty years ago, this Father molested their brother. Now they want justice.
- Movies about summer camp: Why they've steadily gotten worse since Friday the 13th, Part 2.
- Chambers Street Wines: the greatest wine retailer in America.
- Steve Buscemi won't fix his teeth: Meet the other celebrities who refuse to get in the dentist's chair (PHOTOS).
- "Happy Birthday to You" copyright: Does the most infamous and resented copyright in musical history hold up to scrutiny?
Business & Tech
- Why Obama gets so much love on the Internet
- AudioNote, Notability, and SoundNote note-taking apps, reviewed.
- Downgrade for U.S., but no downgrade for France
- U.S. Postal Service: Will it survive?
- Google cable box: Why the search company won't be able to fix your set-top device.
- Banning incandescent light bulbs isn't the smartest way to tackle global warming.
- Portraits of the best real-world problem solvers in America. (PHOTOS)
- Google's Motorola Mobility acquisition will make it more like Apple.
- Construction Workers: Why a sharp drop in unemployment is not good news.
- Universal broadband should be about control, not just access.
- Is capitalism doomed?
- The Fed, computer trading, and hedge funds: Do they rule the market
- Cyberwar definition: Vote on which scenarios you think qualify as acts of war.
- Cyberwar: The defense community can't figure out how to define it.
- Groupon IPO: Could the company really be worth $30 billion?
- Booting up: Three cheers for computers that start instantly.
- Restaurant websites: Why are they so awful? Which ones are the absolute worst?
- Corporate profits: Can the economy's last bright spot continue to shine?
- Does it matter to a company if its stocks lose value?
- Double-dip recession: European banks and American politicians are both making big mistakes.
- 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web: We dug up some baby pictures. (PHOTOS)
- Double-dip recession: Why our current economic malaise is going to be hard to shake.
- Why the financial markets are tanking.
- Google Instant Pages: Why your computer should be able to read your mind.
- Dollar stores and the recession: You know the economy is in bad shape when customers say dollar stores are too expensive.
- Airbnb horror stories: The vacation rental site reveals the limits of trust online.
- S&P, Moody's, and Fitch: Why are they so hard to kill?
- Fake Facebook Birthdays: What happened when I celebrated my Facebook birthday on July 11. And July 25. And July 28.
Science
- Pheromones, body care products, and sexual attraction: Don't believe the hype.
- Do birth control pills make women gain weight?
- Bird homes: a look at some of the most incredible nests in the world.
- Twin reduction abortions: Why do they trouble pro-choicers?
- IVF: In defense of multiple embryo transfers
- A photo gallery of crop circles. (PHOTOS)
- How soon does a bike pay back its initial carbon footprint?
- Autofellatio: The contorted history.
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes: a review of brain-boosting research.
- Endometriosis treatment: My medically induced menopause.
- Can India and Pakistan overcome decades of mistrust to save the crucial Indus Waters Treaty?
- Why doctors don't like to talk about antioxidants.
- How they run clinical trials of contraceptives.
- Sex selection in the United States: The ethical dilemmas for doctors.
- Mobile health: Should the FDA regulate smartphone medical apps?
- Telomere tests: the buzzy new DNA analyses that claim to reveal how "old" our bodies really are.
- Sifting through the risks and benefits of coffee.
- Why do dogs rub up against things that smell bad?
- Naked body scanners and Automated Target Recognition: A comeback for privacy?
- As Atlantis returns from its last mission, a guide to NASA's orange space suits.
- Probiotics: the pros and cons.
- DSK and Anne Mansouret: Did Strauss-Kahn have brutal sex with Tristane Banon's mother?
- Why aren't the oldest living people getting any older?
- Centipedes: a life story.
- Arab Spring Internet revolutions: Are Twitter and Facebook toppling dictators?
- Is Marcus Bachmann gay? Dan Savage and Jon Stewart think gaydar answers the question. They're wrong.
- Tiered medicine: Should slacker patients get special treatment?
- Are dogs willing to eat the remains of their masters?
- Will climate change make the planet more humid, or just hotter?
- Obama's environmental record: Has the president been a successful steward of the environment?
- Men prefer cuddling, promiscuity makes you unhappy, and other fishy scientific claims.
- Weeds: They're more useful than you think. (PHOTOS)
- Brain fags and other mental problems you probably won't get in America.
- Robot-apocalypse jokes need to become serious discussions about robot safety.
- Surgically implanted bombs: The terrorist strategy to evade airport scanners.
- Annual pelvic exams: The case for getting rid of them.
- Did Dominique Strauss-Kahn Try To Rape Tristane Banon?
- Social contagions debunked: Reports of infectious obesity and divorce were grossly overstated.
- Strauss-Kahn's accuser discredited: A victory for corroboration and justice.
- Can fireworks cause a city to violate clean-air standards?
- Drones and the War Powers Resolution: Obama says drone war doesn't need congressional approval.
- Shark's fin soup, China, and the GDP: Why protecting sharks is good for the economy.
- Debating the dodo verdict: Does one form of psychotherapy work better than another?
- Doctor shortage: Why can't we just churn out more physicians?
- Breast cancer science: New reports show that federal policy on chemicals testing neglects breast health.
- Reclaiming skepticism: Scientists fight back against climate change deniers.
- The Al Gore eugenics conspiracy theory: How my 1-minute YouTube clip became a right-wing sensation.
- Drones and the CIA: Can we wage a global war without troops or allies?
- Who's still tracking radiation from Fukushima? And who should we trust?
- A new study should finally convince parents to get their boys vaccinated against HPV—if they don't get distracted by all the twaddle about oral sex.
- Coca-Cola and PepsiCo's plant-based bottles still damage the environment.
- Is it more earth-friendly see movies in a theater or on DVD?
- Organ donations in China: Will official financial incentives starve the black market?
- Abortion vs. assisted suicide: Is Jack Kevorkian just like Kermit Gosnell?
- The best anagram ever, and other silly Periodic Table games.
- Anthony Weiner's cybersex relationships: If it's only online, is it still cheating?
- European E. coli outbreak: A simple taboo underpins the hysteria over a new German E. coli strain.
- Jack Kevorkian was right: Assisted suicide should be legal. But is it moral?
- Do pickles cause cancer?
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn's GPS ankle monitor: Should we let defendants trade jail for electronic tracking?
- Arsenic-based life critiques published. How #arseniclife changed science.
- Daniel Kish uses echolocation to overcome his blindness. That's nothing new.
- Male lactation: Can a 33-year-old guy learn to breast-feed?
- Tornado in Missouri: Why more and more natural disasters are plaguing us, and what we can do about it.
- Are tornadoes environmental disasters?
Podcasts & Video
- "The Help," London riots, and summer reading on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Digital Manner: Who gets to announce your big personal news online?
- Hang Up and Listen on the PGA Championship, Texas A&M, sign-stealing, and profiles of jerky athletes.
- The Gabfest on the Republican presidential debate, liberals losing faith in President Obama, and the current economic turmoil.
- Michele Bachmann's Newsweek cover, international adoption, and a controversial hobo-themed wedding on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the state of the book review, and the return of the '90s on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Digital Manners: Should you pull the buds out of your ears when your beloved is trying to talk to you?
- Hang Up and Listen's first-ever call-in show.
- Dear Prudence: Math Teacher Full of Tangents (VIDEO)
- The Gabfest on the debt ceiling deal, how it affects Republican presidential candidates, and the economy.
- Gastro Lab: Baby Food for Grown-Ups. (VIDEO)
- The tourists who picnicked during the Battle of Bull Run.
- Breaking Bad, Cowboys & Aliens, and the death of painter Lucian Freud on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Digital Manner: Is it right to text while at dinner with your co-workers? What if your boss is doing it too?
- The Gabfest on the debt-ceiling debate, the politically based shootings in Norway, and the bullying of gay students in Minnesota.
- Killer Apps
- Anders Breivik, Amy Winehouse, and the pill for men on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- Marc Maron's WTF podcast, the music service Spotify, and Errol Morris' Tabloid on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Digital Manners: Are some things better expressed NOT on your Facebook page?
- Hang Up and Listen on pro football's return, the Tour de France, and the debate over paying college athletes.
- A grown woman caught in the middle or her parents' messy divorce seeks guidance from Prudence.
- The Gabfest on the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations, Michele Bachmann's migraines, and the scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Google+, and Met exhibit Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Digital Manners: When to leave your smartphone in your pocket.
- Hang Up and Listen on Team USA's Women's World Cup loss to Japan, Craig Robinson's Flip Flop Fly Ball, and Dock Ellis' LSD no-hitter.
- My friend, the klepto? (VIDEO)
- The Gabfest on the debt-ceiling negotiations, Amazon's sales-tax fight in California, and Utah's anti-bigamy laws.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: The Audio Book Club discusses.
- Ultimate Harry Potter recap: Everything you need to know about Hogwarts, Voldemort, Hermione, Snape, and Dumbledore. (VIDEO)
- Betty Ford's legacy, In Spite of Everything by Susan Gregory Thomas, and the Jamie Leigh Jones rape case on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- Jason Zinoman's guide to fixing modern horror, the film industry's fight against online piracy, and the debate over antidepressants on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Men who love My Little Pony: Is that a thing? (VIDEO)
- Digital Manner: What's the protocol when accepting a friend request on Facebook?
- Hang Up and Listen on Team USA's stirring Women's World Cup win, ballpark fatalities, and locked-out NBA players going overseas.
- The Gabfest on a possible breakthrough in debt ceiling talks, the U.K. newspaper scandal, and the collapsing DSK rape case.
- Monogomy and marriage, Ashton Kutcher's fight with the Village Voice, and 4chan's influential message board /b/ on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on the 2011 Women's World Cup, Bill James' career as a baseball writer, and James' book Popular Crime.
- Digital Manners: Should you share your email password with your spouse?
- Dear Prudence: Flatulent Boyfriend (VIDEO)
- The Gabfest on the president's debt ceiling speech, the rise of Michele Bachmann, and a Supreme Court case on the sale of violent video games to kids.
- DoubleX Gabfest: Michele Bachmann; Mac McClelland on sex, violence, and PTSD; and Bad Teacher.
- Gay bars, Susan Saladoff's Hot Coffee, and Internet dating on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
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- Dear Prudence: Imaginary Romance
- Caleb's Crossing: The Audio Book Club discusses Geraldine Brooks' new novel.
- The Gabfest on the president's new Afghanistan strategy, the decision in the Wal-Mart class-action case, and the story of journalist and illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas.
- Page One: Inside the New York Times, libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick, and summer jams to kick-start your day on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Digital Manners: Should I respond if I get someone else's email?
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- The Gabfest on the Republican presidential debate, the president's war powers, and schools punishing students for online actions.
- Casey Anthony trial, men waxing, millennials in therapy on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- J.J. Abrams' Super 8, the blockbuster book Go the F**k to Sleep, and the viral video reviving America's battle over bike lanes on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Cooking Show Money Shots: How TV chefs react to their food. (VIDEO)
- Digital Manners: Declaring you're "In a Relationship"? It's complicated.
- Hang Up and Listen on Mavericks-Heat, the Stanley Cup Finals, and Bill Simmons' Grantland.
- Dear Prudence: Facebook Photo Flub (VIDEO).
- The Gabfest on Anthony Weiner, GOP politics in Iowa, and a possible circumcision ban in San Francisco.
- Male Engagement Gifts: Is That a Thing? (VIDEO)
- Streaming Hitler in a chat room.
- Film Socialisme and other "Cultural Vegetables," MTV's Teen Wolf, and the value of a college education on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Digital Manners: Can I ignore a tweet with my name on it?
- Hang Up and Listen on Heat-Mavericks, Nadal-Federer, and Buster Posey.
- Dear Prudence: Crack Mom (VIDEO).
- Mitt Romney's presidential run, Rep. Anthony Weiner's tweets, and the national economy on this week's Political Gabfest podcast.
- Silvio Berlusconi, Michele Bachmann's and Sarah Palin's potential White House bids, and Boomers aging gracefully on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- Gastro Lab: How to make dessert with potatoes (VIDEO)
- Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life,starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, the death of musician Gil Scott-Heron, and David Mamet's newfound conservatism on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
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- Digital Manners: When is it all right to hide your party's guest list?
- A guy whose trainer has chronic bad breath seeks seeks guidance from Slate's advice columnist, Prudence.
- Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels: The Audio Book Club discusses.
- The Political Gabfest for May 27th, 2011.
- Phoebe Prince case: Flannery Mullins talks to Slate.
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- Digital Manners: Is Facebook the right place to say you want to be more than just friends?
- Hang Up and Listen on the history of ESPN, Comcast's challenge to ESPN, and the latest on the financial troubles of the New York Mets.
- Dear Prudence: My man used to be a tramp. (VIDEO)
- Obama's Middle East speech, the GOP primary race, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- Killer Apps: Beam photos from camera to computer wirelessly!
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- Digital Manners: How Late Is Too Late to Text?
- Hang Up and Listen on Heat-Bulls, Jose Bautista, Rick Welts, and the decline of the sports nickname.
- Dear Prudence: Meddlesome Pediatrician? (VIDEO)
- The Political Gabfest for May 13, 2011.
- 3-D printing? The 3-D craze reaches beyond the screen.
- Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Wesley Yang's New York cover story "Paper Tigers," and the Beastie Boys' new album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Bin Laden dead: "Smashing Crayons" ponders how he might haunt the world in his afterlife.
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- Hang Up and Listen on Heat-Celtics, Robert Lipsyte's An Accidental Sportswriter, and sports and homosexuality.
- A weekly Dear Prudence video.
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- Tornadoes: Watch storm chasers in Mississippi (VIDEO).
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- 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.
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- A weekly Dear Prudence video.
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- Dear Prudence: Pushy lawn mower (VIDEO).
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- 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.
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- 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).
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- 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
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- 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.
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- The Political Gabfest for Feb. 18, 2011.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Hang Up and Listen on the NFL playoffs and the Sports Illustrated series "The Black Athlete: A Shameful Story."
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- 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.
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- 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
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