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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 AM
intelligence squared
Intelligence Squared debate: Do Grandma's benefits imperil Junior's future? Oct. 4 at NYU.
Sep 23, 2011, 3:46 PM
explainer
The supposed health risks of public nudity.
Michael Thomsen
Sep 23, 2011, 12:48 PM
explainer
Does my insurance cover falling satellites?
Brian Palmer
Sep 22, 2011, 6:28 PM
explainer
Georgia is about to execute Troy Davis. How many death sentences are actually carried out?
Brian Palmer
Sep 21, 2011, 5:34 PM
explainer
Suri Cruise is attending a Scientology-influenced school. What's that like?
Brian Palmer
Sep 20, 2011, 4:45 PM
explainer
A short history of toilet-paper marketing.
Daniel Engber
Sep 19, 2011, 4:56 PM
explainer
If a criminal swallows the evidence, how do police get it out of him?
Brian Palmer
Sep 19, 2011, 4:45 PM
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 AM

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 PM
war stories
War in Afghanistan: Which side is Pakistan fighting for?
Fred Kaplan
Sep 23, 2011, 5:00 PM
intelligence squared
Intelligence Squared debate: Do Grandma's benefits imperil Junior's future? Oct. 4 at NYU.
Sep 23, 2011, 3:46 PM
foreigners
Paul Kagame's Rwanda: Can the African nation have peace and prosperity without freedom?
Anne Applebaum
Sep 23, 2011, 1:05 PM
politics
Gary Johnson delivers the best line of the GOP debate and becomes a real candidate.
David Weigel
Sep 23, 2011, 8:24 AM
frame game
The Perry-Romney debates: Romney is from Mars, Perry is from Venus.
William Saletan
Sep 23, 2011, 7:28 AM
politics
Republican presidential debate: The more he debates, the worse Rick Perry gets.
John Dickerson
Sep 23, 2011, 2:06 AM
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 PM
explainer
Does my insurance cover falling satellites?
Brian Palmer
Sep 22, 2011, 6:28 PM
crime
Riots: Violent unrest has swept Europe and the Middle East. Is America next?
Sudhir Venkatesh
Sep 22, 2011, 6:13 PM
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 PM
jurisprudence
Troy Davis case: Will uncertainty in his case lead to uncertainty about the death penalty?
Dahlia Lithwick
Sep 21, 2011, 8:30 PM
politics
Republicans may not like it, but the law says the Fed can do whatever it wants.
David Weigel
Sep 21, 2011, 6:33 PM
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 PM
explainer
Georgia is about to execute Troy Davis. How many death sentences are actually carried out?
Brian Palmer
Sep 21, 2011, 5:34 PM
the middlebrow
Rick Perry: Can he ride the cowboy myth to the White House?
Bryan Curtis
Sep 21, 2011, 4:29 PM
frame game
Rick Perry's Christian Israel policy is a gift to Islamic extremists.
William Saletan
Sep 21, 2011, 8:48 AM
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 PM
politics
Ron Suskind's new book about Obama's failure, and other theories.
David Weigel
Sep 20, 2011, 5:26 PM
jurisprudence
Troy Davis execution set for Sept. 21: case proves the fallibility of eye witnesses.
Brandon L. Garrett
Sep 20, 2011, 3:52 PM
politics
Obama's deficit speech: Can he stay angry until next Election Day?
John Dickerson
Sep 19, 2011, 8:05 PM

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 AM
FT
The MoMA's de Kooning retrospective offers a vivid portrait of a tragic artist.
Ariella Budick
Sep 25, 2011, 8:12 AM
FT
HBO: How it revolutionized television.
Peter Aspden
Sep 24, 2011, 7:14 AM
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 AM
movies
Pearl Jam Twenty reviewed: Cameron Crowe's cloyingly sweet Pearl Jam documentary.
Dana Stevens
Sep 23, 2011, 3:44 PM
television
Pan Am reviewed: ABC's new Jet-Age drama pays delightful attention to detail.
Troy Patterson
Sep 23, 2011, 7:08 AM
movies
Moneyball reviewed: A great sports movie for people who can't stand sports movies.
Dana Stevens
Sep 22, 2011, 6:59 PM
music box
R.E.M breaks up: the band sparked the indie revolution.
Bill Wyman
Sep 22, 2011, 2:44 PM
television
The X Factor reviewed: The heir to American Idol arrives.
Troy Patterson
Sep 22, 2011, 2:39 PM
books
Michael Kazin's American Dreamers: Why has the radical left sabotaged itself so often?
Paul Berman
Sep 21, 2011, 10:24 AM
culturebox
How to consume culture economically: an eight-step guide.
Matthew J.X. Malady
Sep 21, 2011, 7:29 AM
music box
Artistic legacy: the tricky task of preserving an artist's life and work.
Jan Swafford
Sep 20, 2011, 3:09 PM
poem
"Goodbye Billyburg"
Spencer Short
Sep 20, 2011, 6:50 AM
television
New Girl reviewed: Zooey Deschanel brings her niche sex appeal to the small screen.
Troy Patterson
Sep 19, 2011, 7:57 PM
books
Ken Jennings's Maphead: What makes people map obsessives?
Seth Stevenson
Sep 19, 2011, 6:48 AM
FT
Lunch with Michael Moore, controversial documentary filmmaker
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
Sep 18, 2011, 12:31 AM
FT
A Mandarin Mamma Mia! brings Broadway to Shanghai.
Patti Waldmeir
Sep 17, 2011, 7:06 AM
movies
Gainsbourg: Une Vie Héroïque: I'd rather watch Music and Lyrics.
Jody Rosen
Sep 1, 2011, 12:21 PM
tv club
Friday Night Lights: Series finale: "It's my turn."
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and Hanna Rosin
Jul 18, 2011, 6:52 AM

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 AM
longform
Longform.org's Guide to Michael Lewis: His best stories about money and/or balls.
Max Linsky
Sep 23, 2011, 11:21 AM
permanent record
Manhattan Trade School for Girls: Report cards from the 1920s and the stories they tell.
Paul Lukas
Sep 23, 2011, 7:08 AM
well-traveled
Burning Man: An alternate universe without brands or money.
Seth Stevenson
Sep 23, 2011, 7:05 AM
Science
Country collectors: How did wanderlust become a competitive sport?
Ken Jennings
Sep 22, 2011, 5:16 PM
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 AM
dear prudence
Dear Prudence: My husband had a one-night stand.
Emily Yoffe
Sep 22, 2011, 7:03 AM
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 PM
sports nut
NFL 2011: What if HGH could cure Peyton Manning?
Tommy Craggs
Sep 21, 2011, 2:54 PM
sports nut
Moneyball movie: The numbers are good, but the story is still bunk.
David Haglund
Sep 21, 2011, 1:01 PM
drink
Oktoberfest: Try these five delicious styles of German beer.
Mark Garrison
Sep 21, 2011, 10:04 AM
explainer
Suri Cruise is attending a Scientology-influenced school. What's that like?
Brian Palmer
Sep 20, 2011, 4:45 PM
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 PM
the good word
Britishisms: cataloging how they're infecting American English.
Ben Yagoda
Sep 20, 2011, 12:57 PM
friend or foe
Friend or Foe: Should I make my friend shave her head?
Lucinda Rosenfeld
Sep 20, 2011, 6:56 AM
explainer
A short history of toilet-paper marketing.
Daniel Engber
Sep 19, 2011, 4:56 PM
dear prudence
Dear Prudence: My fiance thinks I'm a virgin, but I'm not.
Emily Yoffe
Sep 19, 2011, 3:08 PM
food & wine
Why novelist Chang-rae Lee buys his wine online.
Chang-rae Lee
Sep 18, 2011, 12:31 AM
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 AM

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 AM
robot invasion
Will robots steal your job? If you're highly educated, you should still be afraid.
Farhad Manjoo
Sep 26, 2011, 4:20 AM
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 PM
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 PM
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 PM
technology
Facebook redesign: Hate the new features? You'll like them soon enough.
Farhad Manjoo
Sep 21, 2011, 12:27 PM
technology
Gears of War 3: Bayoneting reptilian humanoids never felt so ... right.
Taylor Clark
Sep 20, 2011, 5:28 PM
moneybox
Who is Debbie Bosanek? Warren Buffett's secretary declines to talk about tax reform.
Annie Lowrey
Sep 20, 2011, 1:27 PM
technology
Natural scrolling: Why did Apple change the way we scroll?
Michael Agger
Sep 20, 2011, 12:10 PM
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 AM
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 AM
technology
Netflix Qwikster: The strange logic of the company's decision to divide itself in half.
Farhad Manjoo
Sep 19, 2011, 5:13 PM
moneybox
A second Great Depression: Eight drastic policy measures necessary to prevent global economic collapse.
Nouriel Roubini
Sep 19, 2011, 12:29 PM
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 PM
small business
Do small businesses actually innovate? A new study suggests very few startup businesses are dynamic.
Annie Lowrey
Sep 19, 2011, 7:15 AM
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 AM
future tense
Transhumanism: Why can't we enjoy being human just a little while longer?
Nicholas Agar
Sep 16, 2011, 7:18 AM

Science

explainer
The supposed health risks of public nudity.
Michael Thomsen
Sep 23, 2011, 12:48 PM
Science
Country collectors: How did wanderlust become a competitive sport?
Ken Jennings
Sep 22, 2011, 5:16 PM
Science
A history of map monsters. (IMAGES)
Ken Jennings
Sep 20, 2011, 3:19 PM
human nature
DSK's Defense
William Saletan
Sep 19, 2011, 2:31 PM
future tense
Transhumanism: There are some places our "wetware" bodies just can't go.
Nicholas Agar, Brad Allenby, and Kyle Munkittrick
Sep 16, 2011, 7:18 AM
Science
Contagion: Could they really make a vaccine so quickly?
Arthur Allen and Carl Zimmer
Sep 9, 2011, 2:59 PM

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 AM
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 PM
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 AM
slate v
Romney's Iowa Problem (VIDEO)
Sep 20, 2011, 2:05 PM
manners for the digital age
Digital Manners: Is it acceptable to use emailed wedding invitations?
Farhad Manjoo
Sep 20, 2011, 1:27 PM
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 PM
slate v
A weekly Dear Prudence video. (VIDEO)
Sep 19, 2011, 1:44 PM

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