Life
- NFL 2011: Did Buffalo outsmart Bill Belichick?
- Dear Prudence: My alcoholic friend is killing herself.
- Iris Krasnow's The Secret Lives of Wives: Is time alone the secret to a happy marriage?
- Longform.org's Guide to Michael Lewis: His best stories about money and/or balls.
- Manhattan Trade School for Girls: Report cards from the 1920s and the stories they tell.
- Burning Man: An alternate universe without brands or money.
- Country collectors: How did wanderlust become a competitive sport?
- Rick Perry and the HPV vaccine, dads and testosterone, and fall TV on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- Dear Prudence: My husband had a one-night stand.
- Jeffrey Kluger's The Sibling Effect: The latest book in an emerging canon that fetishizes large broods.
- Moneyball movie: The numbers are good, but the story is still bunk.
- Oktoberfest: Try these five delicious styles of German beer.
- Suri Cruise is attending a Scientology-influenced school. What's that like?
- Attention is neither a commodity nor a currency, even thought the Web treats it that way.
- Britishisms: cataloging how they're infecting American English.
- Friend or Foe: Should I make my friend shave her head?
- A short history of toilet-paper marketing.
- Dear Prudence: My fiance thinks I'm a virgin, but I'm not.
- Why novelist Chang-rae Lee buys his wine online.
- Dear Prudence: Huntington's disease is tearing my family apart.
- Victoria Heinicke, tennis' first grunter. Plus: Notes on the evolution of grunting.
- Qatar Football Dreams: Is it a humanitarian project or a scheme to buy Africa's best players?
- Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite
- Indochino, J. Hilburn, Blank Label: Great custom shirts you can buy online.
- When do gay kids start "acting gay"?
- Tavi Gevinson Rookie magazine: how it combines fashion and feminism.
- Dear Prudence: My boyfriend is a reformed swinger.
- Battlefield 3: Why aren't there any civilians in military video games?
- 10 strange animal smuggling stories.
- Early flight attendants and their glamorous, groundbreaking world.
- Longform.org's Guide to 9/11: Five unforgettable stories from Ground Zero.
- Dear Prudence: Must I tell my wife I'm bi-sexual?
- Ashley Mears' "Pricing Beauty": What a sociologist learned by moonlighting as a fashion model.
- Soccer player ratings are confusing, erratic, useless … and great.
- 9/11, Ten Years Later: The Odds of Knowing a Victim.
- Dear Prudence: How do we handle our nude neighbor?
- Friend or Foe: How do I handle my office frenemy?
- Economy class is getting better: 10 new reasons to fly coach.
- Can a Great Chef's Cookbook Turn You into a Great Chef?
- If you go to school on the equator, when does your summer vacation end?
- Can Japan Recover? A tour of Sendai, Fukushima and places hit hard by the triple disaster.
- Michael Vick contract: Why does the press overstate the value of NFL deals?
- Campari, Aperol, Fernet, Averna: the pleasures of bitters.
- Dear Prudence: My father-in-law might be a pedophile.
- Elizabeth Abbott's Mistresses: Ten "other women" that changed history. (PHOTOS)
- #becauseof911: New Yorkers share how their lives changed because of 9/11. Tell us your story.
- Dear Prudence: I got my ex-boyfriend fired deliberately.
- Barbecue mania and how to cure it
- A London hotel that offers an insomniac's package.
- Squid hunts, pet chimps, and E.B. White's dead pig: Five fascinating stories about the relationship between humans and animals.
- Letters to the summer tenants: The lament of a self-martyred landlord.
Briefing
- Why is King Abdullah willing to let Saudi women vote but not drive cars?
- 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.
- Intelligence Squared debate: Do Grandma's benefits imperil Junior's future? Oct. 4 at NYU.
- The supposed health risks of public nudity.
- Does my insurance cover falling satellites?
- Georgia is about to execute Troy Davis. How many death sentences are actually carried out?
- Suri Cruise is attending a Scientology-influenced school. What's that like?
- A short history of toilet-paper marketing.
- If a criminal swallows the evidence, how do police get it out of him?
- Joining the mile-high club, an interview with Ahmadinejad, and the decline of 3-D films: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Kweku Adoboli: What's a rogue trader?
- Paying for good press and Pakistani journos in peril: The must-read stories from our ongoing collection of the best watchdog journalism.
- Are Americans living in poverty better off today than they were in 1959?
- Slate seeks editorial assistant!
- When do gay kids start "acting gay"?
- How are flight attendants supposed to deal with fornicating passengers?
- Conspiracy theories of 9/11, a bruised Glee star and Perry vs. Romney: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Bin Laden, black sites, and blunders in Iraq: The best, most damning reporting of the 9/11 era, collected by ProPublica
- Men are finished: How you can watch—and participate in—the live Slate/Intelligence Squared debate on Sept. 20 at NYU.
- Are airline tickets cheaper on 9/11?
- Longform.org's Guide to 9/11: Five unforgettable stories from Ground Zero.
- Rick Perry says Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. What would happen if we got rid of it?
- Is it dangerous to smoke Tupac's cremated remains?
- Is the Austin wildfire warming up Dallas and other nearby cities?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Are more veterans killing themselves today than after Vietnam?
- Longform.org's guide to death penalty: six disturbing stories about the death penalty.
- Dick Cheney's new book, the future of al-Qaida, and erotic capital: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- If you go to school on the equator, when does your summer vacation end?
- Why do women get more autoimmune diseases than men?
- How long should you wait to cut off a trapped limb?
- What would happen to the International Space Station if the astronauts were to leave?
- How often do hurricanes and earthquakes come in pairs?
- Hurricane Irene: Slate's complete coverage of the big storm.
- Hurricane Irene and air conditioners: A study in risk assessment.
- Twin Takeover, Taxing the Poor, and an East Coast Earthquake: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Why does semen glow in the dark?
- Soldiers' Suicides, Big Bailouts, and 9/11 Charity Failures: This week's top MuckReads from ProPublica.
- Steve Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO. When did we start using three letters for corporate honchos?
- Prosecutors dug up a lot of dirt on Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser, Nafissatou Diallo. Is that normal?
- East Coast earthquake: Are D.C. buildings as quake-proof as the ones in L.A.?
- East Coast earthquake: What's the best thing to do in an earthquake, and your other questions answered.
- What will happen to Qaddafi's sons?
- Reduction abortions, why slang words stick, and the fall of the postal service: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Corporate chicanery, government secrecy, and corruption in football: This week's top MuckReads from ProPublica.
- Water dripping from air conditioners: Is it sanitary?
- Corrections from the last week.
- 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
- Rick Perry on immigration: Do Republicans believe in states' rights?
- Why is King Abdullah willing to let Saudi women vote but not drive cars?
- Mitch Daniels for president: Why his campaign would have been a hard one.
- Pakistan is the enemy: When is President Obama going to do something about it?
- Netanyahu vs. Abbas at the United Nations: Israel's tactics to delay Palestinian statehood.
- Falsified medical records and shady dealings at Countrywide: This week's top MuckReads from ProPublica.
- War in Afghanistan: Which side is Pakistan fighting for?
- Intelligence Squared debate: Do Grandma's benefits imperil Junior's future? Oct. 4 at NYU.
- Paul Kagame's Rwanda: Can the African nation have peace and prosperity without freedom?
- Gary Johnson delivers the best line of the GOP debate and becomes a real candidate.
- The Perry-Romney debates: Romney is from Mars, Perry is from Venus.
- Republican presidential debate: The more he debates, the worse Rick Perry gets.
- Ron Suskind's Confidence Men: His book on Obama is as spurious as the ones he wrote about Bush.
- Does my insurance cover falling satellites?
- Riots: Violent unrest has swept Europe and the Middle East. Is America next?
- Palestine's U.N. membership bid: How it could cause an international legal crisis over the potential prosecution of Israeli officials.
- Troy Davis case: Will uncertainty in his case lead to uncertainty about the death penalty?
- Republicans may not like it, but the law says the Fed can do whatever it wants.
- Apparently, men are finished: The fairer sex won big at Tuesday's Slate/Intelligence Squared U.S. debate
- Georgia is about to execute Troy Davis. How many death sentences are actually carried out?
- Rick Perry: Can he ride the cowboy myth to the White House?
- Rick Perry's Christian Israel policy is a gift to Islamic extremists.
- OutServe magazine's gay soldiers: Don't Ask, Don't Tell's repeal allows military members to come out (PHOTOS).
- Ron Suskind's new book about Obama's failure, and other theories.
- Troy Davis execution set for Sept. 21: case proves the fallibility of eye witnesses.
- Men are finished: How you can watch—and participate in—the live Slate/Intelligence Squared debate tonight at NYU.
- Obama's deficit speech: Can he stay angry until next Election Day?
Arts
- Terra Nova reviewed: Humans get a second chance on Earth, but they can't escape Dawson's Creek.
- Alan Wolfe's Political Evil: What It Is and How To Combat It. Why distinguishing among horrible behaviors is crucial.
- The MoMA's de Kooning retrospective offers a vivid portrait of a tragic artist.
- HBO: How it revolutionized television.
- 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.
- Pearl Jam Twenty reviewed: Cameron Crowe's cloyingly sweet Pearl Jam documentary.
- U.S. Postal Service in trouble? Old advertisements show we once idolized the neighborhood letter carrier.
- Pan Am reviewed: ABC's new Jet-Age drama pays delightful attention to detail.
- Moneyball reviewed: A great sports movie for people who can't stand sports movies.
- R.E.M breaks up: the band sparked the indie revolution.
- The X Factor reviewed: The heir to American Idol arrives.
- Michael Kazin's American Dreamers: Why has the radical left sabotaged itself so often?
- How to consume culture economically: an eight-step guide.
- Artistic legacy: the tricky task of preserving an artist's life and work.
- "Goodbye Billyburg"
- New Girl reviewed: Zooey Deschanel brings her niche sex appeal to the small screen.
- Ken Jennings's Maphead: What makes people map obsessives?
- Lunch with Michael Moore, controversial documentary filmmaker
- A Mandarin Mamma Mia! brings Broadway to Shanghai.
- Stuntmen before Drive: History's great daredevils.
- The craziest runway outfits at New York Fashion Week
- I Don't Know How She Does It reviewed: Sarah Jessica Parker rides the rapids of upper-middle-class parenthood.
- The Playboy Club reviewed: Changing the world, one bunny at a time.
- Whitney and 2 Broke Girls reviewed: how much perky raunchiness can you withstand?
- Drive reviewed: Ryan Gosling's minimalist car-chase movie is painfully suspenseful.
- MFA rankings: Why the Poets & Writers MFA rankings are a sham.
- Das Racist, Lil B., Spaceghostpurrp: Underground rappers are having a banner year.
- Steven Millhauser's We Others: Why a sampling of his amazing stories makes you want a full collection of them.
- I watched every Steven Soderbergh movie.
- Steven Soderbergh's movies, ranked.
- Steven Soderbergh: The shorts, TV shows, plays, and other nonmovie work.
- Up All Night reviewed: the new NBC show may be the first great sitcom about babies.
- Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons finally comes to DVD.
- Citizen Kane on Blu-ray. Buy it. Now.
- "City Aubade"
- Can gelatin be art?
- Alfred Kazin's Journals: Why he called himself a writer, not a critic.
- Talking with Tony Bennett about his new album of duets.
- Mary Timony interview: The Wild Flag guitarist talks about bear masks, Guitar Hero, and her new supergroup.
- In defense of rap rock. Seriously, this is a defense of rap rock.
- Steven Soderbergh's Contagion reviewed: A global pandemic wreaks havoc on Oscar winners.
- Whitney, the New Girl, Two Broke Girls: How do the women of fall TV fare?
- Lady Gaga: pop's leading conservative.
- Sept. 11 anniversary: Images from the aftermath (PHOTOS).
- Antique typewriters (PHOTOS).
- My post 9/11 tour in Iraq.
- The Twin Towers: A slide show of World Trade Center images from different vantage points.
- 9/11 movies: Four brilliant 9/11 films that get overlooked.
- The 9/11 memorial, reviewed.
- "Xenia"
- Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding: Baseball and bliss at a small liberal arts college.
- Photographers reflect on 9/11 and the images that made history.
- Depression fear: How BUtterfield 8 explains the moment we're in.
- Gainsbourg:Une Vie Héroïque: I'd rather watch Music and Lyrics.
- Erotic Capital: The Power of Attraction in the Boardroom and the Bedroom by Catherine Hakim: an interview with the author.
- Dancing With the Stars 2011: World B. Free, Lizzie Borden, and other historical cast members.
- How Ben Jonson's poetic masterpieces found the world by leaving it behind.
- Steven Brill's Class Warfare: What's wrong with the education reformers' diagnosis and cures.
- Breaking bread with Nicholson Baker, America's foremost writer of literary sex novels.
- Ken Loach: Meet one of Britain's most controversial filmmakers.
- MTV's Video Music Awards: A history of insanity.
- William & Catherine: A Royal Romance: In which the actor playing Prince Charles corrects the Queen's pronunciation of Kanye West.
- Brighton Rock reviewed: a new adaptation of Graham Greene's masterpiece.
- Our Idiot Brother reviewed: Paul Rudd is a charming stoner ne'er-do-well.
- Community's "Paradigms of Human Memory:" A salute to the most insanely self-referential 22 minutes in sitcom history.
- Yoga Bitch, Stretch, and Poser: The rise of the yoga memoir.
- Double take: The Lying Game and other shows about identical twins.
- The Secret Life of Pronouns by James Pennebaker:What do "I" and "we" reveal about us?
- Fallingwater turns 75: Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic home gets a book worthy of its magical achievement.
- How Hard Is It To Get a Cartoon Into The New Yorker?
- Grunge nostalgia: Why we should let Kurt Cobain rest in peace.
- Patricia Marx Interview: Starting From Happy writer talks about how to draw lingerie and her old German shepherd, Karl.
- "The Sculptor and His Muse"
- Cathy N. Davidson's Now You See It:Do the young really rule in the Internet era?
- Reduction abortions, why slang words stick, and the fall of the postal service: The week's most interesting Slate stories.
- Vintage cigarette ads: LIFE returns to a time when smiling babies sold cigarettes. (PHOTOS)
- The Interrupters reviewed: This documentary on Chicago gang violence is the most necessary film of the year.
- Why is Nicholson Baker so obsessed with sex?
- 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.
Business & Tech
- Pharmacy robots: Will my father lose his job to a gigantic pill-packing machine?
- Will robots steal your job? If you're highly educated, you should still be afraid.
- Anxiety economics: The story Americans tell about the economy may be more relevant than the numbers that describe it.
- Facebook Ticker: Mark Zuckerberg's terrible plan to get us to share everything we do on the Web.
- Yahoo didn't mean to censor emails about Wall Street protests. The truth is much more insidious.
- Facebook redesign: Hate the new features? You'll like them soon enough.
- Gears of War 3: Bayoneting reptilian humanoids never felt so ... right.
- Who is Debbie Bosanek? Warren Buffett's secretary declines to talk about tax reform.
- Natural scrolling: Why did Apple change the way we scroll?
- Obama's millionaire tax, Warren Buffett, and trillionaires: How long until the world has its first trillionaire?
- Robot economy: Join Slate technology columnist Farhad Manjoo for an event about machines as doctors, lawyers, and creators.
- Netflix Qwikster: The strange logic of the company's decision to divide itself in half.
- A second Great Depression: Eight drastic policy measures necessary to prevent global economic collapse.
- 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.
- Do small businesses actually innovate? A new study suggests very few startup businesses are dynamic.
- The poverty crisis is devastating young Americans. Here's what the president can do about it.
- Kweku Adoboli: What's a rogue trader?
- Facebook Smart Lists: Mark Zuckerberg's genius ability to take other sites' best ideas.
- Transhumanism: Why can't we enjoy being human just a little while longer?
- Michael Arrington, TechCrunch: How the site changed startup culture.
- Sept. 11 anniversary: Can brain research keep us safe?
- Carol Bartz fired: Can the once-great Internet company reclaim its former glory?
- The true cost of 9/11: Trillions and trillions wasted on wars, a fiscal catastrophe, and a weaker America.
- Warren Buffett and Bank of America: Why it's impossible for regular shareholders to get the sweetheart deals that Buffett gets.
- Internet privacy: How network analysis can reveal details you would rather hide.
- The American Kennel Club claims the recession has caused a dognapping crime wave. Is that true?
- Steve Jobs resignation: Farhad Manjoo chats live about the future of Apple.
- New TLD system: Internet bureaucrats, not users or businesses, are in control.
- Steve Jobs resigns: Apple will do amazingly well without its genius CEO.
- Bank of America: Could it fail and start another financial crisis?
- Amazon tablet: How Jeff Bezos can build an iPad competitor.
- Long-term unemployment: Can the Obama administration do anything about it?
- Texas Miracle: Can other states replicate Texas' economic success?
- European debt crisis: If France's economy is in trouble, then all of Europe is at risk.
- 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
- The supposed health risks of public nudity.
- Country collectors: How did wanderlust become a competitive sport?
- A history of map monsters. (IMAGES)
- DSK's Defense
- Pat Robertson on divorce and Alzheimer's: Is it OK to leave your sick wife?
- Transhumanism: There are some places our "wetware" bodies just can't go.
- Copenhagen Consensus and HIV: Bjørn Lomborg's new project to identify the most cost-effective ways to battle the disease.
- Four theories on the death of 3-D.
- The science of pyromania.
- Testosterone and fatherhood: Are men designed to nurture children?
- Gay blood donors: Want to end the ban? Tell us what you do in bed.
- Contagion: Could they really make a vaccine so quickly?
- Rick Perry's HPV vaccinations: a health-care mandate he can get behind.
- 9/11 anniversary: Ten years later, our answer to al-Qaida won't be on Sept. 11.
- Paper versus the iPad: Is taking notes on a tablet computer or a notepad more environmentally responsible?
- How long should you wait to cut off a trapped limb?
- Space debris: Cleaning it up might promote new space technologies.
- Racial profiling and terrorism: If you want to screen Muslims, you'll have to target blacks.
- What would happen to the International Space Station if the astronauts were to leave?
- MADD vs. Rick Berman's American Beverage Institute: Who's right about drunk driving?
- Why does semen glow in the dark?
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Project Nim and the science of chimpanzees.
- El Niño: A new study suggests it may be to blame for nearly a quarter of recent global conflicts.
- East Coast earthquake: Are D.C. buildings as quake-proof as the ones in L.A.?
- East Coast earthquake: What's the best thing to do in an earthquake, and your other questions answered.
Podcasts & Video
- Hang Up and Listen on Michael Vick, Bill Belichick, the Red Sox and Braves, and Moneyball.
- A weekly Dear Prudence video. (VIDEO)
- The Submission: The Slate Audio Book Club.
- The Political Gabfest on Obama's debt plan, a new, unflattering book about the Obama White House, and the execution of Troy Davis.
- R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It," a YouTube mashup. (VIDEO)
- "Drive," "Two and a Half Men," and Burning Man on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Romney's Iowa Problem (VIDEO)
- Digital Manners: Is it acceptable to use emailed wedding invitations?
- Hang Up and Listen on Dave McKenna and Dan Snyder, Floyd Mayweather, and Taylor Branch's "The Shame of College Sports."
- A weekly Dear Prudence video. (VIDEO)
- The Gabfest on the latest Republican presidential debate, a Democratic loss in New York, and the Jackie O tapes.
- The mad woman who helped shape the Civil War.
- Product placement goes digital (VIDEO).
- Contagion, Anderson Cooper, and the USPS on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Digital Manners: Is renaming your Wi-Fi network a good way to send a message to your loud neighbors?
- Hang Up and Listen on the NFL and 9/11, Serena Williams, Michigan-Notre Dame, and a possible Red Sox collapse.
- A weekly Dear Prudence video.
- The Gabfest on the president's jobs speech, the Republican presidential debate, and the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
- Remembering the World Trade Center's best Hollywood cameos.
- 9/11 heroines, gender career preferences, and the new teen magazine Rookie on this week's DoubleX Gabfest podcast
- 9/11 conspiracies, Instagram, and Suits on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Nate Jackson, Chris Kluwe: Hang Up and Listen on the NFL, college football, and the U.S. Open.
- The Gabfest on the president's jobs speech, the politics of disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Irene, and Dick Cheney's memoir.
- CAPTCHA Talks Back (VIDEO).
- Hurricane Irene, Timothy Ferriss, and Beyoncé's baby bump on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Digital Manners: Is it impolite to promote yourself to your friends on social media?
- Hang Up and Listen on Usain Bolt, the Little League World Series, international soccer transfers, and Michael Vick.
- A Visit From the Goon Squad:The Slate Audio Book Club.
- A weekly Dear Prudence video.
- The Gabfest on Steve Jobs' retirement, the fall of Muammar Qaddafi, and the Republican presidential race.
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn's exoneration, a new report about cohabitation, and the rise of the IUD on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- BBC America's The Hour, the West Memphis Three, and Jerry Leiber and Nick Ashford on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Digital Manners: My parents give out my private e-mail address—what should I do about it?
- Hang Up and Listen on the NBA and streetball, the Miami football scandal, and Georgetown's brawl in China.
- Slate's advice columnist Prudence counsels a man whose girlfriend always steals his dessert.
- Rick Perry's presidential bid, President Obama's September economic speech, and fine-tuning the economy, on this week's Political Gabfest podcast.
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