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Monday, Jan. 12, 2009
- More Than a Good Feeling
Why are so many oligarchs, royal families, and special-interest groups giving money to the Clinton Foundation? - Doping Deficit Disorder
Need performance-enhancing drugs? Claim ADHD. - Dear Prudence: Flirting Husband
A daily video from Slate V. - Help Obama Write His Inauguration Speech
How you (and Lincoln, FDR, and JFK) can help write this year's inaugural address. - Move Over, Thoreau
Rationalist environmentalism better prevail, and fast. - Richard Parsons, Citi Savior?
A summary of what's in the major publications. - Israel Goes Deep
A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers.
Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009
- Israel: Help Us Bomb Iran
A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers.
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009
- The Enigma in Chief
We still don't know how or why Bush made the key decisions of his administration. - Will Blago Go?
A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers.
Friday, Jan. 9, 2009
- The Original Twilight
A pop Wuthering Heightson PBS. - Robert Rubin's Free Ride
How does Clinton's treasury secretary escape blame for the market meltdown? - First Movers
How exactly will Obama get all his stuff into the White House? - The Botox Bubble
The health care industry was supposed to be recession-proof. So why is it in trouble? - I Don't Want My Web TV
Why Yahoo's plan to merge the Internet and television isn't the future of home entertainment. - The Letter of Last Resort
The decision about nuclear apocalypse lying in a safe at the bottom of the sea. - Summary Judgment: Bride Wars, The Unborn and Not Easily Broken
A daily video from Slate V. - The Movie Club
The greatest Mexican Mennonite film of 2008. - Slate Illustrated
The year in illustrations. - Father Richard John Neuhaus
Remembering the theologian. - Red, Brown, and Blue
The Atlantic on post-racial America. - Raising Kaine
The battle for the RNC chair makes their Democratic rival look good. - The Get-the-Inauguration-Over Gabfest
Listen to Slate's review of the week in politics. - Paper Love: Inside the Holocaust Archives
The end of the journey. - Corrections
Slate's mistakes. - Roadblocks to Peace
A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers.
Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009
- Obama's Alarm Call
The president-elect makes the urgent case for his stimulus bill. - Soother in Chief
How Barack Obama calms a panicked nation. - Law Suit
Time to do away with morning wedding attire at the high court. - A Return to Professionalism
What Obama's Pentagon hires say about his presidential style. - Dry Pumping
How do you shut off a gas pipeline? - The Movie Club
The last movie taboo. - Matt Miller on The Tyranny of Dead Ideas
An interview with Daniel Gross. - How Do You Explain This?
Daniel Engber holds court on the Explainer Question of the Year and the art of explaining. - My Bollywood Close-Up
Working as an extra in Mumbai's Film City. - Slate Seeks Editorial Assistant
We're hiring! - Paper Love: Inside the Holocaust Archives
There might be treasures here, amid a sea of 65-year-old cardboard, but who would know? - Lover's Little Helper
Am I wrong not to tell my lady friend I use a male enhancement drug? - A Second Front?
A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers.
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I'm firmly in the "Tina Fey can do no wrong" camp, and while her acceptance speech was one of the only bright spots in an otherwise snoozy and self-congratulatory Golden Globes, it always strikes me how uncomfortable she is when embracing accolades. When she accepted her Emmy last year, Fey said, "I thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities." Then last night upon receiving her second Golden Globe for best actress, she said, "If you ever start to feel too good about yourself they have this thing called the Internet and you can find a lot of people there who don’t like you.” Read More- Human Nature:
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Does the GOP Congressional leadership dare launch a fight over whether Davis-Bacon style wage schedules, beloved by organized labor , apply to various projects that use Obama's stimulus funds? They'd almost certainly lose (as they did when the issue came up in the Read More
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