News & Politics
- Forget FDR and Lincoln. Obama is most like JFK.
- Bushism of the Day
- What's new in Time, The Nation, and the Economist.
- Why Tulsa's daily paper will regret suing the city's alternative weekly for libel.
- Eight years of Slate's presidential caricatures.
- Slate's inauguration coverage.
- Obama's inauguration is making history and selling kitsch.
- The Senate confirmation hearings prove bruising chiefly for Al Gonzales.
- Bushism of the Day
- Obama changes his press strategy.
- How George W. Bush can be the best ex-president he can be.
- Slate's farewell to Bush.
- How you (and Lincoln, FDR, and JFK) can help write this year's inaugural address.
- Bushism of the Day
- The principles and promise of Obamaism.
- Got hope?
- How the Susan Crawford interview changes everything we know about torture.
- One way George Bush preserved and extended the Reagan legacy.
- How Obama will write and rewrite his presidency.
- Impeach Judge Jay Bybee.
- What's new in New York, the Weekly Standard, and Portfolio.
- Can a bunch of mathematicians make government more representative?
- How the Obama jobs program will affect women workers.
- Cartoonists' take on eight years of George W. Bush.
- How do you aim a rocket?
- Some history and background on the Gaza Strip.
- Why doesn't the European Union have a unified energy policy?
- An answer to David Carr's question on "how to build an iTunes for newspapers."
- How many preachers does one inauguration need?
- Why don't Indonesians know how to swim, and why are their ferries always sinking?
- The top 25 Bushisms of all time.
- Why are so many oligarchs, royal families, and special-interest groups giving money to the Clinton Foundation?
- We still don't know how or why Bush made the key decisions of his administration.
- Robert Rubin's free ride.
- Nuclear apocalypse and the Letter of Last Resort.
- The crazy battle for Republican Party chair makes Tim Kaine look good.
- Slate's Political Gabfest for Jan. 9.
- Inside the Holocaust archives.
- Obama sounds the alarm to build support for his stimulus bill.
- Soother in Chief: how Barack Obama calms a panicked nation.
- Time to do away with morning wedding attire at the high court.
- What Obama's Pentagon hires say about his presidential style.
- My day as a Bollywood extra.
- What happened to all those Democrats for McCain?
- When politicians declare war on something, it's not usually a good sign.
- Why Obama picked Panetta to run the CIA.
- Obama's Department of Justice.
- A photographer in Gaza.
- Obama appointee Dawn Johnsen's collected writings for Slate.
- Understimulated
- How the newspaper industry tried to invent the Web but failed.
- The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a war, and it won't be over until someone wins.
- The Obama stimulus package should be spent on transformative investments, not bridges and roads.
- Gaza could have been a model of the future Palestinian state.
- Photos of Obama's Secret Service detail.
Briefing
- Slate's inaugural address contest ends Sunday.
- Nationalize the banks?
- All passengers rescued as Manhattan looks on, Congress throws money
- Everything you need to know about bird-airplane collisions, water landings, and other emergencies in the sky.
- Why is the Senate confirming Cabinet members when Obama isn't even president yet?
- Apple's CEO takes medical leave, while banks look even worse.
- Bushism of the Day
- What are the rules for flipping the bird on network television?
- Obama will order Guantanamo closed on his first full day as president.
- How you (and Lincoln, FDR, and JFK) can help write this year's inaugural address.
- Israel pushes into a heavily populated area in what could signal a new phase in the incursion.
- A secret request from Israel, plus picking apart Obama's stimulus proposal.
- The Illinois House impeaches the Governor; job losses hit record high.
- How exactly does the president-elect get all his stuff into the White House?
- What's new in the Economist, Time, and Smithsonian.
- Today's papers with the latest bad news from Gaza
- How do you turn off the gas to an entire country?
- Daniel Engber holds court on the Explainer Question of the Year and the art of explaining.
- Slate hiring editorial assistant.
- Rockets fired from Lebanon as the Red Cross accuses Israel of neglecting the wounded.
- Can a Shiite self-mutilate any way he wants on Ashura?
- What is the most disloyal dog breed? The Explainer's 2008 Question of the Year.
- Israeli leaders are weighing an Egyptian-led cease-fire initiative.
- How many albinos are there in Tanzania?
- What's new in Wired, TheNew Yorker, and Reason.
- Obama surprises intelligence community by selecting Leon Panetta to be the head of the CIA.
- What's going to happen to the Minnesota and Illinois Senate seats?
- Israeli forces go deeper into Gaza but stay away from major urban centers.
- Israel sends ground troops into Gaza; Congress wrangles over Obama's stimulus bill.
- Obama faces tough call on al-Marri; the contest to rule the RNC heats up.
- What's in the New York Times Magazine, the Economist, Time, Vanity Fair, and The Nation.
- Israel carries out first targeted assassination since Saturday and steps up cease-fire talks.
- No truce in Gaza, market lost $6.9 trillion in 2008.
- Bushism of the Day
- How do you get to be in the "international consortium of timekeepers"?
- Blagojevich announced pick for the Senate seat he has been accused of trying to sell.
- How do they know which of the casualties in Gaza are civilians?
- What's in the Weekly Standard, New York, GQ, The New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books.
- Israel continues its airstrikes in Gaza that have killed more than 350 people.
- What should you do if your clothing melts on you?
- Bushism of the Day
- The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has its deadliest day in decades.
- What's new in Good, Reason, and the New York Times Magazine.
- Was Jesus a common name back when he was alive?
- Would someone in America go to jail for tossing a shoe at a foreign official?
- How many Clinton loyalists are there in Obama's White House?
Arts
- My Bloody Valentine and the history of horror in three dimensions.
- Andrew Wyeth, RIP.
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop, reviewed.
- Stars and stripes forevers.
- The United States of Tara, reviewed.
- How Biggie changed hip-hop.
- Notorious, reviewed.
- Patrick Swayze as a lone wolf FBI agent in The Beast.
- Edward Durrell Stone's 2 Columbus Circle becomes the Museum of Arts and Design.
- Photographs of GM cars alive, dead, and reborn.
- Farewell, William L. Petersen, the dumpy heartthrob of CSI.
- "Morning of the Monsoon"
- My great-uncles participated in the Valkyrie plot to overthrow Hitler.
- Environmental writing since Thoreau.
- The new Wuthering Heightsreviewed.
- Debating the best movies of 2008.
- The year in illustrations.
- Sanjay Gupta is a sweet choice for surgeon general.
- "The Unwritten History of Prose"
- Homeland Security USA reviewed.
- Everyman edition of Richard Yates.
- A Fray Editor bids farewell
- John L. Parker Jr.'s Once a Runner: the best novel you'll ever read about distance running.
- How to fix Microsoft Word's spell-checker.
- Why celebrities are such bad drivers.
- Reintroducing Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush," the perfect poem for a new era.
- Slate's taxonomy of Hollywood Holocaust movies.
- Why do we have so many "czars"?
- The top 10 movies of 2008.
- Burton Raffel's Chaucer translation.
- Miley Cyrus, Marc Chagall, and 39 other topics that distracted us—at least briefly—from the election this year.
- Harold Pinter, 1930-2008.
- Valkyrie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,and Revolutionary Road reviewed.
- The best music of 2008.
- Benjamin Button and how F. Scott Fitzgerald decided where to send his characters to college.
- The awkward charm of NBC's NewsRadio.
- Robert Herrick's Christmastime tribute to springtime pleasures.
- Jean Shepherd, the man who told A Christmas Story.
- On the eve of Valkyrie, revisiting Tom Cruise in Risky Business.
Life
- A Boston fan and a Philly fan learn to get along.
- Gretchen Rubin shares tips and takes your questions about how to be happy.
- How the Philadelphia Eagles saved their season by doing absolutely nothing.
- Should I tell my father I slept with my stepmom?
- How Obama can improve White House policy on wine.
- Remembering Father Richard John Neuhaus.
- Is it wrong to keep Viagra use a secret?
- Bill James urges his colleagues to boycott the BCS.
- Inside the Holocaust archives.
- How to help your child learn to read.
- The story of the cow from four-legged co-worker to shrink-wrapped cutlet.
- The overeducated store clerk's dilemma.
- The Falcons and Dolphins prove that the Detroit Lions can turn things around.
- Despereaux: the too-scary G-rated movie.
- Dear Prudence's best and worst advice of 2008.
- Why are there are so few black coaches in college football?
- A garden coach can jump-start your vegetable patch.
- Kwanzaa is made up but useful.
- Dirt-cheap sparkling wines to drink on New Year's Eve.
- Can we go back to being friends without benefits?
- When believers don't believe in giving.
- A slide show of some of America's weirdest holiday lights displays.
- The joy of celebrating a godless Christmas.
- Putting St. Joseph back in the picture.
- The fierce competition and high cost of children's Christmas pageants.
- The lifesaving songbook Rise Up Singing.
- Tony Perrottet takes your questions about his tour of Europe's sexual history.
- The pervert's grand tour of Europe.
- Celebrating Hanukkah with menorah parades.
- Bernie Madoff vs. the Jewish gangsters of yesteryear.
- What if LeBron James and Wolverine joined the New York Knicks?
- We lied to my sister about Dad's last wishes, and now she wants nothing to do with the family.
- A Jewish parent's guide to Christmas specials.
- A shopper's guide to robot pets.
Business & Tech
- An interactive guide to the bailout trillions.
- Missing Steve Jobs at Macworld.
- Google and Facebook battle for your friends.
- Everyone else is on Facebook. Why aren't you?
- The battle over whether fiscal policy or monetary policy will fix the economy faster.
- Despite the revamped iTunes, DRM is here to stay.
- The health care industry was supposed to be recession-proof. So why is it in trouble?
- I don't want my Web TV.
- Daniel Gross interviews Matt Miller about The Tyranny of Dead Ideas.
- The FDIC sells failed IndyMac Bank too soon—and for too little.
- Palm Beach's ultrarich say Madoff's name, and then spit.
- A preview of Microsoft Windows 7.
- What does the "netbook" craze tell us about the future of laptops.
- Why not start the weekend on Wednesday?
- The best Web sites to help you scrimp through the recession.
- Tim Geithner's daunting to-do list at the Treasury Department.
- Can Hanukkah save the Jewish faith from assimilation?
- Could Detroit get bailout and bankruptcy?
- Advice on how to blog from Arianna Huffington, Om Malik, and more of the Web's best pundits.
- The TV show How It's Made shines a light on our mechanized culture.
- How foreign car factories have transformed the American South.
- Unemployment benefits do encourage joblessness. But that may not be a bad thing.
- How to figure out what's ailing you without becoming a cyberchondriac.
- Daniel Gross discusses the decline of the Tribune Co. and the future of newspapers.
- Slate's year-end gaming club.
- Why Sam Zell's Tribune deal went so bad, so fast.
- How Amazon's cell phone app can save you money at Best Buy, Target, and Wal-Mart.
- Christmas carnage at FAO Schwarz and Bergdorf Goodman.
- The search giant's foray into user feedback on its rankings.
- Your response to the quest for the perfect morning routine.
Science
- The CDC's updated stats on sexually transmitted diseases.
- How to close the Gaza tunnels.
- The "war on science" is over. Now what?
- Protecting our children from diseases—and ugly truths.
- Prisonlike hospitals aren't the place to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis.
- The Green Lantern's advice may not be appropriate for everyone.
- Software, soldiers, and the future of ghosts.
- Need performance-enhancing drugs? Claim ADHD.
- Voluntary Madness doesn't have a new prescription for psychiatric treatment.
- Green my blog.
- Are cloth diapers that much greener than disposables?
- The Green Lantern presents a superefficient, four-in-one economy answer pack!
- Why eBay's ban on ivory will end up hurting the environment.
- Is human placenta a wonder drug, or is it just another Japanese health fad?
- How did the Food and Drug Administration let Chinese melamine into the food supply?
- Are garbage disposals bad for the environment?
- Is it better to buy a real Christmas tree or an artificial one?
- Is it worthwhile to buy carbon offsets for all my holiday air travel?
- It's time to stop reporting on the "wind chill."
- Why isn't the darkest month of the year also the coldest?
- Face transplants for the "socially crippled."
- The FDA's new restrictions on some asthma medications.
- How to decorate your Christmas tree without wasting too much energy.
- Why Google Flu Trends is not the cure for the flu.
- Climate negotiatiors need to overhaul their list of who's rich and who's poor.
- The downside of requiring young doctors to get more sleep.
- The world's newest oldest mom: 70 years old.
- What's the best environmental value for your dollar?
- Race, genes, and sports.
- How Obama tapped into a powerful—and only recently studied—human emotion called "elevation."
- Should you run your laptop off battery power or keep it plugged in?
Podcasts & Video
- Reviews of Notorious, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, and Hotel for Dogs
- Slate's Political Gabfest for Jan. 16.
- Science News: Bees on Blow
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the Golden Globes, 24, and Notorious.
- Bush's Manic Press Conference
- Dear Prudence: Flirting Husband
- Summary Judgment: Bride Wars, The Unborn and Not Easily Broken
- I Just Walked Across America
- A Cartoonish 2008
- Slate's weekly Poetry Podcast.
- Dear Prudence: Reluctant Fiance
- Slate's Political Gabfest for Dec. 31.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Tom Cruise, Bruce Springsteen, and year-end lists.
- The Best Viral Political Videos of 2008
Blogs
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