Podcasts & Video
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Sept. 21, 2009.
Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca | hang up and listen |
Monday, 4:30 PM ET
- Dear Prudence: Dimwit Niece
slate v |
Monday, 10:30 AM ET
- The Political Gabfest for Sept. 18, 2009.
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz | gabfest |
Friday, 8:40 PM ET
- Reviews of: The Informant!, Jennifer's Body, and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
slate v |
Friday, 2:10 PM ET
- Selling Sex: World's Best Condom Ads
slate v |
Thursday, 10:29 AM ET
- Dear Prudence: Left Behind By Childless BFF
slate v |
Monday, 10:27 AM ET
- Reviews of: 9, The September Issue, and Whiteout
slate v |
Friday, 2:36 PM ET
- The NFL Hits the Oregon Trail
slate v |
Thursday, 11:16 AM ET
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the Beatles, controversial pot bellies, and Extract.
Stephen Metcalf | culture gabfest |
Wednesday, 12:17 PM ET
- Dear Prudence: Culturally Insensitive Parents
slate v |
Tuesday, 11:17 AM ET
- Reviews of: Extract, All About Steve, and Gamer
slate v |
Friday, 2:41 PM ET
- Cougars Gone Wild!
slate v |
Wednesday, 12:36 PM ET
- Outrage, Now in Pill Form
slate v |
Tuesday, 11:24 AM ET
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Aug. 31, 2009.
Stefan Fatsis | hang up and listen |
Monday, 3:57 PM ET
- Dear Prudence: Is Short Hair Ruining My Love Life?
slate v |
Monday, 10:16 AM ET
- Reviews of: Taking Woodstock, Final Destination, and Big Fan
slate v |
Friday, 2:10 PM ET
- The Political Gabfest for Aug. 28, 2009.
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz | gabfest |
Friday, 12:08 PM ET
- A Killer Mobile Dictionary
slate v |
Wednesday, 12:45 PM ET
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Inglourious Basterds, Project Runway,and the "Sketch Steve" contest.
Stephen Metcalf, Ron Rosenbaum, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner | culture gabfest |
Wednesday, 11:46 AM ET
- Urban Euro Bikes
slate v |
Tuesday, 10:44 AM ET
- Dear Prudence: Boozy Mom
slate v |
Monday, 10:47 AM ET
- Reviews of: Inglourious Basterds, Post Grad, and My One and Only
slate v |
Friday, 2:17 PM ET
- POTUS as House Guest: A Short History
slate v |
Wednesday, 12:57 PM ET
- Obama's Secret Health Care Nightmare
slate v |
Tuesday, 12:41 PM ET
- Dear Prudence: The Ethics of Scoring Pot
slate v |
Monday, 1:14 PM ET
- Reviews of: District 9, Ponyo, and The Time Traveler's Wife
slate v |
Friday, 3:40 PM ET
- So You Found My iPhone ...
slate v |
Wednesday, 10:05 AM ET
- In Fed We Trust: a podcast with author David Wessel.
Daniel Gross and Win Rosenfeld | moneybox |
Monday, 10:39 AM ET
- The Many Voices of Meryl Streep
slate v |
Friday, 11:07 AM ET
- A Wrestler's Wisdom
slate v |
Wednesday, 1:14 PM ET
- How the World Might (Almost) End
slate v |
Tuesday, 11:28 AM ET
- Dear Prudence: Dad Caught Cheating
slate v |
Monday, 11:13 AM ET
- The Political Gabfest for July 31, 2009.
Emily Bazelon | gabfest |
Friday, 6:47 PM ET
- Reviews of: Funny People, The Cove, and Thirst
slate v |
Friday, 3:33 PM ET
- Conned Into a Life of Magic
slate v |
Thursday, 9:34 AM ET
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Funny People, the death of the music magazine, and the DSM-V.
Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and Jonah Weiner | culture gabfest |
Wednesday, 11:52 AM ET
- Killer Apps: Sim City
slate v |
Wednesday, 9:40 AM ET
- We, Robots
slate v |
Tuesday, 9:52 AM ET
- Dear Prudence: Flashing Too Much Skin?
slate v |
Monday, 10:13 AM ET
- Reviews of: G-Force, The Ugly Truth, and Orphan
slate v |
Friday, 2:47 PM ET
- HEY PENNY! The Yes Men cometh.
slate v |
Thursday, 9:49 AM ET
- Listen to the Mountain
slate v |
Wednesday, 9:56 AM ET
- Dear Prudence: Layabout Loser Boyfriend
slate v |
Tuesday, 9:51 AM ET
- If Man Walked on the Moon Today
slate v |
Monday, 10:36 AM ET
- Alyssa Katz on Our Lot.
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Monday, 9:30 AM ET
- Reviews of: Harry Potter, (500) Days of Summer, and The Way We Get By
slate v |
Friday, 2:40 PM ET
- Drilling for Clues About Global Warming
slate v |
Thursday, 11:01 AM ET
- Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss Gay Talese's Thy Neighbor's Wife.
Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe | the audio book club |
Thursday, 7:58 AM ET
- Dog Rescue Gone Wrong
slate v |
Wednesday, 11:03 AM ET
- Killer Apps: Oregon Trail Revisited
slate v |
Tuesday, 10:00 AM ET
- Dear Prudence: Creepy Twin Co-Workers
slate v |
Monday, 1:00 PM ET
- Reviews of: Brüno; I Love You, Beth Cooper; and Humpday
slate v |
Friday, 2:29 PM ET
- How to Save Newspapers
slate v |
Thursday, 9:48 AM ET
- The Power-Cling, Iran's New Wonder Product
slate v |
Wednesday, 10:07 AM ET
- Dynamite Ahead!
slate v |
Tuesday, 9:46 AM ET
- Introducing Slate's sports podcast, "Hang Up and Listen."
Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca | podcasts |
Monday, 6:11 PM ET
- Dear Prudence: Preschool for Grown-Ups
slate v |
Monday, 10:51 AM ET
- Reviews of: Public Enemies, Ice Age, and I Hate Valentine's Day
slate v |
Thursday, 1:33 PM ET
- Medical Pot Expo
slate v |
Wednesday, 11:18 AM ET
- Hunting Cigarette Pirates
slate v |
Tuesday, 11:40 AM ET
- The Audio Book Club on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
Troy Patterson, Katie Roiphe, and James Surowiecki | recycled |
Monday, 6:22 PM ET
- Dear Prudence: Riding Shotgun With Tipsy Pal
slate v |
Monday, 10:40 AM ET
- The Political Gabfest for June 26, 2009.
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz | gabfest |
Friday, 2:55 PM ET
- Reviews of: Transformers, My Sister's Keeper, and Chéri
slate v |
Friday, 1:46 PM ET
- Moonwalk: Michael Jackson's YouTube Legacy
slate v |
Friday, 10:20 AM ET
- Spike Lee Does the Right Thing
slate v |
Thursday, 10:59 AM ET
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Whatever Works, True Blood, and A Vindication of Love.
Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner | culture gabfest |
Wednesday, 12:32 PM ET
- Pinball Wizard, Second-Class
slate v |
Tuesday, 11:24 AM ET
- Dear Prudence: Evangelizing Vegan
slate v |
Monday, 12:26 PM ET
- Reviews of: Year One, The Proposal, and Whatever Works
slate v |
Friday, 2:50 PM ET
- Our critics discuss John Cheever and Flannery O'Connor.
Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe | the audio book club |
Thursday, 11:10 AM ET
- Killer Apps: iPhone Radio Guide
slate v |
Thursday, 10:08 AM ET
Briefing
- ACORN gave tax advice to a fake prostitute. How would a real one pay her taxes?
Brian Palmer | explainer |
Monday, 6:29 PM ET
- The great slack attack.
Caitlin McDevitt | today's business press |
Monday, 6:59 AM ET
- The Slatest: Weekend Edition
The Slatest |
Monday, 5:23 PM ET
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
Jeremy Stahl | Bidenisms |
Friday, 4:34 PM ET
- Max Baucus' bill makes you pay a fine if you don't have health insurance—unless you're American Indian.
Christopher Beam | explainer |
Friday, 11:20 AM ET
- How do psychologists know that babies who are spanked become more aggressive toddlers?
Brian Palmer | explainer |
Thursday, 6:24 PM ET
- Congress reprimanded Joe Wilson for yelling "You lie!" at Obama. What else could they do to him?
Christopher Beam | explainer |
Wednesday, 6:34 PM ET
- What do the Jehovah's Witnesses make of Serena Williams' cursing?
Juliet Lapidos | explainer |
Tuesday, 6:18 PM ET
- In the Dan Brown books, Robert Langdon is a "professor of religious symbology." Is there really any such thing?
Brian Palmer | explainer |
Monday, 5:28 PM ET
- Shawne Merriman detained Tila Tequila against her will. Is that ever legal?
Christopher Beam | explainer |
Friday, 6:54 PM ET
- Is Obama the first president to get heckled during an address to Congress?
Juliet Lapidos | explainer |
Thursday, 2:18 PM ET
- Does Norway engage in international espionage?
Brian Palmer | explainer |
Wednesday, 6:22 PM ET
- Do they Photoshop pictures of outer space?
Daniel Engber | recycled |
Wednesday, 4:56 PM ET
- How good does a tennis pro have to be to make a living?
Christopher Beam | explainer |
Tuesday, 6:45 PM ET
- Introducing News Dots.
The Slatest |
Tuesday, 1:45 PM ET
- Why do news networks cover presidential addresses if they lose so much money?
Christopher Beam | explainer |
Friday, 6:19 PM ET
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
Meredith Simons | cocktail chatter |
Friday, 11:00 AM ET
- Forecasting and estimating the number of jobs lost in a given month.
Brian Palmer | explainer |
Thursday, 6:45 PM ET
- Who named the Station fire—and other questions about the 2009 wildfires in Southern California.
explainer |
Thursday, 1:45 PM ET
- Can Gmail users sue Google for bad service?
Christopher Beam | explainer |
Wednesday, 5:59 PM ET
- How we know that Chanel, the world's oldest dog, was really 147 dog-years old.
Christopher Beam | recycled |
Wednesday, 10:20 AM ET
- Reading Ted Kennedy's In Critical Condition: The Crisis in American Health Care.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Tuesday, 7:38 PM ET
- How did high ankle sprains get so popular in professional sports?
Michelle Tsai | explainer |
Tuesday, 11:39 AM ET
- Why didn't a parole officer notice that Phillip Garrido had a kidnapped teenager living in his backyard?
Brian Palmer | explainer |
Monday, 5:41 PM ET
- Will we ever run out of dinosaur bones?
Kim Gittleson | explainer |
Friday, 5:31 PM ET
- How far in advance do newspapers write obituaries?
Christopher Beam | explainer |
Thursday, 6:35 PM ET
- A roundup of Ted Kennedy questions.
Christopher Beam | explainer |
Wednesday, 6:47 PM ET
- Why did Plaxico Burress hire a "prison consultant"?
Brian Palmer | explainer |
Tuesday, 5:58 PM ET
- How much could the police learn from Jasmine Fiore's fake breasts?
Brian Palmer | explainer |
Monday, 6:30 PM ET
- Introducing "The Slatest," a better news aggregator.
David Plotz | slate fare |
Monday, 7:34 AM ET
- The Pentagon releases detainee names to the Red Cross.
David Sessions | today's papers |
Sunday, 4:21 AM ET
- Bankers upbeat about economic growth; CIA reportedly staged mock executions of detainee.
Ben Whitford | today's papers |
Saturday, 6:33 AM ET
- What's new in Time, Texas Monthly, and Mother Jones.
Sonia Smith | other magazines |
Friday, 5:54 PM ET
- Can the cocaine on dollar bills be used to track drug use around the country?
Kim Gittleson | explainer |
Friday, 5:52 PM ET
- Corrections from the last week.
corrections |
Friday, 7:16 AM ET
- Afghanistan doesn't bring out the vote.
Daniel Politi | today's papers |
Friday, 7:11 AM ET
- Is 1,000 pages long for a piece of legislation?
Christopher Beam | explainer |
Thursday, 6:12 PM ET
- CIA hired private contractors to take part in its al-Qaida assassination program.
Daniel Politi | today's papers |
Thursday, 6:35 AM ET
- Why we don't use Galileo's last name.
Brian Palmer | explainer |
Wednesday, 6:44 PM ET
- How to perform a gender test.
Melonyce McAfee | recycled |
Wednesday, 5:59 PM ET
- Democrats go it alone on healthcare reform; Afghanistan prepares to go to the polls.
Ben Whitford | today's papers |
Wednesday, 5:36 AM ET
- The Brits have taken over Turks and Caicos. Is Canada next?
Brian Palmer | explainer |
Tuesday, 6:15 PM ET
- What's new in New York, Newsweek, and the Weekly Standard.
Sonia Smith | other magazines |
Tuesday, 4:14 PM ET
- Troops might have to leave Iraq earlier than scheduled; Army launches new training program.
Daniel Politi | today's papers |
Tuesday, 6:43 AM ET
- How accurate is pre-election polling in Afghanistan?
Brian Palmer | explainer |
Monday, 6:12 PM ET
- White House signals it is ready to give up the government-run insurance option.
Daniel Politi | today's papers |
Monday, 6:40 AM ET
- Republicans wary of boisterous healthcare-reform activists; Obama calls for rational debate.
Ben Whitford | today's papers |
Sunday, 6:21 AM ET
- Obama tours the West, consumers still not bullish on the economy.
Lydia DePillis | today's papers |
Saturday, 4:21 AM ET
- What's new in the Economist, the New York Times Magazine, and The Nation.
David Sessions | other magazines |
Friday, 4:48 PM ET
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
Meredith Simons | cocktail chatter |
Friday, 11:10 AM ET
- France and Germany rebound; new hope for cancer treatment.
Daniel Politi | today's papers |
Friday, 5:02 AM ET
- Are you heating the planet when you breathe?
Brian Palmer | explainer |
Thursday, 6:40 PM ET
- Health care protests are influencing independents; Fed ends one piece of intervention.
Daniel Politi | today's papers |
Thursday, 6:11 AM ET
- Can we stop saying retarded yet?
Adrian Chen | explainer |
Wednesday, 6:51 PM ET
- How can New York City hot dog vendors afford to pay half a million dollars in rent?
Meredith Simons | explainer |
Wednesday, 4:13 PM ET
- The president gets personally involved in selling health care overhaul to Americans.
Daniel Politi | today's papers |
Wednesday, 6:44 AM ET
- What's new in Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, and Texas Monthly.
David Sessions | other magazines |
Tuesday, 5:04 PM ET
- Wave of violence hits Iraq; Obama says he'll pursue comprehensive immigration reform in 2010.
Daniel Politi | today's papers |
Tuesday, 6:34 AM ET
- Why would Billy Mays have taken three different painkillers?
Brian Palmer | explainer |
Monday, 7:19 PM ET
- Military to hunt down Afghan drug traffickers; Northern countries preparing for H1N1 comeback.
Daniel Politi | today's papers |
Monday, 6:38 AM ET
- Justice Department to investigate CIA interrogations; nine killed in New York plane crash.
Kara Hadge | today's papers |
Sunday, 6:08 AM ET
- What do the new employment figures really mean?
Jesse Stanchak | today's papers |
Saturday, 7:10 AM ET
- Do political "town halls" have rules?
Christopher Beam | explainer |
Friday, 6:17 PM ET
- What's new in Time, New York Times Magazine, and Rolling Stone.
David Sessions | other magazines |
Friday, 5:21 PM ET
- Why are Georgia and Georgia both named Georgia?
Noreen Malone | recycled |
Friday, 5:12 PM ET
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
Inci Atrek | cocktail chatter |
Friday, 11:00 AM ET
News & Politics
- These days, Europe is just for photo-ops and speech-making.
Anne Applebaum | foreigners |
Monday, 8:19 PM ET
- Slate's interactive guide to the Senate Finance committee markup on health reform.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Monday, 8:07 PM ET
- Why Obama should stiff-arm "save the newspapers" legislation.
Jack Shafer | press box |
Monday, 6:39 PM ET
- The Hofstra date rape that didn't happen.
Emily Bazelon | jurisprudence |
Monday, 6:01 PM ET
- Stephen Baldwin talks God at the Values Voter Conference in Washington.
Christopher Beam | politics |
Monday, 8:21 AM ET
- Irving Kristol, 1920-2009
Christopher Hitchens | fighting words |
Sunday, 5:15 PM ET
- It's time to stop the paternalistic meddling, Bloomberg.
Jacob Weisberg | the big idea |
Saturday, 7:02 AM ET
- The latest from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
Christopher Beam and Chris Wilson | politics |
Friday, 5:06 PM ET
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
Andrew Dubbins | cocktail chatter |
Friday, 1:03 PM ET
- Ben Bernanke needs to answer these nine questions before the Senate confirms him to another Fed term.
Eliot Spitzer | the best policy |
Friday, 11:18 AM ET
- Are U.S. shipping companies still sending their clunkers to the toxic scrap yards of South Asia?
Jacob Baynham | foreigners |
Friday, 7:11 AM ET
- A lot of the anger at Max Baucus should be directed at President Obama.
John Dickerson | politics |
Thursday, 11:49 PM ET
- How my factual error found its way into Obama's health care speech.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Thursday, 7:38 PM ET
- Why the press can't get enough of Harvard or Yale murders.
Jack Shafer | press box |
Thursday, 7:30 PM ET
- Obama's smart decision to scuttle Bush's European missile-defense plan.
Fred Kaplan | war stories |
Thursday, 5:27 PM ET
- Sen. Max Baucus' "bipartisan" health reform bill excites neither Democrats nor Republicans.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Wednesday, 7:22 PM ET
- Obama's attempts to broker Middle East peace are doomed to fail—for now.
Shmuel Rosner | foreigners |
Wednesday, 1:51 PM ET
- How Sen. Max Baucus' health bill panders to the young.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Wednesday, 12:08 PM ET
- On health care reform, Obama needs to get Americans to trust Congress.
John Dickerson | politics |
Tuesday, 7:13 PM ET
- Private health insurers charge more to give you less.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Tuesday, 6:31 PM ET
- Can we bribe our way to victory in Afghanistan?
Fred Kaplan | war stories |
Tuesday, 6:13 PM ET
- Washington Post'sKatharine Weymouth steps in it again.
Jack Shafer | press box |
Tuesday, 5:45 PM ET
- Ramadan around the Muslim world.
Jason Rezaian | dispatches |
Tuesday, 1:43 PM ET
- Glenn Beck says Cass Sunstein wants to give animals the right to sue humans. Really?
Christopher Beam | politics |
Monday, 8:49 PM ET
- Trying to make sense of the public's contradictory feelings about health care reform.
John Dickerson | politics |
Monday, 8:12 PM ET
- Greed and fear often trump American companies' commitment to free speech.
Anne Applebaum | foreigners |
Monday, 8:00 PM ET
- A new poll shows surprisingly strong doctor support for the public option.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Monday, 6:40 PM ET
- How liberals can win by losing at the Roberts Court.
Richard L. Hasen | jurisprudence |
Monday, 3:31 PM ET
- Engaging with Iran is like having sex with someone who hates you.
Christopher Hitchens | fighting words |
Monday, 12:29 PM ET
- The Glenn Beck-inspired protesters who descended Saturday on Washington.
Christopher Beam | politics |
Sunday, 6:14 AM ET
- "Diversity is a disease."
Timothy Noah | chatterbox |
Saturday, 4:16 PM ET
- Joe Wilson does other politically challenged states a favor.
Bruce Reed | the has-been |
Saturday, 11:06 AM ET
- The top dailies are too upbeat about the coming flu pandemic.
Jack Shafer | press box |
Friday, 8:02 PM ET
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
John Talty | cocktail chatter |
Friday, 11:03 AM ET
- Why hasn't America been attacked since 9/11?
Timothy Noah | recycled |
Friday, 7:07 AM ET
- Do American doctors get paid too much?
Christopher Beam | prescriptions |
Thursday, 6:33 PM ET
- The Marine who found two WTC survivors.
Rebecca Liss | recycled |
Thursday, 5:28 PM ET
- Mohamed Atta confronts the historic Muslim monuments and modern high-rises of Cairo.
Daniel Brook | dispatches |
Thursday, 9:44 AM ET
- How members of Congress decide when to sit, stand or heckle at a president's speech.
Christopher Beam | politics |
Wednesday, 11:29 PM ET
- Did Obama's speech succeed in recasting the debate over health care reform?
John Dickerson | politics |
Wednesday, 11:09 PM ET
- Malpractice reform is a small price to pay for health care reform.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Wednesday, 11:01 PM ET
- Watching the Supreme Court make its campaign finance jurisprudence disappear.
Dahlia Lithwick | supreme court dispatches |
Wednesday, 7:42 PM ET
- The trouble with Olympia Snowe's "trigger" compromise.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Wednesday, 7:25 PM ET
- Blind your eyes and plug your ears! Here come the 9/11 anniversary stories!
Jack Shafer | press box |
Wednesday, 5:24 PM ET
- Can Saudi Arabia remake itself by reforming its education system?
Kelly McEvers | dispatches |
Wednesday, 9:37 AM ET
- Obama's latest attempt to reshape the health care debate.
John Dickerson | politics |
Tuesday, 7:17 PM ET
- Please God, no more health reform speeches.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Tuesday, 6:29 PM ET
- Inside the wacky but lucrative world of presidential impersonators.
Christopher Maag | politics |
Tuesday, 7:02 AM ET
- The zaniest details from Rod Blagojevich's new book, The Governor.
Juliet Lapidos | juicy bits |
Tuesday, 7:01 AM ET
- The Supreme Court examines Citizens United vs. FEC, the case of an anti-Hillary documentary.
Richard L. Hasen | recycled |
Tuesday, 6:59 AM ET
- President Obama must remind people on both sides of the Atlantic why Afghanistan matters.
Anne Applebaum | foreigners |
Monday, 8:01 PM ET
- Let's not forget why we're in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Christopher Hitchens | fighting words |
Monday, 11:54 AM ET
- The elusive search for the sufficiently innocent criminal.
Dahlia Lithwick | jurisprudence |
Saturday, 7:29 AM ET
- Why the Supreme Court should abolish political speech limits on corporations and unions.
Eliot Spitzer | the best policy |
Friday, 5:57 PM ET
- Barack Obama's Facebook Feed
Christopher Beam and Chris Wilson | politics |
Friday, 2:32 PM ET
- Albania, the Muslim world's most pro-American state.
Nathan Thrall | dispatches |
Friday, 9:36 AM ET
- How peculiar Medicare rules contributed to the Memorial Medical Center tragedy during Hurricane Katrina.
Josh Levin | prescriptions |
Friday, 7:03 AM ET
- The GOP's fake doctor council.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Thursday, 6:59 PM ET
- Why Diane Sawyer should reject the ABC World News anchor slot.
Jack Shafer | press box |
Thursday, 6:34 PM ET
- Joe Biden wants you to know how well the stimulus is going.
Christopher Beam | politics |
Thursday, 4:41 PM ET
- Romancing Alan Frumin, the Senate parliamentarian.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Wednesday, 7:10 PM ET
- Heard about how rap legend Roxanne Shanté forced her label to pay for her Cornell Ph.D.? It never happened.
Ben Sheffner | hey, wait a minute |
Thursday, 7:19 PM ET
- Don't worry about burdening our children with a huge national debt.
Conor Clarke | politics |
Wednesday, 1:13 PM ET
- Why torture makes the FBI's job harder.
Asha Rangappa | jurisprudence |
Wednesday, 12:19 PM ET
- The hidden public-private cartel that sets health care prices.
Darshak Sanghavi | prescriptions |
Wednesday, 12:13 PM ET
- Has Obama failed to sell health care reform? Or are Americans just not in the mood to buy?
John Dickerson | politics |
Tuesday, 7:33 PM ET
- Bogus trend story of the week—the Wall Street Journal on home barbering.
Jack Shafer | press box |
Monday, 6:54 PM ET
- John McCain and Mitch McConnell show why bipartisanship on health care is impossible.
Christopher Beam | politics |
Monday, 6:01 PM ET
- Assessing the media version of the Kennedy "legacy."
Christopher Hitchens | fighting words |
Monday, 11:17 AM ET
- It's Republicans, not Democrats, who are trying to kill the elderly.
Jacob Weisberg | the big idea |
Saturday, 7:11 AM ET
- CIA switcheroo!
Timothy Noah | chatterbox |
Friday, 7:27 PM ET
- You thought the health care battle was ugly. Just wait for the climate fight.
Christopher Beam | politics |
Friday, 6:20 PM ET
- The GOP's health care solution.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Friday, 1:02 PM ET
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
Meredith Simons | cocktail chatter |
Friday, 12:41 PM ET
- Why European leaders can't stop celebrating World War II anniversaries.
Anne Applebaum | foreigners |
Friday, 12:16 PM ET
- After all these years, conservatives have a lot to learn from Ted Kennedy.
Bruce Reed | the has-been |
Thursday, 8:59 PM ET
- The United States can't win in Afghanistan unless its new president makes major reforms, and quickly.
Fred Kaplan | war stories |
Thursday, 5:39 PM ET
- Alex S. Jones' Losing the News.
Jack Shafer | press box |
Thursday, 12:14 PM ET
- New York Times columnist James Reston's inexplicable Teddy Kennedy crush.
Jack Shafer | press box |
Wednesday, 7:22 PM ET
- Does Washington have anything just waiting to be named after Ted Kennedy?
Meredith Simons | politics |
Wednesday, 6:09 PM ET
- What happens in congressional offices when the boss is gone?
Christopher Beam | politics |
Wednesday, 6:04 PM ET
- The Kennedy who most changed America.
Timothy Noah | obit |
Wednesday, 7:02 AM ET
- Cheney's CIA memos don't show what he said they'd show.
Timothy Noah | chatterbox |
Tuesday, 7:32 PM ET
- GOP Chairman Michael Steele loves Medicare but hates government.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Tuesday, 4:14 PM ET
- Is half a torture investigation better than none at all?
Dahlia Lithwick | jurisprudence |
Tuesday, 3:49 PM ET
- What President Obama's summer reading list says about him.
John Dickerson | politics |
Monday, 8:09 PM ET
- Is Ahmadinejad's nominee for defense minister a terrorist bomber?
Christopher Hitchens | fighting words |
Monday, 2:01 PM ET
- The Political Gabfest for Aug. 21, 2009.
Emily Bazelon | gabfest |
Friday, 12:08 PM ET
- The latest updates to Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
Christopher Beam and Chris Wilson | politics |
Friday, 4:33 PM ET
- Will the Pentagon thwart Obama's dream of nuclear disarmament?
Ron Rosenbaum | the spectator |
Friday, 4:14 PM ET
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
Kim Gittleson | cocktail chatter |
Friday, 10:56 AM ET
- The business of human smuggling in a Mexican border town.
Sacha Feinman | dispatches |
Friday, 7:21 AM ET
- Ashraf Ghani is an Afghan intellectual with a great résumé; after this campaign, he is also a politician.
Jeffrey Stern | dispatches |
Wednesday, 2:49 PM ET
- Many of the pundits attacking government health insurance rely on government health insurance for their own families.
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Wednesday, 9:46 AM ET
- Thursday's election reminds us what we are fighting for in Afghanistan.
Anne Applebaum | foreigners |
Tuesday, 8:01 PM ET
- Robert D. Novak (1931-2009): Darkness claims the prince of darkness.
Jack Shafer | press box |
Tuesday, 6:12 PM ET
- Obama endorses socialized medicine!
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Tuesday, 5:54 PM ET
- Why the public option isn't dispensable.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Monday, 7:07 PM ET
- How to kill those death panel rumors: Just shut up about them.
Farhad Manjoo | prescriptions |
Monday, 5:37 PM ET
- Why the stock market is still unsafe for the small investor.
Eliot Spitzer | the best policy |
Monday, 5:30 PM ET
- Yale University Press capitulates to religious extremists.
Christopher Hitchens | fighting words |
Monday, 5:04 PM ET
- I attended every event at Netroots Nation 2009. Here's what I found.
Christopher Beam | politics |
Monday, 12:01 PM ET
- Health reform is still a good bet to happen.
Bruce Reed | the has-been |
Monday, 9:39 AM ET
- Slate covers Netroots Nation on Twitter.
Christopher Beam | twitterbox |
Saturday, 1:43 PM ET
- Could America run out of sugar?
Juliet Lapidos | explainer |
Friday, 6:22 PM ET
- What if John Edwards had won the Democratic nomination? What if he were president?
Christopher Beam | politics |
Friday, 4:10 PM ET
- The bogus trend stories of summer: Chubby is hip; laptoppers evicted from coffee shops; DIY burial.
Jack Shafer | press box |
Friday, 3:20 PM ET
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
Meredith Simons | cocktail chatter |
Friday, 11:10 AM ET
- How to fix racial disparities in medical care.
Darshak Sanghavi | prescriptions |
Friday, 10:10 AM ET
- Today's unprecedented expansion of judicial powers.
Lee A. Casey | jurisprudence |
Friday, 7:15 AM ET
- Could a private abortion fund save health care reform?
Meredith Simons | prescriptions |
Thursday, 11:17 AM ET
- Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck stir the pot over Medicare cuts.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Wednesday, 5:26 PM ET
- How can New York City hot dog vendors afford a monthly rent of $53,558?
Meredith Simons | explainer |
Wednesday, 4:13 PM ET
- Iran after the journalists were silenced.
dispatches |
Wednesday, 2:06 PM ET
- Why "health reform lite" is hard.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Tuesday, 6:56 PM ET
- Is 90-year-old former Nazi officer Josef Scheungraber too old for jail?
Christopher Beam | explainer |
Tuesday, 6:02 PM ET
- Sarah Palin is afraid Obamacare will put a price on human life. But we already do.
Christopher Beam | prescriptions |
Monday, 9:51 PM ET
- Four global crises that could ruin your August vacation.
Anne Applebaum | foreigners |
Monday, 8:00 PM ET
- Was Bill Clinton's visit to North Korea worth the time, energy, and prestige? No way.
Christopher Hitchens | fighting words |
Monday, 11:39 AM ET
- Compared with the rest of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud was an easy target.
Nicholas Schmidle | foreigners |
Friday, 7:17 PM ET
- Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
Christopher Beam and Chris Wilson | politics |
Friday, 6:51 PM ET
- How is America going to end? The apocalypse you chose.
Josh Levin and Chris Wilson | the end of america |
Friday, 2:35 PM ET
- Will the leader of Lebanon's Druze really form an alliance with Hezbollah?
Lee Smith | foreigners |
Friday, 1:10 PM ET
- Four days in North Korea.
Sarah Wang | dispatches |
Friday, 11:01 AM ET
- The week's most interesting Slate stories.
Inci Atrek | Cocktail Chatter |
Friday, 11:00 AM ET
- The Catholic Church helped preserve Roman civilization. Can Mormonism do the same for America?
Josh Levin | the end of america |
Friday, 7:00 AM ET
- How Big Pharma's Billy Tauzin conned the White House out of $76 billion.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Thursday, 7:02 PM ET
- Obama's missteps in the health care debate mirror his missteps in last year's campaign.
John Dickerson | politics |
Thursday, 6:53 PM ET
- The Washington Post supports edgy journalism. Until it doesn't.
Jack Shafer | press box |
Thursday, 6:48 PM ET
- Why civilian aid and military aid shouldn't mix.
Anna Husarska | foreigners |
Thursday, 3:40 PM ET
- How is America going to end? Slate's "Choose Your Own Apocalypse" lets you map out the death of the United States.
Josh Levin | the end of america |
Friday, 7:00 AM ET
- How is America going to end? Five steps to totalitarian rule.
Josh Levin | the end of america |
Thursday, 6:49 AM ET
- Why Haley Barbour is the GOP's leading candidate in 2012—for vice president.
Lydia DePillis | politics |
Wednesday, 5:37 PM ET
- Help Slate track the "Medicare isn't government" meme.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Wednesday, 2:04 PM ET
- How is America going to end? Who most likely to secede?
Josh Levin | the end of america |
Wednesday, 7:02 AM ET
- Can Barack Obama make you buy health insurance?
Timothy Noah | prescriptions |
Tuesday, 6:59 PM ET
- In defense of the Milbank and Cillizza's offensive episode of "Mouthpiece Theater."
Jack Shafer | press box |
Tuesday, 5:44 PM ET
- Is K Street getting more efficient?
Christopher Beam | politics |
Tuesday, 5:04 PM ET
- Wars are not inevitable.
John Horgan | hey, wait a minute |
Tuesday, 2:03 PM ET
- Why better incentives won't lead to better health care.
Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe | prescriptions |
Tuesday, 1:09 PM ET
- What's behind Bill Clinton's "private" trip to North Korea?
Fred Kaplan | war stories |
Tuesday, 12:40 PM ET
- How is America going to end? We could be crushed by a climate strongman.
Josh Levin | the end of america |
Tuesday, 7:06 AM ET
- Ever get the feeling the newspaper-Web war was fought before?
Jack Shafer | press box |
Monday, 8:05 PM ET
- An innovative new music program for disabled veterans.
Anne Applebaum | foreigners |
Monday, 8:01 PM ET
- How can Barack Obama sell a health care plan that hasn't been written yet?
Christopher Beam | prescriptions |
Monday, 7:26 PM ET
- How is America going to end? The world's leading futurologists have four theories.
Josh Levin | the end of america |
Monday, 2:33 PM ET
- How is America going to end? A weeklong thought experiment on the United States' demise.
Josh Levin | the end of america |
Monday, 2:32 PM ET
Arts
- Saving Face: A chick-lit novel written in real time. With your help.
Dahlia Lithwick | fiction |
Monday, 9:55 PM ET
- Mad Men: Attack of the demon Barbie.
Patrick Radden Keefe, John Swansburg, and Julia Turner | tv club |
Monday, 6:32 PM ET
- William Trevor's Love and Summer.
Judith Shulevitz | books |
Monday, 9:30 AM ET
- Dissecting the real Wizard of Oz.
Meghan O'Rourke | the highbrow |
Monday, 7:21 AM ET
- Dahlia Lithwick on the Facebook friends who are helping to write her novel.
Dahlia Lithwick | fiction |
Friday, 6:26 PM ET
- The Informant! reviewed.
Dana Stevens | movies |
Friday, 4:40 PM ET
- Down and out in Brooklyn in Bored to Death.
Troy Patterson | television |
Friday, 1:38 PM ET
- Saying goodbye to Jim Carroll.
Gerald Howard | obit |
Friday, 9:34 AM ET
- Jennifer's Body is impossible to stop watching.
Dana Stevens | movies |
Thursday, 5:34 PM ET
- Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, and James Ryerson discuss The Catcher in the Rye.
Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, and James Ryerson | the audio book club |
Thursday, 10:27 AM ET
- Abandon all hope, ye who enter Cougar Town.
Troy Patterson | television |
Wednesday, 5:04 PM ET
- What does The Lost Symbol get wrong about the nation's capital? Everything.
David Plotz | books |
Wednesday, 3:09 PM ET
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Kanye West, Jay Leno, and Claude Monet.
Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner | culture gabfest |
Wednesday, 12:17 PM ET
- Jay's first show turns confessional.
Troy Patterson | television |
Tuesday, 12:21 PM ET
- Fashion Week FAQ.
Josh Patner | recycled |
Tuesday, 12:04 PM ET
- How I wrote Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.
Ben H. Winters | culturebox |
Tuesday, 11:40 AM ET
- "Their Old Knives"
W.S. Di Piero | poem |
Tuesday, 6:55 AM ET
- The interactive Dan Brown plot generator.
Chris Wilson | low concept |
Monday, 5:55 PM ET
- Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's Half the Sky.
Johann Hari | books |
Monday, 7:16 AM ET
- Is Fashion Week best appreciated in one's bunny slippers?
Troy Patterson | television |
Saturday, 8:32 PM ET
- No Impact Man reviewed.
Dana Stevens | movies |
Friday, 11:27 AM ET
- Little burlap guys try to save the world.
Dana Stevens | movies |
Thursday, 3:04 PM ET
- The World Trade Center appeared in my photographs, but in the distance.
Camilo Jose Vergara | gallery |
Thursday, 7:01 AM ET
- The Vampire Diaries is Dawson's Creek with fangs.
Troy Patterson | television |
Wednesday, 10:07 PM ET
- How we use and abuse the word genius.
Ron Rosenbaum | the spectator |
Wednesday, 3:17 PM ET
- Why you should watch the international versions of America's Next Top Model.
Torie Bosch | culturebox |
Wednesday, 10:07 AM ET
- Pearl Jam's brilliant new single, brought to you by Target.
Jonah Weiner | music box |
Wednesday, 7:00 AM ET
- The best Beatles songs that aren't on the new box set.
Colin Fleming | music box |
Tuesday, 4:12 PM ET
- I'm going to try to write a chick-lit novel in less than a month. I need your help.
Dahlia Lithwick | fiction |
Tuesday, 11:09 AM ET
- Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition will crush you.
Grady Hendrix | dvd extras |
Tuesday, 10:04 AM ET
- "Invitation"
Jane Hirshfield | poem |
Tuesday, 7:58 AM ET
- Lorrie Moore's A Gate At the Stairs.
Claire Dederer | books |
Monday, 7:09 AM ET
- American Casino reviewed.
Dana Stevens | movies |
Friday, 4:54 PM ET
- The new Melrose Place reviewed.
Troy Patterson | television |
Friday, 10:33 AM ET
- Mike Judge's Extract is better than Office Space.
Dana Stevens | movies |
Thursday, 8:15 PM ET
- Black Bart Simpson and the strange, persistent demand for T-shirts featuring "urbanized" cartoon characters.
Jonah Weiner | culturebox |
Wednesday, 7:01 AM ET
- Professional wrestling tries to become more family-friendly.
Troy Patterson | television |
Tuesday, 3:17 PM ET
- Sentences so good they sing.
Robert Pinsky | poem |
Tuesday, 7:00 AM ET
- How a pause can be the most devastating effect in music.
Jan Swafford | music box |
Monday, 4:22 PM ET
- Books, CDs, and movies Slate writers recommend.
slate fare |
Monday, 3:53 PM ET
- Veronica Buckley's The Secret Wife of Louis XIV.
David A. Bell | books |
Monday, 7:29 AM ET
- G4: a channel for the 25-year-old gamer.
Troy Patterson | television |
Friday, 3:10 PM ET
- Big Fan will be a cult classic.
Dana Stevens | movies |
Friday, 1:20 PM ET
- Ang Lee's slight and gentle-spirited Taking Woodstock.
Dana Stevens | movies |
Thursday, 1:01 PM ET
- When preppies became yuppies.
Troy Patterson | dvd extras |
Wednesday, 1:09 PM ET
- The Winner of the "Sketch Steve" Contest
culture gabfest |
Wednesday, 10:59 AM ET
- Forest Hills Gardens: A walkable, transit-oriented, architecturally rich planned community, built 100 years ago.
Witold Rybczynski | architecture |
Wednesday, 7:04 AM ET
- thirtysomething is finally out on DVD. How does it hold up?
Seth Stevenson | dvd extras |
Tuesday, 7:17 AM ET
- "Santiago, Pluperfect"
Lance Larsen | poem |
Tuesday, 7:15 AM ET
- Tracy Kidder's Strength in What Remains.
Johann Hari | books |
Monday, 7:57 AM ET
- Movie review: The Baader Meinhof Complex.
Dana Stevens | movies |
Friday, 1:55 PM ET
- Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.
Dana Stevens | movies |
Thursday, 5:47 PM ET
- The new season of Project Runway reviewed.
Troy Patterson | television |
Thursday, 4:37 PM ET
- Is Inglourious Basterds director Quentin Tarantino all washed up—or just hitting his stride?
Dennis Lim | culturebox |
Thursday, 1:13 PM ET
- Laura Kipnis, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katie Roiphe discuss A Vindication of Love.
Laura Kipnis | the audio book club |
Thursday, 7:17 AM ET
- Shaquille O'Neal, the cuddliest superjock.
Troy Patterson | television |
Tuesday, 7:37 PM ET
- "To Read"
Michael McFee | poem |
Tuesday, 6:54 AM ET
- The best and worst uses of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue in the movies.
Kim Gittleson | culturebox |
Monday, 12:23 PM ET
- Fahrenheit 451 in comic-book form.
Sarah Boxer | books |
Monday, 10:12 AM ET
- Why Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is so great.
Fred Kaplan | music box |
Monday, 6:46 AM ET
- Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams in The Time Traveler's Wife.
Dana Stevens | movies |
Friday, 5:35 PM ET
- Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami, reviewed.
Troy Patterson | television |
Thursday, 8:27 PM ET
- The dull, anti-corporate politics of District 9.
Daniel Engber | movies |
Thursday, 6:50 PM ET
- The star of Primetime: The Outsiders has an unhealthy need for attention.
Troy Patterson | television |
Wednesday, 7:20 PM ET
- Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo, reviewed.
Dana Stevens | movies |
Wednesday, 7:09 PM ET
- Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum.
Fred Kaplan | art |
Wednesday, 7:20 AM ET
- "At the Dance"
Louise Glück | poem |
Tuesday, 7:07 AM ET
- Alison Gopnik's The Philosophical Baby.
Paul Bloom | books |
Monday, 9:35 AM ET
- Wonderfully absurd escapes from mortal danger in the original G.I. Joe cartoon.
Adrian Chen | recycled |
Thursday, 1:04 PM ET
- Julie & Julia reviewed.
Dana Stevens | movies |
Thursday, 1:02 PM ET
- The rise of no homo and the changing face of hip-hop homophobia.
Jonah Weiner | music box |
Thursday, 9:55 AM ET
- Bollywood Hero reviewed.
Troy Patterson | television |
Wednesday, 8:41 PM ET
- How to make poetry from normal, banal, petty life.
Robert Pinsky | poem |
Tuesday, 7:02 AM ET
- Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice.
Jonathan Rosenbaum | books |
Monday, 7:02 AM ET
Life
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
the chat room |
Monday, 2:55 PM ET
- What to do when all else has failed to change your kid's behavior.
Alan E. Kazdin and Carlo Rotella | family |
Thursday, 12:17 PM ET
- How do I tell my kids they crushed their hamster to death?
dear prudence |
Thursday, 6:13 AM ET
- Photographs of Ramadan around the world.
gallery |
Wednesday, 12:36 PM ET
- Readers don't think the recession is over.
Emily Bazelon | family |
Wednesday, 11:50 AM ET
- I want to help the health reform efforts, but I don't remotely understand the issues. What should I do?
Sandy Stonesifer | my goodness |
Wednesday, 6:58 AM ET
- The most promising iPhone apps for drivers, bikers, and commuters.
Tom Vanderbilt | transport |
Tuesday, 1:47 PM ET
- Can a book teach you how to be a man?
Matthew Schneier | shopping |
Tuesday, 6:57 AM ET
- Saving Face: A chick-lit novel written in real time. With your help.
Dahlia Lithwick | fiction |
Monday, 9:55 PM ET
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
the chat room |
Monday, 3:04 PM ET
- Why your kids have such terrible handwriting and what to do about it.
Emily Yoffe | human guinea pig |
Thursday, 4:40 PM ET
- How should Roger Federer—the greatest tennis player on earth—talk about his own greatness?
Ben Yagoda | sports nut |
Thursday, 4:17 PM ET
- More Americans over age 50 are smoking marijuana than ever before. Are my parents among them?
Daniel Engber | culturebox |
Thursday, 3:39 PM ET
- The planned bridge that could ruin Germany's cherished Mosel wine region.
Mike Steinberger | drink |
Thursday, 11:53 AM ET
- My wife's sister is hotter than her.
dear prudence |
Thursday, 7:00 AM ET
- If a charity spends less than half its funds on its programs, does that mean it's ineffective?
Sandy Stonesifer | my goodness |
Wednesday, 12:52 PM ET
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
the chat room |
Tuesday, 3:18 PM ET
- Should parents influence which classes their kids are in?
Emily Bazelon | family |
Friday, 1:56 PM ET
- Why 1969 was college football's season of discontent.
Michael Oriard | sports nut |
Thursday, 12:15 PM ET
- Is it bad form to pick a funeral date before a death?
dear prudence |
Thursday, 7:02 AM ET
- I'm the boss. Can I ask my employees to give to my favorite charity?
Sandy Stonesifer | my goodness |
Wednesday, 9:37 AM ET
- The best bubble-blowers on the market.
Dahlia Lithwick | shopping |
Tuesday, 9:53 AM ET
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
the chat room |
Monday, 3:13 PM ET
- Why you'll never cook from Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Regina Schrambling | food |
Friday, 5:28 PM ET
- Slate's Twitter wine tasting: your favorites, plus a special offer.
drink |
Friday, 3:54 PM ET
- The hidden benefits of traffic tickets.
Tom Vanderbilt | transport |
Friday, 1:36 PM ET
- Is it normal to wear the same bra for weeks?
dear prudence |
Thursday, 7:39 AM ET
- Tasting notes from Slate's first Twitter wine event.
drink |
Wednesday, 6:30 PM ET
- Does volunteer work have more impact if you do it on the East Coast?
Sandy Stonesifer | my goodness |
Wednesday, 9:28 AM ET
- The best city bikes on the market.
Seth Stevenson | shopping |
Tuesday, 10:13 AM ET
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
the chat room |
Monday, 3:03 PM ET
- Why haven't there been more tall sprinters like Usain Bolt?
Edward McClelland | recycled |
Thursday, 5:19 PM ET
- Torn over when to sleep with a new lover.
dear prudence |
Thursday, 7:13 AM ET
- The whole truth about pluots versus plumcots.
Chip Brantley | food |
Wednesday, 11:20 AM ET
- Sports Illustrated's Peter King falls out of love with Brett Favre.
Josh Levin | sports nut |
Tuesday, 5:36 PM ET
- The greatest wine hoax ever.
Mike Steinberger | drink |
Tuesday, 1:35 PM ET
- How decent bike parking could revolutionize American cities.
Tom Vanderbilt | transport |
Monday, 5:34 PM ET
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
the chat room |
Monday, 3:07 PM ET
- What readers won't give up despite the downturn.
Emily Bazelon | family |
Friday, 3:26 PM ET
- An American Indian's journey in the land of Indian casinos.
David Treuer | well-traveled |
Friday, 10:01 AM ET
- I told my husband that my sister has HIV. But she doesn't.
dear prudence |
Thursday, 6:37 AM ET
- Which is more important: tithing or paying off my $13,000 credit-card debt?
Sandy Stonesifer | my goodness |
Wednesday, 9:44 AM ET
- Can Major League Baseball and Topps save baseball cards?
Dave Jamieson | sports nut |
Tuesday, 4:33 PM ET
- Bullies can be stopped, but it takes a village.
Alan E. Kazdin and Carlo Rotella | family |
Tuesday, 12:47 PM ET
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
the chat room |
Monday, 2:59 PM ET
- You're invited to a Slate wine tasting.
Michael Steinberger | drink |
Monday, 2:26 PM ET
- How the playpen fell out of favor.
Tom Vanderbilt | family |
Friday, 11:20 AM ET
- John Hughes, R.I.P.
Dana Stevens | obit |
Friday, 6:45 AM ET
- Can We Accept Daddy's War Bucks?
dear prudence |
Thursday, 6:48 AM ET
- My short, bewildering seasons covering the professional bass circuit.
Sam Eifling | sports nut |
Wednesday, 12:14 PM ET
- Why vintage stoves are better than modern ones.
Regina Schrambling | food |
Wednesday, 11:35 AM ET
- Can I plant some vegetables in the vacant lot nearby?
Sandy Stonesifer | my goodness |
Wednesday, 9:26 AM ET
- I turned my disastrous experience of opening a cafe into a novel.
Michael Idov | recycled |
Tuesday, 1:26 PM ET
- Where to get a good cup of coffee in a hurry.
Nathan Heller | shopping |
Tuesday, 9:30 AM ET
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
the chat room |
Monday, 2:58 PM ET
- August: Let's get rid of it.
David Plotz | recycled |
Monday, 10:06 AM ET
- Is there a place for yoga in homeless shelters?
Lydia DePillis | dispatches |
Friday, 3:14 PM ET
- Swimming's polyurethane-assisted glide off the deep end.
Tom Scocca | sports nut |
Friday, 12:04 PM ET
- In defense of the play date.
Emily Bazelon | family |
Thursday, 4:14 PM ET
- Fed up with my friend's racist husband.
dear prudence |
Thursday, 6:36 AM ET
Business & Tech
- So now Miracle Whip is mayonnaise for hipsters?
Seth Stevenson | ad report card |
Monday, 10:02 AM ET
- The well-deserved success of Mint.com, and what other Web businesses can learn from it.
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Friday, 3:08 PM ET
- Why won't anyone give me a credit card?
Kevin O'Donnell | moneybox |
Friday, 9:56 AM ET
- How to fix Craigslist.
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Thursday, 5:48 PM ET
- How to tell a West Coast businessman from an East Coast businessman.
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Wednesday, 6:29 PM ET
- What Facebook can learn from Gmail.
Chris Wilson | webhead |
Wednesday, 1:31 PM ET
- America can't be the world's tech leader without immigration reform.
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Monday, 3:47 PM ET
- Why Lehman's failure in September 2008 was so much more devastating for the rest of the world than for the United States.
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Saturday, 7:03 AM ET
- Employment-based health insurance is in big trouble, but don't blame Obama.
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Thursday, 4:34 PM ET
- The iPod is dead.
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Thursday, 3:49 PM ET
- A greener, cheaper way to deal with garbage.
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Wednesday, 5:33 PM ET
- A better way to market computers: Say what they can actually do.
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Wednesday, 12:56 PM ET
- Boston's Hancock Tower and the coming commercial real estate crisis.
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Saturday, 7:37 AM ET
- Why do we freak out every time Gmail goes down?
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Thursday, 5:09 PM ET
- The cupcake boom is here. The cupcake crash is coming.
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Thursday, 4:36 PM ET
- Wikipedia's new editing policy isn't the end of the encyclopedia's democratic age.
Chris Wilson | webhead |
Wednesday, 12:02 PM ET
- Who's rooting for the economy to fail again? These guys.
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Tuesday, 6:30 PM ET
- Does venting consumer outrage on Twitter actually work?
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Tuesday, 5:47 PM ET
- TARP could have cost taxpayers $700 billion. Now it looks like it might break even.
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Friday, 1:26 PM ET
- How to beat Amazon's Kindle.
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Thursday, 5:49 PM ET
- Does your e-mail reveal how productive you are?
Michael Agger | lifehacking |
Wednesday, 7:04 AM ET
- Why corporate IT should unchain our office computers.
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Tuesday, 6:40 PM ET
- Cash for Clunkers helped car dealers. But did it also help the economy?
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Monday, 5:48 PM ET
- How Google can knock the iPhone from its perch.
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Thursday, 1:05 PM ET
- One Citi employee is entitled to a $100 million bonus. Should the company stiff him?
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Thursday, 6:11 PM ET
- Microblogging has become too important for Twitter to rule the field.
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Thursday, 5:30 PM ET
- Who Won the Recession?
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Tuesday, 7:42 PM ET
- Tr.im just closed up shop. Will other URL-shortening outfits like Bit.ly be next?
Farhad Manjoo | recycled |
Tuesday, 1:31 PM ET
- An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country.
Chris Wilson | moneybox |
Monday, 5:14 PM ET
- The Wall Street Journal'spreposterous editorial about AIG and me.
Eliot Spitzer | the best policy |
Monday, 2:42 PM ET
- Could changes in advertising kill television?
Seth Stevenson | ad report card |
Monday, 12:07 PM ET
- The lamest business excuse of 2009.
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Friday, 11:26 AM ET
- Should the FCC force Apple to sell Google's iPhone apps?
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Wednesday, 4:37 PM ET
- Why you've stopped watching CNBC.
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Tuesday, 6:19 PM ET
- Is the president helping Hawaii?
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Saturday, 7:19 AM ET
- How government programs are saving insurance companies from disaster.
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Friday, 3:20 PM ET
- Four ways to redesign Facebook.
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Thursday, 5:36 PM ET
- The Department of Justice should take a hint from the Microsoft suit: Don't go after Google.
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Tuesday, 5:02 PM ET
- Apple's rumored tablet PC augurs the next phase of the netbook craze.
Farhad Manjoo | recycled |
Monday, 1:28 PM ET
- The recession is over; now we need a new kind of recovery.
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Monday, 11:51 AM ET
- Why is America losing millionaires?
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Friday, 11:47 AM ET
- Fix your terrible, insecure passwords in five minutes.
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Friday, 7:05 AM ET
- Do people take out payday loans because they're desperate—or because they don't understand the terms?
Ray Fisman | the dismal science |
Wednesday, 1:27 PM ET
- Slate's new, improved mobile site.
slate fare |
Wednesday, 6:58 AM ET
- How Amazon's remote deletion of e-books from the Kindle paves the way for book-banning's digital future.
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Monday, 5:53 PM ET
- Japan mellows as its population ages.
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Saturday, 7:52 AM ET
- Spotify streams every song you'd ever want to hear—for free.
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Thursday, 4:53 PM ET
- The recession is over! (Technically.)
Daniel Gross | moneybox |
Tuesday, 11:29 AM ET
- Typography on the Web is basic and dull. A startup called Typekit will fix it.
Farhad Manjoo | technology |
Monday, 5:19 PM ET
Science
- What a fat tax really means for America.
Daniel Engber | Science |
Monday, 5:29 PM ET
- The United States' swine flu vaccines will leave millions worldwide unprotected.
David Dobbs | medical examiner |
Thursday, 3:36 PM ET
- Are outdoor smoking bans scientifically justified?
William Saletan | human nature |
Thursday, 10:30 AM ET
- The disappearing boundaries of cigarette prohibition.
William Saletan | human nature |
Tuesday, 11:11 AM ET
- Did black box warnings on antidepressants have any effect on teen suicide?
Arthur Allen | medical examiner |
Tuesday, 10:12 AM ET
- Is fake-wood furniture bad for the environment?
Nina Shen Rastogi | the green lantern |
Tuesday, 9:25 AM ET
- Trying to decide whether to have brain surgery.
Peter Hyman | medical examiner |
Monday, 12:19 PM ET
- Are blackboards greener than whiteboards?
Nina Shen Rastogi | the green lantern |
Tuesday, 3:37 PM ET
- How bad for the environment are cruise ships?
Nina Shen Rastogi | the green lantern |
Tuesday, 10:10 AM ET
- The people profiting from food allergies.
Meredith Broussard | medical examiner |
Monday, 1:44 PM ET
- What kind of environmental impact do toilets have?
Nina Shen Rastogi | the green lantern |
Tuesday, 9:34 AM ET
- Constance Casey's profiles of revolting creatures.
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Thursday, 3:01 PM ET
- A tour of wildlife conservation efforts in South Africa.
Brendan Borrell | green room |
Thursday, 1:24 PM ET
- The problems with broadcasting live surgeries.
Adam Wolfberg | medical examiner |
Tuesday, 1:00 PM ET
- Whatever happened to acid rain?
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Tuesday, 11:11 AM ET
- A physicist looks at The Time Traveler's Wife.
Dave Goldberg | Science |
Thursday, 10:26 AM ET
- Does it really save gas to roll down your windows instead of flipping on the AC?
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Thursday, 9:39 AM ET
- The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting.
Emily Yoffe | Science |
Wednesday, 5:40 PM ET
- Does snorkeling damage coral reefs?
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Tuesday, 11:54 AM ET
- Evolution's place in a created universe.
William Saletan | human nature |
Monday, 7:57 AM ET
- The organic vs. conventional debate is getting us nowhere.
James E. McWilliams | green room |
Wednesday, 3:46 PM ET
- How much will the Cash for Clunkers program really do for the environment?
Nina Shen Rastogi | the green lantern |
Tuesday, 7:08 PM ET
- The pro-life movement's contraception problem.
William Saletan | human nature |
Monday, 7:58 AM ET
- Is it OK to impregnate a 60-year-old woman?
William Saletan | human nature |
Thursday, 8:05 AM ET
- Why more young women should start using IUDs.
Kate Klonick | medical examiner |
Wednesday, 1:42 PM ET
- Are we being too tolerant of gluten-intolerance?
Daniel Engber | Science |
Tuesday, 2:32 PM ET
- The most eco-friendly way to go on a camping trip.
Nina Shen Rastogi | the green lantern |
Tuesday, 9:22 AM ET
- The right-wing assault on abortion reduction.
William Saletan | human nature |
Monday, 8:01 AM ET
- The diagnostic madness of DSM-V.
Christopher Lance | medical examiner |
Friday, 9:31 AM ET
- The life story of a snapping turtle.
Constance Casey | green room |
Thursday, 9:30 AM ET
- Should we blame overdiagnosis for rising health costs?
Darshak Sanghavi | prescriptions |
Wednesday, 11:56 AM ET
- How to stop cell-phone use behind the wheel.
William Saletan | human nature |
Tuesday, 11:09 AM ET
- How scared should I be of bisphenol A?
Nina Shen Rastogi | the green lantern |
Tuesday, 9:31 AM ET
- Why are doctors still measuring obesity with the body mass index?
Jeremy Singer-Vine | Science |
Monday, 10:00 AM ET
- Do animals masturbate?
Daniel Engber | Science |
Thursday, 2:56 PM ET
- Why using Social Security numbers for identification is risky and stupid.
Chris Wilson | webhead |
Tuesday, 6:08 PM ET
- How to pick out sustainable seafood.
Nina Shen Rastogi | the green lantern |
Tuesday, 9:28 AM ET
- Race, genes, and cancer.
William Saletan | human nature |
Tuesday, 7:28 AM ET
- Trying to stop the spread of swine flu at summer camp.
Marc Siegel | medical examiner |
Friday, 9:27 AM ET
- Just how religious is Francis Collins, Obama's nominee for director of the NIH?
Chris Wilson | Science |
Thursday, 7:28 PM ET
- The pro-life case for masturbation.
William Saletan | human nature |
Wednesday, 7:29 AM ET
- Dr. Feelgood: The joys and perils of giving celebrities what they want.
Kent Sepkowitz | medical examiner |
Tuesday, 11:13 AM ET
- Is washing out my paintbrushes worth all that water?
Nina Shen Rastogi | the green lantern |
Tuesday, 9:32 AM ET
- Is it better for the planet to grill with charcoal or gas?
Brendan I. Koerner | recycled |
Friday, 7:09 AM ET
- E-mail, adultery, and Mark Sanford.
William Saletan | human nature |
Thursday, 7:26 AM ET
- Breaking your legs to make yourself taller.
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Tuesday, 7:38 AM ET
- What celebrity patients like Farrah Fawcett can teach us about cancer.
Barron H. Lerner | medical examiner |
Friday, 4:08 PM ET
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