Life
- "Sex positive" young women reconsider abstinence.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- Can a bride who calls off the wedding keep the ring?
- An ode to my matriarchs, every last one.
- The dark side of the new theories of success.
- A lesbian mother wants to be the only mommy on Mother's Day.
- Remembering my mother on the holiday she hated.
- Dear Prudence offers motherly advice.
- Betty Friedan is not responsible for all of our unhappiness.
- I'm quitting the Internet. Will I be liberated or left behind?
- Food fight: Cook's Illustrated and food52 compete to come up with the best recipes for pork shoulder and sugar cookies.
- John C. Heenan, America's first sports superstar.
- Using your skill set for the greater good.
- Ask us how you can do good—better.
- Advice for a woman with wedding-party drama.
- The recurring tropes of the long-lost-wallet story.
- Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder's amusing failure at Six Flags.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- How we misunderstand the Kentucky Derby.
- The depressing glut of marriage-improvement ideas.
- How can I get my boss to stop crying at work?
- Hand-drawn maps from firefighters, club-hoppers, Boy Scout dads, grandmothers, and Alexander Calder.
- Slate readers help us catalog the personality types of flight delays.
- Did George Will's Men at Work anticipate baseball's statistical revolution?
- Doulas are expanding their services to include abortion.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 26, 2010.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- What do Phoebe Prince's English essays say about her?
- Life on an oil rig.
- How an obscure rookie named James "Yazoo" Smith almost got the NFL draft outlawed.
- My co-worker is deceptive about her age.
- Are there no hipsters in China? Why Chinese bicyclists have resisted the ironic fixed-gear trend that has swept the rest of the world.
- Fried chicken cookoff: The Pioneer Woman vs. Thomas Keller.
- Girlyman and the pursuit of creative risk.
- I hate Secretaries Day.
- Web start-ups almost always fail. So why are these guys launching one?
- Advice for a woman whose friend is convinced her husband is cheating.
- Help Slate define and classify the common personality types during airport delays.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- I give my autistic son pot.
- These two rock climbers take risks that would paralyze you with fright. How?
- The story of America's greatest idea: risk.
- A slide show from Allison Silverman of embarrassing tampon ad clichés.
- The coming surge of Cuban baseball players.
- Why millennials are so judgmental about promiscuity.
- A woman's grisly premonition keeps her up at night.
Briefing
- Why is the oil slick colored orange? Why is oil spewing into the Gulf on its own?
- What would happen if terrorism suspects like Faisal Shahzad lost their Miranda rights?
- How do you measure a flood?
- Is Elena Kagan related to Donald, Robert, or Frederick Kagan?
- Barack Obama's Facebook Feed
- When polar bears and grizzlies breed, they can produce fertile offspring. Why can't other species?
- The Slatest: Morning Edition
- How will the BP disaster affect the U.S. economy?
- When did the Gulf oil spill become visible from space?
- Failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad paid cash for his ticket to Dubai. You can still do that?
- How many surveillance cameras are there in Manhattan?
- How do you clean an oiled bird?
- How do you assess damages to a natural resource?
- How did central Kentucky become horse country?
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
News & Politics
- Slate's complete coverage of Elena Kagan.
- Sex, religion, and Kagan's right to privacy.
- The Senate Energy Committee interrogates BP and other oil executives over the Gulf spill.
- The White House's new Afghanistan plan: Be nice to Hamid Karzai.
- Scenes from the British election campaign.
- Bogus trend story of the week: Pakistani-Americans masquerading as Indians.
- Who knew the European Union had so much power over its member states?
- Obama's case that Elena Kagan has a special understanding of ordinary people.
- What Bob Bennett's defeat means for the Tea Parties.
- I wish Elena Kagan—about whose sexual orientation I am entirely clueless—were an uncloseted lesbian.
- Kagan's position on military recruiters at Harvard was hardly radical.
- How WellPoint's bad behavior advances health care reform.
- Manny Pacquiao won a seat in the Phillipine congress. Will he be KO'd by corruption?
- Why Elena Kagan makes both sides nervous.
- French attempts to outlaw the burqa strike a blow for the rights of women.
- Thwarting terrorism is luck, but only if you're a Democrat.
- Elena Kagan's youth and judicial inexperience recommend her for the Supreme Court.
- Why President Obama revealed how many weapons are in the U.S. nuclear stockpile.
- Asking "Who can sway Kennedy?" is no way to pick Justice Stevens' replacement.
- John Boehner defends his criticism of the Obama administration.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- We don't yet know who'll be Britain's next prime minister, but there are some clear winners and losers.
- John Boehner's absurd charge about Obama's counterterrorism strategy.
- Why is the Federal Reserve so afraid of openness and accountability?
- What P.R. experts think of BP's response to the oil spill.
- Newsweek has fallen down and can't get up.
- We're likely to see more attacks on U.S. soil by al-Qaida affiliates.
- The bizarre criticism of the Faisal Shahzad interrogation.
- The state attorneys general suits to stop health care reform are frivolous.
- Does the spate of disasters help the party associated with activist government?
- An afternoon observing "suspicious activity" in Times Square.
- Was the Times Square bomb the follow-on to 9/11 that we've been bracing for?
- Virginia's Ken Cuccinelli's dangerous suit against climate change.
- Why we're so bad at dealing with unlikely disasters like the Louisiana oil spill.
- Iran's election to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women is a joke.
- Three lessons from the Times Square bomb.
- British society is a three-party system stuffed into a two-party duopoly.
- A whirlwind tour of the British election campaign.
- How to escape a partisan echo chamber.
- Robert Rubin is the wrong guy to blame for the financial crisis.
- How political speechwriters do comedy.
- Can Obama be as good a campaigner for his party as he is for himself?
- Bogus trend story of the week: The Times on Americans renouncing their citizenship.
- Should judges be using social media?
- Massachusetts just passed the country's best anti-bullying law.
- A bill of rights for domestic workers in New York.
- Justice Alito's double standard for the First Amendment.
- Felipe Calderón criticized Arizona's immigration law for being discriminatory. How tough are Mexican immigration laws?
- Richard Clarke's new book says we're completely unprepared to fight a cyberwar.
- Why not pay sources? My objections are practical, not ethical.
- Why do insurers ignore the most promising way of cutting health costs?
- Slate's interactive test of how open-minded your news diet is.
Arts
- Lost: Adam and Eve.
- "Sea Level"
- Friday Night Lights: Where's Lyla?
- The stories of Ray Bradbury.
- Babies, the movie.
- Generator Rex and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien reviewed.
- Iron Man 2 reviewed.
- American Idol takes on Frank Sinatra.
- The Shakespeare apocalypse is coming in 2011.
- Comparing the low-budget horror sensation Paranormal Activity to its even lower-budget knockoff, Paranormal Entity.
- "After the Fact"
- The bizarre new Miller Lite campaign that pitches its special "Vortex Bottle."
- Philip Pullman's strange new book rewrites the life of Jesus
- On the hunt for Arizona's illegal aliens with the Police Women of Maricopa County on TLC.
- A brief history of military humor on the Internet.
- Eadweard Muybridge at the Corcoran.
- Why Siobhan got booted from American Idol.
- The genius of the censored South Park episodes.
- Fernanda Eberstadt's Rat.
- Happy Town reviewed.
- Was Robert Frost a Modernist?
- Martin Stannard's biography of Muriel Spark.
- Oceans, reviewed.
- Famous movie scenes of women giving birth.
- The Back-up Plan reviewed.
- Broadway has a new play about Enron. Where's the one about Madoff?
- You must read (and watch) Eddie Coyle.
- Review of the new edition of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex.
- Imagine a world without Jennifer Garner.
- The Puritan rhymes of Guru.
- Bravo's new reality show 9 by Design, reviewed.
- The centuries-old struggle to play in tune.
- "Big Box Encounter"
- Tocqueville's Discovery of America by Leo Damrosch.
- Animals are so entertaining.
- The Secret in Their Eyes reviewed.
- Kick-Ass reviewed.
- Idol does Elvis.
- How do movie theaters decide which trailers to show?
- What do directors of TV series like Lost and Mad Men do? Are they like movie directors?
- Is David Simon's Treme too easy on New Orleans?
- It's time for pundits to stop using the word "kabuki."
- What Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum looks like without any art on the walls.
- Insane Clown Posse's surprisingly warm and fuzzy new single, "Miracles."
- "Generic"
- The Golf Channel converts me into a lover of golf.
- Slate predicted the follow-up to Jersey Shore about Massholes.
- Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks.
Business & Tech
- Want girls to do better in school? Surround them with smart classmates.
- How I learned to love my electric bicycle.
- Is Microsoft Office 2010 good enough to fight off its free competitors?
- The new jobs report is great news. Why are economists still so glum?
- Admongo, the government video game that teaches kids about the perils of advertising.
- Why BP's rivals should be doing much more to stop the Gulf oil spill.
- Why the Federal Trade Commission should let Google and Apple do what they want in the mobile-ad business.
- How Greece's efforts solve its fiscal crisis may have caused a market crisis.
- Microsoft's PowerPoint isn't evil if you learn how to use it.
- Can the Fed unload the $2.3 trillion in assets it acquired during the meltdown without crashing Wall Street again?
- What is "social license," and has Goldman Sachs lost it?
- The one thing that will reduce U.S. energy use more than all Priuses, CFLs, and solar panels combined.
- Can Blockbuster be saved?
- Broadband access in the United States is even worse than you think.
- Why you shouldn't blame YouTube for removing all of those Hitler videos.
- A brief history of alarmist—and wrong—Wall Street predictions about the effect of new regulations.
- Is Goldman Sachs simply a gambling operation? Does it do anything that helps America?
- How the volcano eruption exposed the vulnerability of the global supply chain.
- Broadway has a new play about Enron. Where's the one about Madoff?
- Will all those "like" buttons make Facebook bigger than Google?
- Your favorite idea for improving home energy efficiency. Plus, the four other great ideas I will try at my home.
- Has Apple's new iPhone hit the limits of industrial design?
- Corporations love to talk about going green, but not many are planning for a changing climate.
- Why Texas is doing so much better economically than the rest of the nation.
- The SEC's lawsuit shows how Goldman Sachs put its own interests ahead of its customers'.
- The co-founders of Twitter say it will change the world. They should remind people that it's also fun.
- Conan's move to TBS is brilliant—and not just because he'll make a fortune.
- Is Google's Eric Schmidt scared of Apple's Steve Jobs?
- Why the U.S. recovery will be bigger, faster, and stronger than economists and politicians expect.
- Why is Steve Jobs trying to convince us that iAd is good for Apple customers?
- Remember Colombian coffee-picker Juan Valdez? He has a new job.
- Slate's Farhad Manjoo answers your questions about the iPad, Foursquare, and more.
- Here are the finalists in Slate's energy-efficiency crowdsourcing contest. Please vote for your favorite.
- An Indian consulting firm with a branch office in … South America?
- Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and the long road to the iPad.
- You don't need an iPad. But once you try one, you won't be able to resist.
- Study shows that preschoolers can recognize brand names.
- Watch video of the Slate/New America Foundation discussion of American mobile technology.
- A close look at Apple's "guided tour" of the iPad.
- When I reduce my home's energy costs, who should reap the benefit?
- The Cell Phone Bill of Rights: Four rules to fix mobile phone service in America.
- YouTube's original sin.
- Electronic tablets can't possibly save magazines and newspapers.
- The psychedelic new Friskies ad.
- The right man for the job: Why Mitt Romney should run Obamacare.
- The economy is recovering, which means Democrats may not get routed in November.
- Rework, by the founders of 37signals, explains that it's easy to start your own company.
- American companies—and consumers—are borrowing much, much less. That's good news.
Science
- How fast should ambulances go?
- Which brand of gas station should I use on my road trip?
- Oil companies' history of ducking safety improvements before big spills.
- Why do we focus on the least important causes of cancer?
- Could fireboats have sunk the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico?
- Surveillance cameras and the Times Square bombing.
- Which illegal drug is best for the environment?
- In southeastern Louisiana, anger over the oil spill is increasingly directed at BP.
- Developmental milestones for babies are meaningless.
- Why do we love to root for the underdog?
- The beaches along the Eastern seaboard are about to disappear, says one EPA scientist. Why isn't anyone listening?
- The delicate wine grape has become our best early-warning system for the effects of global warming.
- Why the tricks for better sleeping are different for babies and adults.
Podcasts & Video
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 10, 2010.
- "The Sporkful" podcast tries new s'mores recipes.
- The Political Gabfest for May 7, 2010.
- DoubleX Audio Book Club on Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Oprah Winfrey, the "data-driven life," and Please Give.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 3, 2010.
- "The Sporkful," a guest food podcast.
- The Political Gabfest for April 30, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest onperformance artist Marina Abramović, South Park censorship, and Al Pacino's turn as Jack Kevorkian.
- The Political Gabfest for Apr. 23, 2010.
- Slate'sDoubleXGabfest on Sarah Palin's speaking tour, Sarah Brown and other British political wives, and comedian Sarah Silverman.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Kick-Ass, the intersection of neuroscience and literature, and the Library of Congress' decision to archive Twitter.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 19, 2010.
- Our critics discuss Michael Lewis' The Big Short.
- The Political Gabfest for April 16, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Treme, Malcolm McLaren, and Tina Fey.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 12, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for April 9, 2010
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on "The Half-Hooker Economy," Brittney Griner and violent women.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Seth Stevenson's book Grounded, the Google tool that lets you buy TV ads, and Apple's new iPad.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 5, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for April 2, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest onUndercover Boss, Ricky Martin's announcement that he's gay, and the Web site TVTropes.org.
- Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen, for the week of March 29, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for Mar. 26th, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest onthe death of singer-songwriter Alex Chilton, the state of music criticism, and William Safire's replacement.
- Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen, for the week of March 22, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for March 19, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on HBO's new miniseries The Pacific, Variety's fired critics, and mommy blogging.
- Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen, for the week of March 15, 2010.
- Our critics discuss Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall.
- The Political Gabfest for March 12, 2010.
Blogs
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