Arts
- 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.
- Errol Morris' Tabloid reviewed: domination porn, cloned puppies, Mormons.
- Harry Potter films: Alfonso Cuarón saved J.K. Rowling's movie franchise.
- Harry Potter virgins: Two muggles who have never read a page of J.K. Rowling watch Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
- Eisenhower memorial: What should Ike's monument in Washington, D.C. look like?
- Atomic Postcards: Memorabilia from the age of nuclear tourism.
- "Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945" and "The Atomic Explosion": How photographs can block out the human implications of the bomb. (PHOTOS)
- Beach reads: Stories about summer vacation.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 reviewed: the final Harry Potter movie is a graceful end to J.K. Rowling's worthy franchise.
- Are You Serious? reviewed: Lee Siegel's winning tour of seriousness in American culture.
- "Sheetrock"
- Alphas reviewed: David Strathairn stars in a new superhero show.
- The new niceness, aesthetic brutalism, and spectralism—a grand tour of contemporary music.
- Maggie Nelson's The Art of Cruelty:A Reckoning: Do artistic portrayals of cruelty help us overcome it, or do they increase it?
- Digital downloads: Hollywood is about to repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the music industry.
- Project Nim reviewed: a shattering documentary about a chimpanzee raised as a human.
- The 10 Greatest Scenes in the History of Gore. (VIDEO)
- How to fix horror, Part IV: Gore is good.
- The Nine Lives of Chloe King reviewed: A teenage girl (Skyler Samuels) discovers that she belongs to a race of cat people.
- Horrible Bosses reviewed: Jason Bateman, Jennifer Anniston, Kevin Spacey, Jason Sudeikis, Jamie Foxx, Charlie Day, and Colin Farrell.
- Beats, Rhymes, and Life: The A Tribe Called Quest documentary, reviewed.
- "Old Home Day"
- Dorothy Wickenden's Nothing Daunted: How did two society girls manage on the western frontier?
- Conductor Daniel Barenboim tries to bridge the Israeli-Palestininan divide with classical music.
- Larry Crowne reviewed: Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts need a better script.
- The Canadian Wire: Watch Intelligence soon, OK?
- Necessary Roughness reviewed: A fine summer show combining therapy, pro football, and Long Island.
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon reviewed: Michael Bay finally defeats the audience!
- Transformers: Why the original, animated movie is still the best.
- Why are William Cowper's poems so witty? Because he was convinced he was going to hell.
- Christopher Turner's Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich proselytized for the orgasm. What is his legacy?
Briefing
- 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?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Whitey Bulger arrested: How does the FBI set rewards for fugitives?
- Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster?
- Introducing a new version of the Slate site for tablet users.
- Why are air conditioners so heavy?
- Biting ponies, Syrian lesbian bloggers, and—"Oh, My God! She's Nude!": The week's most interesting Slatestories.
- Can you sue the president? Kucinich just did.
- Power players: Does being a politician make you more likely to be unfaithful?
- A treasure hunter says he's going to find Bin Laden's body. Does he have a chance?
- Why do schoolchildren get a three-month summer vacation?
- What's the congressional gym like?
- How do they figure the heat index?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- The not-American dream: Do other countries have national catchphrases?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Arizona Wallow fire: Are wildfires getting worse?
- Why are so few high-tech companies based in Europe?
- Bob Dylan, Bridesmaids and vegan sneakers: Books, music, movies, and other stuff Slate writers liked last month.
- Why is it so bad for an attorney to represent himself?
- Can your neighbor force you to pay for his fence?
- Slate and Intelligence Squared U.S.: Announcing our new partnership with the renowned, New York-based, live-debate series.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Fake Prada, Weiner's Twitter and Condé Nast's new home: The week's most interesting Slatestories.
- Are helicopters safer than cars?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Do pickles cause cancer?
- How can we get the poor to save for retirement?
News & Politics
- Why Do We Call the Gang of Six a "Gang"?
- Jim DeMint, Bob Vander Plaats, Ovide Lamontagne: The three most important people in the Republican Party.
- Photos from the blast in Oslo, Norway.
- Debt negotiations: Would Grover Norquist really support a tax increase?
- NFL contract 2011: Did the players get a raw deal?
- Debt negotiations: How Congress is already dragging down the economy.
- The misleading statistic that makes politicians irrational about debt.
- Murdoch scandal: Is his domination of the British political class finally coming to an end?
- Atlanta Cheating Scandal: How the teacher incentives in high-stakes testing situations lead to cheating outbreaks.
- Rupert Murdoch's enemies: The wrong and the right reasons for hating the media mogul.
- Michele Bachmann's headaches: Why are migraines more common in women?
- Michele and Marcus Bachmann's "ex-gay" friend Janet Boynes helps people who want to "leave the homosexual lifestyle."
- Supreme Court justices: More worried about senility than impropriety.
- Debt deal: Republican senators want to cut one, if the House can finish its tantrum.
- Debt negotiations: The "grand bargain" between Obama and Republicans is back in play.
- Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch, and Rebekah Brooks pretend they're the ultimate phone-hacking victims.
- Phone hacking scandal: Could Sir Paul Stephenson lose his knighthood?
- Government default: What would it look like?
Life
- A history of air conditioning.
- Predator priest: Thirty years ago, this Father molested their brother. Now they want justice.
- Movies about summer camp: Why they've steadily gotten worse since Friday the 13th, Part 2.
- Chambers Street Wines: the greatest wine retailer in America.
- Steve Buscemi won't fix his teeth: Meet the other celebrities who refuse to get in the dentist's chair (PHOTOS).
- "Happy Birthday to You" copyright: Does the most infamous and resented copyright in musical history hold up to scrutiny?
- $39,000 backpacks and other troubling summer fashion trends.
- Summer camp for nerds: Geology, study hall and "mandatory fun."
- S'mores: Why they're awful.
- Dear Prudence: I'm a cat killer.
- Hope Solo, Major League Soccer: Could the U.S. women's national team star make it in a men's league?
- Pendleton blankets: A brief history of the Navajo designs and how they became a 21st-century fashion staple.
- Poll: Is Facebook good or bad for teenagers?
- Summer camp: What your sleep-away experience says about who you are.
- Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng: Their 13-year story. (PHOTOS)
- News of the World scandal: Murdoch's tabloid minions have nothing on the journalists of 1897.
- Flip Flop Fly Ball: Four infographics from Craig Robinson's baseball graphics tour de force.
- Dear Prudence: My girlfriend's nose job left her disfigured.
- Readers tell Great Recession stories of triumphing over long-term unemployment.
- Women's World Cup 2011: Team USA loses to Japan in a bizarre final match.
- Carmageddon #flightvsbike challenge: How a team of cyclists beat a Jet Blue flight from Burbank to Long Beach.
- Carmegeddon: Can Los Angeles cyclists beat a plane from Burbank to Long Beach? How my idle tweet spawned an epic transportation showdown.
- Malta: 10 Days, 6,000 Years of History (PHOTOS/ART).
- Dear Prudie: Rock star ex wants sexy photos back.
- British Open 2011: Is Rory McIlroy the next Tiger Woods?
- Facebook saved my son's life: My social network helped diagnose my son's rare disease.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: A gallery of the fiercest wand poses you can't see in the movie (PHOTOS).
- Harry Potter products: A look at the most outrageous.
- USA-France women's soccer: Why French people should root for the USA in the Women's World Cup semifinal.
- USA-France women's soccer: Why Americans should root for the French team in the Women's World Cup semifinal.
- Inca Paradox wrong? Maybe the pre-Columbian civilization did have writing.
- Friend or Foe: My friend hates my boyfriend.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- USA-Brazil women's soccer: The national team's win was one of the most thrilling, and deserved, victories in recent sports history.
- Sin cities: New books on Rome and Naples.
- Lunch with Michelle Bachelet, the first female president of Chile.
- Longform.org's Guide to the Mall: Great stories about how malls revolutionized the way Americans shop, snack, and flirt.
- Death at the Ballpark: The national pastime's shocking death toll.
- Fur and fluff: Why minks and kittens are making a comeback.
- Inside Scientology: author Janet Reitman discusses the impressive Scientology schools, the church's efforts to recruit African-Americans, and why celebrities don't help bring new followers.
- NASA's space shuttle program is ending, but Space Camp lives on: Check out a gallery of camp shots from the 1980s. (PHOTOS)
- Dear Prudence: I was falsely accused of rape.
- Deborah Valenze's Milk: What a new history reveals about our ambivalent relationship with breasts and breast milk.
Business & Tech
- Dodd-Frank: Regulation as necessary evil.
- Borders bankruptcy: Done in by its own stupidity, not the Internet.
- Twitter, 140 characters: Why the microblogging service should expand to 280 characters per message.
- Goldman Sachs: Why aren't clients fleeing?
- Greek crisis: Helping it avert default will also help save the euro and the Eurozone.
- Is the debt ceiling necessary? We asked all nine living former treasury secretaries.
- Eric Ryan, co-founder of Method Home, is getting consumers to buy green cleaning products by marrying high-end design with environmental science.
- Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, killed the video store. Now he is winning the digital revolution.
- Jack Dorsey's Twitter has changed how people communicate. His new project Square will transform how you pay for everything.
- Do Won Chang of Forever 21: How he turned his chain into the fastest name in fast fashion.
- Troy Carter, Lady Gaga's business manager: How he has merged old-time marketing with radical new techniques to turn Gaga Inc. into a powerhouse of music, fashion, and media.
- Top Right: Business.
- Top Right: Introducing Slate's list of the 25 Americans who best combine inventive genius and practicality.
- George Wein: The man who founded the Newport Jazz Festival.
- Spotify: The world's greatest music service is finally available in the United States.
- Face-recognition software: It's coming, everyone will use it, and you can't stop it.
- Amazon sales tax: The company's position on state sales tax is unfair and unethical.
- U.S.-Iran relations: The U.S. is focusing on the wrong technologies in its fight to bring open information to Iran.
- Tahrir Square was a foreseeable surprise: tracing the history of Egyptian activism online.
- Google Ideas: The company's latest venture into the world of philanthropy.
- SodaStream: How the at-home carbonation device has become so popular so quickly.
- Self-driving cars may be here by 2018. Will Americans be able to adapt?
- Does health coverage make people healthier? A new study provides a compelling answer to the vexing question underlying the health care debate.
- QE2 helped the rich and screwed the poor.
Science
- Naked body scanners and Automated Target Recognition: A comeback for privacy?
- As Atlantis returns from its last mission, a guide to NASA's orange space suits.
- Probiotics: the pros and cons.
- DSK and Anne Mansouret: Did Strauss-Kahn have brutal sex with Tristane Banon's mother?
- Why aren't the oldest living people getting any older?
- Centipedes: a life story.
- Arab Spring Internet revolutions: Are Twitter and Facebook toppling dictators?
- Is Marcus Bachmann gay? Dan Savage and Jon Stewart think gaydar answers the question. They're wrong.
- Tiered medicine: Should slacker patients get special treatment?
- Are dogs willing to eat the remains of their masters?
- Will climate change make the planet more humid, or just hotter?
- Obama's environmental record: Has the president been a successful steward of the environment?
- Men prefer cuddling, promiscuity makes you unhappy, and other fishy scientific claims.
- Weeds: They're more useful than you think. (PHOTOS)
- Brain fags and other mental problems you probably won't get in America.
- Robot-apocalypse jokes need to become serious discussions about robot safety.
- Surgically implanted bombs: The terrorist strategy to evade airport scanners.
- Annual pelvic exams: The case for getting rid of them.
- Did Dominique Strauss-Kahn Try To Rape Tristane Banon?
- Social contagions debunked: Reports of infectious obesity and divorce were grossly overstated.
- Strauss-Kahn's accuser discredited: A victory for corroboration and justice.
- Can fireworks cause a city to violate clean-air standards?
- Drones and the War Powers Resolution: Obama says drone war doesn't need congressional approval.
- Shark's fin soup, China, and the GDP: Why protecting sharks is good for the economy.
- Debating the dodo verdict: Does one form of psychotherapy work better than another?
- Doctor shortage: Why can't we just churn out more physicians?
- Breast cancer science: New reports show that federal policy on chemicals testing neglects breast health.
- Reclaiming skepticism: Scientists fight back against climate change deniers.
- The Al Gore eugenics conspiracy theory: How my 1-minute YouTube clip became a right-wing sensation.
- Drones and the CIA: Can we wage a global war without troops or allies?
- Who's still tracking radiation from Fukushima? And who should we trust?
- A new study should finally convince parents to get their boys vaccinated against HPV—if they don't get distracted by all the twaddle about oral sex.
- Coca-Cola and PepsiCo's plant-based bottles still damage the environment.
- Is it more earth-friendly see movies in a theater or on DVD?
- Organ donations in China: Will official financial incentives starve the black market?
- Abortion vs. assisted suicide: Is Jack Kevorkian just like Kermit Gosnell?
- The best anagram ever, and other silly Periodic Table games.
- Anthony Weiner's cybersex relationships: If it's only online, is it still cheating?
- European E. coli outbreak: A simple taboo underpins the hysteria over a new German E. coli strain.
- Jack Kevorkian was right: Assisted suicide should be legal. But is it moral?
- Do pickles cause cancer?
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn's GPS ankle monitor: Should we let defendants trade jail for electronic tracking?
- Arsenic-based life critiques published. How #arseniclife changed science.
- Daniel Kish uses echolocation to overcome his blindness. That's nothing new.
- Male lactation: Can a 33-year-old guy learn to breast-feed?
- Tornado in Missouri: Why more and more natural disasters are plaguing us, and what we can do about it.
- Are tornadoes environmental disasters?
Podcasts & Video
- The Gabfest on the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations, Michele Bachmann's migraines, and the scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Google+, and Met exhibit Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Digital Manners: When to leave your smartphone in your pocket.
- Hang Up and Listen on Team USA's Women's World Cup loss to Japan, Craig Robinson's Flip Flop Fly Ball, and Dock Ellis' LSD no-hitter.
- My friend, the klepto? (VIDEO)
- The Gabfest on the debt-ceiling negotiations, Amazon's sales-tax fight in California, and Utah's anti-bigamy laws.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: The Audio Book Club discusses.
- Ultimate Harry Potter recap: Everything you need to know about Hogwarts, Voldemort, Hermione, Snape, and Dumbledore. (VIDEO)
- Betty Ford's legacy, In Spite of Everything by Susan Gregory Thomas, and the Jamie Leigh Jones rape case on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- Jason Zinoman's guide to fixing modern horror, the film industry's fight against online piracy, and the debate over antidepressants on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Men who love My Little Pony: Is that a thing? (VIDEO)
- Digital Manner: What's the protocol when accepting a friend request on Facebook?
- Hang Up and Listen on Team USA's stirring Women's World Cup win, ballpark fatalities, and locked-out NBA players going overseas.
- The Gabfest on a possible breakthrough in debt ceiling talks, the U.K. newspaper scandal, and the collapsing DSK rape case.
- Monogomy and marriage, Ashton Kutcher's fight with the Village Voice, and 4chan's influential message board /b/ on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on the 2011 Women's World Cup, Bill James' career as a baseball writer, and James' book Popular Crime.
- Digital Manners: Should you share your email password with your spouse?
- Dear Prudence: Flatulent Boyfriend (VIDEO)
- The Gabfest on the president's debt ceiling speech, the rise of Michele Bachmann, and a Supreme Court case on the sale of violent video games to kids.
- DoubleX Gabfest: Michele Bachmann; Mac McClelland on sex, violence, and PTSD; and Bad Teacher.
- Gay bars, Susan Saladoff's Hot Coffee, and Internet dating on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- TV on the Radio's "Second Song," Britney Spears' "Till The World Ends," and other songs to kick-start your day.
- Making a computer from scratch: On this episode of The Hard Way. (VIDEO)
- Digital Manners: Should I tell the person in the next car to stop texting?
- Hang Up and Listen on Mexico's Gold Cup win, the twilight of Derek Jeter and Roger Federer, and the childhood origins of sports fandom.
- Dear Prudence: Imaginary Romance
- Caleb's Crossing: The Audio Book Club discusses Geraldine Brooks' new novel.
- The Gabfest on the president's new Afghanistan strategy, the decision in the Wal-Mart class-action case, and the story of journalist and illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas.
- Page One: Inside the New York Times, libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick, and summer jams to kick-start your day on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Digital Manners: Should I respond if I get someone else's email?
- Hang Up and Listen on golf's U.S. Open, the NBA Draft, and the Vancouver riots.
- The Gabfest on the Republican presidential debate, the president's war powers, and schools punishing students for online actions.
- Casey Anthony trial, men waxing, millennials in therapy on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- J.J. Abrams' Super 8, the blockbuster book Go the F**k to Sleep, and the viral video reviving America's battle over bike lanes on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Cooking Show Money Shots: How TV chefs react to their food. (VIDEO)
- Digital Manners: Declaring you're "In a Relationship"? It's complicated.
- Hang Up and Listen on Mavericks-Heat, the Stanley Cup Finals, and Bill Simmons' Grantland.
- Dear Prudence: Facebook Photo Flub (VIDEO).
- The Gabfest on Anthony Weiner, GOP politics in Iowa, and a possible circumcision ban in San Francisco.
- Male Engagement Gifts: Is That a Thing? (VIDEO)
- Streaming Hitler in a chat room.
- Film Socialisme and other "Cultural Vegetables," MTV's Teen Wolf, and the value of a college education on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Digital Manners: Can I ignore a tweet with my name on it?
- Hang Up and Listen on Heat-Mavericks, Nadal-Federer, and Buster Posey.
- Dear Prudence: Crack Mom (VIDEO).
- Mitt Romney's presidential run, Rep. Anthony Weiner's tweets, and the national economy on this week's Political Gabfest podcast.
- Silvio Berlusconi, Michele Bachmann's and Sarah Palin's potential White House bids, and Boomers aging gracefully on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- Gastro Lab: How to make dessert with potatoes (VIDEO)
- Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life,starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, the death of musician Gil Scott-Heron, and David Mamet's newfound conservatism on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on the 2011 NBA Finals, Jim Tressel's resignation, Barcelona's Champion's League victory, the latest FIFA controversy, and cheerleading as a college sport.
- Digital Manners: When is it all right to hide your party's guest list?
- A guy whose trainer has chronic bad breath seeks seeks guidance from Slate's advice columnist, Prudence.
- Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels: The Audio Book Club discusses.
- The Political Gabfest for May 27th, 2011.
- Phoebe Prince case: Flannery Mullins talks to Slate.
- Lady Gaga's Born This Way, Bob Dylan's 70th birthday, and Carmen Callil's resignation over Philip Roth's Man Booker International Prize on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Digital Manners: Is Facebook the right place to say you want to be more than just friends?
- Hang Up and Listen on the history of ESPN, Comcast's challenge to ESPN, and the latest on the financial troubles of the New York Mets.
- Dear Prudence: My man used to be a tramp. (VIDEO)
- Obama's Middle East speech, the GOP primary race, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- Killer Apps: Beam photos from camera to computer wirelessly!
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn's alleged sexual assault, Schwarzenegger's secret love child, the rise in vaginoplasty and Roseanne Barr's New York article on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest, the Eurovision Song Contest, and Kristen Wiig in Bridesmaids on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Digital Manners: How Late Is Too Late to Text?
- Hang Up and Listen on Heat-Bulls, Jose Bautista, Rick Welts, and the decline of the sports nickname.
- Dear Prudence: Meddlesome Pediatrician? (VIDEO)
- The Political Gabfest for May 13, 2011.
- 3-D printing? The 3-D craze reaches beyond the screen.
- Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Wesley Yang's New York cover story "Paper Tigers," and the Beastie Boys' new album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Bin Laden dead: "Smashing Crayons" ponders how he might haunt the world in his afterlife.
- Digital Manners: Can I split a check with my Groupon coupon?
- Hang Up and Listen on the Lakers' flameout, sports and war, and Jonathan Hock's Off the Rez.
- A weekly Dear Prudence video.
- The Political Gabfest for May 5, 2011.
- Osama Bin Laden's death, the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and the comedy of Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on Heat-Celtics, Robert Lipsyte's An Accidental Sportswriter, and sports and homosexuality.
- A weekly Dear Prudence video.
- The Political Gabfest for April 29, 2011.
- Farhad Manjoo reviews the latest augmented-reality apps for your phone. (VIDEO)
- Tornadoes: Watch storm chasers in Mississippi (VIDEO).
- Title IX and college sports, Obama and his mom, and Kate Middleton and the modern princess on this week's DoubleX Gabfest
- Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein: The Audio Book Club discusses.
- Manners for the Digital Age, with Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe.
- Atlas Shrugged Part 1, Gary Taubes' story "Is Sugar Toxic?," and theCivil War blog Disunion on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Smashing Crayons: The soft regulation of Wall Street and the financial meltdown.
- Hang Up and Listen on the NHL playoffs, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the NFL draft.
- A weekly Dear Prudence video.
- The Political Gabfest for April 22, 2011.
- Gastro Lab: What other foods can Thin Mints be used with (VIDEO)?
- Game of Thrones on HBO, Will Ferrell sends off Steve Carell on The Office, and new documentary Bill Cunningham New York on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Why is it that so many actresses talk about food in interviews? (VIDEO)
- Hang Up and Listen on the NBA playoffs, the Sacramento Kings' relocation, The Brady 6, and Justin Duchscherer's depression.
- Dear Prudence: Pushy lawn mower (VIDEO).
- The Political Gabfest for April 15, 2011.
- The Dress-Up President
- Planned Parenthood and the federal budget, Lynn Tilton and women in business, and Hanna on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- Sidney Lumet's classic films, Stanley Tucci on PBS' Vine Talk, and Meghan O'Rourke's new memoir The Long Goodbye on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Trick-shot doc: Dr. Denton is more than your family's friendly practitioner. (VIDEO)
- Hang Up and Listen on the Masters, Manny Ramirez, and Derrick Rose.
- The Political Gabfest for April 8, 2011.
- Diablo Canton: The California nuclear power plant that was built near two fault lines (VIDEO).
- Obama 2012: Analyzing the president's first video of his 2012 campaign.
- Hang Up and Listen on the NCAA title game, paying college athletes, and baseball's mythical origins.
- AMC's The Killing, Spike's reality series Coal, and The New Yorker's David Grann on the murder of Rodrigo Rosenberg on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- The Political Gabfest for April 1, 2011.
- Opening Day: Drawing connections between baseball players and politicians (VIDEO).
- Tina Fey's Bossypants, Michele Bachmann for president, and Dukes v. Wal-Mart on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- HBO's Mildred Pierce, Elizabeth Taylor, and the New York Times' paywall on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on VCU and Butler, the Barry Bonds trial, and Lionel Messi.
- Dear Prudence: Giver's remorse (VIDEO).
- Karen Russell's Swamplandia!: The Audio Book Club discusses the novel.
- The Political Gabfest for March 25, 2011.
- Rebecca Black's "Friday," Netflix's House of Cards, and the European Union's "right to be forgotten" on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on the NCAA Tournament, Jim Tressel and Bruce Pearl, and Jonah Keri's The Extra 2%.
- Dear Prudence: Fear of Heights
- Mel Gibson in The Beaver, Das Racist at SXSW, and the latest movie adaptation of Jane Eyre on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Manning Up by Kay Hymowitz, the all-girls Pink Academy preschool, and the Middleton family: On this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- Farhad Manjoo reviews apps for public speaking (VIDEO).
- The Political Gabfest for March 16, 2011.
- Dear Prudence: Un-Groomed Nether Regions
- The Fab Five, Runnin' Rebels of UNLV: Hang Up and Listen on the NCAA Tournament, two new sports documentaries, and Zdeno Chara.
- Alone Together; Blood, Bones, & Butter; Moonwalking With Einstein: Vote for the April Slate Audio Book Club selection.
- The Political Gabfest for March 11, 2011.
- Charlie Sheen and domestic violence, Callista Gingrich, NSFG sex survey: On this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
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- Dear Prudence: Crush on My Boss (VIDEO).
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- Dear Prudence: Housewarming blues (VIDEO).
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- When Hollywood tackles science.
- Slate V: The Worst Cinematic Crap That's Ever Been Made
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- Banned Super Bowl commercials [VIDEO].
- Egypt Unrest, Health Care Ruling: The Political Gabfest for Feb. 4, 2011.
- What if filmmakers directed the Super Bowl?
- Women and the Egyptian protests, Peggy Orenstein's "Cinderella Ate My Daughter," and couples and finances are discussed on this week's DoubleX Gabfest.
- Jason Statham in The Mechanic, the Onion News Network on IFC, and Jane McGonigal's Reality Is Broken on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
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- Dear Prudence advice VIDEO: Two-Timing Woman.
- The Political Gabfest for Jan. 28, 2011.
- Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother: The Audio Book Club discusses.
- The 2011 Oscar nominations, IFC's new sketch comedy show Portlandia, and Brock Enright's Videogames Adventure Services on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on the Packers and Steelers, Jay Cutler, Jimmer Fredette, and the Onion's SportsDome.
- Dear Prudence video: In the closet at work.
- Hu Jintao, health care repeal, and Joe Lieberman's retirement: The Political Gabfest for Jan. 21, 2011.
- Miss America Teresa Scanlan's political ambitions, "Darwin's Rape Whistle," and a new book about The Feminine Mystique on this week's DoubleX Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on the NFL playoffs and the Sports Illustrated series "The Black Athlete: A Shameful Story."
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- The Political Gabfest for Jan. 14, 2011.
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- Slate's sports podcast on the NFL playoffs, the BCS title game, Andrew Luck, and Jim Harbaugh.
- House of hoarders.
- The Political Gabfest for Jan. 7, 2011.
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- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on the NFL playoffs, the Rose Bowl, the NHL's Winter Classic, and Allen Iverson in Turkey.
- Dear Prudence: Singalong Nuisance.
- The Political Gabfest for Dec. 31, 2010.
- 2010: The Year That Wasn't
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on the new translation of Madame Bovary.
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