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Romney Wins N.H. Primary; Paul Bests Huntsman for 2nd
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Appeals Court Blocks Oklahoma's Ban on Sharia Law
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Poll: Stephen Colbert Would Beat Huntsman in S.C.
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Moneybox
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Weigel
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XX Factor
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Brow Beat
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The Reckoning
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Future Tense
A citizen’s guide to the future from Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State.
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Today's Doonesbury
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The Explainer
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Facebook Is Hiding Your Mail
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The History of Occupy Wall Street
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Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party
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The Presidential Horse Race
What the GOP campaign would look like if it were an actual horse race.
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The Mouse Trap
The dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease.
By Daniel Engber
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Robot Invasion
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Permanent Record
The surprising stories I uncovered in a trove of report cards from the 1920s.
By Paul Lukas
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Stop Putting Two Spaces After a Period
It's totally, absolutely, indefensibly wrong.
By Farhad Manjoo
TOP STORIES
- Tuesday, January 10, 2012
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Ifs, Ands, and Butts
The Supreme Court gets the full-monty treatment.
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Why Are Smart People Usually Ugly?
An answer to the Explainer's 2011 Question of the Year.
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The Year of Microsoft
How the former tech giant can reclaim its throne in 2012.
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Vote for the Callous Jerk!
At Bain Capital, Mitt Romney was a cold, ruthless destroyer of jobs and families. Does America need someone like that in the White House?
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Hang Up and Listen: The Tide Rolls the Honey Badger Edition
A special edition of Slate’s sports podcast on Alabama’s BCS title game victory over LSU.
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Résumé Robbed
What to do when a colleague steals your job title and description for her LinkedIn profile.
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High Stakes
Do campaign signs work?
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
How lousy are those trench scenes?
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Free Willy
Should prison inmates have the right to masturbate?
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My Friend’s Fiancé Won’t Get a Divorce From His First Wife
He keeps making excuses, and it’s driving me crazy.
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- Monday, January 9, 2012
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New GOP Slogan: Down With Greed!
Will voters buy the new Republican attacks on Romney’s business record?
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Bain of His Existence
GOP rivals level new and surprisingly devastating attacks on Romney’s business record.
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Mess With Texas
The Supreme Court wrangles a runaway Texas redistricting case.
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Spy Games
Does the CIA really make video-game propaganda?
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Small Companies, Big Credit Problems
How banks’ reluctance to make small-business loans is a major driver of sluggish recovery, and what to do about it.
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Hang Up and Listen: The Tebow Is Stranger Than Fiction Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on the Broncos’ shocking playoff win and Chad Harbach’s novel The Art of Fielding.
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The Movie Club
The complicated hugs of Ralph Fiennes.
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Dear Prudence: Deep Sleep Sex
A weekly Dear Prudence video.
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
Why on earth is Matthew Crawley going off to war?
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Wife’s Best Friend Is Hubby’s Worst Enemy
In a live chat, Prudie advises a man whose wife’s best buddy is out to “destroy” him.
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Remember Sunday? Wasn’t Sunday Great?
The new CBS This Morning, with Charlie Rose and Gayle King, traffics in nostalgia for yesteryear and yesterday.
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Slate’s Accepting Applications
Slate is looking for a jack-of-all-trades paid intern.
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NFL 2011
Are NFL coaches getting smarter about fourth-down strategy?
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All the Young Dudes
A posthumous memoir goes behind the scenes at the celebrated publisher of Burroughs, Lawrence, and Malcolm X.
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Hand-Wringing on Health Care
Supporters of Obama’s health care act should stop second-guessing the way it was drafted.
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No One Can Win the Future
It's wrong to pit U.S. and Chinese scientists against each other in a research arms race.
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The Most Worthless Week in Tech
The case against the Consumer Electronics Show.
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Make Me a Baby As Fast As You Can
How a California surrogacy operation streamlines baby production by implanting clients’ embryos in two Indian surrogates at the same time.
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- Sunday, January 8, 2012
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NFL 2011
Why the Steelers lost to Tim Tebow.
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
Sir Richard wants Lady Mary to be the Wendi Deng to his Rupert Murdoch.
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My Baloney Has a First Name, It’s M-I-T-T
Will Newt Gingrich’s attack on Mitt Romney’s “pious baloney” change the New Hampshire race?
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The Great Republican Humor Crisis of 2012
Why is this crop of presidential candidates so incredibly unfunny?
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Weird but Not Wonderful
Lionel Shriver reviews Miranda July’s It Chooses You.
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Romney’s Great Escape
The front-runner skates through Saturday night’s debate unscathed.
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- Saturday, January 7, 2012
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Jon vs. Ron
Huntsman was the GOP’s great moderate hope. Now he can’t win liberal voters away from … Ron Paul?
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Taking Stock of Romney, Banishing Pepper, and Folding Marilyn Monroe’s Pants
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
- Friday, January 6, 2012
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Obama Needs Bigger Ideas
If he’s going to beat Romney, the president must have grand plans. Here are two worth trying.
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Back to the Grind
Sara Dickerman responds to the black-pepper enthusiasts.
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The Movie Club
Somehow, the best comic book movie of the year was about Marvel’s squarest hero.
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NFL 2011
An insider's guide to chop blocks.
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Tasers, Drone Attacks, and Hospice Gone Awry
This week’s top MuckReads from ProPublica.
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What Is “Austrian Economics”?
And why is Ron Paul obsessed with it?
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Downton Abbey, Reviewed
The second season turns its gaze from class war on a great estate to the actual Great War.
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Other Theories of Physics
Amateurs around the world take on the priesthood of mainstream science.
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The 120 Miles in 90 Minutes Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about Iowa and New Hampshire, Richard Cordray’s recess appointment, and American economic immobility.
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“I Don’t Believe in Magic Potions, But My Friend Used Some To Turn Into a Fly”
Making sense of traditional healing culture in South Africa.
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Israeli Democracy in Peril
Why Daniel Levy thinks Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians is poisoning the Jewish state from within.
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How Downton Abbey Cured My Broken Heart
The series addresses male emotions better than any entertainment set in the modern age.
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Porky Pig
In early America, farm animals took the blame for zoophilic sex.
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
O’Brien is a great villain, and Downton is a great soap opera.
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Palinisms
Did Sarah Palin really say that?
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Corrections
Slate's mistakes.
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Thanks, Teach
A new study suggests that a good grade school teacher can boost college attendance rates, reduce teenage pregnancy, and increase a student’s earning potential.
- Thursday, January 5, 2012
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Learn To Talk Like Rick Santorum
The Q-W-A Maneuver, the Pop Quiz, and more of the Republican candidate’s best rhetorical tricks.
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The Coming War Over the Pentagon Budget
How the president’s new defense strategy could spark an existential crisis for the Army and the Marines.
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Playoff Permutations
Josh Levin and Nate Jackson take your questions about the NFL postseason.
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NFL 2011
The New York Jets are out-Lupica-ing Mike Lupica.
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Palinisms
Did Sarah Palin really say that?
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Sneaking By the Senate
When did presidents start using recess appointments to bypass advice and consent?
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Marci and Me
After 34 years, the Internet gave me a sister I’d never known.
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The Movie Club
There is no single movie this year that everyone is excited about.
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The Granddaddy of Dumb Ideas
Why Aaron David Miller thinks admitting a Palestinian state to the United Nations would be a terrible move.
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Love Is in the Air
Is breaking wind in front of your boyfriend worth breaking up over?
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Marilyn Monroe’s Two Secrets
What I learned about the icon by folding her capri pants.
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
Why do we love Lady Mary, the Dowager Countess, and Mr. Bates the valet so?
- Wednesday, January 4, 2012
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The Mitt and McCain Show
Can the former New Hampshire darling convince the state to embrace an establishment candidate?
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Why Do Women Vote Differently Than Men?
Despite stereotypes, men are actually more fickle at the voting booth.
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In Montana, Corporations Aren’t People
Can Montana get away with defying the Supreme Court on Citizens United?
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NFL 2011
Analyst Trent Dilfer would rip quarterback Trent Dilfer.
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The Difficulty of Determining Delegates
Why are news organizations reporting different results from the Iowa caucuses?
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You Need To Learn How To Program
Make a free weekly coding lesson your New Year’s resolution.
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The Iowa Horse Race
A recap of the Iowa caucus, animated as a horse race.
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Playoff Time
Join a live Facebook chat about the start of the NFL postseason.
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Palestine’s Bid for U.N. Membership is Dangerous and Wrong
With the Jan. 10 Slate/Intelligence Squared debate approaching, former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. Dore Gold explains why the Palestinian effort destabilizes the region.
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Flip This Economy
A new study shows how short-term speculators made the housing bubble much, much worse.
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Face It: Romney’s the Nominee
The media will desperately try to persuade you there is still a Republican race. Do not pay attention.
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The Movie Club
A defense of The Artist, offered without disclaimers or shame.
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Lube Job
Should Google associate Rick Santorum's name with anal sex?
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Anatomy of a Narrow Victory
Five years in the making, Romney’s Iowa win took a lot more than money.
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The Culture Gabfest, “Hot Nude Yoga” Edition
Listen to Slate's show about The Iron Lady, the return of Absolutely Fabulous, and the Slate movie club.
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My Mom Joined Twitter and It Brought Us Closer
The way she presented herself to the world allowed me to know her better as an adult.
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Against Pepper
Salt needs a new companion.
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How’d My Avatar Get Into That Sneaker Ad?
The ethical questions surrounding building consumers into commercial advertising.
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The U.N. Should Accept Palestine as a Full Member State
With Jan. 10’s Slate/Intelligence Squared debate approaching, former Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti explains why Israel and the United States are on the wrong side of history.
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Romney Takes Iowa, but Santorum Really Won
Can Santorum derail the front-runner by replicating his amazing Iowa surge in New Hampshire?