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Today's Doonesbury
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The Explainer
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The 2012 Campaign
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The Slate Book Review
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NFL 2012
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The Homeland TV Club
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The Dexter TV Club
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The American Horror Story TV Club
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Mad Men
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Free To Be … You and Me
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The Case of the Mormon Historian
What happened when Michael Quinn challenged the history of the church he loved.
By David Haglund
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What Makes a Good President?
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The Last of the Great New York Game Shows
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The Worst States for Working Women
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Stop Pagination Now
Websites should not make you click and click and click for the full story.
By Farhad Manjoo
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Prog Spring
The brief rise and inevitable fall of the world’s most hated pop music.
By David Weigel
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Blogging the Human Genome
Weird, wonderful stories about each of your 23 chromosomes.
By Sam Kean
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Why You Hate Cyclists
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The Wedding
The unlikely story of America’s first gay military union.
By Katherine Goldstein
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The Chickens and the Bulls
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My Molesters
I was sexually assaulted three times before age 20. Here’s why I never told anyone.
By Emily Yoffe
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How To Make a Viral Hit in Four Easy Steps
The secret to BuzzFeed’s monster online success.
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No More Strapless Wedding Gowns!
They're unflattering, unsophisticated, and annoyingly ubiquitous.
By Katherine Goldstein
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The Crisis in American Walking
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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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Where’s _why?
What happened when one of the most unusual, beloved programmers disappeared.
By Annie Lowrey
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The Greatest Paper Map of the U.S.
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Slate Writers on Facebook and Twitter
Follow John Dickerson, Emily Yoffe, and the rest of your favorite Slate writers on social media.
- Tuesday, November 27, 2012
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Gays Against Nudity
San Francisco’s nudity ban shows gay households aren’t making society queer. They’re making gays bourgeois.
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The Associated Press Bans Homophobia
In pursuit of accuracy, the standard-setters get it wrong.
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Coal Is Doomed
The grim death spiral of a once booming industry.
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ICANN, Make a Difference
The $100 million raised by the sale of new Web domains should be used to wire Africa.
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Foreign Influence
Can a death row inmate in Virginia save his life by claiming he’s Ukrainian?
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RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race
Debunking the Chad Michaels conspiracy theorists.
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Surprisingly Interesting
A dispatch from the 2012 Boring Conference.
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In Soviet Russia, Book Reads You
The creepiness of software that monitors students’ e-reading.
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Are Republicans Really Breaking with Grover Norquist?
The man behind the GOP’s anti-tax pledge decodes the buzzwords.
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Is Israel or Hamas Breaking International Law in Gaza?
There’s no clear answer and it doesn’t much matter for the underlying conflict.
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MomTV
Nickelodeon tries to nab the edgy mommy demo—my future people!—with NickMom. Umm.
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Today's Doonesbury
Good to almost go.
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Re-evangelizing New England
How church-planting and music festivals are bringing about a quiet revival.
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No Gift for You
In a live chat, Prudie advises a woman whose daughter is being ostracized at Christmas.
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The Internet Wears Shorts
How Google workers in summer clothes are solving data centers’ pollution problem.
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The Secret Lives of Supercutters
Why people spend so many hours stitching footage into YouTube collages.
- Monday, November 26, 2012
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RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race
We have a winnnah!
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Cliff Notes
Would House Republicans actually vote for a "fiscal cliff" deal that would raise tax rates?
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Hang Up and Listen: The 138! Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on the resurgence of Notre Dame. Plus: interviews with Grinnell basketball coach Dave Arseneault Jr. and Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey.
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Can You Libel Someone on Twitter?
Yes. On Facebook, too.
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Mining for Gigantic Fossil Snakes
The most valuable thing in a coal mine is not the coal.
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Why Are Hotel Rooms So Expensive?
They can cost five, 10, 50 times as much as an apartment in the same city. How come?
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Natural Does Not Mean Safe
Herbal supplements are unregulated, overhyped, and potentially deadly.
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The Unmitigated Inanity of Cyber Monday
The dumbest fake holiday of the year.
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Unbearable Betrayal
In a live chat, Prudie counsels a woman whose husband left her to start a family—with her sister.
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Dexter, Season 7
The continued elegy for Isaak Sirko.
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Whither the Twinkie?
If a company buys the Twinkie brand, what exactly will it get?
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Why Did Asian Americans Mostly Vote for President Obama?
Democrats court them, Republicans may alienate them.
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Read Playboy … for the Interviews
Six great conversations from the magazine’s archives.
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Homeland, Season 2
Has Homeland turned into a game of Mad Libs?
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The Walking Dead, Season 3
The Governor steps from villainy to despicability.
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Car Companies Are Seeing the Light
Automakers are experimenting with lightweight bodies and new engines to meet ambitious fuel efficiency standards.
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Kill the 401(k)?
The accounts cost the government billions—and they might not be helping us save.
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How Political Campaign Spending Brought Down the Roman Republic
If Cato, Cicero, or Julius Caesar were here today, they would recognize the danger posed by Citizens United.
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Permanent Record
How an orphan became the matriarch of one of New York’s most powerful political families.
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Can Restoration Hardware Legally Knock Off the Navy Chair?
Actually, the big retailer’s cheap imitation is the best thing to ever happen to the original.
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- Sunday, November 25, 2012
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The Walking Dead, Season 3
Glenn is no longer the comic relief.
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Homeland, Season 2
Is wearing two hats the same as being a mole?
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Dexter, Season 7
Why we love Isaak and are so over Quinn.
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"Don’t Blame Me for Being Fat"
We need to teach people to be healthier while ensuring their dignity.
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- Saturday, November 24, 2012
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Risking Life and Libel Suits To Expose Fraud
The blogger who uncovers plagiarism, false claims, and faked research in China.
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Dispatches From Israel, Cursing Mothers, and More on the Petraeus Scandal
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
- Friday, November 23, 2012
- Thursday, November 22, 2012
- Wednesday, November 21, 2012