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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 Walking Dead 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.
TOP STORIES
- Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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Stop Calling Me a Troll
Just because you disagree with me doesn’t mean I am one.
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Don’t Raise the Medicare Eligibility Age
Kicking people off Medicare would cost patients about twice as much as it would save the government.
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Terrible Swimmers
Why are men so bad at making sperm cells?
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The Secrets of the 2012 Campaign
Obama and Romney’s top strategists reveal their hidden hopes, fears, and a few lessons from this year’s presidential contest.
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The Culture Gabfest: UniBall Vision Elite Edition
Slate's podcast about gay people who don’t want to get married, the lost art of handwriting, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s take on “neomania.”
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Hipsters Who Hunt
More liberals are shooting their own supper.
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Dear Prudence: Mother and Daughter Hitting the Bottle
My sister-in-law boozes too hard—and lets her 14-year-old daughter join in.
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Today's Doonesbury
Dissing the posse.
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Parenthood Season 4
Is beloved Joel heading for a fall?
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David Chase Doesn’t Care About the Russian
The Sopranos creator on the finale, the “Pine Barrens” episode, and instincts, in an excerpt from Alan Sepinwall’s new book.
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Are Mammograms Useless?
A new study claims mammograms overdiagnose breast cancer.
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- Tuesday, December 4, 2012
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The Shill Becomes a Journalist
In speaking up for gun control after the Jovan Belcher murder-suicide, Bob Costas finally took advantage of his pulpit.
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The Tea Party Purge of 2012
Republican leaders are punishing some of the party’s most conservative members. And they won’t go down without a yelp.
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This Is the Greatest Hoodie Ever Made
How American Giant created the best sweatshirt known to man.
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Can You Really Drink Yourself Blind?
Bonus: Can you cure yourself by drinking even more?
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The Dark Dangers of Tunnel Vision
Why police and prosecutors suspect the wrong person—and then dig in.
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Terraforming Earth
Geoengineering doesn’t have to be science fiction.
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Naming the Future Monarch
Is Kate and William’s baby stuck with the name they choose?
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Talking Leaves and Lightning Paper
The illiterate Cherokee man who invented the alphabet for his language.
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Will Egypt’s Liberals Ever Win?
They can, but they must forget Shariah and focus on painting Egypt’s Islamist president as just another Mubarak.
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Oy, Hark!
A Jewish parent's guide to Christmas specials.
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Ol’ Yeller
In a live chat, Prudie offers advice on a verbally abusive husband.
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What Is the World’s Most Dangerous Animal?
Sharks? Lions? Grizzly bears? Try bats.
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The Power of Powers of Ten
How the Eames’ experimental film changed the way we look at Chicago—and the universe.
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Fruit Hunters
Traveling to the ends of the earth for rare breeds of avocado.
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- Monday, December 3, 2012
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“The Socially Awkward Do It Better”
Meet the hip geeks who outwitted Mitt Romney and the Republicans.
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Being Transgender Is No Longer a Disorder
The American Psychiatric Association salutes the T in LGBT.
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Hang Up and Listen: The How To Talk About a Murder-Suicide Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on Jovan Belcher, Alabama sports radio host Paul Finebaum, and the contretemps over the Spurs resting their starters.
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A Pink Slip From the Pope
How common is it for bishops to be fired?
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Why Is Syria Mixing Sarin?
A mini-Explainer on the process of making chemical weapons.
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Irrational Basis
The judge in Nevada who upheld a gay marriage ban had no good reason at all.
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Save the $1 Bill!
A new GAO study says we could save billions by replacing dollar bills with coins. Don’t believe it.
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Slur City
In a live chat, Prudie advises a woman offended by her boyfriend’s racist and misogynistic family.
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Dexter, Season 7
With two episodes to go, viewers don't like Hannah's chances of making it to Season 8.
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The Walking Dead, Season 3
The Walking Dead has risen from the dead
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Homeland, Season 2
Saul Berenson is George Smiley with an Old Testament beard.
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Get Real, Israel
Want to stop losing friends in the United Nations? Stop insulting our intelligence.
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The Ghost in the Machine
Avant-garde novelist Mark Z. Danielewski is changing the way we read e-books.
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Stock Up Now Before It’s Too Late
Should you buy a year’s supply of freeze-dried food?
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- Sunday, December 2, 2012
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Homeland, Season 2
Longing for rules in a world where technology kills.
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The Walking Dead, Season 3
Carl is the man.
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Dexter, Season 7
Is Dexter still Dexter without the code? And is the dark passenger just a feeling?
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Chaos Is Good for You
How to make things that are the opposite of fragile.
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- Saturday, December 1, 2012
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