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Ahmadinejad Denies Iran Has a Secret Nuclear Weapons Program
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NASA Releases Video of Giant Asteroid Heading Toward Earth
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Joe Paterno to Retire at Season's End
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XX Factor
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Brow Beat
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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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Invent Your Future
Share your best tips, advice, and stories about relaunching your career.
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The Explainer
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Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party
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Trutherism
The rise and fall of 9/11 conspiracy theories.
By Jeremy Stahl
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Twins!
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Stop Putting Two Spaces After a Period
It's totally, absolutely, indefensibly wrong.
By Farhad Manjoo
TOP STORIES
- Wednesday, November 9, 2011
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Blogging the Stanford Machine Learning Class
Week 4: We’re finally getting to the good stuff, teaching computers how to think.
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Does Job Retraining Work?
It’s popular. It’s bipartisan. But will it really help you restart your career?
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The Culture Gabfest, “I Want My Happy Ending” Edition
Listen to Slate's show about The Fabric of the Cosmos, Once Upon a Time, and the 21st century’s cultural canon.
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Cain of Denial
Herman Cain’s press conference about his sexual harassment accusers is a road map to his destruction.
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Like She’s the Only Girl in the World
The improbable, unstoppable success of Rihanna.
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Is Telecommuting a Good Idea?
A new study finds that working from home makes sense. Sometimes.
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How to Save Israel
The three steps that could rescue it from endless conflict and international ostracism.
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Invent Your Future
Slate is collecting your best tips, advice, and stories about starting a business or remaking a career.
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- Tuesday, November 8, 2011
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I'm the Victim Here
Herman Cain tries to turn the tables at his press conference about accusations of sexual harassment.
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The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Scandals
Do we really care if Herman Cain is lying?
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How Do You Get Your Own Private Doctor?
Do personal physicians advertise in the Yellow Pages?
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Which Way Privacy?
The Supreme Court asks whether the government can put a GPS device on your car without a warrant.
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Google+ Is Dead
The search behemoth might not realize it yet, but its chance to compete with Facebook has come and gone.
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Why We’d Be Miserable in a World Without Religion
An interview with King’s College President Dinesh D’Souza: why he’ll argue against the motion, “The World Would Be Better Off Without Religion,” at the Nov. 15 Slate/Intelligence Squared U.S. debate.
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Blue Velvet, 25 Years Later
An almost unrelieved carnival of perversion, corruption, mayhem, and spectacle.
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DROP THE BASS
Skrillex doesn't make good music, but it's awesome in certain ways.
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Beards, Theft, and Other Peculiar Factors That Turn Images Into Icons
A new book traces how images become universally recognized icons.
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Invent Your Future
Slate is collecting your best tips, advice, and stories about starting a business or remaking a career.
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The Virtual Baby Shower
Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe debate the question: Is it tacky to send links to a gift registry to the expectant mother’s far-flung friends and call it a shower?
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Why Second Life Failed
How Clay Christensen’s “milkshake test” predicts which ultrahyped technology will succeed, and which will bomb.
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The End of Pantyhose?
L’eggs has launched its first ad campaign in 15 years—but it may be too late to pull nylons back from the brink of extinction.
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Kids Today
Occupy Wall Street is part of a major shift in ethical behavior among young people.
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Israel’s Old-Time Religion
How government policies have caused the surge in ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Israel—and why it’s an economic disaster.
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- Monday, November 7, 2011
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Hang Up and Listen: The Happy Valley Horror Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on LSU-Alabama, the Penn State sex abuse scandal, and barefoot running.
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Passport Originalism
How the status of Jerusalem got dragged into a critical Supreme Court case about separation of powers.
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Should You Transfer Your Money to a Credit Union?
The feel-good movement to punish corporate banks, and why it will probably increase bank profits.
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Shame on You, Joe Paterno
Penn State’s horrific sex abuse scandal reveals the school’s moral hypocrisy.
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Don’t Mess With Grandma
How a 78-year-old retiree may help the Kochs in their battle against Occupy Wall Street.
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Sniffing Out Trouble
Dear Prudence advises a woman who caught her fiance's dad in a sleazy act—in a live chat at Washingtonpost.com.
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The Ticking Clock and Other Physical Tactics: Slate’s Negotiation Academy
Episode 4 of our series on haggling like the pros.
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Herman and Hamid
Why is it so hard to speak honestly about allegations of sexual harassment or our corrupt ally in Afghanistan?
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“Gatorade Is the Antichrist”
How coconut water suddenly became ubiquitous on American shelves.
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The Weak Link Between Stress and Infertility
Despite inconclusive evidence, the idea that stress harms conception persists—and it’s stressing women out.
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Mississippi Birthing
Would Mississippi’s embryonic “personhood” amendment outlaw birth control? Apparently so.
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Invent Your Future
Slate is collecting your best tips, advice, and stories about starting a business or remaking a career.
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The Mystery of 1948
Did Israel actually plan to expel most of its Arabs in 1948? Or not?
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Read Dickens Now!
Two new biographies are a reminder of Dickens’s vast social imagination.
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The Geologist in the Jungle
One man's journey into the rainforest in search of a mysterious tree kangaroo.
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- Sunday, November 6, 2011
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- Saturday, November 5, 2011
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The Rise of the Megacity
Jakarta, Lagos, and Sao Paolo, and other massive population centers are changing the way we think about cities.
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The Longform.org Guide to Kidnapping
The best stories about Patty Hearst, Elizabeth Smart and other infamous abductions.
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Cheap Wine, Fried Chicken, and Ladies Nights
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
- Friday, November 4, 2011
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The Fake Breakthrough
When Republicans say they would consider tax increases, they’re just pretending.
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Never Happened
Conservatives aren’t just defending Herman Cain. They’re denying the very existence of sexual harassment.
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A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
Go see this triumphant return to lunacy for the stoner pals.
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The “Why Is David Hiding Under the Table?” Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about Herman Cain’s scandal, the Supreme Court on eyewitness testimony, and Obama’s “Jewish problem.”
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Yet Another Failed Attempt to Help Homeowners
The fundamental problem with the federal government’s new foreclosure-review program.
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Car-Loan Shenanigans, Trouble for the Boy Scouts, and Another Cain Scandal
This week’s top MuckReads from ProPublica.
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The Global 99 Percent
The Occupy Wall Street protesters are part of a worldwide movement against inequality.
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Would the World Be Better Off Without Religion?
Watch—and participate in—the Slate/Intelligence Squared U.S. live debate on Nov. 15.
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What Should Occupy Wall Street Do Now?
Three organizing ideas and five policy ideas that could make the protests even more successful.
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Kindergartners, Put Down Your Pencils
Standardized testing for 5-year-olds sounds crazy. But it just might lead to a better way of assessing all kids.
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Can You Teach Entrepreneurship?
America needs better entrepreneurs. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to make them.
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- Thursday, November 3, 2011
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The Great Bubble Bubble
Reports of a social media bubble are greatly exaggerated.
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It’s Not Just for Baby Photos Anymore
Why your Facebook feed is crammed with visual gags.
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Unfit To Serve?
Forget the sexual harassment story. The Cain campaign has more fundamental problems.
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Tower Heist
Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller attempt to steal $20 million from Alan Alda.
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Guns on Parade
Qaddafi’s gone but his weapons aren’t, and they make the new Libya a very dangerous place.
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Good Touch, Bad Touch
The iconic iPhone interface tarnishes the legacy of Steve Jobs.
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You Should Worship Kelly Slater
Why does the world’s greatest surfer get no love?
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Roving Eye Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about Susan Orlean, Steven Pinker, and the sexual harassment suits against Herman Cain.
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Chanel Visits the Garden State
Why is the chic brand’s new perfume named “Jersey”?
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Rights Gone Wrong
Why civil rights lawsuits are becoming irrelevant in the fight for social justice.
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The Old-Fashioned
A classic that can be destroyed, perfected, perverted. It can also reveal the depths of your character.
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The Monotony of Monogamy
I married my first sexual partner, and now I’m itching to cheat.
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