Life
- American classrooms are outdated. Slate seeks your great ideas for how to modernize them.
- I'm dating a man with an extremely small penis.
- What do the best classrooms in the world look like?
- The return of the soccer rioters.
- Advice for a woman whose friend says threatening things.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- Innovative school design is hard, but it doesn't have to be.
- More college sex slides revealed!
- The other Blind Sides: The Michael Oher story may have been amazing, but was it unique?
- My sister and I fought, and now I'm being blamed for ruining our relationship.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- An anthropology of the new male self-improvement mags.
- A Civil War road trip.
- My husband is too close to his best male friend.
- Confessions of a used-book salesman.
- Advice for a woman whose friend is a bigot.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on the MLB playoffs, the Ryder Cup, Australian Rules Football, and lowering the rim in women's hoops.
- Prudie chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- The bizarre, sad tale of Togo's fake national soccer team.
- Jeff's take on his platonic friendship with Juliet.
- Shopping for the most expensive possible dinner for two at Whole Foods.
- What happens to cross-sex friendships in adulthood?
- Why the very concept of male-female friendship makes people uncomfortable.
- How do you and your partner manage your finances? Slate wants to hear from you.
- My parents may have been swingers.
- Before the 20th century, friendship was single-sex.
- Can men and womenreally be friends?
- How to give your old shoes new life by donating them to charity.
- In Hollywood movies, men and women are never "just friends."
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- The origins of the term "platonic friendship."
- Jeff & Juliet: The story of a platonic friendship.
- What to do about the rising U.S. hunger and poverty statistics.
- Is the "natural wine" movement anything more than a marketing ploy?
- I was bullied by a teacher. How can I stop her reign of terror?
- What does Tide's Loads of Hope program actually do?
- Inside the bizarre tourist trade at Harlem's Sunday church services.
- Does my best friend prefer her iPhone to me?
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- England's greatest soccer teams and American owners, a match made in hell.
- Am I hurting my local public schools—and hurting America—by sending my kids to expensive private schools?
- How'd golf get to be a businessman's sport?
- The centuries-long controversy over Yom Kippur's Kol Nidre.
- My daughter's fiance has done sexually inappropriate things to me.
- How to ensure that your contributions to Pakistani flood relief go to the right place.
- Taste-testing the Fuddruckers elk burger.
- We're all scandal addicts now. And that's a good thing.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- In defense of Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds, jaywalkers, and all the other scofflaws that make America great.
- NFL 2010: I still love football, but I'm no longer a football fan.
- Photographs of flags from the aftermath of 9/11.
- My fiance's ex gave us an exorbitant engagement gift. Should we keep it?
- Roger Clemens, James Frey, and the thrill of watching the overly ambitious fall.
- Why a series of Indian actresses have been arrested for prostitution.
- How to volunteer in a community garden.
- My vacation at a nudist camp.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- Will the great American rabbi please stand up?
- Advice for a woman whose friend has a crush on her husband.
- The case against long-distance relationships.
- I changed my mind and now want to have a child, but my husband won't hear of it.
- How the original Preppy Handbook changed my life.
- The sports media celebrate Kevin Durant for being someone he isn't.
- My husband is finally home from his deployment to Iraq.
- What's with all the celebrities sentenced to community service? Do they really help anyone?
- The bliss of an 18-month, paid, Swedish paternity leave.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
Briefing
- Play Lean/Lock and test your skills as a political pundit.
- Welcome to Slate Labs: Experiments with multimedia journalism.
- The Slatest: Morning Edition
- Has the Earth run out of any natural resources?
- What should you do if you're attacked by a mountain goat?
- What did dinosaur meat taste like?
- Mad Men Poll: Did Joan go through with it? Did readers guess correctly?
- The Internet's Midlife Crisis
- Readers try to predict when the iPhone will be available on Verizon's network.
- Does anyone track the sex lives of porn stars?
- Who's more powerful: Russian mobsters or Italian mobsters?
- How does the military prove that Someone is gay?
- Readers try to predict the average consumer's daily spending.
- Why don't soldiers wear bulletproof face masks?
- What are the health effects of spending more than two months in a Chilean mine?
- The life of an equine movie star.
- Is there freedom of speech in China?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- How do Army helicopter pilots know when they've crossed into Pakistan?
- Try to predict how many seats the GOP will have in the House and Senate.
- What's the best way to stop a fleeing car?
- How does a travel alert affect your vacation plans?
- Rick Sanchez says Jews control the media. Is that true?
- How long has the "dumb blonde" meme been around?
- Why is there so much anti-Muslim rhetoric in the Netherlands?
- Scientists have found an Earthlike planet. Can we go there?
- Will Mark Zuckerberg be bigger as a philanthropist or at the box office?
- Accused child molester Eddie Long is bishop of a Baptist mega-church. When did Baptists start consecrating bishops?
- Why is India in the Commonwealth?
- Why do states conduct autopsies on executed prisoners?
- Could David Letterman sue Joaquin Phoenix for using his Late Show appearance in I'm Still Here?
- The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
- Is it hard to get into Iran's revolutionary guard?
- Why are obesity rates so low in Colorado?
- Try to predict the average price of a house for August 2010.
- Why does the president have so many economic advisors?
- How can the FDA tell whether genetically modified fish are safe?
- Why isn't Brooklyn Tornado Alley?
- How did meteorologists determine whether a tornado touched down in New York City?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- What happens if you misspell a write-in vote?
- How'd golf get to be a businessman's sport?
- Where do dictators get their wardrobe inspirations?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Slate readers try to predict the price of a share of GM stock.
- How has Cuba's socialist economy weathered the recession?
- Steve Jobs tried to carry ninja stars on a plane. Do ninjas really use those?
- Could hiker Sarah Shourd really cross the border into Islamic Republic of Iran without knowing it?
- How did engineers inspect the pipeline that caused the San Bruno gas explosion?
- Does Obama actually work in the Oval Office?
- Obama economics adviser Austan Goolsbee's contributions to Slate.
- Naming practices in Nigeria.
- What's the best way to set fire to a book?
- John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, failed another parole interview. What did they ask him?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- How did Operation Iraqi Freedom turn into Operation New Dawn?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- How many uses are there for a dead body?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- George Clooney plays a professional assassin in The American. Are there full-time assassins in real life?
- How does booze extend your lifespan?
- Troy Polamalu's hair is insured for $1 million. How does body-part insurance work?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- How do you measure a crowd as big as the one at the Glenn Beck rally?
- How can the trapped Chilean miners keep from getting depressed?
- The art and science of carrying things on your head.
- Can you stop someone from posting your 911 tape?
- A roundup of questions on the salmonella outbreak.
- Why do people retire at age 65?
- Why do the Roma wander?
- Can you take a child away from an abusive parent?
- How many hurricanes? Slate readers try to predict the number of storms that will hit the United States this year.
- Newt Gingrich says Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign near the Holocaust Museum. Is that true?
- Slate's most memorable stories about Hurricane Katrina.
- Why are some pharmaceuticals so expensive?
- Is emergency food aid culturally specific?
- Is it legal to eat your cat?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Can you shoot a target of the President?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Meet Slate's new, free iPad app.
- Why do so many planes crash in Alaska?
- Robert Gates wants to eliminate 50 generals from the military. Will that save a lot of money?
- How come schools assign grades of A, B, C, D, and F—but not E?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Play Slate's new political prediction game, which tests your skill at forecasting the outcome of the midterm elections.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- What kind of orientation will Elena Kagan get as a new justice? And does she have to wear that frilly neck thing?
- Barack Obama's Facebook Feed
- The Slate Poll: Slate readers get it right on Elena Kagan's confirmation vote.
- Why is Fanta so much more popular abroad than in the United States?
- How many Americans can't swim?
- When did testicles become courageous?
- How does stoning work in Iran?
- Why there's no need for "safe departure" border checkpoints for illegal immigrants.
- The results are in: Slate readers fail miserably in predicting the date of Tony Hayward's downfall.
- How they know when a pet is overweight.
- Can praying for a dead person help get him into heaven?
- How communist is China, anyway?
- Can CIA agents marry foreigners like they do in Salt?
- Can Chinese fishermen sue over an oil spill?
News & Politics
- What not to do when an IED goes off.
- How Republicans are forcing Democrats to spend money in previously "safe" districts.
- Will Britain's massive spending cuts drive Brits onto the streets?
- Why Ginni Thomas made that weird phone call to Anita Hill.
- Southern Sudan's rivals reconciled last weekend—but can the unity last?
- Americans distrust the GOP. So why are they voting for it?
- How to build a police department from scratch.
- Krystal Ball, feminist hero and the left's answer to Mama Grizzlies?
- Christine O'Donnell's cocky ignorance of the First Amendment.
- Play Lean/Lock and test your skills as a political pundit.
- How political prognostication can go wrong.
- The case against the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.
- The most shocking discovery yet about how the banks hid their toxic mortgages.
- Why Time needs Newsweek: The codependency of America's two surviving newsweeklies.
- Politics claims another casualty in its war against clear language.
- How Gov. Joe Manchin plans to become West Virginia's next senator.
- What happens when you ask soldiers in Afghanistan to be diplomats?
- Sometimes it's good news when candidates won't speak to the press.
- The many new scripts for female candidates.
- In Ohio, Barack and Michelle Obama try to rally the faithful.
- How Hezbollah became Lebanon's most powerful faction.
- The soldiers of the 372nd MP Company have one of the toughest jobs in Afghanistan: fixing the Afghan National Police.
- American classrooms are outdated. Slate seeks your great ideas for how to modernize them.
- In Lebanon, Israel and Iran are fighting on our land.
- Hyper-libertarian Facebook billionaire Peter Thiel's appalling plan to pay students to quit college.
- Why the U.K. media deserves Rupert Murdoch: Somebody has to teach them how to compete.
- The four kinds of political debates this campaign season.
- Michael Bennet's appeal to Colorado Democrats: I feel your pangs of regret.
- Harry Reid and Sharron Angle have a lackluster debate
- The FCC's new "bill shock" rule for cell phones doesn't go far enough.
- Does anyone track the sex lives of porn stars?
- Your right to personal privacy is shrinking even as Corporate America's is growing.
- Who's more powerful: Russian mobsters or Italian mobsters?
- What's the point of disclosing campaign donations? Let's review.
- How the conservative women's movement is using social networks.
- A new plan for Afghanistan: Less counterinsurgency, more killing and capturing.
- Extreme ethical hygiene: New York Times opinion columnist Joe Nocera isn't always entitled to his opinion.
- President Obama makes an unforced error, and Republicans take advantage.
- Ahmadinejad goes to Lebanon and is greeted as a conqueror and a heartthrob
- Why Tom Tancredo's supporters think he can be Colorado's next governor.
- Justice Breyer's Making Our Democracy Work just might do that.
- Carl Paladino is right about gay pride parades, and wrong about gay marriage.
- Why don't soldiers wear bulletproof face masks?
- The foreclosure mess aside, making states recognize each one another's documents is a good idea.
- Why Brazil, India, and China will be thrilled if Republicans win the midterms.
- Just months before Sudan's secession referendum, displaced southerners are being harassed for brewing a traditional drink.
- Why do Americans resent upward mobility?
- What are the health effects of spending more than two months in a Chilean mine?
- Is Nevada's 3rd District the most important House race in the country?
- Tea Partiers worry that a GOP landslide will let the party ignore them again.
- Could foreign spending on elections really be legal?
- What normal person would put up with the inane indignities of the electoral process?
- When Ginni Thomas rails against Washington elites, does it include her husband?
- Is there freedom of speech in China?
- Why no one will miss Jim Jones, the departing national security adviser.
- Will the Democratic focus on first-time voters cost them control of Congress?
- The Norwegians can award the Nobel to a Chinese dissident, but the rest of the world can't afford to be so critical of China.
- Rebecca Traister, Hanna Rosin, and others on why you can't own feminism.
- What's the endgame for Obama's judicial nominees?
- New research shows precisely how the prison-to-poverty cycle does its damage.
- Students and teachers photograph the best—and worst—places in their schools.
- Harry Reid pleads with Nevadans to remember all the good deeds he's done.
- The 60 Plus Association's conservative message isn't new, but its wealth is.
Arts
- A short history of mug shots, from Leon Trotsky to Johnny Cash.
- My Slatearticle on Rajinikanth was plagiarized by India Today.
- Mad Men, Week 13: Was a shark jumped?
- Uncouth single fatherhood can be funny on Raising Hope.
- Revisiting The Black Cauldron, the movie that almost killed Disney animation.
- How can poetry that doesn't rhyme be so pleasing to the ear?
- The Sturm und Drang moralism of Lynd Ward's amazing Six Novels in Woodcuts.
- Jackass 3-D: Boys will be inscrutable, disgusting boys.
- How was that live episode of 30 Rock?
- The futility of critiquing Sarah Palin's wardrobe.
- The scarier side of Helen Mirren.
- Red = retired, extremely dull.
- Bing Thom's audacious expansion of Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage.
- Christina Hendricks on an endless loop: The glorious GIF renaissance.
- The best Rosanne Cash song ever.
- An appreciation of film editor Sally Menke.
- The film career of David Bowie.
- Making sense of the bloodiest postmodern show on television, Spartacus.
- How do today's shorter, simpler TV theme songs stack up to the classics of the genre?
- "On Finding Bloodstains in My Notebook After a Bad Party"
- Photographs of broken neon signs.
- The life of an equine movie star.
- So, what does Stephen Hawking's The Grand Design tell us about God?
- American classrooms are outdated. Slate seeks your great ideas for how to modernize them.
- Mind if I put this grenade between your thighs?
- Is the Facebook movie sexist?
- Why we love Secretariat.
- Bio-pics of John Lennon and Secretariat make an oddly fitting pairing.
- Why art books won't become e-books any time soon.
- Nobel-prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa's The Bad Girl.
- MoMA's massive new Abstract Expressionism show will change the way you think about the movement.
- Old folks love Tom Selleck's family of cops.
- The Facebook Movie Facebook Feed: the story behind The Social Network.
- A new DVD of The Thin Red Line suggests Terrence Malick is as much a mystery to his actors and crew as he is to us.
- "Seven Octets"
- Emma Donoghue's amazing ventriloquism in Room.
- The school reform documentary Waiting for "Superman" is urgent, heartbreaking, and incomplete.
- The curious history of chain letters.
- How the couple behind the Idiots books really collaborate.
- Mark Zuckerberg gets portrayed as a joyless dweeb in The Social Network.
- What The Social Network gets wrong about Harvard—and Facebook.
- The alternate reality of Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network.
- My life with Liberace.
- My parents may have been swingers.
- Law & Order goes to L.A. and to England.
- "The World of Khubilai Khan" at the Met.
- "Doggy Heaven"
- Wrestling legend Mick Foley explains how Tori Amos changed his life.
- No Ordinary Family leaves no cliche unbounded.
- SUPERSTAR Rajinikanth!: The biggest movie star you've probably never heard of.
- Philip Roth's Nemesis explores the perils of decency.
- The Event
- How "Howl" changed the world.
- When Allen Ginsberg was a cute, soulful gay boy.
- A nostalgic review of Troop Beverly Hills.
- Michael Douglas returns as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street 2.
Business & Tech
- Why most economists are not hopeful about "quantitative easing," the Fed's latest idea to help the economy.
- A new study pinpoints just how valuable inside information is to traders.
- The war between broadcasters and cable companies has spilled over to the Web.
- American classrooms are outdated. Slate seeks your great ideas for how to modernize them.
- The end of the parking meter.
- Why women start biotech firms at higher rates than they start other kinds of high-tech firms.
- Blogs and Web magazines are looking more and more alike. What's the difference?
- A new study demonstrates just how important bureaucracy and paperwork really are.
- Do we need a foreclosure moratorium? And other dilemmas.
- Texting on the road is dangerous. The solution: self-driving cars.
- Readers try to predict the average consumer's daily spending.
- Welcome to Slate Labs: Experiments with multimedia journalism.
- Can the government recall a book?
- Things you post on Facebook have a way of reaching more people than you want. Now the site has a solution.
- The dangers of USB drives.
- How an ecology app for sharing nature photos built a community—and became a business.
- Does unemployment make us sick?
- What's better than Wi-Fi? Super Wi-Fi!
- Why did Columbia's Campus Network lose out to Harvard's Facebook?
- The strange but inevitable rise of pornography for the Amazon Kindle.
- Will Mark Zuckerberg be bigger as a philanthropist or at the box office?
- Why I won't stop writing about Apple and Google.
- Does knowing your colleagues' salaries make you happy or disgruntled?
- The egg producers most responsible for the salmonella outbreak face the klieg lights.
- What I've learned in eight years of covering business for Slate.
Science
- Has the Earth run out of any natural resources?
- Do you really need to ask your doctor whether you're healthy enough for sexual activity?
- Blogging the Periodic Table: Boron.
- How much trash do hospitals produce?
- What did dinosaur meat taste like?
- The health police attack food stamps for soft drinks.
- Can biodiversity conservation reduce poverty?
- Finding your inner bigot.
- Do pregnant women need to abstain completely from drinking?
- Why do women who have anal sex get more orgasms?
- Should you crowdsource your medical problems?
- An oncologist who's had breast cancer considers the problematic phrase "cancer survivor."
- Experimentation, orgasms, and the rise of anal sex.
- Is it really possible to waste water?
- Webcams, sex, and the death of privacy.
- Scientists have found an Earthlike planet. Can we go there?
- Inviting raffish scientists to the party.
- Does male menopause actually exist?
- Do animals masturbate?
- Explore geoengineering's most interesting strategies with Slate's interactive guide.
- What will happen when geoengineering comes to Washington?
- Geoengineering promises simple answers in a complicated world.
- Rep. Bart Gordon on the policy implications of geoengineering.
- Why are obesity rates so low in Colorado?
- Why we shouldn't buy into geoengineering fantasies.
- Weather as a weapon: The troubling history of geoengineering.
- Could an obscure international treaty protect developing countries from geoengineering gone wrong?
- Geoengineering might sound crazy, but it's worth talking about.
Podcasts & Video
- Video: The mother of all egg and cheese sandwiches.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Jackass 3-D, dueling profiles of Gawker's Nick Denton, and how to handle celebrity sightings.
- Slate's sports podcast on helmet-to-helmet hits, Death to the BCS, "Confessions of an Agent," and the NBA's new anti-whining policy.
- Dear Prudence: resemblance envy.
- The Political Gabfest for Oct. 15, 2010.
- Video: Up in Your Business.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the It Gets Better campaign, a newly unearthed Ted Hughes poem, and HBO's Bruce Springsteen documentary.
- Slate's sports podcast on the baseball playoffs, Brett Favre, the new NHL season, and George Dohrmann's Play Their Hearts Out.
- Dear Prudence: OCD neat freak?
- The Political Gabfest for Oct. 8, 2010.
- Slate's DoubleX editors discuss the new novel Freedom.
- Video: Up in Your Business
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Twitter activism, Law & Order Los Angeles and Civil War tourism.
- Video: Fighting AIDS: An Oral History
- Dear Prudence: Always a bridesmaid … literally!
- The Political Gabfest for Oct. 1, 2010.
- Video: Introducing "Up in Your Business"
- Slate V: Killer Apps.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on The Social Network, Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel, and the new NBC sitcom Outsourced.
- Cash-ocracy in America.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Michael Vick, Ken Burns' The Tenth Inning, Joe Torre, and Australian Rules Football's grand final.
- Keep Your Hands to Yourself: A weekly Dear Prudence video.
- Video: Sally Quinn interviews Slate columnist Christopher Hitchens.
- The Political Gabfest for Sept. 24, 2010.
- The DoubleX Gabfest on Christine O'Donnell, Rebecca Traister's Big Girls Don't Cry, and Susan Faludi.
- Try to predict how many seats the GOP will have in the House and Senate.
- Video: Making your own beer at home is hard work but totally worthwhile.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Boardwalk Empire, Catfish, and creative collaboration.
- Dear Prudence: Cat-calling creeps.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Troy Tulowitzki, Ines Sainz, and Derek Jeter.
- Video: Christopher Hitchens won't attend a prayer day in his honor.
- Our critics discuss Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story.
Blogs
- Brow Beat: Slate's culture blog.
- Human Nature: Science, technology, and life.
- Kausfiles: A mostly political Weblog.
- Moneyblog: A blog about business, finance, and economics.
- Procrastinate Better: Slate's guide to consuming culture.
- Scocca: A blog about politics, sport, media, stuff.
- Weigel: Reporting about politics and policy.
- The Wrong Stuff: What it means to make mistakes.
- XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
View My Network on Slate
»
TODAY'S PICTURES
TODAY'S CARTOONS
TODAY'S DOONESBURY
TODAY'S VIDEO
-
Cee Lo's album preview http://slate.me/c6NebG
-
Alec Baldwin: "Nobody tells a New Yorker that they can't marry Jesse Tyler Ferguson" http://slate.me/b1RIbk
-
UVA reports on Virginia Quarterly Review http://slate.me/am7zPj
featured advertiser links
- Is Krystal Ball the Sarah Palin of the Left?
- Southern Sudan's Rivals Reconciled Last Weekend!
- Are There Any Minerals That the Earth Has Completely Run Out Of?
- Can the Fed Save the Economy by Printing Money?
- The Two Numbers That Explain How Much Trouble Democrats Are in This Year
- This Guy Plagiarized Slate—and the Scandal Is Rocking India