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Cain Tries to Explain Away Monday's Inconsistencies
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Bank of America Scraps New Debit Card Fee
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Weigel
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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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The Explainer
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Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party
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The Cartoon-Character Color Wheel
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The Perfect Day
His dog was dying. But they could spend one last day together.
By Jon Katz
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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 2, 2011
- Tuesday, November 1, 2011
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When Herman Met Clarence
Why the Herman Cain sexual harassment story is different from the Clarence Thomas sexual harassment story.
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Blogging the Stanford Machine Learning Class
Teaching computers to predict whether a tumor is malignant.
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Culinary Racism
Trying to explain the "Obama Fried Chicken" incident and others like it.
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Whoa, Google! TMI!
Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe debate the question: Should you reveal that you learned something very personal about friends after Googling them?
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A Helicopter Mom Is Alienating My Kid’s Sports Team
We’re friends, but should I throw her in the penalty box?
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In Praise of Memorizing Poetry—Badly
What we learn by misremembering our favorite lines.
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- Monday, October 31, 2011
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First, We Get a Second Mortgage for the Pentagon …
How would the U.S. pay for another war? Could we even afford it?
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Deny, Deny, (Admit), Deny
How Herman Cain tried to keep sexual harassment allegations from exploding into scandal.
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Hang Up and Listen: The Better To Be Luck Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on Game 6 of the World Series, Andrew Luck, and Jonathan Hock’s Unguarded.
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Follow Slate on Twitter and Facebook
John Dickerson, Emily Yoffe, and other Slate writers and editors who are on Twitter and Facebook.
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The Art (and Trickery) of Persuasion: Slate’s Negotiation Academy
Episode 3 of our series on haggling like the pros.
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Halloween Hangover
Dear Prudence advises a dad whose buddies hit the bottle too hard on the trick-or-treat trail—in a live chat at Washingtonpost.com.
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“I Really Want You To Do My Vice-America President.”
Jon Huntsman claims he’s fluent in Chinese. Is he?
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The Feminist Case Against Single-Sex Schools
No, the studies don’t show that girls’ schools are better for girls. But they’re sure great at perpetuating sexist attitudes.
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Imagining a World Without the Tea Party
Without Rick Santelli’s rant, would we be paying attention to Herman Cain?
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Google Translate
It already speaks 57 languages as well as a 10-year-old. How good can it get?
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The U2 Paradox
Never has a band been more mockable, never has a band been more successful.
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The Audio Book Club on This Beautiful Life
Our critics discuss Helen Schulman’s new novel.
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- Sunday, October 30, 2011
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- Saturday, October 29, 2011
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The Longform.org Guide to Creeps and Creepiness
The spookiest, weirdest magazine stories ever published.
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Steve Jobs the Jerk, Female Craft Brewers, and the Brilliance of Occupy Wall Street
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
- Friday, October 28, 2011
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When Did Ghosts Start Saying “Boo”?
Plus: Is boo a scary word in other languages, too?
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Perry Plays Nice
Why Rick Perry won’t attack Mitt Romney or any other candidates anytime soon.
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Could I Claim My Frozen Embryos as Tax Deductions?
Slate readers ask questions about Mississippi’s anti-abortion amendment.
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Will Spain Be the Next Greece?
Interviews with Mariano Rajoy and Alfredo Rubalcaba, two candidates to be Spain’s next prime minister.
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The Republican War on Trick-or-Treating
The right doesn't want our kids to take handouts.
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Everyone … Talks … So … Slowly
Justin Timberlake in the weirdly stilted sci-fi thriller In Time.
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Dirty Cops, Shady Marketing and Mayor Rahm’s Millionaires Club
This week’s top MuckReads from ProPublica.
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Talkin' About Walkin'
The key moments in one of the most exciting World Series games ever played.
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Take Back the Fright
How Martha Stewart, Boo Bags, and modern life almost killed Halloween for me—and why I’m reclaiming the holiday.
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Apocalypse Never
Wasn’t the S&P downgrade supposed to bring down America? What happened?
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Rick Perry’s Creepy Basement Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about Rick Perry, the all-time lowest approval for Congress, and Mississippi’s personhood amendment.
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Don’t Be Afraid To Live Longer, Justin Timberlake
What the dystopian In Time gets wrong about a world of extreme life extension.
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And Then Giddy Helen Drowned in a Well
A Halloween slide show history of cautionary tales for children.
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- Thursday, October 27, 2011
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Siri Behind the Wheel
Texting-while-driving laws are unclear, inconsistent, and spottily enforced. Here’s how to fix them.
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The Waiting Game
I’ve loved baseball my whole life. Now, I can’t watch a game without DVR.
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Cursed by Success
Will post-Qaddafi Libya fare better or worse than its Arab neighbors?
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The Last Civil War Aeronaut
Thaddeus S.C. Lowe: The man who floated above Union battles in a balloon.
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Everything You Need To Know About Occupy Wall Street
A timeline of the movement, from February to today.
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10 Things I Hate About Anonymous
And the stupid Shakespearean birther cult behind it.
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The ABCs of GDP
It's the standard measure of our economy, but what exactly is it?
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Herman Cain's Other Smoking Ad
Slate V offers an alternate take on the viral political ad with the smoking pitchman.
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The Hops Ceiling
Women in craft brewing are challenging the stereotype of the brawny brewmaster.
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Close Your Ears!
The new radio horror proves that listening to a gory scene can be more terrifying than watching it.
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Indecent Proposal
My colleagues are framing our boss for harassment. Should I expose their evil plot?
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