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Moneybox
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Weigel
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XX Factor
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Brow Beat
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The Reckoning
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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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Facebook Is Hiding Your Mail
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The History of Occupy Wall Street
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Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party
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The Presidential Horse Race
What the GOP campaign would look like if it were an actual horse race.
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The Mouse Trap
The dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease.
By Daniel Engber
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Robot Invasion
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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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Stop Putting Two Spaces After a Period
It's totally, absolutely, indefensibly wrong.
By Farhad Manjoo
TOP STORIES
- Monday, January 2, 2012
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Rick Rolls
Why Santorum's uncompromising style is pushing him to the top in Iowa.
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The Movie Club
Why I loved Melancholia, and why Tree of Life left me cold.
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Santorum Surges, Romney Shrugs
Why a Santorum caucus victory won’t change the race.
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The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See
Made by one guy in Oregon.
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The Iowa Horse Race
An animation of the Iowa caucuses as a horse race.
- Sunday, January 1, 2012
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Santorum’s Last Stand
Days before the Iowa caucus the senator shoots from the back of the pack.
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The World of Assouline
How a luxury book publisher has thrived in an anemic market.
- Saturday, December 31, 2011
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Mr. Positivity
Newt Gingrich complains that big money and negative ads are crushing him in Iowa. He has a point.
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The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
A new podcast about nonfiction books and their authors.
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Meta-Chatter: The Best of Slate’s Year-End Roundups
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
- Friday, December 30, 2011
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Can You Give Someone Cancer?
If they’re healthy, probably not.
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The Music Club, 2011
Is it sexist to despise the music of Lana Del Rey?
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A Separation
Make it your New Year’s resolution to go see this sad, funny, suspenseful Iranian drama.
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Happy Days Are Here Again!
Don’t believe the naysayers: An economic recovery is right around the corner.
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The 2011 Conundrum Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about the conundrums that stumped us this year.
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The Year’s Top MuckReads
The first newspaper on the Sandusky story, NYPD surveillance, shady shell companies, and more.
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The Wacky Stuff We Drop on New Year’s Eve
From drag queens to giant pinecones.
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Holder’s Voting Rights Gamble
The Supreme Court’s voter ID showdown.
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The 12 Kinds of Undecided Voters
Liars, haters, mavens, know-nothings, bandwagon riders, and other kinds of voters who just can’t make up their minds.
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The Iron Lady of Iowa
Michele Bachmann tries to remind Hawkeye voters why they loved her so much back in August.
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Drinking in the Morning After
The do's and don’ts of imbibing in the a.m.
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Longform’s Top 10 Stories of 2011
The best overall long-form articles published this year.
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Corrections
Slate's mistakes for the week of Dec. 26, 2011.
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- Thursday, December 29, 2011
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Iron Deficiency
Not even Meryl Streep can rescue this dreadful biopic.
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2011 Was a Terrible Year for Tech
All our devices got more complicated. And they won’t get simpler anytime soon.
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Troy Patterson’s TV Top 10
Ten things about 2011 from a TV critic who’s careful not to watch too much television.
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Tintin
How Hergé’s boy reporter invented the Hollywood blockbuster.
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The Santorum Surge
How his rising poll numbers in Iowa change the race.
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Bland, Fertile, and Protestant Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about the ideal length of maternity leave, new revelations about Newt Gingrich’s personal life, and the year’s celebrity marriages and divorces.
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16, 82, 162 …
How did the NBA and other sports leagues decide how many games to play in a season?
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The Music Club, 2011
The rise of the stutter in pop music.
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Slate's Best Slide Shows of 2011
The most popular and most memorable photo galleries of the year.
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What the Frack?
Is there really 100 years’ worth of natural gas beneath the United States?
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Longform’s Guide to the Best Business Stories of 2011
Postal service woes, strip mall casinos, and more great writing about money.
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A Marriage Hits a Rough Patch
Hubby’s new beard rubs me the wrong way, but he refuses to shave!
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- Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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The Music Club, 2011
Is the worst poet in the history of pop music the guy from Bon Iver?
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Cupcake Wars
Can you really make a bomb out of a pastry?
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NFL 2011
A $250 stock certificate did not instantly turn my children into Packers fans.
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The Year’s Top Stocks
Warning: It’s a depressing list.
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A Christmas Gift for the Pentagon
Remember how it turned retired generals into media shills? Lax oversight means it could happen again.
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Slate’s Most-Read Stories
The 10 most popular articles of 2011.
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The Culture Gabfest, “Writhing Around in Dirt” Edition
Listen to Slate's show about Tintin, the history of the word processor, and the 3-D dance documentary Pina.
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The Worst Cads of 2011
Ranking the pathetic deeds of Kim Kardashian, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and their deplorable peers.
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Longform’s Best Writing About Sex in 2011
Ted Haggard’s second coming, the end of marriage and monogamy, and other great stories about sex.
- Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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Beware the Mistletoe
Does the holiday season drive people to violence?
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Born This Way
Why Ron Paul’s anti-gay newsletters don’t bother liberal gays.
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NFL 2011
Confessions of a sports bigamist.
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The Phoebe Prince Settlement
The town of South Hadley reveals how much they paid the Prince family.
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The Mystery of Vachel Lindsay
How did the most visible poet in America—and a father of the Beats—become nearly forgotten?
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Longform’s Guide to the Best War Stories of 2011
From Iraq to Afghanistan to Libya, amazing stories from the world’s battlefields.
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The Year in Busts
The top 10 corporate bankruptcies of 2011.
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You With the Earbuds, Turn It Down!
What to do when you're trapped next to someone whose music is bleeding out from their earbuds? Plus, should there be a time limit at the Redbox machine?
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Take My Advice
Dear Prudence shares reader responses and lessons learned from your letters in 2011.
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The Most Popular Dear Prudence Videos of 2011
A countdown of the top 12 most-viewed advice videos of the year.
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The Dishwasher Wars
When phosphates were banned, the detergent category got vicious.
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Why Is My Husband Banned from Girls’ Night Out?
My friend refuses to include him at our annual reunion. Is she in the wrong?
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