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After Failed Run, Perry Less Popular in Texas Than Obama
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Romney Back in Front in Florida Polls
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Newt to Voters: Romney Thinks You're "Stupid"
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Weigel
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Moneybox
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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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The Reckoning
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The Wright Show
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Today's Doonesbury
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The Romney Income Calculator
How long would it take the GOP candidate to earn your annual salary?
By Dan Check
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The Explainer
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The 2011 Explainer Question of the Year
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The Downton Abbey TV Club
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The NFL Roundtable
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The GOP Horse Race
What the presidential 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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The Greatest Paper Map of the U.S.
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Stop Putting Two Spaces After a Period
It's totally, absolutely, indefensibly wrong.
By Farhad Manjoo
TOP STORIES
- Thursday, January 26, 2012
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The Grey
Hot Neeson-on-wolves action.
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Inside In
Gingrich and Romney are both consummate insiders. So why is only Gingrich able to portray himself as an outsider?
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NFL 2011
Eli Manning and the NFL’s trouble with goodness.
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A Scalpel, Not a Hatchet
Why is Obama cutting so little out of the Pentagon budget? He could cut even more.
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Literature of the 0.1 Percent
At Last, the latest of Edward St. Aubyn’s masterful novels of privilege and the ways it warps its victims.
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The Oscar Act-Off
Make the nominees sing for their supper.
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Dirty Money
The astonishing new data showing that simply eliminating inefficient fossil fuel subsidies could achieve half the world’s carbon reduction goals.
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How To Fight off a Pack of Hungry Wolves
Can you use broken miniature liquor bottles like in The Grey?
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Fix the Oscars
Inept hosts. Dumb categories. Dance numbers. It’s time to reform the Academy Awards.
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No Pet For You
Want to adopt a dog or cat? Prepare for an inquisition at the animal rescue.
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Weasel Face Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about how much looks matter in politics, how small group dynamics affect women, and the blogger Dooce’s separation.
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The High Price of Long Life
If anti-aging drugs are possible, they will require dangerous—and ethically troubling—clinical trials.
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Compassion Without Passion
My husband’s brain injury ended our romance. Should I take a lover?
- Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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The Pajama Manifesto
Wear them to work. Wear them to the store. Wear them everywhere.
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What Does an Office Secretary Have in Common With the Secretary of Defense?
A short history of executive assistance.
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Unleash the Crowds
Newt Gingrich is right: We need more debates. And more yelling!
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NFL 2011
The New England Patriots are not out for revenge.
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The Political and the Personal
What the Supreme Court can learn from Gabby Giffords and Jeff Flake.
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If Dooce Can’t Make an Egalitarian Marriage Work, Who Can?
Why fans of the “Queen of Mommy Blogs” were upset by news of her separation.
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The Maximum-Gluten Diet
Wheat gluten is healthier, tastier, and more versatile than tofu. Vegetarians should be eating it all the time.
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The Culture Gabfest, “Sh*t Tuskegee Airmen Say” Edition
Listen to Slate's show about Red Tails, workplace collaboration, and the “sh*t people say” meme.
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The Three-Thank-Yous Rule
A modest proposal for rewarding great acceptance speeches.
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How Much Do Looks Matter in Presidential Politics?
It’s not just attractiveness that counts among voters—it’s a cluster of physical traits.
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A Size 2 Is a Size 2 Is a Size 8
Why clothing sizes make no sense.
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Insider Trading and Spilled Milk
The juiciest moments of the State of the Union.
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The Swing States of Our Union Are Strong
Obama's tepid election-year State of the Union attempts to lay a trap for Republicans.
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That’s Obama’s Jobs Plan?
His muddled SOTU scheme to boost the economy by hindering trade.
- Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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What's Hell Like for Mormons?
No man on Earth can understand it.
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What Was This Year’s Biggest Oscars Diss?
Dana Stevens, Troy Patterson, and Dan Kois answer your questions about the Academy Award nominations.
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Let’s Talk Oscars
Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow vie for the awesome-old-guy-who’s-shockingly-never-won-before vote.
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Bring Back the Stylus!
Steve Jobs hated it, but the iPad and iPhone could use a pseudo-pen.
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Mitt’s Income vs. Your Income
How long would it take the GOP candidate to earn what you make in a year?
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Who Is Warren Buffett's Secretary?
Debbie Bosanek is not the talkative type, especially about tax reform.
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Love in Three Photos: Submit Your Photo Haiku
Slate wants your moving tales of love, lust, or heartbreak.
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The Phony Crisis of Capitalism
I’m the college student Nick Kristof cited as evidence that students have turned socialist. He’s wrong.
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Farmer Groupies and Chicken Coddlers
The Foxfire books and the paradox of the modern DIY movement.
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
The coming historical events that could turn Downton upside down.
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Hands Off the DVR!
What to do when the baby-sitter uses your TiVo without asking.
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I Was Attacked at Game Night
A card game turned violent, and my so-called friends are siding with my assailant.
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Truth in Darkness
Herman Melville is a master of conveying nature as a mysterious language we must speak but do not know.
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Mewt Gromney
Romney and Gingrich trade places in the Tampa debate.
- Monday, January 23, 2012
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NFL 2011
Billy Cundiff rushed his kick because of an error on the Gillette Stadium scoreboard.
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Can Retirement Kill You?
Are people more likely to die after they stop working?
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Hang Up and Listen: The Famous Last Words Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on the NFL’s conference title games and the deaths of Joe Paterno and freestyle skier Sarah Burke.
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Alito vs. Scalia
The two conservative Supreme Court justices brawl over technology and privacy.
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Save the State of the Union!
Obama wants an hour for his speech. Here’s how he can do better in 10 minutes.
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What on Earth Happened to BlackBerry?
Research in Motion’s co-CEOs just stepped down. Can the company be saved?
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E-Textbooks Should Be Free-Textbooks
How the Gates Foundation and Apple could team up to destroy the evil textbook cabal and save schools billions.
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
Mary and the Dowager Countess have an unsatisfying heart-to-heart.
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We’re Talking Oscars
Join Slate’s team of critics for a live Facebook chat about this year’s Oscar nominations.
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Once a Cheater, Always a Cheater?
In a live chat, Dear Prudence offers advice on whether an unfaithful spouse can be an honest businessman.
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Dear Prudence: Vacation House of Horrors
A weekly Dear Prudence video.
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The Presidential Horse Race
Literally: an animation of the 2012 Republican campaign as a horse race.
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Warning: This Site Contains Conspiracy Theories
Does Google have a responsibility to help stop the spread of 9/11 denialism, anti-vaccine activism, and other fringe beliefs?
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A Woman’s Place
A female rabbi has spent years fighting the ultra-Orthodox-led discrimination against women in Israel. Now the rest of the country is joining her.
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The Case Against Porno Chic
Simon Doonan’s Beef with 6-Inch Stilettos and Spray Tans
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The King’s Comeuppance
How the hottest ad agency of the aughts fell from grace.
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- Sunday, January 22, 2012
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NFL 2011
What went wrong on Billy Cundiff’s missed kick?
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Downton Abbey, Season 2
Sorry, Molesley, Lord Grantham’s just not that into you.
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He Was Penn State
Is it appropriate to mourn the death of Joe Paterno?
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Non-Consenting Adults
The Nuremberg Code, set up to protect the human subjects of research, is being routinely ignored.
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Beyond The Art of Fielding
Why American novelists turn to sports.
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Tribe of Newt
The elite-media-hating voters who put Gingrich over the top in South Carolina.
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- Saturday, January 21, 2012
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Romney Newtered
Gingrich wins a smashing victory in South Carolina. How can Romney recover?
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Palinisms
Did she really say that?
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The Hunt for Mengele’s Skull
Longform’s guide to the best stories ever written about war criminals on the lam.
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A Facebook Study, Online Piracy, and the South Carolina Primary
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
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- Friday, January 20, 2012
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An Interview With Aung San Suu Kyi
Burma’s Nobel laureate muses on the sweeping reforms in her country and whether she will be its president.
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Saudi Arabia. Nigeria. Venezuela. Canada?
Is our neighbor to the north becoming a jingoistic petro-state?
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Do Open Marriages Ever Work?
Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife says he wanted to have one.
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Pirated Movies
What the Megaupload shutdown means for other traffic-hogging “cyberlockers.”
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Government by Gobbledygook
Federal regulations are wordy, jargon-filled, and incomprehensible. Will a new bill remedy that?
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Is Coriolanus Shakespeare’s Greatest Tragedy?
A closer look at T.S. Eliot’s zany claim.
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Don’t Stop at SOPA
SOPA and PIPA are (almost) dead. Now can we talk about the law that already exists?
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NFL 2011
Are the Giants really better than the 49ers?
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And YOU Get a Talk Show, And YOU Get a Talk Show!
The Revolution is a next-generation Oprah that’s all about you.
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Diagramming the Costa Concordia Disaster
An annotated look at the cruise ship fiasco.
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A Sketchy Rescue, a Messy Cleanup, and Mitt’s Money
This week's top MuckReads from ProPublica.
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The Nuttiest Day of the Primary Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about the South Carolina primary, the Keystone Pipeline XL decision, and SOPA/PIPA protests.
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Check Your Head
Does testing athletes for concussion with fancy software do any good?
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A Plague of Pearl Clutching
How clutch the pearls became a lady blogosphere cliché.
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Lesbian Olive Oil
Simon Doonan’s unconventional dieting advice.
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Leave Iraq to the Iraqis
The nation’s political problems can’t be fixed by the presence of U.S. troops.
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Corrections
Slate's mistakes
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The Brawl
Gingrich and Santorum shined in a boisterous debate. Can a flustered Romney hold them off in South Carolina?
