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Today's Doonesbury
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The Explainer
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The 2012 Campaign
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Doers
People who accomplish great things, and how they get it done.
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The Slate Book Review
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NFL 2012
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The Homeland TV Club
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The Dexter TV Club
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The American Horror Story TV Club
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Mad Men
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Free To Be … You and Me
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The Case of the Mormon Historian
What happened when Michael Quinn challenged the history of the church he loved.
By David Haglund
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What Makes a Good President?
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The Last of the Great New York Game Shows
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The Worst States for Working Women
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Stop Pagination Now
Websites should not make you click and click and click for the full story.
By Farhad Manjoo
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Prog Spring
The brief rise and inevitable fall of the world’s most hated pop music.
By David Weigel
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Blogging the Human Genome
Weird, wonderful stories about each of your 23 chromosomes.
By Sam Kean
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Why You Hate Cyclists
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The Wedding
The unlikely story of America’s first gay military union.
By Katherine Goldstein
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The Chickens and the Bulls
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My Molesters
I was sexually assaulted three times before age 20. Here’s why I never told anyone.
By Emily Yoffe
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How To Make a Viral Hit in Four Easy Steps
The secret to BuzzFeed’s monster online success.
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No More Strapless Wedding Gowns!
They're unflattering, unsophisticated, and annoyingly ubiquitous.
By Katherine Goldstein
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The Crisis in American Walking
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Death in Yellowstone
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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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Where’s _why?
What happened when one of the most unusual, beloved programmers disappeared.
By Annie Lowrey
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The Conversion
How, when, and why Mitt Romney changed his mind on abortion.
By William Saletan
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The Greatest Paper Map of the U.S.
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Slate Writers on Facebook and Twitter
Follow John Dickerson, Emily Yoffe, and the rest of your favorite Slate writers on social media.
TOP STORIES
- Sunday, November 11, 2012
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Homeland, Season 2
Why did Saul bring a bottle of wine to an interrogation?
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The Walking Dead, Season 3
Sports in the Zombie Apocalypse.
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Dexter, Season 7
Is Dexter turning back into a novel?
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Oliver Sacks Wants To Destigmatize Hallucinations
They’re surprisingly common, and they don’t necessarily mean madness.
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- Saturday, November 10, 2012
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The Star Wars Trilogy
GIF-ified.
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A General Lesson
David Petraeus was a decorated leader and strategic thinker. Why did he risk everything on an affair?
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The Longform Guide to Presidential Losers
Romney, McCain, Kerry, Gore—a collection of stories about life after losing the big one.
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Obama Again, Bond Is Back, and Pot Is Legal (In Two States)
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
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- Friday, November 9, 2012
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Why Romney Never Saw It Coming
He was the numbers guy. But in the end his numbers were all wrong.
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Liberal Schadenfreude Is Out of Control
Why gloating after the election is nastier than ever.
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Lincoln
The legislative process has never been this dramatic—or this fun.
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Why the Tea Party Failed
And why its next battle will be with the GOP.
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How Bruce Springsteen Elected Barack Obama
Sandy, Snooki, Christie, Bruce, and Barack.
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How Obama Can End Political Gridlock
By following in the footsteps of Lincoln and FDR.
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It’s Appalling that Gerrymandering Is Legal
And if the Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act, it’s going to get a lot worse.
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Coal CEO Prays For Deliverance from Obama, Fires Workers
The coal industry has its own corrupt practices to blame.
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The Almighty Dollar
Are churches good money managers?
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The 72 Percent White Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about President Obama’s re-election, the future of the GOP, and ballot victories for marriage equality and marijuana decriminalization.
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If States Were as Big as Their Vote Counts
A cartogram of votes cast, state by state.
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Boehner Is Bluffing
The House Speaker has no leverage on the Bush tax cuts. We should stop taking him seriously.
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Charles Darwin Got 4,000 Votes in Georgia
What happens when a protest candidate wins an election?
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Citizens United Is Still Worth Hating
Even though the fat-cat super PACs lost at the polls.
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The Chosen Few
Has an emphasis on education been bad for the Jewish population?
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How Close Was This Election?
Very close. Whatever happened to landslides?
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The Spy Who GPS-Tagged Me
Private investigators who use GPS trackers to monitor suspected cheating spouses are in a legal gray area.
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Lessons From the 2012 Election
What we learned about politics from the Obama-Romney race.
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Here Comes the Groom
Andrew Sullivan’s landmark 1989 essay making a conservative case for gay marriage, reprinted in full.
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Play the Slate News Quiz
With Jeopardy! superchampion Ken Jennings.
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Corrections
Slate's mistakes.
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The Power of Truth
In the 2012 election, reality overwhelmed pretense, gamesmanship, and self-deception.
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- Thursday, November 8, 2012
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Skyfall
A portrait of a spy at the end of his rope.
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The James Bond Movie Generator
Skyball? Quantum of Finger? Make your own Bond movie with a single click.
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Lights in Shining Armor
Are LED bulbs ready to save you from high energy bills?
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Slate Seeks Editorial Assistant
We're hiring!
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Secretary Clinton II
Is Bill Clinton constitutionally eligible to be secretary of state?
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How Great an Emancipator?
Does Lincoln get too much credit for freeing the slaves—or not enough?
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High on Science
How do you get into a marijuana study?
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American Horror Story, Season 2
Is Anne Frank off-limits?
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Why I’m Bearish on Apple
Scott Forstall’s firing reveals the company’s struggles to keep an all-star team together without Steve Jobs.
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Today's Doonesbury
How deep a surgeon’s cut.
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What’s the Matter With Millennials?
An interview with Robin Marantz Henig and Samantha Henig.
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Necessary Disclosure
My friend hasn’t told his partner he has HIV. Should I do it for him?
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- Wednesday, November 7, 2012
- Tuesday, November 6, 2012
- Monday, November 5, 2012