Briefing
- The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
- The Slatest: Morning Edition
- Can Lawrence Taylor be kicked out of the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
- Does President Obama have the power to fire Gen. McChrystal from the Army?
- Did Faisal Shahzad have anything to gain from pleading guilty?
- How do you count the barrels of spilled BP oil in the Gulf?
- Why does it seem like all drugs cause the same side effects?
- When will Tony Hayward lose his job? A Slate poll.
- Can someone be "talked through" landing a jumbo jet?
- Why does England get its own team in the World Cup?
- A ship siphoning oil in the Gulf of Mexico was struck by lightning. What are the odds?
- What are the Kyrgyz and Uzbeks fighting about, anyway?
- Why did Alvin Greene have to pay so much just to get his name on the ballot?
- Who will win the World Cup? A Slate poll.
- How the White House Correspondents' Association will fill Helen Thomas' seat.
- Most countries think of the World Cup as a football tournament. Why do we call the game soccer?
- Police are shooting rock-throwers along the U.S.-Mexico border. How many officers have been killed by rocks?
- An Explainer roundup on the World Cup.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Why did Israeli commandos use paintball guns aboard the Mavi Marmara?
- Do doctors use Nazi data in their research?
- How will they fix the giant sinkhole in Guatemala City?
- China says any U.N. sanctions against Iran shouldn't hurt ordinary Iranians. Is that feasible?
- Does Israel use "disproportionate" force?
- The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
- An Explainer roundup on the BP disaster.
- An interactive map of how every story in the news is related, updated daily.
News & Politics
- Supreme Court Breakfast Table: Kagan-for-Stevens changes everything, too.
- Does the Senate really need to approve David Petraeus?
- The humanitarian's dilemma: Should Westerners help needy Africans?
- Can a new commander really improve the dire situation in Afghanistan?
- Can Lawrence Taylor be kicked out of the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
- Crisis Management 101: Obama's pitch-perfect handling of the McChrystal affair.
- What Gen. McChrystal should have known about Rolling Stone's reporter going in.
- Naming David Petraeus to replace Stanley McChrystal is a stroke of personnel genius.
- The same policy mistake caused both the Wall Street meltdown and the BP spill.
- Elena Kagan needs to talk honestly about what Supreme Court justices really do.
- Joe Barton's perverted shame.
- Peter Orszag's successor has to make deficit reduction hot.
- As Elena Kagan shows, you need to lose your heart, brain, and courage to get on the Supreme Court.
- What Rolling Stone's profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal reveals about our fractured command in Afghanistan.
- Gen. Stanley McChrystal's Afghanistan friendly-fire incident.
- Each nation responds to the vile vuvuzela in its own special way.
- How Time and Life magazines helped turn America on to LSD.
- There are better places than Afghanistan to mine for lithium.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Why are we so focused on the problems Afghanistan's vast mineral deposits could bring?
- What happens to our democratic institutions when everyone's too scared to show up?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- U.S. visa holders should be required to disclose what they know about potential threats.
- Dispatches from the oil spill: Bobby Jindal, Billy Nungesser, and Louisiana's politics of indignation.
- What we learned from Tony Hayward and Joe Barton at the BP hearings.
- Democrats hope to make Joe Barton really sorry for his blunder.
- A Wall Street Journal hedline makes a big promise its story about Obama's speech doesn't deliver on.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Ignoring Maher Arar won't make his torture claims go away.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Are firing squads a better means of execution than lethal injection?
- What Obama's speech on the BP oil spill was lacking.
- Bogus trend stories of the week: The Post on tradesmen who've gone to college; the Times on teenage jackassery.
- How a Supreme Court decision has changed life in the nation's crime labs.
- Gen. David Petraeus' collapse is a grim metaphor for the prospects of the Kandahar offensive.
- Is the ninja a pop-culture cliché or poised for a comeback?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Barack Obama can't stop the oil spill; acting otherwise just makes us look weak.
- Is Obama willing to say—and do—something dramatic about America's dependence on oil?
- It's time for legislators to look more closely at familial searches of DNA databases.
- How President Obama can stop the spreading plume of national despair.
- Prince Charles' sinister speech attacks science and good sense.
- Why lawsuits based on looks discrimination—even good ones—are a bad idea.
- Why Brazil and Turkey's nuclear deal with Iran is worse than useless.
Arts
- Friday Night Lights: I miss Tyra.
- Tilda Swinton's amazing shrimp cocktail, plus the wisdom of Ozu.
- Ten movies that never should have been made—and thankfully weren't.
- My Darklyng: Chapters 10-12 of DoubleX's serialized vampire novel.
- The winners of the invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-'80s-TV-show contest.
- Bravo's new reality shows skim the lowlights of the art world and celebrity photography.
- Tom Cruise flirts with self-parody as a slick lunatic in Knight & Day.
- Christian YA novels like the Carter House Girls and the Christy series offer an alternative to Gossip Girl.
- Singapore hires Michael Graves to build a casino.
- Slate's complete coverage of 2010's summer movies.
- Party Down's bitterly funny take on catering and Hollywood.
- Revisiting Dick Tracy, Warren Beatty's forgotten blockbuster.
- Meet Abraham Lincoln, poet.
- A True Blood mystery: Why does everyone love Sookie?
- Together, two books about E.M. Forster capture his writing life and his sex life.
- Pawn Stars: The delights of watching a know-it-all Vegas pawnbroker hold court.
- Jonah Hill nurses a serious Oedipal complex in Mark and Jay Duplass' Cyrus.
- Toy Story 3 is the best Toy Story of them all.
- Pixar's secret weapon: John Ratzenberger.
- Pick up just about any novel and you'll find the phrase "somewhere a dog barked."
Life
- That misery called meditation: What seven days of silence did to my head.
- Slate on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
- Why U.S. manager Bob Bradley is a great coach, not a miracle worker.
- The Cooking Channel is for those mildly ashamed to call themselves "foodies."
- Universal Studios' new Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park fails to bring the magic.
- Nimble Cities: Help Slate improve urban transportation.
- Dear Prudence advises a miserable employee, a shell-shocked girlfriend, and a scabies-wary hostess.
- A dispatch from the United States' amazing World Cup win over Algeria.
- Watching the World Cup in a small English town.
- The Guardian's live blog of USA vs. Algeria.
- Nimble Cities: Can eliminating parking spots make cities more efficient?
- The sordid details behind the collapse and mutiny of the French national soccer team.
- A review of Laura Vanderkam's 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- How the 2010 World Cup could push the United States into the international soccer elite.
- Why do dads lie on surveys about fatherhood?
- Dear Prudence answers Father's Day questions.
- I'm quitting the Internet. Will I be liberated or left behind?
- International soccer managers like Diego Maradona are the strangest men in sports.
- A history of well-done meat in America.
- Is AmEx's Members Project a worthy avenue for charity?
- Advice for a woman whose friend is self-medicating.
- An investigation into the startling fraud accusations that have upended the fine wine world.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- Rob Green's World Cup blunder: Keepers past and present have their say.
- A festive mood in South Africa after the United States' 1-1 draw with England.
- The view from England after the United States and England play to a 1-1 tie.
- Why do graduating students wear academic robes?
- A dispatch from England on the eve of the World Cup.
- We Are Scientists, the band behind "Goal! England," explains how to write a World Cup anthem.
- Why doesn't the new Karate Kid do karate?
- The loneliness of the American soccer fan.
- A review of former model Avis Cardella's shopping-addiction memoir, Spent.
- Who will win the World Cup? A Slate poll.
- Dave Eggers on America and the World Cup.
- I wish I'd never read my late mother's confessions.
- What happens when GPS systems cause car crashes.
- How soccer almost became a major American sport in the 1920s.
- Soccer and the intellectual.
Business & Tech
- Ignore the Wall Streeters moaning about how unfair the new regulatory bill is.
- The court was right to side with YouTube over Viacom.
- Fed Chairman Bernanke doesn't seem to care about high unemployment. Why?
- The new Internet gaming service OnLive actually delivered.
- How the Gulf crisis made BP British again.
- The craziest conspiracy theories behind the Gulf oil spill.
- Why is it so hard to make a white iPhone?
- Soon there will be no reason to have a big, boxy computer on your desk.
- Brazilian businesses are buying up U.S. companies. That's a good thing.
- President Obama's BP speech was almost lousy enough to make you miss George W. Bush.
- Why Starbucks is smart to offer free Internet access.
- Why the United States and Europe can't cut their way to economic prosperity.
- Slate's Farhad Manjoo answers your questions about Verizon and the iPhone, Facebook, and more.
- Help Slate find better words for tweet, like, and other social-media jargon.
- When will Tony Hayward lose his job? A Slate poll.
- Tom Bissell's Extra Lives asks whether video games are art or an addiction.
- Apple hopes the iPhone 4 is enough to stay at the top of the smartphone heap.
- Why BP CEO Tony Hayward hasn't been fired yet.
- Alejandro González Iñáritu's epic, witty, wonderful World Cup ad for Nike.
- The dangerous new era of "extreme energy."
- How Android, Chrome, and the iPad are shielding us from malware.
Science
- A questionable study claims that climate skeptics are lousy scientists.
- This Cornell doctor does what to 6-year-old girls' clitorises?
- Berkeley and Stanford will do DNA testing on their students. Is that a good idea?
- The hurdles to providing health care in El Salvador's fractured prison system.
- Should city dwellers be composting?
- How do you count the barrels of spilled BP oil in the Gulf?
- Graphic cigarette health-warning labels from around the globe.
- Why are flame retardants required in furniture, anyway?
- If it's OK to reject blood from gay men, what about blacks?
- Research shows how the BP oil spill will damage the mental health of those living in affected areas.
- Why do we overmedicate babies for heartburn?
- A 90-year-old maritime law gets BP off the hook for workers killed on the Deepwater rig.
- Slate runs the numbers on one of the climate skeptics' favorite arguments.
- Give us your best tips for curbing food waste.
- New study shows sperm-donor kids suffer.
- Paul Bloom and Peter D. Kramer discuss How Pleasure Works.
- How will the BP oil spill affect White House strategy on climate legislation?
- The insanity of deepwater oil wells.
- How to get rid of ratty old clothes and hairballs. Plus: the case for dimmers.
- All of Slate's articles on the BP oil spill.
- Andrew Wakefield tried to connect the MMR vaccine to Crohn's before implicating it in autism.
- Cleansing our minds of crime and vice.
- The soda tax tells us what we can't do. That's not a good way to change bad behavior.
- Better living through memory modification.
Podcasts & Video
- The Political Gabfest for June 25, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Toy Story 3, the science of a good vacation, and Watson, the supercomputer that can beat humans at Jeopardy!
- Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen, for the week of June 21, 2010.
- Our critics discuss David Shields' Reality Hunger.
- The Political Gabfest for June 18, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the Joan Rivers documentary Piece of Work, Bravo's reality show Work of Art, and an Atlantic piece on "the end of men."
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 14, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for June 11, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Stieg Larsson's Swedish crime novels, how the Internet changes our brains, and World Cup mania.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 7, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for June 4, 2010.
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on Carly Fiorina, Sex and the City 2, and Al and Tipper Gore's split.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest onM.I.A.'s beef with the New York Times, the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, and whether the Internet is making us dumber.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 1, 2010.
- "The Sporkful" podcast on smorgasbord strategies.
- The Political Gabfest for May 28, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Law & Order, Godard's Breathless, and Janelle Monáe.
- "The Sporkful" podcast compares apple and oranges.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 24, 2010.
- The Political Gabfest for May 21, 2010.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest (live!) on Robin Hood, Sam Lipsyte's novel The Ask, and Facebook's privacy controversy.
- NPR's Robert Krulwich on the science of the sandwich.
- A podcast with author Sarah Ellison.
- The Political Gabfest for May 14, 2010.
- The Disrupters podcast for May 13, 2010
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Betty White, the birth control pill, and Iron Man 2.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 10, 2010.
- "The Sporkful" podcast tries new s'mores recipes.
- The Political Gabfest for May 7, 2010.
- DoubleX Audio Book Club on Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Oprah Winfrey, the "data-driven life," and Please Give.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 3, 2010.
- "The Sporkful," a guest food podcast.
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