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Briefing

The Slatest
The Slatest: Evening Edition
Jul 1, 2010, 7:00 AM
Polling
A Slate Poll: Who will win the World Cup?
Jun 30, 2010, 9:41 AM
explainer
Why do some Muslim converts change only part of their names?
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Jun 29, 2010, 12:36 PM
obama's facebook feed
The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
Christopher Beam and Chris Wilson
Jun 25, 2010, 3:53 PM
explainer
Can Lawrence Taylor be kicked out of the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
Christopher Beam
Jun 24, 2010, 6:26 PM

News & Politics

Polling
The Slate Poll: How many votes will Elena Kagan get in the Senate?
Jul 1, 2010, 6:59 AM
foreigners
The Russian spy scandal shows how little Moscow has changed.
Anne Applebaum
Jun 30, 2010, 8:04 PM
politics
Partisanship strikes President Obama's bipartisan debt commission.
Christopher Beam
Jun 30, 2010, 7:15 PM
explainer
Robert Byrd was an Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan. What does that mean?
Brian Palmer
Jun 30, 2010, 7:04 PM
war stories
Let's hope our undercover agents are better than these newly uncovered Russian spies.
Fred Kaplan
Jun 30, 2010, 5:25 PM
politics
#TinyDeclaration: A Slate Twitter contest for the Fourth of July.
Jun 30, 2010, 9:45 AM
jurisprudence
Elena Kagan's relaxed and charming performance at her confirmation hearing.
Dahlia Lithwick
Jun 29, 2010, 8:38 PM
the breakfast table
Supreme Court Breakfast Table: It's too soon to tell whether Free Enterprise represents a major doctrinal shift or a big nothing-burger.
Paul Clement, Walter Dellinger, and Dahlia Lithwick
Jun 29, 2010, 7:09 PM
fighting words
In ethno-national conflicts, it really is the little things that tick people off.
Christopher Hitchens
Jun 28, 2010, 1:49 PM
explainer
Does the Senate really need to approve David Petraeus?
Christopher Beam
Jun 25, 2010, 7:00 PM
dispatches
The humanitarian's dilemma: Should Westerners help needy Africans?
Emily Meehan
Jun 25, 2010, 10:07 AM
war stories
Can a new commander really improve the dire situation in Afghanistan?
Fred Kaplan
Jun 24, 2010, 6:58 PM
explainer
Can Lawrence Taylor be kicked out of the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
Christopher Beam
Jun 24, 2010, 6:26 PM
dispatches
Dispatches from the oil spill: Bobby Jindal, Billy Nungesser, and Louisiana's politics of indignation.
Josh Levin
Jun 18, 2010, 12:52 PM

Arts

movies
Twilight: Eclipse is a moving bulletin from the trenches of contemporary American girlhood.
Dana Stevens
Jun 30, 2010, 6:29 PM
culturebox
Why e-books will never replace real books.
Jan Swafford
Jun 29, 2010, 10:12 AM
books
Sebastian Mallaby gets the inside story on hedge funds in More Money Than God.
Barry Eichengreen
Jun 29, 2010, 6:53 AM
poem
"Going to Zero"
Peter Balakian
Jun 29, 2010, 6:52 AM
doublex
Why do we need Lilith Fair anymore?
Jessica Herman
Jun 28, 2010, 4:15 PM
tv club
Friday Night Lights: The most preposterous character in FNL history.
Emily Bazelon
Jun 28, 2010, 3:25 PM
Skin and Scares
True Blood reinvents vampire sex.
Jason Zinoman
Jun 28, 2010, 1:11 PM
books
New secrets about Emily Dickinson in Lyndall Gordon's Lives Like Loaded Guns.
Adam Kirsch
Jun 28, 2010, 7:13 AM
movies
Tilda Swinton's amazing shrimp cocktail, plus the wisdom of Ozu.
Dana Stevens
Jun 25, 2010, 4:17 PM
summer movies
Ten movies that never should have been made—and thankfully weren't.
Abby McGanney Nolan
Jun 25, 2010, 11:03 AM
my darklyng
My Darklyng: Chapters 10-12 of DoubleX's serialized vampire novel.
Laura Moser
Jun 25, 2010, 8:29 AM
movies
The winners of the invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-'80s-TV-show contest.
Dana Stevens
Jun 24, 2010, 5:36 PM

Life

offline
I'm quitting the Internet. Will I be liberated or left behind?
James Sturm
Jun 16, 2010, 12:47 PM
the hive
Nimble Cities: Help Slate improve urban transportation.
Tom Vanderbilt
Jul 1, 2010, 6:58 AM
sports nut
Why it's a bad idea for LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh to team up.
Josh Levin
Jun 30, 2010, 7:36 PM
the hive
Should we build more bicycle highways?
Tom Vanderbilt
Jun 30, 2010, 1:11 PM
well-traveled
Watching the World Cup in post-apartheid South Africa.
Robin Shulman
Jun 30, 2010, 10:53 AM
deployment diary
The Bad Scene at Dover, Where Military Caskets Arrive
Alison Buckholtz
Jun 30, 2010, 10:00 AM
family
Why I no longer speak to the brother who raised me like a father.
Pat Jordan
Jun 30, 2010, 9:59 AM
my goodness
What to do when charities mismanage their volunteers.
Constance Casey
Jun 30, 2010, 7:06 AM
human guinea pig
Bat guano, elephant dung, rhino pee, and other substances I encountered in my brief, smelly stint as a zookeeper.
Emily Yoffe
Jun 29, 2010, 10:09 AM
friend or foe
My Friends Said My Husband Wasn't Hot Enough for Me
Lucinda Rosenfeld
Jun 29, 2010, 10:01 AM
politics
#TinyDeclaration: A Slate Twitter contest for the Fourth of July.
Jun 30, 2010, 9:45 AM
sports nut
England's 44-year World Cup drought might only be the beginning.
Paul Hayward
Jun 28, 2010, 3:46 PM
the spectator
The rise of the new agnostics.
Ron Rosenbaum
Jun 28, 2010, 2:03 PM
obsessions
That misery called meditation: What seven days of silence did to my head.
Tim Wu
Jun 27, 2010, 8:53 AM
sports nut
Slate on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Jun 25, 2010, 4:23 PM
sports nut
Why U.S. manager Bob Bradley is a great coach, not a miracle worker.
Alan Siegel
Jun 25, 2010, 1:16 PM
television
The Cooking Channel is for those mildly ashamed to call themselves "foodies."
Troy Patterson
Jun 25, 2010, 10:24 AM
dispatches
Universal Studios' new Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park fails to bring the magic.
Dan Kois
Jun 24, 2010, 11:41 AM
dear prudence
Dear Prudence advises a miserable employee, a shell-shocked girlfriend, and a scabies-wary hostess.
Jun 24, 2010, 7:04 AM

Business & Tech

ad report card
Slate readers on the most stupid, annoying, and wrongheaded commercials on television.
Seth Stevenson
Jun 28, 2010, 12:14 PM
moneybox
Ignore the Wall Streeters moaning about how unfair the new regulatory bill is.
Daniel Gross
Jun 25, 2010, 11:32 AM
technology
The court was right to side with YouTube over Viacom.
Farhad Manjoo
Jun 24, 2010, 4:40 PM
moneybox
Fed Chairman Bernanke doesn't seem to care about high unemployment. Why?
Daniel Gross
Jun 24, 2010, 12:14 PM

Science

medical examiner
Big Pharma should buy your doctor lunch sometimes.
Jessica Wapner
Jun 30, 2010, 7:07 AM
green room
Can some out-of-work car-racing engineers save the planet?
Jason Fagone
Jun 29, 2010, 12:33 PM
green room
A questionable study claims that climate skeptics are lousy scientists.
Michael Levi
Jun 24, 2010, 3:54 PM
doublex
This Cornell doctor does what to 6-year-old girls' clitorises?
Hanna Rosin
Jun 24, 2010, 9:58 AM
the book club
Paul Bloom and Peter D. Kramer discuss How Pleasure Works.
Paul Bloom and Peter D. Kramer
Jun 15, 2010, 5:26 PM

Podcasts & Video

culture gabfest
Slate's Culture Gabfest on giving up the Internet, summer television, and fireworks.
Daniel Engber, Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, Dana Stevens, James Sturm, June Thomas, and Julia Turner
Jun 30, 2010, 11:38 AM
hang up and listen
Slate 's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 28, 2010.
Stefan Fatsis
Jun 28, 2010, 7:16 PM
gabfest
The Political Gabfest for June 25, 2010.
Emily Bazelon
Jun 25, 2010, 9:21 AM