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Today's Doonesbury
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The Explainer
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Political Kombat
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The Slate Book Review
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NFL 2012
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Human Evolution
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The Homeland TV Club
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The Dexter TV Club
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The Louie TV Club
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Mad Men
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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
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TOP STORIES
- Saturday, October 13, 2012
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The Longform Guide to the CIA
The article that became Ben Affleck’s Argo and more great spy stories.
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Why Aren’t Politicians Listening to This Guy on Climate?
Joe Romm says global warming is proven to be a winning campaign issue.
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Neanderthal DNA, Biden vs. Ryan, and Why the Taliban Fears Teenage Girls
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
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- Friday, October 12, 2012
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Pulp Meta-Fiction
Seven Psychopaths is Quentin Tarantino meets Charlie Kaufman.
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A Ray of Hope
Why today was a good day for Mitt Romney.
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A Ray of Hope
Why today was a good day for Barack Obama.
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Who’s the Boss?
New research shows the large economic value of effective supervisors and the surprising ways they make workers more effective.
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Foreign Exchange
On defense and foreign policy, Democrats talk like conservatives, and Republicans talk like liberals.
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Did Joe Biden Come to Obama’s Rescue?
The Slate/SurveyMonkey snap poll survey the battle of the veeps.
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The Barcalounger Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about the Biden/Ryan VP debate, Romney’s surge, and affirmative action at the high court.
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Is the Earth 6,000 Years Old, 9,000 Years Old, or 13,000 Years Old?
How biblical literalists get their numbers.
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Fisher Cut Bait
Affirmative action will live on even if the Supreme Court kills it.
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The Death and Rebirth of Spring Hill
What the unexpected revival of a Tennessee car factory teaches about American manufacturing.
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How Much Drinking Is Too Much Drinking?
Smashed is the best movie yet about our relationship with alcohol.
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NFL 2012
Beano Cook changed how we watched the NFL.
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The Irrational Allure of the Next Big Thing
Why we value potential over achievement.
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Argo
Director Ben Affleck’s Iran hostage crisis thriller is his best movie yet.
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Are Celebrities Qualified To Have Political Opinions?
Or should they just keep their yappers shut?
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Play the Slate News Quiz
With Jeopardy! superchampion Ken Jennings.
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The Joe Biden Workout
The vice president was everywhere at once. He probably won the debate. He definitely shed a few pounds.
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Corrections
Slate's mistakes.
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Joe Biden Is the Happy Warrior
The vice president hits hard—with a smile.
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Biden Takes Ryan Around the World
When it comes to foreign policy, the GOP’s veep candidate is often speechless.
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- Thursday, October 11, 2012
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The 2012 Vice Presidential Debate Awards (Danville Edition)
Who delivered the night’s best zinger? The best use of one’s family history for political gain? The best suck-up to Martha Raddatz? Slate hands out the honors.
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The Instant Spin Room
What liberals and conservatives are saying about the vice presidential debate on Twitter.
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The League’s Woman Troubles
The characters on this very funny show are sexist louts. Does that mean their writers are, too?
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Why Do the Swiss Eat So Much Chocolate?
And does it help them win Nobel Prizes?
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The Manchurian Network
Don’t believe the U.S. government’s alarming claims that Chinese telecom firm Huawei is a danger to national security.
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A Ray of Hope
Why today was a good day for Mitt Romney.
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A Ray of Hope
Why today was a good day for Barack Obama.
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If Lance Armstrong Is Guilty, Why Isn’t He Going to Jail?
Why dopers are rarely prosecuted.
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Darwin, That Genius, Was Responsible for Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot
The latest effort to smear evolution by natural selection.
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Sir Gaffe-a-Lot vs. Lyin’ Ryan
Joe Biden and Paul Ryan are capable of having an intelligent debate—or an ugly partisan wrestling match.
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If You’re Moving Faster Than the Speed of Sound, Can You Hear Yourself Scream?
A mini-Explainer on Felix Baumgartner’s skydiving experiment.
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Can Joe Biden Save Barack Obama?
People are underestimating the veep. They shouldn’t.
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No Touching
As Israel’s military becomes more religious, women are having a really hard time showing men how to hold a rifle.
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The White House Horse Race
An animation of the 2012 presidential campaign as a horse race.
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The Rise and Fall of Polaroid
An interview with Christopher Bonanos.
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Busted by GPS, Now What?
Slate’s Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe on what to do if you catch your friend lying about his whereabouts.
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Boss L.V. Anderson Around
Which recipe is she doing wrong?
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Prisoner Wife’s Dilemma
If I don’t sign a horrible postnuptial agreement, my husband will divorce me.
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Why Your 4-Year-Old Is As Smart as Nate Silver
And if kids are so smart, why are adults so stupid about statistics?
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The Neanderthal in My Family Tree
New genetic evidence shows our ancestors interbred with now-extinct species.
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How Sausage, Cars, and Chocolate Get Made
A history of the factory tour.
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- Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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The 2012 Campaign Decoder
The Des Moines abortion wiggle.
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Between a Quota and a Hard Place
Is the Supreme Court ready to end affirmative action?
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How Important Is a Good Kingpin to a Drug Cartel?
Much more important than a corporate CEO.
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Seeing the Ball Through Rose-Tinted Lenses
Will red contacts help the Washington Nationals’ Bryce Harper see the ball?
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What the Cuban Missile Crisis Should Teach Us
Fifty years later, this famous moment of Cold War history remains strangely misunderstood.
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A Ray of Hope
Why today was a good day for Barack Obama.
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A Ray of Hope
Why today was a good day for Mitt Romney.
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NFL 2012
How the NFL's best defensive lineman is changing the way the game is played.
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The Real Jobs-Numbers Mistake
It’s much more likely that we’re undercounting job growth at small businesses than overcounting it.
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Y’All About Eve
Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere in Nashville.
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The Culture Gabfest: You Big MOOC Edition
Slate's podcast about the movie Pitch Perfect, the comedy writer Seth MacFarlane, and higher education online.
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How To Make a Spy Exhibit Boring
Museums are using technology to create spectacle, not spark learning.
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Romney’s Abortion “Agenda”
Don’t fall for his insinuation that he won’t restrict abortion. It’s full of weasel words.
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Today's Doonesbury
Over here.
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Wonder Is the Best Kids’ Book of the Year
We talk to its author about bullying, parenting, and empathy.
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Don't Mourn. Organize!
Can manufacturing unions like the UAW survive outsourcing and right-to-work laws?
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To Hell With You, Matt Groening
A tribute to Life in Hell, with comics by Alison Bechdel, Tom Tomorrow, and others.
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Do You Know a Gaffe When You See One?
Michael Dukakis in a tank was a gaffe. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are just warming up.
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It’s Your Turn To Edit Slate
Give us your best ideas for the Slate Reader Takeover.
- Tuesday, October 9, 2012
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