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Today's Doonesbury
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The Explainer
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The 2012 Campaign
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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 Walking Dead 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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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 Greatest Paper Map of the U.S.
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TOP STORIES
- Tuesday, December 11, 2012
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Roger, Over and Out
Paul Tagliabue rules that the NFL doesn't have a bounty problem, it has a Goodell problem.
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Choose Your Own Voters
The GOP is already plotting how to marginalize urban voters in the next election.
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Congratulations. Tell No One.
How secretive are awards for CIA agents?
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The Zen of the Fiscal Cliff
Why stalemate is actually progress.
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No Harm, No Standing
In the California gay-marriage case, no one has a legal interest in denying someone else’s happiness.
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Nordic Sibling Rivalry
How Norwegian oil wealth and Swedish migrant work have reversed the centuries-old Scandinavian power dynamic.
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Napoleon Wasn’t Defeated by the Russians
Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture gives too much credit to cannons.
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Is It Better To See a Younger Doctor or an Older Doctor?
A mini-Explainer on youth versus experience in medical practice.
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Bizarre Weather Around the Solar System
Hurricanes, tornadoes, and sulfuric-acid rain.
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Does Zero Dark Thirty Advocate Torture?
How to understand the film’s controversial stand on waterboarding and the hunt for Bin Laden.
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It’s Crazy To Pay $200 for Your Next iPhone. You Should Pay $600!
T-Mobile wants to make you to pay full price for your phone, and you should thank them for it.
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The War on Terror Will Be Ever With Us
Even if the Obama administration doesn’t use the phrase, and wants to declare the fight with al-Qaida over.
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Struggling Against the Dark
A poem for the winter solstice.
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No Reason for the Season
The joy of celebrating a godless Christmas.
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Liar vs. Jerk
In a live chat, Prudie offers advice on whether a friend should get involved in an accusation-filled divorce.
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Barbie Math
Why does Doctor Barbie cost twice as much as Magician Barbie?
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How Far Would You Fall Down The Fiscal Cliff?
Send taxpayers to their fiscal doom in our interactive.
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The Cow Jumped Over the Moon?!
Why children love absurdism.
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- Monday, December 10, 2012
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Queer Today, Gone Tomorrow
The Mormon case for gay marriage.
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The Failure of Peterson-ism
Why Peter Peterson and 20 years of anti-deficit campaigns have barely moved the needle.
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Have Gay Marriage Advocates Been Too Successful?
Why their recent victories at the ballot box may hurt the chances for marriage equality before the Supreme Court.
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Hang Up and Listen: The Worth Its Wait in Gold Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on Johnny Manziel’s Heisman Trophy win, the Army-Navy game, and shot putter Adam Nelson’s belated Olympic victory.
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Dexter, Season 7
Who really dissolved the Xanax in Deb's water bottle?
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5-Hour Distillery
If good whiskey takes years to mature, how do you start a new brand?
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Bounced From Baby’s Birth
In a live chat, Prudie advises a woman whose husband is furious at being banned from the delivery room.
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Homeland, Season 2
This show treats plot the way Kobayashi treats hot dogs.
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Today's Doonesbury
Deep in the heart of doodoo.
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Grapefruit Is Disgusting
Why you shouldn’t give it to your loved ones as a holiday gift. Or to anyone, ever.
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Why Rivers No Longer Burn
The Clean Water Act is one of the greatest successes in environmental law.
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- Sunday, December 9, 2012
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Homeland, Season 2
Has a once-compelling show about terrorism been reduced to a tangled love story?
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The Election Is Over. Now What?
America needs a jobs bill, a better energy policy, and a revamped financial system. Will we get any of those?
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- Saturday, December 8, 2012
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Specialist Knowledge Is Useless and Unhelpful
When data prediction is a game, the experts lose out.
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Trolling, Santa Claus, and Koala Pandemics
The week’s most interesting Slate stories.
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- Friday, December 7, 2012
- Thursday, December 6, 2012
- Wednesday, December 5, 2012
