Arts
- Chinese Democracy reviewed.
- Why movie vampires always break all the vampire rules.
- A new translation of the Quran.
- Twilight, reviewed.
- Why NCIS became a hit show.
- Abandoned Wal-Marts that become schools and churches.
- The quotidian beauty of Law & Order.
- Why you really do need to see Buster Keaton's The General.
- "Omaha Beach"
- Laurence Tribe's The Invisible Constitution.
- Slate on Day to Day for the week of Nov. 11.
- Part 4 in a discussion of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers.
- Quantum of Solace reviewed.
- Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, reviewed.
- Renzo Piano's California Academy of Sciences building, reviewed.
- Game shows reach a deeper level of weirdness.
- Is Jeff Jarvis gloating about the death of print?
- New York Times headlines that read like Zen koans.
- Presenting the NBA's Periodic Table of Style.
- How the West Was Won, Cinerama, and the future of IMAX.
- The eerie, unhinged reason of "There Was a Man of Double Deed."
- Two new books about Andrew Jackson.
- Remembering John Leonard, the great New York Times Book Review editor
- Role Models reviewed.
- Jean-Claude Van Damme in JCVD.
- Where did all the female rappers go?
- Joan Miró at the Museum of Modern Art.
- CNN's crazy hologram.
- Remembering Michael Crichton, Planet Earth's novelist of doom.
- Watching the election.
Briefing
- How much can an incoming president change White House décor?
- When do soldiers face execution?
- What's new in the Economist, Portfolio, and the New York Times Magazine.
- A roundup of Explainer columns about the 2008 wildfires in Southern California.
- A roundup of Explainer columns about food contamination.
- Markets deflate.
- As the stock market takes another dive, investors wonder who's in charge.
- A roundup of Explainer columns about same-sex marriage.
- How much gold can prospectors find in Washington's rivers and streams?
- A roundup of questions about pirates with answers from our archives.
- A string of grim economic news sends the Dow tumbling below the 8,000 mark.
- How do you total up the greenhouse-gas emissions for an entire country?
- The Big Three ask for a bit of money but lawmakers are skeptical.
- Is a homeless felon really expected to pay $101 million?
- The Iraqi government quietly gets rid of corruption oversight officials.
- Can you be a gay Mormon?
- Guess who CBS considered to conduct its Dan Rather investigation?
- The Iraqi Cabinet approves the security agreement that must now be approved by parliament.
- World leaders try to solve the global financial crisis.
- Can the economic crisis impact our national security?
- What's new in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and Mother Jones.
- How many lashes can someone endure before dying?
- The FDIC will announce new plan to prevent foreclosures.
- Can a country in a recession get kicked out of the Group of 20?
- Paulson announces the obvious but still manages to confuse everyone.
- What can you get for $300 a month in Baghdad these days?
- The nation's two top intelligence officers expect to be replaced; mortgage relief for a few.
- What's the best way to interrogate a little boy?
- CBS rewards a stonewalling Bushie.
- Obama's still not through with the changes to his Web site.
- Bailouts aren't working quite as planned; Obama pushes Bush on Big Three.
- How do different religions define death?
- A former Nebraska state senator files a lawsuit against God.
News & Politics
- Could Secretary of State Clinton disagree with President Obama without undermining him?
- How many Clinton loyalists are there in Obama's White House?
- When will Chinese Democracy reach Beijing?
- A guide to Obama's national-security transition team.
- Henry Waxman's victory over John Dingell is the biggest gift Obama could have asked for.
- The West must not be distracted by Russian—or Georgian—propaganda.
- Bush's top pardon prospects.
- How to profit from Barack Obama's inauguration.
- What's new in New York, the Weekly Standard, and TheNew Yorker.
- Why is Barack Obama obsessed with reforming college football?
- In Idaho's First District, they don't make right-wing nuts like they used to.
- Barack Obama's life will be somewhat normal for exactly 64 more days. So why not wash the dishes?
- What would a Republican "green" agenda look like?
- Does Hamid Karzai really want to negotiate with Mullah Omar?
- The wrongheaded American belief that Barack Obama could only happen here.
- How wildfires get their names.
- Explaining the flattering treatment of Barack Obama in Rupert Murdoch's New York Post.
- Fidel Castro gets religion.
- The Iraqi cabinet approves the security agreement that must now be approved by parliament.
- Why Obama should fill his Cabinet with geniuses.
- Snazzy new technology isn't enough to bring transparency to the White House.
- Can the Catholic Church enforce excommunication?
- The disaster in Congo is all the more tragic because it was utterly avoidable.
- Racism is the wrong analogy for opposition to same-sex marriage.
- The attack on merit selection for judges.
- Slate on Day to Day for the week of Nov. 11.
- The press spooks its readers about increased gun purchases.
- The Washington Post drinks Dick Cheney's Kool-Aid.
- Paulson announces the obvious but still manages to confuse everyone.
- Barack Obama has promised the most transparent administration ever. Is that a good thing?
- What we didn't overcome, part 2.
- The Supreme Court grapples with the primordial ooze of the Summum case.
- Barack Obama and the politics of presidential pet care.
- Closing down the prison at Guantanamo is easier said than done.
- Which minority group will win the White House next?
- Dear Mr. President-elect, please take me off your spam list.
- Getting to know the men of Whiskey Six—and the loved ones they left behind.
- What's new in New York, the Weekly Standard, and The Nation.
- The post-election Obama euphoria will fade soon enough, but let's enjoy it while it lasts.
- What we didn't overcome on Election Day.
- What does Chicago want from President Obama?
- Don't count Matt Drudge out.
- How do different religions define death?
- In spite of the obvious challenges, Obama will enter the White House with some paths to success staked out.
- This is Nicolas Sarkozy. Is Sarah Palin available?
- Do world leaders still use telegrams?
- Barack Obama's victory didn't magically eliminate America's problems and enemies.
- How to ride an elephant into the future.
- Chinese hackers breached the White House computer network. Is that an act of war?
- John Dickerson takes your questions about how Obama can really change politics.
- A Darfur-supporting, time-tithing, self-deprecating newcomer unseats the incumbent in Virginia's big electoral surprise.
- No news at Obama's first press conference but a little sparkle.
Life
- Why Barack Obama should keep his BlackBerry.
- Kids' questions about Obama's victory, and their parents' attempts to answer.
- Great zinfandels to drink on Thanksgiving.
- Why mailmen don't deliver the mail.
- My family thinks an exorcism will cure my mental illness.
- Life classes on the Isle of Wight.
- Why hiring a new coach won't solve your favorite NBA team's problems.
- The embarrassing e-mails that will keep me from working in the Obama administration.
- How to polish your pro-basketball résumé.
- Advice on manners and morals (Nov. 13, 2008).
- Readers adding value.
- A short history of the bagel.
- Why parents expect too much from their kids.
- The latest research on the correlation between religion and niceness.
- Why college football is more cutthroat and competitive than the NFL.
- Advice on manners and morals (Nov. 6, 2008).
- What do you do when your child's partisanship is too extreme?
- Lee Ann Kinkade discusses the realities of witchcraft and the Wiccan faith.
- Will the recession force restaurants to slash wine prices?
- Sunday Night Football Extra: the future of sports television.
- Advice on manners and morals (Oct. 30, 2008).
- Struggling to organize witches to celebrate Halloween.
- Prepping your garden's soil for spring planting.
Business & Tech
- Why Timothy Geithner is a strong choice for treasury secretary.
- Web video ads are annoying and repetitive. Here's how to fix them.
- Farhad Manjoo and Chris Thompson talk iPhones, Androids, and BlackBerry Storms.
- Sleater-Kinney's guitarist tries out Wii Music.
- Harvard University's investment errors.
- What the Google phone stole from the iPhone.
- How the subprime good guys give home loans to poor people, strengthen communities, and still make a profit.
- Why 20-year-olds should invest way more in the stock market, and 50-year-olds, way less.
- Josh Levin discusses online movie piracy and BitTorrent's No. 1 uploader, aXXo.
- GM, Ford, and Chrysler are a national disgrace, but we still need to save them.
- Seven more things you need for your computer.
- What will the financial crisis mean for philanthropy?
- The quest for the perfect morning routine.
- The secrets of aXXo, BitTorrent's top movie pirate.
- Can Barack Obama adapt his Web site the White House?
- Why the rich voted for Obama against their own economic interest.
- Why Obama has to take over economic policymaking—now.
- How to kill time on the Web now that the election's over.
- The day John McCain lost the election.
- What can "neuroeconomics" teach us about how we think about money?
- A radical business plan for Facebook: Charge people.
- Companies that are failing today were paying dividends a just few months ago. What gives?
- Rate-cut limbo.
- Why can't corporate America end its perverse love affair with the GOP?
Science
- Can you trust the medical advice you hear on the radio?
- When you get pregnant from your twin's ovary, who's the mom?
- The case for immunizing everyone against the flu.
- How did an iffy study on the neuroscience of bullies end up in a New York Times blog?
- Is getting takeout that much worse for the planet than cooking at home?
- How Pakistan learned to stop worrying and love the killing machines.
- What does the Supreme Court ruling on Navy sonar mean for the whales?
- Blacks, gays, and immutability.
- Why eBay's ban on ivory will end up hurting the environment.
- Impregnating your mother-in-law.
- The real reason ethanol won't—and can't—cut American oil imports.
- It's better to heat your home with gas than with wood.
- Dancing with skeletons and mocking dermatologists in medical-student comedy shows.
- Research into medicinal marijuana grows up.
- Is a French press better for the environment than a coffee machine?
- Negotiating with Pakistan over remote-controlled killing.
- A miracle drug carries some serious risks.
- Are terrorists regaining the advantage over our killing machines?
- Why the rich and powerful might get substandard medical care.
- Prenatal tests, genetics, and abortion.
Podcasts & Video
- Slate on Day to Day for the week of Nov. 17.
- Slate's Political Gabfest for Nov. 21.
- Musical Numbers: Bonds
- Grand Unified Weekly from Slate V.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest for Nov. 19, 2008.
- Dear Prudence: Pack Rat on Steroids
- Barney Cam: Lame-Duck Dog Edition
- Slate on Day to Day for the week of Nov. 11.
- How To Buy Gold
- Dear Prudence: Hermit Husband
- The Campaign's Last Week in Two Minutes
- Slate's Culture Gabfest for Nov. 6, 2008.
- Wolf Blitzer, Meet Princess Leia
- Update: Life Imitates "The West Wing"
- Slate's latest podcasts: Barack Obama favors redistributing wealth. So does John McCain.
- Dear Prudence: Cat Lady Mother-in-Law
- Slate's Political Gabfest for Oct. 31.
- From the Last Debate to the Final Week in Two Minutes
- What's at Stake on Election Day
- Introducing Charlie Rose on Slate.
Blogs
- Today's Headlines
- Flea Market Vendor Could Possibly Let Unidentifiable Lump Go For 15
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OPINIONS
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- Editorial: An Imperfect Attorney General-Select
- Toles: Falling Out of Love With Detroit
- Milbank: The Tone Deaf Big Three
- Today's Headlines
- Michelle Williams Tries to Move On
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