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Briefing
  • explainer
    Does shoveling snow really put you at risk of a heart attack?
    Juliet Lapidos
    Feb 9, 2010, 6:23 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • The Slatest
    The Slatest: Evening Edition
    Feb 10, 2010, 3:49 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • explainer
    When did we start describing comatose patients as "vegetative"?
    Graham Vyse
    Feb 9, 2010, 2:35 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • explainer
    How many ways can you bow in Japan?
    Brian Palmer
    Feb 8, 2010, 6:45 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • recycled
    Shelby's blanket hold: Can he really do that?
    Daniel Engber
    Feb 5, 2010, 6:06 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • Bidenisms
    A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
    Jeremy Stahl
    Feb 5, 2010, 11:59 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • explainer
    Why "don't ask, don't tell" is only half-true.
    Brian Palmer
    Feb 4, 2010, 6:12 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • recycled
    What's with all the prayer breakfasts?
    Juliet Lapidos
    Feb 4, 2010, 10:47 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
News & Politics
  • double x
    A review of Jenny Sanford's Staying True.
    Hanna Rosin
    Feb 10, 2010, 7:01 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • politics
    What game theory can teach us about the fate of health care reform.
    Christopher Beam
    Feb 9, 2010, 6:25 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • press box
     Washington Post transportation reporter Howard Kurtz muffs the media "bypass" story.
    Jack Shafer
    Feb 9, 2010, 1:38 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • foreigners
    Reports of the Iranian regime's imminent demise are greatly exaggerated.
    Jason Rezaian
    Feb 9, 2010, 12:29 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • double x
    An assessment of Meg Whitman, candidate for California governor.
    Sara Libby
    Feb 9, 2010, 7:50 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • dispatches
    Israel's boycott of Hamas makes life difficult for the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza.
    Linda Gradstein
    Feb 9, 2010, 9:57 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • politics
    Jack Murtha was a dying breed: an unapologetic partisan for his district.
    Dennis B. Roddy
    Feb 9, 2010, 8:45 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • foreigners
    What Viktor Yanukovych's election victory means for Ukraine.
    Anne Applebaum
    Feb 8, 2010, 8:07 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • politics
    Eight ways to fix the Senate—and why they won't happen.
    Christopher Beam
    Feb 8, 2010, 7:37 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • press box
    Case reopened: reviewing new examples of plagiarism by the Daily Beast's Gerald Posner.
    Jack Shafer
    Feb 8, 2010, 5:30 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • prescriptions
    Why televised negotiations won't get us health reform.
    Timothy Noah
    Feb 8, 2010, 5:27 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • politics
    Why the filibuster is OK for Democrats but not for Republicans.
    Ben Eidelson
    Feb 8, 2010, 4:31 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • war stories
    Why haven't responsible Republicans spoken out against Sarah Palin?
    Fred Kaplan
    Feb 8, 2010, 2:59 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • the best policy
    Republicans are winning the war of political rhetoric. Here's how the president needs to fight back.
    Eliot Spitzer
    Feb 8, 2010, 11:48 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • fighting words
    Islamists want to prohibit non-Muslims from referring to God as Allah.
    Christopher Hitchens
    Feb 8, 2010, 10:56 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • the slate 60
    The largest American charitable contributions of 2009.
    Patty Stonesifer
    Feb 8, 2010, 7:03 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • the big idea
    Blame the childish, ignorant American public—not politicians—for our political and economic crisis.
    Jacob Weisberg
    Feb 6, 2010, 7:07 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • prescriptions
    A plea to grant health care reform a papal dispensation.
    Timothy Noah
    Feb 5, 2010, 7:09 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • politics
    The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
    Christopher Beam and Chris Wilson
    Feb 5, 2010, 4:37 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • press box
    Plagiarism at the Daily Beast: Gerald Posner concedes lifting from the Miami Herald.
    Jack Shafer
    Feb 5, 2010, 3:18 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • jurisprudence
    Obama should move on judicial nominations.
    Doug Kendall
    Feb 5, 2010, 12:23 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • dispatches
     Haiti after the earthquake.
    Michael Deibert
    Feb 5, 2010, 10:18 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • politics
    The weird genius behind Carly Fiorina's "demon sheep" ad.
    Christopher Beam
    Feb 4, 2010, 7:10 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • war stories
    The Obama administration says missile defense isn't as important as it used to be. Its budget says otherwise.
    Fred Kaplan
    Feb 4, 2010, 6:36 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • press box
    Hey, Tim Shriver! Get off Rahm Emanuel's case for using the word "retarded"!
    Jack Shafer
    Feb 4, 2010, 6:13 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • jurisprudence
    The crazy perversities of civil asset forfeiture.
    Radley Balko
    Feb 4, 2010, 5:09 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • dispatches
     Vancouver's experiment with helping addicts get high.
    Matthew Power
    Feb 4, 2010, 10:06 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • foreigners
    The problem with Davos is that it reduces complex issues to catchphrases.
    Anne Applebaum
    Feb 4, 2010, 7:06 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • recycled
     A new nation.
    Curtis Sittenfeld
    Jan 19, 2010, 4:37 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
Arts
  • books
    Barbara Demick's Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.
    John Delury
    Feb 10, 2010, 7:02 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • tv club
     Lost: Invasion of the body snatchers.
    Chadwick Matlin, Jack Shafer, Seth Stevenson
    Feb 10, 2010, 12:32 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • culturebox
    Help Slate predict the Oscar winners.
    Cecile Dehesdin and Chris Wilson
    Feb 9, 2010, 11:58 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • dvd extras
    Revisiting Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy.
    Nathaniel Rich
    Feb 9, 2010, 9:50 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • television
    I would love to see Don Graham do my job.
    Troy Patterson
    Feb 8, 2010, 2:25 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • books
    Don Delillo's Point Omega.
    Judith Shulevitz
    Feb 7, 2010, 9:04 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • movies
    The Red Riding trilogy reviewed.
    Dana Stevens
    Feb 5, 2010, 4:00 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • culturebox
    Reflections on the Ozzy Osbourne's memoir, I Am Ozzy.
    James Parker
    Feb 5, 2010, 9:33 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • movies
     Dear John reviewed.
    Dana Stevens
    Feb 4, 2010, 5:48 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • idolatry
     Bikini boy and the black Taylor Swift.
    Katherine Meizel
    Feb 4, 2010, 10:32 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • the spectator
    Sex in the Salinger archives?
    Ron Rosenbaum
    Feb 4, 2010, 9:30 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • the oscars
     A wild theory about how Inglourious Basterds could win best picture.
    Troy Patterson and Dana Stevens
    Feb 2, 2010, 6:50 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • the movie club
     Till we meet again, in some screening room in the dark.
    Roger Ebert, Dan Kois, Wesley Morris, Dana Stevens, and Stephanie Zacharek
    Jan 9, 2010, 5:59 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
Life
  • recycled
    The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, an intellectual history.
    Bryan Curtis
    Feb 9, 2010, 1:55 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • transport
    Reading the informal language of road signals.
    Tom Vanderbilt
    Feb 9, 2010, 10:49 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • bull-e
    The death of Phoebe Prince and the connection between bullying and cyberbullying.
    Emily Bazelon
    Feb 8, 2010, 3:53 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • dear prudence
    Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com
    Feb 8, 2010, 2:38 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • friend or foe
    Advice for a woman who thinks her friends have been stolen.
    Lucinda Rosenfeld
    Feb 8, 2010, 9:38 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • deployment diary
    A military wife makes it halfway through her husband's deployment to Iraq.
    Alison Buckholtz
    Feb 5, 2010, 10:30 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • family
    The best way to guide your teenager through the high-risk years.
    Alan E. Kazdin
    Feb 5, 2010, 7:10 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • family
    Risk and the adolescent brain.
    Alan E. Kazdin and Carlo Rotella
    Feb 4, 2010, 10:02 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • dear prudence
    My brother had sex with my wife before we dated.
    Feb 4, 2010, 7:05 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • well-traveled
     Vancouver: Notes from a native daughter.
    Elisabeth Eaves
    Jan 22, 2010, 1:40 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • the movie club
     Till we meet again, in some screening room in the dark.
    Roger Ebert
    Jan 9, 2010, 5:59 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
Business & Tech
  • technology
    What's wrong with Google's Nexus One phone and Android operating system.
    Farhad Manjoo
    Feb 9, 2010, 5:48 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • moneybox
    Bruce Springsteen backs out of a copyright lawsuit.
    Ben Sheffner
    Feb 9, 2010, 2:41 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • moneybox
    What Henry Paulson's new memoir misses about his own responsibility for the global meltdown.
    Daniel Gross
    Feb 8, 2010, 10:05 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • ad report card
    The best and worst Super Bowl ads.
    Seth Stevenson
    Feb 8, 2010, 7:31 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • technology
    Why Google Chrome is better than Firefox and Internet Explorer.
    Farhad Manjoo
    Feb 4, 2010, 4:50 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • gadget hunter
    The "groundbreaking sex robot" Roxxxy is neither groundbreaking nor a true robot.
    Veronica Belmont
    Feb 4, 2010, 9:32 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
Science
  • human nature
    The mobile communication device in your head.
    William Saletan
    Feb 9, 2010, 9:09 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • the green lantern
    Should we bother cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
    Nina Shen Rastogi
    Feb 9, 2010, 7:57 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • Science
    Why our irrational fear of baby-snatching is wasting money and risking lives.
    Daniel Engber
    Feb 5, 2010, 9:36 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • family
    Risk and the adolescent brain.
    Alan E. Kazdin
    Feb 4, 2010, 10:02 AME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
Podcasts & Video
  • slate v
    Dana's Home Theater: Bright Star
    Feb 9, 2010, 1:10 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • hang up and listen
     Slate 's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Feb. 8, 2010.
    Stefan Fatsis
    Feb 8, 2010, 3:47 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • slate v
    Reviews of: From Paris with Love, Dear John, and Frozen
    Feb 5, 2010, 2:36 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • gabfest
    The Political Gabfest for Feb. 5, 2010.
    Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz
    Feb 5, 2010, 12:25 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
  • slate v
    If Filmmakers Directed the Super Bowl
    Feb 4, 2010, 1:17 PME-mail This ArticlePrint This ArticleRead This ArticleSave This Article
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