Blogs
- Human Nature: Science, technology, and life.
- Kausfiles: A mostly political Weblog.
- XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
Briefing
- Does shoveling snow really put you at risk of a heart attack?
- The Slatest: Evening Edition
- When did we start describing comatose patients as "vegetative"?
- How many ways can you bow in Japan?
- Shelby's blanket hold: Can he really do that?
- A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- Why "don't ask, don't tell" is only half-true.
- What's with all the prayer breakfasts?
- What happens when a space program gets canceled?
- Is my Super Bowl party illegal?
- Slate adds in-page comments to our articles and blogs. (Finally.)
- How to destroy a sex tape.
- Should Rahm Emanuel have used the word "retarded"?
- What interest rate does the government pay on its debt?
- How do you convert a 2-D movie to 3-D?
- Bidenisms: A collection of the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
- Why do late-night hosts always keep their desks on the right?
- How would Pope John Paul II have gone about self-flagellating?
- How long have presidents been trying to "change the culture of Washington"?
- What happens to 3-D glasses after you drop them in the bin at the theater?
- What happens when a charity receives too many donations?
- What exactly is tefillin, and why did that flight attendant mistake it for a weapon?
- Will Haiti need donated can openers to open all that donated food?
- What happens to Haitian earthquake victims whose limbs were crushed?
- How long will it take for Scott Brown to get seated in the Senate?
- Where do the reporters in Haiti get their food and shelter?
- How dubbing works.
- What's the best way to dig through rubble?
- Are there more earthquakes than there used to be?
- How do they measure earthquakes from 250 years ago?
- Haiti earthquake FAQ.
- How will they figure the death toll from the earthquake in Haiti?
- Could the assassination of a physicist stop Iran's nuclear weapons program?
- How old was Harry Reid when the word Negro became taboo?
- How do food companies determine "serving size"?
News & Politics
- A review of Jenny Sanford's Staying True.
- What game theory can teach us about the fate of health care reform.
- Washington Post transportation reporter Howard Kurtz muffs the media "bypass" story.
- Reports of the Iranian regime's imminent demise are greatly exaggerated.
- An assessment of Meg Whitman, candidate for California governor.
- Israel's boycott of Hamas makes life difficult for the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza.
- Jack Murtha was a dying breed: an unapologetic partisan for his district.
- What Viktor Yanukovych's election victory means for Ukraine.
- Eight ways to fix the Senate—and why they won't happen.
- Case reopened: reviewing new examples of plagiarism by the Daily Beast's Gerald Posner.
- Why televised negotiations won't get us health reform.
- Why the filibuster is OK for Democrats but not for Republicans.
- Why haven't responsible Republicans spoken out against Sarah Palin?
- Republicans are winning the war of political rhetoric. Here's how the president needs to fight back.
- Islamists want to prohibit non-Muslims from referring to God as Allah.
- The largest American charitable contributions of 2009.
- Blame the childish, ignorant American public—not politicians—for our political and economic crisis.
- A plea to grant health care reform a papal dispensation.
- The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
- Plagiarism at the Daily Beast: Gerald Posner concedes lifting from the Miami Herald.
- Obama should move on judicial nominations.
- Haiti after the earthquake.
- The weird genius behind Carly Fiorina's "demon sheep" ad.
- The Obama administration says missile defense isn't as important as it used to be. Its budget says otherwise.
- Hey, Tim Shriver! Get off Rahm Emanuel's case for using the word "retarded"!
- The crazy perversities of civil asset forfeiture.
- Vancouver's experiment with helping addicts get high.
- The problem with Davos is that it reduces complex issues to catchphrases.
- Terrorism Derangement Syndrome: The GOP's scare tactics work so well because the public is already so afraid.
- Health reform and moral hazard.
- Bogus trend stories of the month—the New York Times corners the market.
- Read the transcript of a live chat between Slate's David Plotz and the Daily Caller's Tucker Carlson.
- A new paper suggests U.S. military aid does nothing to reduce drug production in Colombia.
- Why it could take years to repeal "don't ask, don't tell."
- Harper's magazine disputes Shafer's critique of its Guantánamo expose.
- President Obama has proposed the largest defense budget since World War II.
- Barack Obama's new budget shows just how badly we need a deficit commission.
- Health reform by other means.
- Kim Jong-il's regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought.
- What happens when justices get personal.
- The elaborate tricks John Edwards used to keep his affair secret.
- Tell us why KSM should be tried in your hometown.
- Obama's Achilles' heel.
- The errors in the trial of Dr. George Tiller's killer.
- A road map to Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the same-sex marriage case.
- Suicide or murder at Guantánamo? The shortcomings of a Harper's magazine "exposé."
- Why is KBR so afraid of letting Jamie Leigh Jones have her day in court?
- French President Sarkozy declares that capitalism can be made kinder and more humane. Good luck with that!
- How the television pundits covered Obama's big speech.
- Obama's call for bipartisanship fails to penetrate.
- Obama 2.0: The president uses the State of the Union speech to relaunch his brand.
- Why Obama's spending freeze should apply to (most of) the military.
- Obama reminds his own party to keep its head and the other party to stop losing its mind.
- Read the transcript of a debate between Slate's David Plotz and the Daily Caller's Tucker Carlson.
- Health care reform didn't die from a lack of transparency.
- If Obama merely has a "communications problem," why is he changing the subject?
- Enter Slate's Google Trends reader contest.
- Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith shows how not to switch parties.
- Slate readers find ways to pass health care reform.
- The Indian form of patriotism—self-critical and questioning—fills me with optimism.
- A risky parliamentary procedure might get health reform through the Senate.
- Explaining the press corps' crush on Apple.
- Six strategies that could save Obama's ambitious reform agenda.
- How to fix the 6-inch tear in Picasso's "The Actor."
- The real meaning of the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United.
- Did the Roberts Court misjudge the public mood on campaign finance reform?
- Beau Biden's decision not to run for Senate spares Democrats a headache.
- Game Change provides more evidence of the Clintons' shocking behavior during the 2008 campaign.
- The iState of the Union: Steve Jobs delivers the annual presidential address.
- How Obama's cool, detached temperament is hurting him and his party.
- The misguided theories behind Citizens United v. FEC.
- The Political Gabfest for Jan. 22, 2009.
- What health care reform advocates can learn from the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
- The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
- Slate invites readers to find a way to pass the health care reform bill.
- Why stripped-down "consensus" health reform probably won't happen.
- The pharm-party myth refuses to die!
- Watching as the Supreme Court turns a corporation into a real live boy.
- Why did U.S. aid focus on securing Haiti rather than helping Haitians?
- The Supreme Court kills campaign finance reform in Citizens United.
- Cowboy Up
- Why aren't we talking about the new accusations of murder at Gitmo?
- Democrats try to appease a new constituency: the Scott Brown voter.
- The New York Times Co.'s plan to build a content wall answers the wrong question.
- Will Scott Brown's victory turn Obama into a foreign-policy president?
- How Romneycare killed Obamacare.
- Read the transcript of a discussion between Slate Editor David Plotz and Daily Caller Editor Tucker Carlson.
- Watch video of the Slate/New America Foundation discussion about China, Google, and Internet freedom.
- Why do we pretend that an insurance mandate will help the health care crisis?
- How many inaugural balls can one man endure?
- I volunteered to help my country on the Mall on Inauguration Day. Here's what happened.
- What Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts does and doesn't mean.
- Why Republicans should try to contain their excitement about Scott Brown's victory.
- It's OK for you to ignore all the indignation over Heilemann and Halperin's Game Change.
- How a Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts will kill health reform.
- A new nation.
- Why conservatives should be looking forward to the Obama inauguration.
- One year ago, Obama's inauguration speech went for prose instead of poetry.
- Why Massachusetts will (probably) elect Republican Scott Brown to replace Ted Kennedy.
- How did Scott Brown become the "change" candidate in Massachusetts?
- It's idiotic to blame God, the devil, or anything other than geology for the Haitian earthquake.
- If it is to recover, Haiti must make some profound cultural and political changes.
- How the Supreme Court managed to insult both the law and the public.
- Why Jon Stewart failed to make John Yoo squirm.
- Don't blame labor for whittling down the tax on high-end health insurance.
- The Washington Post runs a beat sweetener for USAID chief Rajiv Shah.
- Orthodox Judaism finally begins to face gay rights.
- Barack Obama's proposed bank tax is unfair. But then again, so was the bailout.
- Slate's complete coverage of the deadly earthquake.
- The results of Slate's reader contest.
- The Supreme Court blocks videotaping of the gay marriage trial, Perry v. Schwarzenegger.
- The White House is always taking a "moreactive role" in health reform negotiations. This time it may be true.
- The Supreme Court justices prove they know nothing whatsoever about the NFL.
- Why Obama is right to ignore North Korea's latest overture for nuclear talks.
- How to provide disaster relief.
- Google pulls a Conan O'Brien on China by threatening to yank the plug on Google.cn.
- Dr. George Tiller's killer argues his crime was justified.
- Can a conservative Republican get elected senator in Massachusetts?
- In praise of the anti-filibuster movement.
- The Supreme Court plays nice over international child custody.
- How technology can help stockholders take control of the corporations they own.
- How can we counter educated, eloquent, well-connected Islamists?
Arts
- Barbara Demick's Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.
- Lost: Invasion of the body snatchers.
- Help Slate predict the Oscar winners.
- Revisiting Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy.
- I would love to see Don Graham do my job.
- Don Delillo's Point Omega.
- The Red Riding trilogy reviewed.
- Reflections on the Ozzy Osbourne's memoir, I Am Ozzy.
- Dear John reviewed.
- Bikini boy and the black Taylor Swift.
- Sex in the Salinger archives?
- My adventures answering J.D. Salinger's mail.
- The East Building, the John Hancock Tower, Fallingwater, and other ambitious architectural failures.
- A wild theory about how Inglourious Basterds could win best picture.
- Slate's reviews of the 10 movies nominated for best picture.
- "Figures in a Landscape"
- What Lori Gottlieb's Marry Him gets wrong about successful single women.
- Amy Bloom's Where the God of Love Hangs Out.
- Books, music, and movies Slate writers recommend.
- 44 Inch Chest reviewed.
- There are two Salingers.
- Catcher in the Rye was never adapted, but its influence is everywhere.
- J.D. Salinger, the great poet of post-traumatic stress.
- Articles on the late J.D. Salinger from the Slatearchives.
- Slate's critics on whether The Catcher in the Rye still packs a punch.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the new Charles Darwin biopic Creation, liberal outrage on the airwaves, and the New York Times' plans to put up a pay wall.
- Bring It On: How a sleeper hit about cheerleading became a direct-to-DVD franchise.
- Michelangelo's despairing poem about painting the Sistine Chapel.
- James Hansen's Storms of My Grandchildren.
- Can't believe I watched Tooth Fairy.
- The beautiful sheep of Sweetgrass.
- A modest proposal to save journalism and the CIA.
- Extraordinary Measures reviewed.
- A modest proposal for how MTV can follow up Jersey Shore: with a series called Massholes.
- The Deep End is a shiny take on life at a white-shoe law firm.
- Why Staten Island—home to three members of JerseyShore—is New York City's most mocked borough.
- The pouty, glittery Be Good Johnny Weir.
- A conversation with James Salter, author of Solo Faces and screenwriter of Downhill Racer.
- Why did Life on Mars work in the U.K. but not in the U.S.?
- "Resort"
- Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas.
- Conan should have seen it coming.
- Buildings reclaimed by nature.
- Fish Tank, reviewed.
- The conservative attack on Avatar.
- 24, Archer, and Human Target reviewed.
- The appeal of an Eric Rohmer film.
- "On to the Next One" and why Jay-Z loves shouting out Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Damien Hirst.
- What Dubai's Burj Kahlifa—the tallest building in the world—owes to Frank Lloyd Wright.
- See you soon, Simon.
- Revisiting Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire.
- "Mummies To Burn"
- Eric Rohmer, RIP.
- Joshua Ferris' The Unnamed.
- Till we meet again, in some screening room in the dark.
- Why Jay Leno is returning to 11:30.
- The 100th episode of How I Met Your Mother and how to slip a musical into your TV show.
- Why Captain Sully is an aviator for our times.
- "Tuggin' "
- Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget.
Life
- The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, an intellectual history.
- Reading the informal language of road signals.
- The death of Phoebe Prince and the connection between bullying and cyberbullying.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com
- Advice for a woman who thinks her friends have been stolen.
- A military wife makes it halfway through her husband's deployment to Iraq.
- The best way to guide your teenager through the high-risk years.
- Risk and the adolescent brain.
- My brother had sex with my wife before we dated.
- The locker room affair, the biggest taboo in sports.
- Sex addiction is a feminist victory.
- How do you know whether Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow?
- Cooking with the iPhone.
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- What Lori Gottlieb's Marry Him gets wrong about successful single women.
- How can I stop abusing my girlfriends?
- Is mobile giving a good idea?
- A call for stories about cyberbullying.
- Searching for the best potty chair on the market.
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- The New Orleans Saints beat the Minnesota Vikings to go to the Super Bowl.
- Why is Sarah Palin keynoting the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers convention?
- My son rebels over his birthday party book swap.
- Vancouver: Notes from a native daughter.
- How can we tell if NFL cornerbacks like the New York Jets' Darrelle Revis are any good?
- Hubby had sex with my best friend.
- The perfect stretch: Why pigeon pose feels so good.
- Was the Yugo really the worst car ever?
- I secretly watch my scantily clad neighbors.
- My Goodness' New Year's resolutions.
- Mark McGwire finally confesses his steroid sins.
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- Learning to appreciate astronomy.
- Till we meet again, in some screening room in the dark.
- Why cheap Chianti is often better than the expensive stuff.
- Is it normal for teenage boys to adjust their privates in public?
- Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
- Do you have an opposite-sex friend? Slate wants to hear from you.
Business & Tech
- What's wrong with Google's Nexus One phone and Android operating system.
- Bruce Springsteen backs out of a copyright lawsuit.
- What Henry Paulson's new memoir misses about his own responsibility for the global meltdown.
- The best and worst Super Bowl ads.
- Why Google Chrome is better than Firefox and Internet Explorer.
- The "groundbreaking sex robot" Roxxxy is neither groundbreaking nor a true robot.
- People who make $250,000 or more a year can afford a tax hike.
- Will Apple's iPad kill Flash?
- Daniel Gross on what he learned at the World Economic Forum.
- Cooking with the iPhone.
- Why you should bet against whatever idea is hot at Davos.
- Why quiet, understated TV ads are so effective.
- How YouTube's modest new movie rental service could radically change the movie business.
- The little-known reason why investment banks got too big, too greedy, too risky, and too powerful.
- Can the government make you get an IRA?
- If a 10-pound note is lying on the ground in Davos, will a billionaire pick it up?
- Why Davos doesn't care about America anymore.
- How corporate boards are killing American business.
- Apple's new iPad tablet is the computer I've always wanted.
- How Davos makes incredibly rich people seem smarter than they actually are.
- Does George Soros think gold is a bubble?
- Why freelance foreign correspondents are so obsessed with currency exchange rates.
- Why computers should be more like toasters.
- Why hasn't the Obama administration lived up to its webby promises?
- How Obama's new Wall Street proposals will—and should—punish Goldman Sachs.
- Oh, no! Scott Brown has incoherent and appalling economic ideas—just like almost all of his congressional Republican colleagues.
- Big banks' pathetic argument that Obama's proposed tax is unconstitutional.
- Why Beijing is making a mistake with Google.
- The financial has always been wrong about the dangers of regulation.
- You're invited to a Slate/New America Foundation event about China, Google, and Internet freedom.
- Is Gawker's "Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt" illegal? Probably.
- Slate's Farhad Manjoo answers your questions about Wikipedia, Google, and more.
- Twisted Pixel, the Pixar of video games.
- Google's new plan for promoting free information in China.
- The big banks claim the government isn't helping them anymore. Not exactly. Check out this little-known subsidy.
- What are we supposed to do with Apple's iSlate tablet computer?
- Weird new Domino's ads that compare the pizza to cardboard.
- Conservatives claim Obama's policies are weakening the dollar. Let's examine the evidence.
- How to make America more innovative: give scientists more incentives to innovate.
- Apple vs. Google: Who's going to win the great mobile-phone war?
- Point Me to the Nearest Beer
- The American economy will recover even if the housing market doesn't.
- Farhad Manjoo's 2010 tech wish list.
- How the new cable wars will hurt consumers.
- The dangers of economic pessimism.
- An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country.
- Slate's Farhad Manjoo answers your questions about Facebook, Gmail, and more.
- Ads we hate.
- Newsmakers: Timothy Geithner on the financial crisis and the government's response.
- Slate's tech endorsements: our favorite apps, games, and gizmos of the year.
Science
- The mobile communication device in your head.
- Should we bother cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
- Why our irrational fear of baby-snatching is wasting money and risking lives.
- Risk and the adolescent brain.
- Why there's no dispelling the myth that vaccines cause autism.
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and the evolving nature of medical consent.
- Are kosher and halal meats safer or more environmentally friendly than regular meat?
- The grisly truth about the Super Bowl abortion ad.
- Can we test our geoengineering schemes before we have to use them?
- Israel's remarkable new steps to solve its organ shortage.
- Which is more important: politics or technology?
- What the Jan. 12 earthquake means for Haiti's ecosystem.
- Grass-fed beef is not immune to deadly E. coli bacteria.
- What to do when you forget whether something can be recycled.
- Are glasses better for the planet than contact lenses?
- Stop crying "terrorism" every time we're attacked.
- Why are we still reporting on the "wind chill"?
- Do vitamin supplements really do any good?
- We want your ideas for how to fix airport security.
- Is fake fur better for the planet than real fur?
- The Taliban just killed the humans who guide our drones.
- Want to get on an airplane? Let's see your scrotum.
- Why do so many terrorists have engineering degrees?
- How to dispose of old electronics in a responsible way.
Podcasts & Video
- Dana's Home Theater: Bright Star
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Feb. 8, 2010.
- Reviews of: From Paris with Love, Dear John, and Frozen
- The Political Gabfest for Feb. 5, 2010.
- If Filmmakers Directed the Super Bowl
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on the Oscar nominations, the state of grief in the U.S., and the loss of author J.D. Salinger.
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's weekly Poetry Podcast.
- Dear Prudence: Toilet Tech
- The Political Gabfest for Jan. 29, 2010.
- DIY Catcher in the Rye
- Dana's Home Theater: In the Loop
- The Green Beyond
- Slate's weekly Poetry Podcast.
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Jan. 25, 2010.
- Dear Prudence: Sick of Cancer Survivor
- Reviews of: Legion, Tooth Fairy, and Extraordinary Measures
- Obama's First Year: Hell in a Handbasket
- Obama's First Year: The Feel-Good Trailer
- Our critics discuss Mary Karr's Lit.
- Forget 3-D. Try 1-D!
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Conan's plight, French film director Eric Rohmer, and The Simpsons.
- Hot for Firefighters
- Dear Prudence: My Fiance Read My Diary!
- Reviews of: Youth in Revolt, Leap Year, and Daybreakers
- Point Me to the Nearest Beer
- Farewell to the Aughts
- The Political Gabfest for Dec. 31, 2009.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on It's Complicated, Vic Chesnutt, and predictions for the decade to come.
- Celebrity Voice-Over Quiz
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Dec. 28, 2009.
- Yule Log TV
- Reviews of: Sherlock Holmes, It's Complicated, and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Dear Prudence: Chinese Jewish Christmas
- Our critics discuss Nabokov's The Original of Laura.
- Reviews of: Avatar, Nine, and Did You Hear About the Morgans?
- James Cameron's Near-Death Tirade
- TV's Worst Christmas Specials
- Dear Prudence: Holiday Moochers
- Reviews of: The Lovely Bones, Invictus, and The Princess and the Frog
- Julie Powell: On Butchery and Marriage
- My 7-MPH Escape
- Obama Interruptus
- Dear Prudence: Jealous Boyfriend in Afghanistan
- Reviews of: Up in the Air, Everybody's Fine, and Brothers
- Is Tiger Feeling Lucky Today?
- Dear Prudence: Salsa-Dancing Fool
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Nov. 30, 2009.
- The Political Gabfest for Nov. 26, 2009.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Bob Dylan's Christmas album, sprinter Caster Semenya, and the new documentary Le Danse.
- Reviews of: The Road, Ninja Assassin, and Old Dogs
- The Time Scalia Got It Wrong
- Dear Prudence: Go Ask Your Own Doctor!
- Reviews of: Twilight: New Moon, The Blind Side, and Planet 51
- Hey Penny: The Boss From Hell
- The Pork Bun Challenge
- Dear Prudence: I Got My Co-Worker's Sister Pregnant!
- Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discussRaymond Carver's "A Small Good Thing" and "The Bath."
- Reviews of: 2012, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Pirate Radio
- Clinton: The Rise of China Is Inevitable
- Dear Prudence: Live-In In-Laws
- Reviews of: The Men Who Stare at Goats, Precious, and A Christmas Carol
- President Obama on the Fort Hood Shootings
- Microsoft's Marketing Misfires
- "This Bitch Owns Her Own Harley"
- My Taliban Captors Googled Me
- Dear Prudence: Engaged and Feeling Trapped
- The Political Gabfest for Oct. 30, 2009.
- Reviews of: This Is It, Gentlemen Broncos, and The House of the Devil
- Hey Penny: Smoking Kills... Productivity
- The Survivor
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on 30 Rock, Baby Einstein, and Brad Paisley.
- Vampires, Goblins, and Trolls, Oh My!
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Oct. 26, 2009.
- Dear Prudence: Lying Smoker
- A Wingman for Your iPhone
- Choice Apps for Foodies
- My Master Cleanse Odyssey
- Dear Prudence: Picky About Garbage
- Michael Agger, Meghan O'Rourke, and Troy Patterson discuss The Anthologist.
- Reviews of: Where the Wild Things Are, Black Dynamite, and Law Abiding Citizen
- Obama's Other Premature Awards
- The High School Crush
- Revolving or Swinging? The Best Exit Strategy
- Dear Prudence: A Preacher's Pet Peeve
- Reviews of: Good Hair, Couples Retreat, and An Education
- Baseball's Warped Camera Angle
- Last Man Standing: a podcast with author Duff McDonald.
- Cute Cats Incorporated
- Deep-Fried Everything
- Dear Prudence: Hot-Flashing Boss
- Reviews of: A Serious Man, The Invention of Lying, and Whip It
- Strip Poker for Day Traders
- More Ways To Waste Time on Facebook
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Sept. 28, 2009.
- Dear Prudence: Bed-Making Blues
- Reviews of: Capitalism: A Love Story, Surrogates, and Fame
- The Political Gabfest for Sept. 25, 2009.
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on on Obama's Letterman appearance, the Keats movie Bright Star, and Neil Patrick Harris at the Emmys.
- Hey Penny: My Grubby Co-Worker
- Dear Prudence: Dimwit Niece
- Reviews of: The Informant!, Jennifer's Body, and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
- Selling Sex: World's Best Condom Ads
- Dear Prudence: Left Behind By Childless BFF
- Reviews of: 9, The September Issue, and Whiteout
- The NFL Hits the Oregon Trail
- Dear Prudence: Culturally Insensitive Parents
- Reviews of: Extract, All About Steve, and Gamer
- Cougars Gone Wild!
- Outrage, Now in Pill Form
- Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Aug. 31, 2009.
- Dear Prudence: Is Short Hair Ruining My Love Life?
- Reviews of: Taking Woodstock, Final Destination, and Big Fan
- The Political Gabfest for Aug. 28, 2009.
- A Killer Mobile Dictionary
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Inglourious Basterds, Project Runway,and the "Sketch Steve" contest.
- Urban Euro Bikes
- Dear Prudence: Boozy Mom
- Reviews of: Inglourious Basterds, Post Grad, and My One and Only
- POTUS as House Guest: A Short History
- Obama's Secret Health Care Nightmare
- Dear Prudence: The Ethics of Scoring Pot
- Reviews of: District 9, Ponyo, and The Time Traveler's Wife
- So You Found My iPhone ...
- In Fed We Trust: a podcast with author David Wessel.
- The Many Voices of Meryl Streep
- A Wrestler's Wisdom
- How the World Might (Almost) End
- Dear Prudence: Dad Caught Cheating
- The Political Gabfest for July 31, 2009.
- Reviews of: Funny People, The Cove, and Thirst
- Conned Into a Life of Magic
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Funny People, the death of the music magazine, and the DSM-V.
- Killer Apps: Sim City
- We, Robots
- Dear Prudence: Flashing Too Much Skin?
- Reviews of: G-Force, The Ugly Truth, and Orphan
- HEY PENNY! The Yes Men cometh.
- Listen to the Mountain
- Dear Prudence: Layabout Loser Boyfriend
- If Man Walked on the Moon Today
- Alyssa Katz on Our Lot.
- Reviews of: Harry Potter, (500) Days of Summer, and The Way We Get By
- Drilling for Clues About Global Warming
- Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss Gay Talese's Thy Neighbor's Wife.
- Dog Rescue Gone Wrong
- Killer Apps: Oregon Trail Revisited
- Dear Prudence: Creepy Twin Co-Workers
- Reviews of: Brüno; I Love You, Beth Cooper; and Humpday
- How to Save Newspapers
- The Power-Cling, Iran's New Wonder Product
- Dynamite Ahead!
- Introducing Slate's sports podcast, "Hang Up and Listen."
- Dear Prudence: Preschool for Grown-Ups
- Reviews of: Public Enemies, Ice Age, and I Hate Valentine's Day
- Medical Pot Expo
- Hunting Cigarette Pirates
- The Audio Book Club on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
- Dear Prudence: Riding Shotgun With Tipsy Pal
- The Political Gabfest for June 26, 2009.
- Reviews of: Transformers, My Sister's Keeper, and Chéri
- Moonwalk: Michael Jackson's YouTube Legacy
- Spike Lee Does the Right Thing
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Whatever Works, True Blood, and A Vindication of Love.
- Pinball Wizard, Second-Class
- Dear Prudence: Evangelizing Vegan
- Reviews of: Year One, The Proposal, and Whatever Works
- Our critics discuss John Cheever and Flannery O'Connor.
- Killer Apps: iPhone Radio Guide
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