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Today's Doonesbury
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The Explainer
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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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- Thursday, January 3, 2013
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How Crazy Are These Guys?
Meet the new House Republicans—a little more experienced and not all crazy.
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The Perfect Linebacker
Ray Lewis is a complicated problem who played football with simple greatness.
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The First Amendment Versus the Second Amendment
Why a New York paper had every right to publish the names and addresses of local gun owners.
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Beer Barrel Politics
When did alcohol become so heavily taxed?
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The Culture Gabfest: Plodding Recitative Edition
Slate's podcast about Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, the movie musical Les Misérables, and the question and answer site Quora.
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That Is Not an Ear Infection
Why are doctors so quick to prescribe antibiotics to your (wailing) toddler?
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Go Ahead, Complain About Your Job on Facebook
It’s become harder to fire workers for griping online.
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Doonesbury Flashback
The way we weren’t.
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Say What?
My white boyfriend just called someone the N-word.
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How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?
Slate partners with @GunDeaths for an interactive, crowdsourced tally of the toll firearms have taken since Dec. 14.
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Royally Brewed
Would you spend thousands of dollars for a rare bottle of beer on eBay?
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It’s Better To Be Raised by a Single Mom
The kids get that magical quality: grit.
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Do You Think Like Sherlock Holmes?
What the detective can teach us about observation, attention, and happiness.
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Fusion Energy’s Dreamers, Hucksters, and Loons
Bottling up the power of the sun will always be 20 years away.
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American Horror Story, Season 2
Can demons possess angels?
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- Wednesday, January 2, 2013
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Apple Killed the Netbook
And we’re all better off for the demise of the $400 future of computing.
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Is Fat Good?
Epidemiologists struggle to explain a study that challenges a core belief: Fat will kill you.
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A Commissioner Everyone Can Hate
On further review, Roger Goodell butchered this season from end to end.
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A Lone Zebra on New Year’s Eve
I don’t care about the holidays. And yet they remind me of how things are supposed to look.
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Do You Creak?
Listen to Slate’s show about the much-reviled phenomenon, prominent among young American women, of “creaky voice.”
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Democracy or Gerontocracy
Is Congress getting older?
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The Next Fiscal Cliff
Don’t celebrate yet—the next budget crisis is just two months away.
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Dear Prudence: Doubling the Pleasure
I'm sleeping with twin brothers. Lucky me?
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Parenthood Season 4
Ray Romano, sex symbol. Discuss.
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An Inside Look at the Hotel Industry
An interview with Jacob Tomsky, author of Heads in Beds.
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- Tuesday, January 1, 2013
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The House Republicans’ Primal Scream
And why their intransigence has become their own worst enemy.
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The Winners and Losers in the Fiscal-Cliff Deal
Surprise! The rich and the elderly win again.
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Farewell, Andy Reid
The Eagles coach was good enough to make you hate him for how bad he was.
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Why I Miss Pork-Barrel Politics
The fiscal cliff fiasco is a reminder that there are worse things than earmarks and pork.
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Dr. Oz’s Miraculous Medical Advice
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
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"The Darkling Thrush"
Thomas Hardy's timely meditation on the turning of an era.
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