Should You Trust Online Reviews?
The Internet has fundamentally changed the way that buyers and sellers meet and interact in the marketplace. Online retailers make it cheap and easy to browse, comparison shop, and make purchases with...
View Article“At Fifty”
Click the arrow on the audio player to hear Eric Rawson read this poem. You can also download the recording or subscribe to Slate 's Poetry Podcast on iTunes.
View ArticleThe New New Deal
Michael Grunwald, a Time magazine correspondent, this week publishes The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era , a gripping account of President Obama’s stimulus bill. Grunwald...
View ArticleProg Spring
Here is a list of the musicians, artists, and other figures mentioned in this series, along with brief bios.
View ArticleIt’s Like Facebook, but You Pay for It
In August 2004, Google was readying its first public stock offering. Pundits were skeptical that the upstart search company could ever live up to its $23 billion valuation
View ArticleDear Prudence: Homophobic Ex-Husband
In this week's video, Prudie counsels a woman whose homophobic ex-husband is determined to make sure their son doesn't perform any "gay" mannerisms. How can she deal with this?
View ArticleAsk Me About Paul Ryan
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—The men in white polo shirts stand out like a Starfleet recon team as they grip-and-grab their way through the anarchist street fair. Rep
View ArticleHow Do You Defend Yourself Against a Rampaging Kangaroo?
Three kangaroos escaped from a zoo in Germany this week, after a wild fox and a wild boar breached their enclosure fence from the outside. The kangaroos were recaptured without incident, but the...
View ArticleWill the Elderly Ever Accept Care From Robots?
Early in the new science-fiction film Robot & Frank (opening Aug. 17 in New York and Aug. 24 elsewhere), Frank, an elderly man, gets a visit from his son, Hunter
View ArticleMormonism’s Jell-O Mold
These days, the most coveted souvenirs from the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics are commemorative pins shaped like the face of current presidential candidate Mitt Romney . But in 2002, the most...
View ArticleWhere We’re Going, We Need Roads
QUINCY, Mass.—Elizabeth Warren is in the right place, next to the hole in the highway. She exits an SUV and chats excitedly, one by one, with the construction and ironworkers who’d been waiting there...
View ArticleThe Pioneer Anomaly Is Solved
Astrophysicist Slava G. Turyshev has explained away decades of exotic speculation over the Pioneer anomaly, the puzzling slowdown of two NASA probes
View ArticleProg Spring, the New New Deal, and the Best Vegan Ice Cream
“ Prog Spring : The brief rise and inevitable fall of the world’s most hated pop music,” by David Weigel. Weigel’s opus explores the overstuffed, visionary madness of progressive (“prog”) rock. In...
View ArticleIntroducing the New Slatest
In April 2011, we decided to give The Slatest, our news blog, a major upgrade . We added photos, real-time updating ability, social sharing features, and a great editorial voice.
View ArticleQuackery and Mumbo-Jumbo in the U.S. Military
The military uses some of the most technologically sophisticated machinery and innovative medical techniques in history. But a disturbing current of pseudoscience in the military is wasting money,...
View ArticleThe Heathrow Adjudication
For this year’s Slate Summer Movies contest, I challenged readers to dream up a title and tagline for a future installment in the Bourne franchise using Robert Ludlum’s venerable titling formula:...
View ArticleThe Most Dangerous Game
Last Thursday, Grantland’s Bill Barnwell published an informal study of mortality rates among professional football and baseball players.
View ArticleThou Shalt Not Have a Potty Mouth
A Turkish businessman is preparing to launch Salamworld , a Facebook-style website designed specifically for Muslims.
View ArticleTodd Akin’s Rape Fiasco
Rep. Todd Akin, the man nominated by Missouri Republicans two weeks ago to run for the U.S.
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