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Slate's Andy Bowers, the original host of this podcast, explains where he's gone in recent weeks.
Suckers or Predators? Foreign governments are suddenly buying American companies. Should we worry? By Daniel Gross...
Suckers or Predators? Foreign governments are suddenly buying American companies. Should we worry? By Daniel Gross...
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week: the depressing news from Iraq, Barack Obama's health-care plan, and Fred Thompson. ...
Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and John Burnham Schwartz discuss the novel The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. ...
Do You Really Need Three Phone Numbers? GrandCentral, a phone service that wants to simplify your life, by Harry McCracken...
Is eBay Rational? Why auction sites make economists so giddy, By Tim Harford
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week: Congress' progress on Iraq and immigration, Monica Goodling, and The Sopranos....
The Scandal That Wasn't: Hollywood shrugs at the latest Times story about the Pellicano affair, By Kim Masters...
Cyberwar 1: What the attacks on Estonia have taught us about online combat, by Cyrus Farivar
The Incredible Shrinking Basketball Players - How to make it as a hoops star in the Philippines. Step one: Get shorter, By Rafe Bartholomew...
The Fraudulent Fraud Squad: The Incredible, Disappearing American Center for Voting Rights, by Richard Hasen...
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week: Alberto Gonzales' late-night visit to John Ashcroft's bedside, Paul Wolfowitz and the World Bank, and presidential politics. ...
It's Patriotic To Criticize - How our generals got so mediocre, by Fred Kaplan
Crunch the numbers: Roger Clemens might be worth every penny, By Jordan Ellenberg
The campaign against Shaha Riza is the nastiest character assassination I have ever seen.
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week: the Iraq war. Tony Blair's departure, and Teflon-coated Alberto Gonzales....
Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katie Roiphe discuss the novel The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, along with a new biography of Wharton by Hermione Lee. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read The Hous...
medical examiner
Plumber's Butt?
The right and wrong way to think about heart attacks.
By Darshak Sanghavi
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2007, at 12:28 PM ET
Medicine brims with analogies and puns related to plumbing. Residents routinely refer to...
Why I Shot My Lamb
And why I want to shoot my neighbor's lamb, too.
By Jon Katz
Posted Friday, May 4, 2007, at 12:36 PM ET
I gave away lamb No. 83 last fall, along with his twin and his mother. I don't plan to do that again.
I have 26 Tun...
On Fridays we bring you our Political Gabfest, a subjective spindown of the week's news. Today John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz discuss the war vote, George Tenet's new book, the presidential races, and Rupert Murdoch's bid to...
Chess Goes to School
How, and why, the game caught on among young Americans.
By Ann Hulbert
In January of 1958, three months after Sputnik triggered an educational panic in America much like today's angst about the global talent race, a 14...
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week: Congress throws Bush some veto bait; John McCain announces that -- surprise -- he's running for president; and a new book argues that w...
Table for 39
The Dinner Party, Judy Chicago's iconic work of feminist art, stands the test of time.
By Mia Fineman
When Judy Chicago was a young artist in Los Angeles, a prominent male art critic offered her a friendly word of advice. "You...
Suck It Up
After the shootings came an orgy of mawkishness, sloppiness, and false sentiment.
By Christopher Hitchens
When people in America say "no man is an island," as Joan Didion once put it, they think they are quoting Ernest Hemingway...
Maybe Alberto Gonzales was brilliant yesterday?and everybody missed it.
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week: The Virginia Tech tragedy, the ongoing Alberto Gonzales dramedy, and the Supreme Court's re-writing of abortion law....
In Praise of Insensitive Reporters: We'd hate them even more if they didn't overcover the VT story. By Jack Shafer....
McCain Self-Destructs: His appalling Times interview about the Iraq war. By Fred Kaplan.
Are federal tax revenues on the brink of collapse? By Daniel Gross
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week: The GOP?s missing e-mails,
polls show surprises for presidential candidates in both parties, and Don Imus is fired. Twice....
Fix the AMT (But Not Yet): The looming Alternative Minimum Tax catastrophe, and why the Democrats shouldn't try to prevent it. By Daniel Gross....
The You Decade: There's a new narcissistic pronoun in town. By Christopher Hitchens.
This Old Grindhouse: The theaters were awful and so were the movies. By Grady Hendrix.
Slate's Political Gabfest with John Dickerson. John describes his whirlwind tour of New Hampshire.
Should Democrats look to video games for inspiration? By Joshua Glenn
The Bush Sell-Off: It's all in the timing. By Timothy Noah.
Mental Torture: The story behind those vile ads for the movie Captivity. By Kim Masters, an NPR correspondent and the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everyone Else....
We're Fixing the Fray: Help Slate update our aging message boards. By Jacob Weisberg and Daniel Engber....
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week: A constitutional showdown over war funding; a constitutional showdown over the U.S. attorney scandal; and should a Republican actor jum...
Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Katie Roiphe, and John Burnham Schwartz discuss the novel Independence Day by Richard Ford. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. ...
Television Without Pity: Will corporate ownership ruin a cult Web site? Slate's Dana Stevens interviews Slate contributor Dan Kois about the sale of the popular TV Web site Television Without Pity to the Bravo network. Kois used to write fo...
Why Do We Sleep? By Amanda Schaffer. All this week in Slate online, we?re running a series about research into one of the most fundamental questions of human biology ? why do we need to sleep? That may seem like a no-brainer, but there?s ac...
Attack of the Zombie Brands II: More products that refuse to stay dead. By Daniel Gross.
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week: The sad news about Elizabeth Edwards' health, the mash-up of Apple's famous 1984 ad that has Hillary Clinton worried, the brewing const...
Breathing Lessons: The peculiar pleasure of earplugs. By Thomas Beller, author of How To Be A Man: Scenes from a Protracted Boyhood, and editor of Open City magazine and the map-based online journal, Mrbellersneighborhood.com....
Scrap the Greenback! It's time to get rid of the dollar bill. By Christopher Bonanos, a senior editor at New York magazine....
The Midlife Happiness Crisis: But don't worry--when you get old, the sun comes out again. By Joel Waldfogel, the Ehrenkranz family professor of business and public policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania....
Attack of the Zombie Brands! Why Tab, the Taurus, and so many other failed products are getting resurrected. By Daniel Gross....
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week: How much longer will Alberto Gonzales keep his job? Will deadlines work in Iraq? And did John Dickerson and John McCain get to spend so...
Party of Defeat: AEI's weird celebration. By Jacob Weisberg.
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week: the fired U.S. attorneys speak out, Scooter Libby hopes for a pardon, and Hillary and Barack try some identity politics. ...
Digital Penetration: Invasion of the naked body scanners. By William Saletan.
Would You Privatize Defense? The case for socialized medicine, Part 1. By Timothy Noah.
Specter Detector: U.S. attorney scandal update: Who's to blame for those alarming Patriot Act revisions? By Dahlia Lithwick....
Beauty and the Geek: Maybe good looks do make you smarter. By Tim Harford.
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week: Should we talk to Iran? Is any GOP candidate conservative enough for the base? And should Al Gore turn Oscar gold into another White Ho...
Eight Feet High and Rising: Is Sun Ming Ming too tall to play basketball?
The CEO Candidate: How Mitt Romney's corporate success explains his campaign?and his flip-flops. By Daniel Gross...
Evicted From Wikipedia: Why the online encyclopedia won't let just anyone in. By Timothy Noah
The Slacker Movie's Quarterlife Crisis: Mutual Appreciation and The Puffy Chair reveal a genre stuck in a rut....
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week: The feud between Barack, Hillary, and David, the British pullout from Iraq, and the new JFK film....
Every Bite You Take: How Sysco came to monopolize most of what you eat. By Ulrich Boser.
A Very Special Relationship: Why do U.S. presidents go weak-kneed for their Russian counterparts? By Anne Applebaum....
Minibar Economics: Why you should stay at hotels that overcharge for drinks and Wi-Fi access. By Tim Harford....
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week: The White House gets serious with Iran, the defense rests in the Libby trial, and the military wants the TV show 24 to cool it with the...
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue: An intellectual history. By Bryan Curtis.
Democrats in Hollywood: Does the town love Hillary or Obama? By Kim Masters.
Why People Love Dogs: It's more complicated than you think. By Jon Katz. Jon Katz is the author of A Good Dog: The Story of Orson, Who Changed My Life....
My Starvation Diet: I've cut back to 1,500 calories a day. Will I live to be 120 years old? By Emily Yoffe....
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week: The Senate's failure to debate, Giuliani vs. McCain, and a basketball player comes out, while a preacher says he's cured. ...
If the Iraq War Were a Corporation? How a real CEO president would turn it around. By Daniel Gross.
Funny Woman: What I learned from Molly Ivins. By Dahlia Lithwick.
The Distance Paradox: If telecommuting is so easy, why do we travel for work more than ever? By Tim Harford....
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week: Congress goes non-binding, is the Libby trial just plain boring, and Joe Biden's spectacular gaffe....
Jet Blues: Why are corporate jets always getting CEOs in trouble? By Daniel Gross.
My Surreal Day at the Libby Trial. By John Dickerson. Regular listeners to this podcast know that Slate's John Dickerson, host of our Friday Gabfest program, had a minor role in the Valerie Plame case that led to the perjury and obstruction...
World Wide Sundance: Will the Web make film festivals obsolete? By Tim Wu. Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School and co-author of Who Controls the Internet?...
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. On the agenda this week, Bush's State of the Union, the state of Scooter Libby's trial, and Dick Cheney's state of denial. ...
Euphemisms for Drunk. Back in December, we invited podcast listeners to send us their favorite euphemisms for extreme inebriation. Our contest curator Barbara Wallraff received lots of wonderful entries, and she's here once again to bring u...
The State of the Oscar: Forget the Dreamgirls snub, what about Volver? By Dana Stevens.
The Verdict on Vista: Is the new Windows any good? By Paul Boutin.
The Purloined Sirloin: Why is meat the most shoplifted item in America? By Brendan I. Koerner. Brendan I. Koerner is a contributing editor at Wired and a columnist for the New York Times and Gizmodo. His first book, about a 1940s murder cas...
Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week, John talks about the Scooter Libby trial, and David and Emily phone in from Israel, where they're on a press tour....
The Camera Phone: The gadget that perverts, vigilantes, and celebrity stalkers can all agree on. By Michael Agger....
O.J. Confesses. Really: The ghostwriter of If I Did It calls Simpson "a murderer." By Timothy Noah.