Previously published Slate articles made new.

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• The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue An intellectual history.
  Bryan Curtis Feb. 9, 2010
  
• Hold Everything Can Sen. Shelby really block Obama's nominees?
  Daniel Engber Feb. 5, 2010
  
• What's With All the Prayer Breakfasts? Why can't they do a prayer lunch instead?
  Juliet Lapidos Feb. 4, 2010
  
• Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Teammate's Wife The locker room affair, the biggest taboo in sports.
  Josh Levin Feb. 3, 2010
  
• Is My Super Bowl Party Illegal? How to watch the game without breaking the law.
  Daniel Engber Feb. 3, 2010
  
• True Believers Why there's no dispelling the myth that vaccines cause autism.
  Arthur Allen Feb. 2, 2010
  
• Rahm Emanuel Calls Liberals "F---ing Retarded" He should have said they were "f---ing intellectually disabled."
  Adrian Chen Feb. 2, 2010
  
• The Groundhog Fraud How do you know whether Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow? A Slate investigation.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 2, 2010
  
• J.D. Salinger, RIP Stories on the late, great writer from the Slate archives.
  Jan. 28, 2010
  
• The Audio Book Club on J.D. Salinger Our critics discuss The Catcher in the Rye.
  Stephen Metcalf Jan. 28, 2010
  
• The Apple Polishers Explaining the press corps' crush on Steve Jobs and company.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 25, 2010
  
• How Do You Fix a Torn Picasso? Conservators' methods for mending famous paintings.
  Daniel Engber Jan. 25, 2010
  
• Tefillin 101 What exactly did that flight attendant mistake for a weapon?
  Daniel Engber Jan. 22, 2010
  
• Little Hotties at the Mall Volunteering at the inauguration was more satisfying than I had a right to expect. Plus, I got free hand warmers.
  Nicholas Schmidle Jan. 20, 2010
  
• The Partygoer How many inaugural balls can I get to in one night?
  Seth Stevenson Jan. 20, 2010
  
• All Along, This Was What Was Supposed To Happen An inauguration novella.
  Curtis Sittenfeld Jan. 19, 2010
  
• Enjoy the History, Ignore the Politics Why conservatives should be looking forward to the Obama inauguration.
  Rachael Larimore Jan. 19, 2010
  
• What's New Is Old Again Obama's inauguration speech went for prose instead of poetry.
  John Dickerson Jan. 19, 2010
  
• How To Help Haiti The best ways respond to natural disaster abroad.
  Sandy Stonesifer Jan. 13, 2010
  
• How Will They Count the Dead in Haiti? The grim statistics of natural disasters.
  Juliet Lapidos Jan. 13, 2010
  
• Eric Rohmer, RIP The casual, moral genius of the New Wave filmmaker.
  Stephen Metcalf Jan. 11, 2010
  
• Wind Chill Blows It's time to get rid of a meaningless number.
  Daniel Engber Jan. 7, 2010
  
• Boycott the BCS! A statistical analyst takes a stand against college football's perverse, irrational Bowl Championship Series.
  Bill James Jan. 6, 2010
  
• Just Call Him Senator An assessment of Richard Blumenthal, the man most likely to replace Connecticut's Christopher Dodd.
  David Plotz Jan. 6, 2010