Previously published Slate articles made new.

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• Are Dead Bodies Really Dangerous? The effects of the deceased on the living.
  Dec. 28, 2004
  
• Creation Myth No Christian Taliban is taking over your school board.
  Dec. 27, 2004
  
• Kwanzaa How the Watts riots helped create a new kind of American holiday.
  Dec. 27, 2004
  
• Manger Madness The annual yuletide battles over religious displays on public lands.
  Dec. 20, 2004
  
• Hummer Bummer Why are soldiers asking Rumsfeld about unarmored Humvees?
  Dec. 10, 2004
  
• Is Canadian Gay Marriage Valid Here? And the role courts play in the matter.
  Dec. 9, 2004
  
• West World The genius of hip-hop star Kanye West.
  Dec. 7, 2004
  
• O, Christmas Tree How to find the fir of your dreams.
  Dec. 7, 2004
  
• Spitzer for Governor The powerful attorney general seeks New York's top job.
  Dec. 7, 2004
  
• 'Roid Where Prohibited What's behind the BALCO scandal?
  Dec. 3, 2004
  
• Anchor Away! Dan Rather's leaving the Evening News.
  Nov. 23, 2004
  
• Arafat's Legacy For better or for worse.
  David Kenner Nov. 5, 2004
  
• Are Concession Speeches Legally Binding? Kerry holdouts want to know.
  Nov. 3, 2004
  
• I Am Your Court The Supreme Court finally takes up the Ten Commandments.
  Oct. 12, 2004
  
• Holy Pop Relic Why Brian Wilson should have left Smile alone.
  Oct. 7, 2004
  
• Flu-Shot Shortage Why can't we just make more?
  Oct. 6, 2004
  
• Where Do Gymnasts Go To Court? To the Court of Arbitration for Sport, of course.
  Sept. 28, 2004
  
• No New Senators The case against baseball in Washington.
  Sept. 28, 2004
  
• Rosemary Quigley, 1970-2004 Remembering a Slate diarist.
  Sept. 13, 2004
  
• Wake Up, Little Uzi Is there an individual right to carry a gun?
  Sept. 13, 2004
  
• An Unlikely Hero The former Marine who found two WTC survivors.
  Sept. 10, 2004
  
• Lady Killers The rise of the female suicide bomber.
  Aug. 31, 2004
  
• August The cruelest month.
  Aug. 23, 2004
  
• Julia Child's Slate Diary The inimitable chef on grocery shopping, tricky sauces, and what to eat for breakfast.
  Aug. 13, 2004
  
• Why Is Najaf So Holy? A concise history of the city.
  Aug. 12, 2004
  
• John Madden Has Arrived The return of sports' official arbiter of cool.
  Aug. 10, 2004
  
• Teresa Heinz Kerry Why John Kerry needs some of his wife's sauce.
  July 27, 2004
  
• Right Field Mike Ditka could be the latest in a long line of GOP jocks.
  July 14, 2004
  
• Play the Enron Blame Game Remember, it's not just Ken Lay who's responsible!
  July 9, 2004
  
• What Is Method Acting, Anyway? Brando's technique explained.
  July 7, 2004
  
• How Long Do the Flags Fly at Half-Staff? The etiquette of remembering a president.
  July 1, 2004
  
• Why Can't Spider-Man Get Laid? The celibate lives of superheroes. 
  June 30, 2004
  
• IGNORAD The military screw-up people are talking about.
  June 17, 2004
  
• Reagan vs. Clinton Who was responsible for the prosperity of the '90s?
  June 7, 2004
  
• Give 'Em Hell, Harry! Harry Potter in Slate.
  June 4, 2004
  
• Tenetive Departure How did George Tenet keep his job for so long?
  June 3, 2004
  
• Extroverted Like Me One Slate writer's Paxil experiment.
  June 3, 2004
  
• The Rise and Fall of Ahmad Chalabi Raids are another chapter in a strange saga.
  May 20, 2004
  
• Who's Sorry Now? Which wrongs warrant government apologies?
  May 10, 2004
  
• Can Gore Really Give Kerry $6 Million? Where war chests go when campaigns fail.
  April 29, 2004
  
• The ABC's of A's Why grade inflation doesn't matter.
  April 28, 2004
  
• How'd We Get Gitmo? Why the United States has a base in Cuba.
  April 21, 2004
  
• How Secret Was That PDB? President Bush strips down to his brief.
  April 9, 2004
  
• Jesus Didn't Want Him for a Sunbeam Commemorating Kurt Cobain.
  April 2, 2004
  
• Kodak's Moment Is Over Dow Jones boots the photo company from its industrial stock index.
  April 1, 2004
  
• Left Behind How Jeffrey Goldberg learns he's not the Antichrist.
  March 29, 2004
  
• Pledging Allegiance Where does "under God" come from?
  March 25, 2004
  
• Life After Martha Stewart's company planned for life without her. Just not well enough.
  March 8, 2004
  
• Fashion Icon Amy Spindler, the Times style editor, dies at 40.
  March 1, 2004
  
• Who Killed Jesus? Mel Gibson's film rekindles a debate.
  Feb. 25, 2004
  
• The Clone Wars How Slate has covered seven years of bioethics warfare. 
  Feb. 12, 2004
  
• Song, Record, Album of the Year What's the difference?
  Feb. 9, 2004
  
• Advice to Bush Interrupt Russert before he interrupts you!
  Feb. 6, 2004
  
• Hajj Hazards Why is the pilgrimage to Mecca so dangerous?
  Feb. 2, 2004
  
• No Fairy Tale Ending Pixar bids adieu to Disney.
  Jan. 30, 2004
  
• Back to The Battle of Algiers Why the Pentagon offered a screening of the recently re-released film.
  Jan. 13, 2004
  
• Was That Really Osama on Al Jazeera? How the CIA can verify that the voice was his.
  Jan. 5, 2004