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Sandy? Romney? What Slate Staffers Are Most Afraid of at This Moment.

Katy Waldman

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How the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” Changed America—and the life of the Woman who Wrote it 150 Years Ago

Benjamin Soskis

Nov 17, 2011 1:24 PM
Were J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson Lovers?

Beverly Gage

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Why we love Secretariat.

Meghan O'Rourke

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What The Social Network gets wrong about Harvard—and Facebook.

Nathan Heller

Sept 30, 2010 8:13 PM
The alternate reality of Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network.

Luke O'Brien

Sept 30, 2010 6:58 PM
How “Howl” changed the world.

Fred Kaplan

Sept 24, 2010 2:29 PM
Is Michael Mann’s Public Enemies historically accurate?

Elliott Gorn

July 01, 2009 7:38 PM
How worried should you be about the robot takeover depicted in Terminator: Salvation?

Petere W. Singer

May 21, 2009 3:50 PM
My great-uncles participated in the Valkyrie plot to overthrow Hitler.

Rose Dakin

Jan 12, 2009 4:59 PM
What WWE champion Mick Foley thought of The Wrestler.

Mick Foley

Dec 18, 2008 7:26 PM
A new Broadway musical sexes up the life of Grace O’Malley.

Barbara Sjoholm

May 10, 2007 5:27 PM
Can you mention divorce in a kids’ movie?

Susan Burton

Dec 13, 2006 3:40 PM
What Borat gets right and wrong about Kazakhstan.

Eric Weiner

Nov 03, 2006 4:56 PM
The morbid fascination with the Black Dahlia.

Seth Mnookin

Sept 14, 2006 4:28 PM
How the 9/11 rescue really happened.

Rebecca Liss

Aug 09, 2006 4:31 PM
Who were the Knights Templar?

Malcolm Barber

April 20, 2006 1:14 PM
Separating truth from fiction in Spielberg’s Munich.

Aaron J. Klein

Dec 23, 2005 4:22 PM
What one Marine makes of Jarhead.

Nathaniel Fick

Nov 09, 2005 2:09 PM
The real life of a sports tout.

Jacob Lewis

Oct 07, 2005 1:59 PM