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The Media Critic Who Gave Slate Its Sting

Will Oremus

Sept 30, 2016 12:10 PM

The Future of Language on the Internet Might Not Include Words at All

Katy Waldman

Sept 30, 2016 12:02 PM

Obama Thought Nominating Milquetoasts Would Fix the Judicial Nomination Standoff. Nope!

Dahlia Lithwick

Sept 30, 2016 10:21 AM

The Ballad of Balloon Boy

Justin Peters

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How Hot or Not Invented a Brave New World of Online Connection

J. Bryan Lowder

Sept 29, 2016 5:15 PM

Where Was Slate on 9/11?

Jeremy Stahl

Sept 29, 2016 2:15 PM

A 2005 Speech by Then-Obscure Ben Bernanke Predicted the Economic Tragedy of Our Time

Daniel Gross

Sept 28, 2016 2:57 PM

How the Iraq War Wrecked the GOP

William Saletan

Sept 28, 2016 12:29 PM

Bill Clinton’s Last Great Victory Is the Reason Hillary Gets Hammered on Trade Today

Jordan Weissmann

Sept 28, 2016 12:00 PM

Does the Growth of Vertical Video Mean the Death of the Widescreen Movie?

Dan Kois

Sept 27, 2016 10:29 AM

How Zillow and House Hunters Made Real Estate Experts of Us All

Willa Paskin

Sept 26, 2016 12:28 PM

On Making Friends on the Internet

Danny M. Lavery

Sept 26, 2016 8:30 AM

Did the Effort to Eradicate Chicago’s Gangs in the 1990s Inadvertently Lead to Its Bloody Present?

Leon Neyfakh

Sept 23, 2016 11:43 AM

Who Actually Won the Moneyball Revolution?

Josh Levin

Sept 23, 2016 11:02 AM

Represent Talks to Paul Haggis About Crash, 10 Years After It Won Best Picture

Aisha Harris

Sept 22, 2016 2:51 PM

How “Stars—They’re Just Like Us” Transformed the Celebrity Economy

Ruth Graham

Sept 22, 2016 11:00 AM

The Day White America Changed Its Mind About Barack Obama

Jamelle Bouie

Sept 21, 2016 5:44 PM

This 2007 Speech Turned Barack Obama’s Campaign Around—and Still Echoes Today

John Dickerson

Sept 21, 2016 1:18 PM

What Was Blorple Falls? Remembering One of Slate’s Weirdest Ideas.

Katy Waldman

Sept 21, 2016 12:47 PM

The 1999 Handset That Finally Made Cellphones Cool

Will Oremus

Sept 20, 2016 5:45 AM

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