Slate - slate.com - Stories from Slate
General Information:
Latest News:
A Nickel Isn’t Worth a Cent 27 Aug 2013 | 02:45 pm
In the early 1980s, when I was a little boy in New York City, a subway trip cost 75 cents, a slice of pizza was 90 cents, and the deposit on a can of beer or soda—the fee you pay upfront and get back ...
Like a Trolling Stone 27 Aug 2013 | 02:15 pm
In June of 1970 a displaced Minnesotan folk-singer-turned-rock-star-turned-country-crooner with a fake name and a curiously attentive fan base released a double album for Columbia Records. Bob Dylan’s...
Who Should Run Microsoft Next? 27 Aug 2013 | 03:26 am
There’s only one guy in the world who should be running Microsoft right now. Everyone knows his name (rhymes with Gill Bates), and everyone knows why he’d be perfect. Microsoft’s problem isn’t that it...
Grumpy Old Justices 27 Aug 2013 | 03:16 am
Last week Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia each grabbed headlines with controversial late-summer comments about the dysfunctions of the current Supreme Court. Speaking to a Montana mee...
Hang Up and Listen: The Too Many Panels Edition 27 Aug 2013 | 02:31 am
Listen to Hang Up and Listen with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca by clicking the arrow on the audio player below:
Beyond the Turkey Baster 26 Aug 2013 | 11:58 pm
The night Eva and Christine conceived their daughter was magical. After tracking Christine’s fertility cycle for months and several previous failed attempts to conceive, Christine’s temperature and ot...
The Checkup Podcast: Pregnancy Myths 26 Aug 2013 | 11:40 pm
Listen to the debut episode of The Checkup:
Turkey’s Hidden Revolution 26 Aug 2013 | 10:03 pm
On Aug. 5 a court in western Turkey handed down life sentences to a score of retired military officers, including the former chief of the general staff, as well as politicians and media figures, for p...
Self-Loathing Wins Championships 26 Aug 2013 | 09:38 pm
Tommy Haas is not going to win the U.S. Open. At 35, the German is the oldest player in the men’s field and is clearly past his prime. (His peak rank was No. 2 in 2002.) But in 2013, after years beset...
Breaking Bad, Season 5, Part 2 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
The tricky part about playing Walter White is that it requires a quiet kind of skill. Bryan Cranston rarely gets to do Lear-like scenes of ranting in the rain; instead, he portrays a guy who’s always ...
