Why It's Important To Let Kids 'Hang Out' Online
Here’s a scene in my house: My almost 9-year-old is on the Internet doing something or other, and I am not standing over her shoulder or otherwise m...
Here’s a scene in my house: My almost 9-year-old is on the Internet doing something or other, and I am not standing over her shoulder or otherwise m...
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Posted 04.15.2012
By Will Oremus (Click here for original article.) Two years ago, I got a text message from a number with a Las Vegas area code. “Thanks for vi...
Slate | Eric Posner and Glen Weyl | Posted 04.06.2012
On Monday, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an order prohibiting the marketing of a new set of derivatives that would have enabled...
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Posted 03.02.2012
By Jessica Grose (Click here for original story) There's a new study from the Journal of Adolescent Health that shows that teenage girls whose prim...
Posted 04.17.2012
Imagine looking at a 24-foot photograph of your face, created with such detail that if you got up on a ladder with a magnifying glass you could inspec...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 02.07.2012
Last week, Jon Ralston, a veteran Las Vegas Sun columnist, dared reporters to ignore Donald Trump's unveiling of his presidential endorsement -- with ...
Dan Kennedy | Posted 03.26.2012
The media are having no problem decoding the not-so-secret message from last night. Obama wants us to know that Mitt Romney is what the president's new role model, Theodore Roosevelt, would have called a "malefactor of great wealth."
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.19.2012
In the Slate-iest thing you'll read all week, Simon Doonan -- of Barneys New York fame -- is given the opportunity to consider whether that small brea...
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Posted 01.17.2012
By Brian David Johnson (Click here for original article.) My one-man campaign against fear started on a chilly evening in San Francisco. I was dis...
Dan Kennedy | Posted 03.05.2012
The Pollyanna award goes to Ross Douthat of the New York Times, who thinks caucus-goers did themselves proud last night. "Presented with the weakest presidential field of any major party in a generation," he writes, "they made the best of a bad situation."
The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 12.08.2011
WASHINGTON -- This week's Republican filibustering of judicial nominee Caitlin Halligan brought to light a whole bunch of ironies. In Slate, Dahlia...
The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 01.10.2012
By Howard Berkes and Sarah Harris, iWatch NewsThis story is a collaboration between the Center for Public Integrity, NPR and Slate."This person righ...
The Huffington Post | Jason O. Gilbert | Posted 01.03.2012
Can't find one of those much coveted, discontinued Touchpads? Well, HP's got a new tablet coming out -- but it's going to cost you a little more than ...
Slate | Posted 12.07.2011
To celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary last year, my husband and I spent the weekend at a funky motel in the Catskills. We arrived Friday night, p...
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 11.14.2011
Sure, women may be doing better in school, but we're still up against the pay gap and glass ceiling at work and the second shift at home. And that's only half the story.
Adweek | Posted 10.24.2011
Slate, the online news magazine owned by the Washington Post Company, has laid off a number of employees, including editor-at-large Jack Shafer, Adwee...
Posted 10.22.2011
Eliot Spitzer is being sued for a year-old column, Reuters reports. The libel lawsuit concerns an August 22, 2010 column that Spitzer wrote for Sla...
Slate | Annie Lowrey | Posted 10.02.2011
What does the last-minute deal to raise the debt ceiling do to aid the flagging, faltering economy? Nothing. The economy is in appalling shape. Las...
Harlan Green | Posted 09.30.2011
The destruction of middle class wealth and income by Republicans, in particular, has been prolonged and systematic for decades. This standard of living has already declined for most of us since the 1980s, and will continue to decline.
Posted 09.12.2011
Although inmates at Guantanamo Bay's detention center can't see the Cuban coast only meters away from the jail, sensory deprivation also causes the im...
Danny Groner | Posted 07.05.2011
While some have turned the photo into a meme, others have reflected on its significance, particularly Obama's and Hillary Clinton's expressions.
David Katz, M.D. | Posted 06.25.2011
I am surprised, and even more so concerned, about how readily people with good common sense switch it off when it comes to weight control and the illusory promise of a quick fix.
Elory Rozner | Posted 05.25.2011
We require "internal flexibility and communal permission to backtrack and revise." Can we get schools to value teaching this skill, and skilled educators who can teach this value?
Rachel Kramer Bussel | Posted 11.17.2011
The problem with using the singular brand name "feminism" is akin to using the word "women": It's too big, too vast to cover all the people who either consider themselves some kind of feminist or who are engaging in "feminist" acts.
Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011
Scientists and technicians clearly proved something this week about ingenuity, progress, and communication. What's the big takeaway from this three-day experiment?
Slate | Posted 05.17.2012