This week, Slate posted an earnest Q & A about the interest rates that Kiva and other microlending sites charge to help alleviate poverty around the w...
The Big Money | Mark Gimein | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
Last month a study from the credit reporting agency Experian and consulting outfit Oliver Wyman estimated that close to a fifth of troubled mortgages ...
Rob Fishman | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media
It's clear that Cameron Todd Willingham was (mis)tried by a kangaroo court, but will justice be better served by the media zoo that's ensued?
John Thornton | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media
The forty years between Kennedy and Clinton were an accident of economic and demographic history, resulting in a temporary but highly profitable industry structure for the papers that dominated their markets.
Michael Wolff | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media
Just as so many save-our-business types are castigating news aggregators as pirates, Slate takes up the aggregating craft.
Slate Magazine | David Plotz | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media
After 12 years, and almost 4,400 editions, we are ending "Today's Papers." We are also ending "In Other Magazines." This is like unplugging grandpa fr...
James Warren | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media
America's last honest institution, Consumer Reports, decides to check out perhaps the greatest invention in modern history since liquid Prell, namely GPS systems.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
Sometimes, our political leaders are incoherent in their own unique ways. On other occasions, it's clear that they are just reflecting the incoherenc...
Romi Lassally | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living
While making strident sweeping statements about women, facebook and photographs, Katie's piece doesn't leave any room for other reasons women might as she says, "hide behind photos of their kids."
Indra Adnan | Posted 06.14.2009 | Media
Working alongside the men, rather than in the room next door, seemed to us the best way to reach the Downing Street Project's goal -- not just the women.
New York Times | JENNA WORTHAM | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media
The new site, Double X, which is set to start publishing Tuesday, grew from a group blog created on Slate in October 2007 called The XX Factor, after ...
Michael Wolff | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
I'm trying to parse the Spitzer-Newsweek deal. In effect, Newsweek, by reporting on Spitzer's rehabilitation, is rehabilitating its own asset.
Jason Notte | Posted 05.04.2009 | Media
Here's a fun game: Spot the difference between "Partly sunny" and "Partly cloudy" icons. There isn't one.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.02.2009 | Living
To read Hitchens these days is to be transported to an alternate universe where religious Jews are often terrorists inspired by racist Jewish ideology that is fomented by their Rabbis.
James Warren | Posted 04.29.2009 | Media
Time proclaims that the "end of excess" is upon us, and Jack Shafer at Slate disagrees that vibrant daily newspapers are important to democracy.
Slate | John Fabian Witt | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
One of Abraham Lincoln's little-noted accomplishments has become his most unlikely legacy. He helped create the modern international rules that protec...
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 03.01.2009 | Living
The support of female friends can help a woman get over the traumatic emotional and financial losses associated with being fired or let go. What can friends do?
Carey Polis | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
By selling her virginity, Natalie Dylan is proving an already obvious point: virginity is still considered something of value, money aside.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.10.2009 | Media
I quite like most of the "unsolicited advice" that Jack Shafer, of Slate, has teed up for the benefit of incoming Meet The Press host David Gregory. ...
Slate Magazine | Eliot Spitzer | Posted 01.04.2009 | Media
Last month, as the financial crisis and the government rescue plan dominated headlines, almost everyone overlooked a news item that could have enormou...
New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 01.03.2009 | Media
Media Mob has learned that former New York governor Eliot Spitzer will write a new column for Slate beginning tomorrow. The column will appear every o...
Eric Boehlert | Posted 12.27.2008 | Media
Interestingly, the piece never actually explains to readers what the Clinton Foundation does. Answer: It helps poor people around the world.
Slate | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business
There is a story that Steve Jobs likes to tell about fonts. In 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Ore.; after a semester, seeing little ...
Slate | Jacob Weisberg | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics
Here's a radical suggestion: Barack Obama should pick the smartest people he can find for his Cabinet. Brilliance has sometimes been a criterion in p...
Slate Magazine | Fred Kaplan | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
It's a truism that Barack Obama faces the most intractable set of challenges that any president has faced in at least 50 years. But on a few issues in...
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact