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- Slate V: I'll Have What He's Wearing
Style makeovers for guys with an old Hollywood twist. In this episode, Roxana from Nerd Boyfriend helps her friend Justin dress like Errol Flynn. - Has Obama turned against Israel? The charge is ludicrous.
How many senior U.S. officials will be branded turncoats or anti-Semites before the Israeli government, AIPAC, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman realize that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a serious mistake in approving an expansion of 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem and that he must correct it?not just for political or diplomatic reasons but in the interests of American and Israeli security?[more ...]
East Jerusalem - Israel - United States - Benjamin Netanyahu - American Israel Public Affairs Committee
- The San Francisco Chronicle takes the honor for the worst "pharm party" story ever.
One would think that the collective wisdom of the thousands of drug fiends inhabiting the San Francisco Bay Area would somehow inform the reporters and editors who produce the region's dominant daily, the San Francisco Chronicle, about the true nature of drug use.[more ...]
- Slate's Whipometer: Priests from Mars, Nuns from Venus
Check here regularly for the latest on what the House, Senate, White House, and various other players are doing to shorten or lengthen the odds.[more ...]
- Lost: Sweet mother of God.
Seth, if you want to talk about Lost as a reflection of its times, I'm more than eager. I can deliver a dissertation on how Lost's time-travel season was written during a U.S. election that revisited the past as it looked into the future. I can wax philosophic on how this season's dual-timeline approach corresponds to an administration that has changed everything and nothing in Washington, and a viewing public that doesn't know which narrative to believe. And then there's Ben Linus, the best allegory for the Wall Street debacle television has provided. Ben built his power on a foundation of lies and deceit. It was followed by an inevitable crash and then (a potential) resurrection.[more ...]
- Can the pope be fired?
The Vatican is fending off accusations that Pope Benedict XVI helped cover up sexual child abuse in the Catholic Church when he was archbishop of Munich and Freising in the 1970s and '80s. If more evidence turns up against Pope Benedict, can the church fire him?[more ...]
- The Slatest: Evening Edition Hawaii may have to just ignore the birthers; the meat production industry consumes more than one-quarter of the earth's land; Bill Clinton wants you to stop eating buttered popcorn at the movies.[more ...]
- By shaming the Israelis, Obama has hurt American interests in the Middle East.
Last week, one of Syria's government news organs riffed on the title of my book The Strong Horse; Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations. "The American president," Al Tharwa wrote, "was betting on the sick horse." Instead of siding with Syria's Hamas allies, Obama was backing the Palestinian Authority and its leader, Fatah's Mahmoud Abbas. From Damascus' perspective, the description also applies to the United States' other Arab allies, like Saudi Arabia and the Gulf sheikhdoms, as well as to Egypt and Jordan. These states are ready to be put out to pasture, while it is Iran's "axis of resistance," including Hezbollah and Hamas, as well as Syria itself, that represents the rising power.[more ...]
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- Slate Editor David Plotz and Daily Caller Editor Tucker Carlson chatted about health care, Israel, and Tiger Woods. Read the transcript.
Slate Editor David Plotz and Daily Caller Editor Tucker Carlson discussed health care developments, the tensions between the United States and Israel, and Tiger Woods' comeback in their weekly chat. Read the transcript below.[more ...]
- The world's oddest financial instrument: an insurance policy that pays off only if the U.S. goes bankrupt.
Does it make sense to buy insurance against, say, a nuclear attack on Washington?if all the insurance providers' headquarters are inside the Beltway? Of course not. So why do investors buy insurance on U.S. government debt?[more ...]
- An interactive map of how every story in the news is related, updated daily. Who is James Sikes?[more ...]
- Junk economics and the NCAA tournament effect.
March Madness is upon us, and news outlets are once more peddling the theory that the NCAA men's basketball tournament costs businesses billions in lost productivity. In 2006, Jack Shafer debunked the theory and admonished his fellow journalists to stay away from junk economics. The original article is reprinted below.[more ...]
- St. Patrick: No snakes. No shamrocks. Just the facts.
In 2000, David Plotz explained why St. Patrick has become a kind of dress-up doll. Catholics, Protestants, and even Americans think the Irishman was one of them. The original article is printed below.[more ...]
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on HBO's new miniseries The Pacific, Variety's fired critics, and mommy blogging.
Listen to Culture Gabfest No. 78 with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and June Thomas by clicking the arrow on the audio player below:[more ...]
- Insurance companies deny fertility treatment coverage to unmarried women.
Married, divorced, and now happily cohabitating, Marsha Greene is trying to get pregnant with her partner, a nice, divorced guy who also wants a baby but not another ring. All would be perfect, except that Marsha, at 33, has discovered that she has diminished ovarian reserves. That means Marsha's eggs are few and far between; the ones she's got aren't in terribly good shape. Marsha's doctors have recommended she start with IUI (intrauterine insemination) and, if that does not work, move to IVF (in vitro fertilization), which can run $10,000 a round.[more ...]
- Slate wants your best ideas for how to live a cheaper, more energy-efficient life.
Slate wants your best ideas for how to live a cheaper, more energy-efficient life.[more ...]
- Crossing the Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2.
After several days at sea, we settled into a routine. (We spent most of the early days getting lost in various stairwells, squinting at maps, and marveling at our swimming options.) We were entitled to three meals a day in the Britannia, but rather than subject our son to that many opportunities for intense squirming, we fell into the habit of eating breakfast and lunch in the cafeteria where we had gathered for the emergency drill on our first day.[more ...]
- Is "voluntourism" all it's cracked up to be?
Dear Sandy,I'm a young professional who has saved a week of vacation in 2010 to do something charitable and see a different part of the world. Unfortunately, I can't decipher from all the volunteerism Web sites out there which are legitimate charities and where I can find a good match for my limited time and money. Do you have any recommendations?[more ...]
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- What's wrong with the FCC's plan to bring high-speed Internet access to rural America.
Most of the buildings in Dupree, S.D., population 434, do not have street addresses. The volunteer fire department is listed at P.O. Box 461, and you have to dial seven digits to reach it since there's no 911 emergency line. Unsurprisingly, the Greater Dupree Metropolitan Area also lacks broadband Internet service. "We're about 30 years behind the rest of the United States," says Mayor Don Howe. "In some ways, that's good. It's a slower pace of life."[more ...]
- House Democrats are worried the Senate won't survive "vote-a-rama."
The process for passing health care reform can at times sound like one of those e-mails from a generous foreign banker. I am pleased to be consulting you on behalf of the Nigerian Trust and Mercantile Exchange to request your assistance deeming the Senate health care bill as passed.[more ...]
- What's wrong with the Washington Post op-ed page?
Washington Post domestic-policy blogger Ezra Klein encroached on my beat yesterday with an item griping about the surplus of op-eds by politicians on the Post's op-ed page. Such pieces "waste so much real estate publishing talking points," he declares as he pins his prey to the ground and bloodies his teeth shredding it. He writes:[more ...]
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