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Seth Stevenson
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Feb. 6, 2012
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Welcome to Ad Report Card’s annual Super Bowl special. Please forgive my post-traumatic mood. As a Patriots fan, I watched that fourth quarter with my heart at 230 b.p.m. ...
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Ron Rosenbaum
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Feb. 6, 2012
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Are we supposed to trust Chris Christie because of his size? Authenticity. It has become the most longed for, least well-defined, most argued-over quality in our culture, has ...
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Jonah Weiner
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Feb. 6, 2012
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Did you catch LMFAO at Halftime? No, not the actual Super Bowl halftime show. That was Madonna. But LMFAO did appear in a Bud Light commercial, in which they were booked to ...
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Matthew J.X. Malady
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Feb. 6, 2012
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Is the exclamation point really in the right place on the keyboard? In an essay last week for Slate, I asserted that everybody hates something about their computer keyboard. ...
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June Thomas
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Feb. 6, 2012
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Dear Seth, Dan, and whoever you are, dude in the Invisible Man bandages, This week we were battered about the head by considerations of legitimacy: how much easier life is ...
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John Dickerson
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Feb. 6, 2012
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Did the first Obama re-election ad run during the Super Bowl? You might have missed it since the president wasn't even mentioned. It was a Chrysler ad, although even that ...
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Josh Levin
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Feb. 6, 2012
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Eli Manning raises his arms in quasi-triumph after Ahmad Bradshaw runs in for the game-winning score in Super Bowl XLVI. In the movie version of the Giants’ 21-17 Super Bowl ...
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Brian Palmer
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Feb. 6, 2012
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MIA performs an obscene gesture with a storied history during the Super Bowl halftime show The obscene gesture itself is far older than that, though. As many writers have ...
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June Thomas
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Feb. 6, 2012
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Clare Calbraith as Jane and Hugh Bonneville as Lord Grantham Nick Briggs/Courtesy of © Carnival Film & Television Limited 2011 for MASTERPIECE. So, we’ve gotten to the ...
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Matthew Yglesias
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Feb. 6, 2012
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One reason for complacency is the batch of recent good news. In late January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the economy added 200,000 jobs in December on a ...
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David Plotz
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Feb. 6, 2012
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In January, as the culmination of the “” project, Slate and our sponsor Liberty Mutual hosted a discussion about entrepreneurship with four fascinating Chicago ...
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Slate
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Seth Stevenson
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Feb. 6, 2012
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This was the week Downton hit its soapy stride. As daytime drama aficionados know, no soap worth its bones can make it through more than 1.5 seasons without resorting to an ...
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Andy Bowers
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Feb. 6, 2012
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Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 1: A Sin of Which None Is Guilty
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Emily Yoffe
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Feb. 6, 2012
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Stefan Fatsis
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Feb. 6, 2012
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Listen to "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca by clicking the arrow on the audio player below:
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David Weigel
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Feb. 5, 2012
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Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign rally at the regional airport on in Elko, Nev., on Friday, a day in advance of the state's GOP caucus LAS VEGAS—“It’s a very ...
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Julian Baggini
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Feb. 5, 2012
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Point, Texas (pop. 792) is not the easiest place for a single lesbian to raise her child. But neither her sexuality nor her unwed parenthood are enough to make Renee Johnson ...
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Lawrence Marcus
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Feb. 4, 2012
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The term refers to partying in a parking lot, but college and NFL football fans across the country treat tailgating as over-the-top celebrations with enviable food. "We want ...
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Sonia Tsuruoka
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Feb. 4, 2012
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“Colbert v. the Court: Why, in the battle over Citizens United, the Supreme Court never had a chance,” by Dahlia Lithwick. Stephen Colbert’s super PAC is no joke. It’s ...
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Nigel Andrews
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Feb. 4, 2012
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What would it be like to be the first three-time Golden Palm winners in Cannes history?” It was the question Belgium’s Dardenne brothers were asked as regularly as a gong ...
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David Weigel
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Feb. 3, 2012
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Supporters of Ron Paul direct cars into the parking lot before a rally in Elko, Nev. ELKO, Nev.—“I know how to fix it,” says Bill Crabb. It’s after midnight at the Red ...
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Matthew Yglesias
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Feb. 3, 2012
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Mark Zuckerberg will have 57 percent of the voting rights after Facebook's IPO. When it goes public, Facebook will be conducting an experiment in corporate dictatorship nearly ...
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Brian Palmer
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Feb. 3, 2012
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Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, smoking cigar. Max Halberstadt, This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, ...
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Chris Brown
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Feb. 3, 2012
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Tom Brady celebrates with Bill Belichick during the Patriots' December win over the Colts. How is Brady so good at what he does? Much of it has to do with experience and ...
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Blair Hickman
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Feb. 3, 2012
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Will the Super Bowl have any economic benefit for Indianapolis? Here are this week's top must-read stories from #MuckReads, ProPublica's ongoing collection of the best ...
