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The New York Times Discovers It’s Virtually Impossible To Keep Weight Off

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By L. V. Anderson - Dec. 29 (Opinion) - With New Year’s and its attendant resolutions just around the corner, articles about weight loss are cropping up in all the usual places (i.e., everywhere you look). One of the most comprehensive and personal essays on the topic can be found in this week

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Lean Six Sigma: Mike George's sitcom-approved idea for making the federal government more efficient.

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - Dec. 02 (News) - If Mike George gets his way, the next president will give his (or her) victory speech, brush the confetti off his (or her) blazer, and then schedule a couple of days to duck out of the spotlight and take a seminar with some business consultants."From the t

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Poll: People Who'd Pay Higher Taxes Under 9-9-9 Think They'd Pay Lower Taxes

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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The worst mistake America made after 9/11

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Anne Applebaum - Sep. 04 (Opinion) - On Sept. 11, 2001, the post-Cold War era that began so euphorically on Nov. 9, 1989, abruptly ended. The long decade that stretched from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the fall of the World Trade Center was marked by military spending cuts, domestic political scandals, and a general sense that American foreign policy was adrift. President George H.W. Bush had talked of the "New World Order" but had no policy to fit the clever phrase. President Bill Clinton had a clutch of policies but never found a neat way to describe them.[more ...]

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Go Ahead, Eat Chocolate for Breakfast

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Nadia Arumugam - Aug. 03 (Opinion) - Nutella isn't the breakfast demon that Hohenberg and others make it out to be, certainly not when consumed as advertised.

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The Great Recession, Part II

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Joseph E. Stiglitz - Jul. 07 (Opinion) - Regrettably, the financial markets and right-wing economists have gotten the problem exactly backward: They believe that austerity produces confidence, and that confidence will produce growth. But austerity undermines growth, worsening the government's fiscal position, or at least yielding less improvement than austerity's advocates promise. On both counts, confidence is undermined, and a downward spiral is set in motion.

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Mr. Ambassador, Meet President Zuckerberg

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Cyrus Farivar - May. 27 (Opinion) - Facebook is sending diplomats to foreign countries. Now foreign countries should send diplomats to Facebook.

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Is It "Justice"?

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Thomas Nachbar - May. 09 (Opinion) - violence can be a form of justice, and justice occasionally requires acts of violence, butr, despite their occasionally close relationship, justice and violence should never be confused...

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New York Times Public Editor Arthur S. Brisbane's stupid ideas on how to cover the press. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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The Do-Nothing Plan

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Annie Lowrey - Apr. 13 (Opinion) - Slate proposes the Do-Nothing Plan for Deficit Reduction, a meek, cowardly effort to wrest the country back into the black. The overarching principle of the Do-Nothing Plan is this: Leave everything as is.

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Taxing Our Patience Paul Ryan's budget plan shows why we need to raise taxes, not cut them.

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Annie Lowrey - Apr. 09 (Opinion) - Rep. Paul Ryan's grand plan to dig America out of its fiscal hole is an extreme exercise in small government by brute force. It slashes Medicaid, the health care plan for the poor and disabled, by giving states block grants that grow slowly to force them to cut care or kick people out. It makes drastic Medicare cuts for those under 55, turning the program into a voucher system in which seniors will have to pay more for stingier insurance. It takes funding from Pell Grants, food stamps, and a host of other domestic programs. It also repeals the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform law, almost as an afterthought. By 2030 or so, it wrenches the country back into the black—but only by relying on huge cuts and eyebrow-raising revenue and employment projections.[more ...]

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Cowardly, Stupid, and Tragically Wrong

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Dahlia Lithwick - Apr. 06 (Opinion) - In reversing one of its last principled positions—that American courts are sufficiently nimble, fair, and transparent to try Mohammed and his confederates—the administration surrendered to the bullying, fear-mongering, and demagoguery of those seeking to create two separate kinds of American law.

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Abortion

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Toles - Mar. 31 (Cartoon) - cartoon

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The Google Books settlement should teach the company humility. It won't

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Siva Vaidyanathan - Mar. 23 (Opinion) - Google has been humbled. For a company with the audacity to make "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible" its mission statement, it takes a lot to take Google down a peg. But yesterday federal Judge Denny Chin did just that. He ruled—after more than two years of study and debate—that the elaborate new used-book store that Google had designed in collaboration with the most elite authors and publishers could not stand. Or, at least, Chin ruled that the methods Google chose to build this massive digital bookstore, now called Google Books, was improper.

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David Simon, Creator of The Wire, Speaks on Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's Arrest - Slate Magazine (blog)

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:39:46 -0800

Slate - Mar. 10 - Sydney Morning HeraldDavid Simon, Creator of The Wire, Speaks on Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's ArrestSlate Magazine (blog)Earlier today, The Wire actress Felicia "Snoop" Pearson was arrested as part of a large-scale drug raid in Baltimore. What follows is a personal statement from David Simon, creator and executive producer of The Wire (and currently in production on ...Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson, actress in 'The Wire,' arrested in Baltimore drug raidLos Angeles TimesGang Member From The Wire Arrested In Real-Life Drug RaidPaste MagazineFelicia 'Snoop' Pearson of 'The Wire' arrestedWashington PostBaltimore Sun -NPR (blog) -TheCelebrityCafe.comall 506 news articles »

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CPAC 2011: Atlas Shrugged, The Motion Picture

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By David Weigel - Feb. 11 (Opinion) - FreedomWorks has been distributing "Who Is John Galt?" signs and merchandise at CPAC, part of an advertisement for a faithful adaptation of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged." Clips from the movie have been playing at CPAC. I haven't watched them all. I have seen the trailer.

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SEO Speedwagon

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By Jack Shafer - Feb. 07 (Opinion) - Back in 2005, no self-respecting journalist would ever sink so low to chum the waters with such foul SEO bait. But thanks to Huffington, all self-respecting journalists—especially those who fear for their jobs—have abandoned those anxieties and are happy to chase Arianna's SEO Speedwagon wherever it may go.

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Whispering at Autocrats

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Tom Malinowski - Jan. 25 (Opinion) - Did the Wikileaked State Department cables that described Tunisia's deposed leader Zine el-Abedin Ben Ali as the head of a corrupt police state play any role in encouraging the democratic uprising against him -- and thus spark the wave of protests now spreading across Egypt? I asked our experts at Human Rights Watch to canvass their sources in the country, and the consensus was that while Tunisians didn't need American diplomats to tell them how bad their government was, the cables did have an impact.

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House Conservatives Introduce Spending Cuts: $2.5 Trillion Over Ten Years

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By David Weigel - Jan. 20 (News Analysis) - You can stop needling Republicans about what programs they want to cut now. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)'s Republican Study Committee is introducing the Spending Reduction Act of 2011, to cut back "non-security discretionary spending" to 2008 levels and to slice that spending back to 2006 levels from 2012 onward.

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O, A Presidential Novel: Why aren't there better novels about Washington? - By John Dickerson - Slate Magazine

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By John Dickerson - Jan. 20 (Review) - Why isn't there a great novel about political Washington? The city is full of exciting emotions—ambition, passion, deceit. The architecture is suitable for midnight intrigue and character growth. The city also contains parts of the American story—racial tension and a huge gap between the rich and poor. Yet this week we get O: A Presidential Novel, written by Anonymous. It is less a book than a marketing exercise. The pitch meeting must have been awful. The Web page will use Obama's ears! We'll post video! Twitter! We'll keep people guessing! Journalists are denying authorship for fear of being tied to the bad writing. Not since Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction has there been such an awkward striptease.[more ...]

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What industrial safety can teach us about preventing financial meltdowns.

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By Tim Hartford - Jan. 17 (News Analysis) - The connection between banks and nuclear reactors is not obvious to most bankers, nor banking regulators. But to the men and women who study industrial accidents such as Three Mile Island, Deepwater Horizon, Bhopal or the Challenger shuttle—engineers, psychologists and even sociologists—the connection is obvious.

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Friendly Firearms

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By William Saletan - Jan. 11 (News Analysis) - Gabrielle Giffords and the perils of guns: How an armed hero nearly shot the wrong man.

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The awesome stupidity of the calls to tamp down political speech in the wake of the Giffords shooting.

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By Jack Shafer - Jan. 09 (Opinion) - The attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and the killing of six innocents outside a Tucson Safeway has bolstered the ongoing argument that when speaking of things political, we should all avoid using inflammatory rhetoric and violence.

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If the FCC had regulated the Internet: A counterfactual history of cyberspace.

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By Jack Shafer - Dec. 24 (Opinion) - The FCC immediately determines that the lack of interoperability among the online systems harms consumers and orders that each company submit a technical framework by January 1994 under which all online companies will unify to one shared technology in the near future. The precedent for this are the technical standards that the FCC has been setting for decades for AM and FM, and for television. The online services threaten legal action again, and again Congress passes new legislation authorizing the FCC to do as it wishes. The online companies hustle to submit a technical framework. Microsoft wants in on the game, so it persuades the FCC to extend the framework deadline to July 1995.

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Michael Bloomberg, American God

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By Jack Shafer - Dec. 17 (Opinion) - no mere presidency can contain the ambition of a man worth $18 billion. Being president would require power-sharing, consensus-building, and persuasion. Bloomberg, meanwhile, runs the world's greatest city as a personal fiefdom and reports to nobody. If he woke up in the White House tomorrow, every two-bit member of Congress, every over-reaching federal judge, and every journalist in the country would think him their equal and pester him with their demands.

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