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Slate is an online news and culture magazine created by Microsoft in 1996 as part of MSN. On December 21, 2004, it was bought by The Washington Post Company. It is updated frequently with current and archived content free to all users. Former political correspondent Jacob Weisberg is the current editor and the Washington Post Company's Cliff Sloan is publisher [1]. The founding editor was Michael Kinsley. Like Salon.com, it covers politics, arts and culture, sports, and news. Slate is a hybrid of traditional news outlets and blogs; it is column-driven but maintains more journalistic ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Kaizar Campwala
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Nov 7, 2006 - 5:00 PM PST
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The health insurers stumble into an argument for a public option.
Health reform cleared the Senate finance committee, 14-9, without a public option. Now the trick is figuring out how to put it back in. One powerful argument for doing so ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Nonprofit Journalism Comes at a Cost
But before we get out the party hats and noise-makers to celebrate the rise of nonprofit journalism, here's the bad news. In the current arrangement, we're substituting one ...via MuckRack -
The American Way of Dentistry: How dentists think.
Dentists earn their living in a way that's markedly different from the way doctors do. Somewhere between 80 percent and 85 percent of American dentists practice as ...via Slate -
Sometimes it takes an outsider like Andrew Breitbart to show the press corps the way.
... Andrew Breitbart is a conservative... and Matt Drudge protégé. Lately, he has distributed a series of videos... in which the duo visits various ACORN offices with a ...Posted by Patricia L'Herrou -
There's a lot more to the Afghan strategy than how many troops we send
The push is on for President Barack Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan, perhaps as many as 40,000 more. Boxing in Obama was almost certainly the aim of whoever gave the ...via Memeorandum -
The United States can't win in Afghanistan unless its new president makes major reforms, and quickly.
The ballots haven't all yet been counted in Afghanistan's election, but the interim reports—of intimidation, low turnout, continued violence, and widespread fraud—bode ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Is half a torture investigation better than none at all?
Holder has fallen prey to the sort of magical legal thinking that seeps through the whole CIA report: the presumption that if there's a legal memo, it must be legal.Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Was Bill Clinton's visit to North Korea worth the time, energy, and prestige? No way.
I call your attention to a small detail about Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two American journalists who were wrongfully arrested, illegally detained, and then capriciously ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Let's pretend Obama really was born in Kenya. What would happen then?
Let's pretend, for just a moment, that the birthers had credible evidence that Obama was foreign-born. Then what would happen?Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Is Obama trying too hard not to be like his predecessors?
Obama's major difficulties predictably derive from reacting too strongly against the Clinton model. Where Clinton went wrong by being too controlling, Obama has given up to ...Posted by Derek Hawkins
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If the economy's stagnant, why are stocks up? The answer is disturbing.
Here's a puzzle: The stock markets are doing very well, yet the performance of the underlying economy doesn't seem to justify optimism. The buoyant S&P 500 has risen 53 ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Should Gen. McChrystal stop speaking publicly about Afghan war strategy? - By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine
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Why women might make better judges
Justice Sonia Sotomayor's elevation to the Supreme Court brought to the surface a long-simmering controversy about the relationship between gender and judging. Are female ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
The American Way of Dentistry Slate Magazine
Seven-part series looking at the coming dental crisis.Posted by Nys Cof -
Tehran's worst fear is a sustained and well-funded human rights campaign.
Very few security experts point out that there is another option. What do Iran's rulers truly fear, after all? I'll wager it's not sanctions, and it might not be a bombing ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
The well-deserved success of Mint.com, and what other Web businesses can learn from it.
Mint.com has benefitted from a cultural shift as well as a technological one. During the free-spending housing bubble, a Web site that encouraged people to manage spending, ...via Slate -
How Foreclosures Breed Mosquitoes
Filmmakers Andrew and Leslie Cockburn discuss a scene from their new documentary American Casino. The scene shows how a sea of abandoned swimming pools in California has ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Malpractice reform is a small price to pay for health care reform
the evidence is weak that there's a malpractice crisis in America. One Harvard study found that doctors injured 4 percent of their patients, and only 4 percent of them ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Boston's Hancock Tower and the coming commercial real estate crisis.
For most of its 34-year life, the Hancock Tower, which looms above its brick neighbors in Boston's Back Bay, has been the sort of place where money comes to be managed and ...via Slate -
The cupcake boom is here. The cupcake crash is coming.
In recent years, the response to a popped economic bubble has been to create a new one. The pierced dot-com/telecommunications bubble paved the way for the housing/credit ...via MuckRack
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