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The Republican Death Machine


Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 - 8:55am

from SlateIn the words of Sen. Charles Grassley, proposed Democratic health care policies would "pull the plug on Grandma." But it turns out that some Republican policies may hurt the elderly even more:

  • Jacob Weisberg is editor in chief of The Slate Group, and author of The Bush Tragedy.

Unchain the Office Computers!


Posted Friday, August 28, 2009 - 9:23am

from SlateIT restrictions in the workplace can be annoying and make your job harder. Slate's Farhad Manjoo makes the case for getting rid of these rules:

 

  • Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society.

Oil: Too Important; Too Slippery


Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 - 10:02am

Foreign Policy has an entire package on the past, present, and future of oil. The capstone is an essay by Daniel Yergen about how oil has changed in the past few decades. Chief among the changes is the commodity's new volatility.

  • Daniel Yergin received a Pulitzer Prize for The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, published in an updated edition this year. He is chairman of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates.

Back Adswards


Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 - 9:27am

from SlateIn selected cities, an upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly will include a tiny digital screen playing ads. Is the promotion worthwhile or a waste of money?

 

  • Seth Stevenson is a frequent contributor to Slate.

Can the Google Phone Be Saved?


Posted Friday, August 21, 2009 - 1:17pm

from SlateIf Google's (GOOG) phone is so great, why aren't people buying it? Slate's Farhad Manjoo explains:

 

  • Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society.

Reappoint Bernanke As Soon As Possible


Posted Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 10:57am

There's a consensus emerging that Ben Bernanke will indeed be reappointed as Chairman of the Fed. Here's why the decision should be sped up:

Still a Chump's Game


Posted Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 8:47am

from SlateIs it time for the small investor to jump back into the stock market? Definitely not, says Eliot Spitzer in Slate:

 

  • Eliot Spitzer is the former governor of the state of New York.

Could America Run Out of Sugar?


Posted Monday, August 17, 2009 - 10:12am

from SlateSome big-name American food companies, like Kraft (KFT), General Mills (GIS), and Hershey (HSY), have sent a letter to the Department of Agriculture warning that a deficit in the sugar supply could cause the United States to "virtually run out" of the sweet s

  • Juliet Lapidos is a Slate assistant editor.

Take That, Recession

Posted Monday, August 17, 2009 - 9:45am

In her continuing series on how Slate readers are coping with the recession, Emily Bazelon asks what folks can't part with despite the downturn.

  • Emily Bazelon is a Slate senior editor.

To Live, Twitter Must Die

Posted Friday, August 14, 2009 - 11:18am

from SlateFarhad Manjoo cares about Twitter, which is why he thinks it has to cede power. In Slate, he writes that the Twitter outage last week was a warning sign and we'd be wise to make some changes.

  • Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society.

The Half-Million-Dollar Wiener

Posted Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 11:20am

from SlateAt Slate, Meredith Simons investigates the far-too-often-ignored economics of hot dogs.

  • Meredith Simons is a DoubleX intern.

Is Television Over?

Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 10:21am

Has the advertising industry's business model corroded? And if so, what does that mean for the future of TV? Seth Stevenson talks it through at Slate:

If you love to hate ads, you might enjoy two new books that train their sights on modern marketing. The first makes the case that advertising as we know it is about to be obliterated. The second suggests that we should all dance a gleeful polka on its grave.

For more on Stevenson's take on the books, click here.

  • Seth Stevenson is a frequent contributor to Slate.

The Wall Street Journal's Fraud Blindness

Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 8:43am

Eliot Spitzer takes to the pages of Slate to rebut his Wall Street Journal critics:

  • Eliot Spitzer is the former governor of the state of New York.

The Great iPhone Lockdown

Posted Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 9:00am

from SlateIs absolute power corrupting Apple? The tech world is asking that question after it refused to make seemingly innocuous apps available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

  • Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society.

The Newspaper-Web War


Posted Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 9:19am

from SlateNewspapers just can't catch a break. In much of the same way that radio did before, the Web is threatening the existence of print media: 

  • Jack Shafer is Slate's editor at large.

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