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By shaming the Israelis, Obama has hurt American interests in the Middle East.
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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 [More...]
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The world's oddest financial instrument: an insurance policy that pays off only if the U.S. goes bankrupt.
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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 ...] [More...]
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Slate Editor David Plotz and Daily Caller Editor Tucker Carlson will chat about health care, Israel, and Tiger Woods at 3:30 p.m.
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Slate Editor David Plotz and Daily Caller Editor Tucker Carlson will discuss the latest health care developments, the tensions between the United States and Israel, and Tiger Woods' comeback in their weekly chat at 3:30 p.m. ET. You can follow the chat in [More...]
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Junk economics and the NCAA tournament effect.
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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 [More...]
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Lost: More literary references.
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Jack, it seems only fitting that you'd enjoy a Sawyer-centric episode. Not only is he your angry alter-ego, he's also been hitting your pop culture g-spot this season. Iggy Pop. Steve McQueen. If next week's episode shows him in a Detroit Tigers hat [More...]
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St. Patrick: No snakes. No shamrocks. Just the facts.
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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 ...] Irish people - st [More...]
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Slate's Culture Gabfest on HBO's new miniseries The Pacific, Variety's fired critics, and mommy blogging.
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Listen to Culture Gabfest No. 78 with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and June Thomas by clicking the arrow on the audio player below: [more ...] Slate - HBO - Variety - Culture Gabfest - Miniseries
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Insurance companies deny fertility treatment coverage to unmarried women.
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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 [More...]
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Is "voluntourism" all it's cracked up to be?
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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 [More...]
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Lost: Flower power.
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Gents: Allow me to begin with a complaint this time instead of building up to one. I wish that I were writing about next week's episode, "Ab Aeterno" —Latin for "from the beginning of time," if your computer isn't close by—which [More...]
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What's wrong with the FCC's plan to bring high-speed Internet access to rural America.
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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 [More...]
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House Democrats are worried the Senate won't survive "vote-a-rama."
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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 [More...]
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What's wrong with the Washington Post op-ed page?
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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 [More...]
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The unfathomable Supreme Court penchant for talking politics.
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You know things have gone ugly between the president and the Supreme Court when we're all talking about 1937 again. That was when tensions between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes led FDR to call out the court in [More...]
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How do you get an apartment in East Jerusalem?
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Palestinian youths clashed with Israeli forces on Tuesday—part of a continuing row over the Israeli Interior Ministry's plans to build new housing units in East Jerusalem. Cabinet Secretary Zvi Hauser defended the move against criticism from the United [More...]
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Ginni Thomas brings the Tea Party to the Supreme Court.
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Virginia Thomas has many ardent defenders. In fact, it's hard to find anyone who doesn't think that Ginni, as everyone calls the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, has a perfect right to launch herself headlong into the Tea Party movement with the founding [More...]
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Why it's not idiotic to buy an iPad when it goes on sale April 3.
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One summer day nearly three years ago, I waited in line for 12 hours outside a San Francisco shopping mall so I could get my hands on the first iPhone. Some people romanticize waiting in line for gadgets, concert tickets, and other scarce goods—they see [More...]
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Kentucky's John Calipari is the sleaziest coach in a sleazy game.
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I do not believe that Kentucky is going to win this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament. This is one reason why: I watched them beat the tar out of Tennessee in the SEC tournament, a ridiculous 74-45 blowout during which freshman center DeMarcus [More...]
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More regulation won't fix Wall Street, but a shareholder revolution will.
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The economic cataclysm has shaken the most fervent believers in the invisible hand, from Judge Richard Posner to Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, leading many of them—and most of the American public—to support a fundamental shift in the [More...]
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Why is it called "March Madness"?
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The 2010 NCAA men's basketball tournament opens today in Dayton, Ohio. As "March Madness" once again descends on our nation, it begs the question: How did the tournament get its nickname? In 2004, Brendan Koerner reviewed its contentious legal [More...]
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