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Slate—the Internet's informed look at news, politics, and culture. Slate separates the facts from the spin with thought-provoking stories, irreverent humor, and delicious reads.

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893) Texting During a Work Dinner: Manners for the Digital Age #15

Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate the question: Is it OK to text about your co-workers during a work dinner?

Datum: 31.07.2011 16:21 • Größe: 2.3 MB

892) Slate: The Ugly, Mashed-Together Compromise Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Annie Lowrey, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The pressing debt ceiling debate, the politically-based shootings in Norway, and bullying gay students in Minnesota

Datum: 29.07.2011 00:08 • Größe: 22 MB

891) DoubleX Gabfest: The Goodbye Amy Edition

Listen to Slate’s show about the Oslo killer’s misogyny, Amy Winehouse’s death, and the pill for men.

Datum: 28.07.2011 03:30 • Größe: 20.1 MB

890) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Featuring Marc Maron Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Errol Morris’s new Rashomon-meets-Octomom documentary Tabloid and the long-awaited arrival of music streaming service Spotify. For their final segment, they’re joined by comedian and podcast host Marc Maron to discuss his podcast WTF wi...

Datum: 27.07.2011 05:59 • Größe: 32.3 MB

889) Hang Up and Listen: The NFL Unlocked Edition

Josh Levin, Mike Pesca, and guest Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal discuss the coming end of the NFL lockout, the dramatic finish and barbed-wire crashes at this year’s Tour de France, and the debate over whether college athletes should be paid.

Datum: 25.07.2011 22:50 • Größe: 18.3 MB

888) Are Some Things Too Private for Facebook?: Manners for the Digital Age #14

Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate the question: Should you announce everything, even a death, on Facebook?

Datum: 24.07.2011 14:00 • Größe: 2.7 MB

887) Slate: The Gang of Six Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Weigel, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The continuing debt ceiling debate, the 2012 presidential race, and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire

Datum: 22.07.2011 04:59 • Größe: 22.2 MB

886) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Vulture Epaulets Edition

Listen to Slate's show about the end of the Harry Potter film series, Facebook competitor Google+, and the Alexander McQueen exhibit at the Met.

Datum: 20.07.2011 04:05 • Größe: 23.2 MB

885) Hang Up and Listen: The "Did They Choke?" Edition

Josh Levin, Mike Pesca, and guest Hanna Rosin discuss Team USA’s loss to Japan in the Women’s World Cup final. They also talk to infographics wiz Craig Robinson about his book Flip Flop Fly Ball and discuss the legend of Dock Ellis’ LSD-fueled no-hitter.

Datum: 19.07.2011 03:00 • Größe: 21.3 MB

884) Who Invited the Smartphone to Dinner?: Manners for the Digital Age #13

Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate the question: Is it rude to place your cell phone on the table during a night out with friends?

Datum: 17.07.2011 14:00 • Größe: 3.3 MB

883) Slate: The Dogs and Mimes Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The debt ceiling debate, Amazon’s sales tax fight in California, and Utah’s anti-bigamy laws

Datum: 15.07.2011 10:38 • Größe: 23.5 MB

882) Audio Book Club: J.K. Rowling?s Harry Potter series

Slate editors Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin discuss the final book in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Joining them are two Potter enthusiasts: Emily’s son Simon, 8, and Hanna’s daughter Noa, 10. They discuss death, loyalty and Snape's love for Lily.

Datum: 15.07.2011 04:28 • Größe: 17.5 MB

881) The DoubleX Gabfest: The Broken Homes and Betty Ford Edition

DoubleX editors discuss Betty Ford’s legacy, The Gen X divorce memoir In Spite of Everything, and the Jamie Leigh Jones rape case against KBR.

Datum: 14.07.2011 02:52 • Größe: 18.2 MB

880) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Totally Gruesome Edition

Listen to Slate's show about Jason Zinoman’s guide to fixing modern horror, the film industry’s all-too-familiar approach to online piracy, and the latest debate over antidepressants.

Datum: 13.07.2011 01:55 • Größe: 21.1 MB

879) Hang Up and Listen: The Hope Solo Durant Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca, and guest Franklin Foer discuss the USA women’s soccer team’s win over Brazil. Josh, Mike, and Frank also talk to Bob Gorman about deaths at baseball stadiums and ponder whether locked-out NBA players will go abroad.

Datum: 11.07.2011 21:00 • Größe: 24 MB

878) So You've Accepted a Friend Request, Now What?: Manners for the Digital Age #12

Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate the question: What's the polite way to accept a friend request?

Datum: 10.07.2011 14:00 • Größe: 2.6 MB

877) Slate: The 32 Weapons Gabfest

Slate's John Dickerson, David Plotz, and special guest Emily Yoffe discuss a possible breakthrough in federal budget talks, the News of the World newspaper scandal in the U.K., and the near collapse of the DSK rape case.

Datum: 08.07.2011 06:06 • Größe: 21.7 MB

876) Hang Up and Listen: The War Between Fear and Exhaustion Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the first week of the Women’s World Cup. Josh and Mike also talk to Bill James about his writing process, the difference between statheads and scouts, his work for the Red Sox, and his book Popular Crime

Datum: 06.07.2011 03:30 • Größe: 29.3 MB

875) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Real Men Cheat on Their Wives Edition

Listen to Slate's show on Dan Savage’s take on monogamy, Ashton Kutcher vs. The Village Voice, and the message board 4chan.

Datum: 06.07.2011 01:00 • Größe: 19.8 MB

874) Does Love Mean Sharing Passwords?: Manners for the Digital Age #11

Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate the question: Should a married couple share their email passwords?

Datum: 03.07.2011 13:00 • Größe: 2.7 MB

873) Slate: The Mucking About Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The debt ceiling debate, Michele Bachmann’s presidential candidacy, and the Supreme Court ruling on violent video games

Datum: 01.07.2011 08:59 • Größe: 23.3 MB

872) DoubleX Gabfest: The What Does Anderson Cooper Do At Night? Edition

Listen to Slate’s show about Michele Bachmann, journalist Mac McClelland on sex, violence and PTSD, and whether Bad Teacher is good for women in comedy.

Datum: 30.06.2011 03:14 • Größe: 18 MB

871) Slate, The Culture Gabfest, Hornivores of the Savannah Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner are joined by Slate’s foreign editor June Thomas to discuss her new Slate series on gay bars—their riotous past and uncertain future. For their next segment, they discuss the new HB...

Datum: 29.06.2011 01:00 • Größe: 22.6 MB

870) Hang Up and Listen: The Amateur Vexillology Edition

Mike Pesca, Josh Levin, and guest Bryan Curtis discuss Mexico’s Gold Cup win over the United States; Derek Jeter, Roger Federer, and what happens when athletes get old; and the childhood events that lead us to become sports fans.

Datum: 27.06.2011 20:10 • Größe: 26.9 MB

869) Audio Book Club: Caleb?s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

Slate editors Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, and the New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot discuss Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks’ latest historical novel, Caleb’s Crossing.

Datum: 27.06.2011 11:00 • Größe: 15.4 MB

868) Audio Book Club: Caleb?s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

Slate editors Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, and the New Yorker?s Margaret Talbot discuss Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks? latest historical novel, Caleb?s Crossing.

Datum: 27.06.2011 05:00 • Größe: 15.4 MB

867) Texting Behind the Wheel: Manners for the Digital Age #10

Should you confront another driver who's texting while driving? Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate the question.

Datum: 27.06.2011 02:10 • Größe: 5.9 MB

866) Texting Behind the Wheel: Manners for the Digital Age #10

Should you confront another driver who's texting while driving? Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate the question.

Datum: 26.06.2011 15:00 • Größe: 5.9 MB

865) Slate: The Blood and Treasure Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: President Obama?s Afghanistan troop decision, the Wal-Mart class-action suit, and one illegal immigrant?s story

Datum: 24.06.2011 05:06 • Größe: 24.4 MB

864) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Summer Strut Edition

In this week's episode, critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss Page One, a new documentary about the New York Times, Stephen's Slate article about Robert Nozick, and the results of Julia's search for a great summer strutting song.

Datum: 22.06.2011 05:33 • Größe: 21.8 MB

863) Hang Up and Listen: The Pumping Rory McIlroy's Tires Edition

Stefan Fatsis and Mike Pesca discuss Rory McIlroy's U.S. Open win, preview the NBA Draft, and delve into the sociology of sports fan violence.

Datum: 20.06.2011 23:15 • Größe: 19.7 MB

862) Email Gone Astray: Manners for the Digital Age #9

What should you do if you get an email meant for someone else? Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate the question.

Datum: 20.06.2011 12:51 • Größe: 3.8 MB

861) Slate: The Fighting Against the System Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Republican presidential candidates debate, the War Powers Act fight, and free speech in America?s schools

Datum: 17.06.2011 05:52 • Größe: 21.1 MB

860) DoubleX Gabfest: The Shrink It and Wax It Edition

DoubleX editors Hanna Rosin, Jessica Grose, and Kate Julian discuss Lori Gottlieb?s Atlantic cover story How to Land Your Kid in Therapy, the ongoing murder trial of Casey Anthony, and men who wax, like disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner.

Datum: 16.06.2011 01:55 • Größe: 16.8 MB

859) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, I?m Doing The World A Favor Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss J.J. Abrams? new film Super 8, the blockbuster book Go The Fuck To Sleep, and the viral video reviving America?s battle over bike lanes.

Datum: 15.06.2011 03:06 • Größe: 19.3 MB

858) Hang Up and Listen: The Couldn't Stand the Heat Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the Dallas Mavericks? NBA Finals victory over LeBron James and the Miami Heat, the Stanley Cup Finals between the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins, and the debut of Bill Simmons? website Grantland.

Datum: 13.06.2011 21:13 • Größe: 27.4 MB

857) Relationship Status Stress: Manners for the Digital Age #8

What happens if one person in a relationship wants to post their status on Facebook, but the other doesn't? Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate the question.

Datum: 13.06.2011 04:49 • Größe: 4 MB

856) Slate: The Pathetic Weiner Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The political future of Anthony Weiner, Republican presidential politics, and banning circumcision in California

Datum: 10.06.2011 06:00 • Größe: 21.1 MB

855) Slate, The Culture Gabfest: The Bite Is A Gift Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss Dan Kois?s NYT Magazine Riff on ?Eating Your Cultural Vegetables,? MTV?s new Twilight-style series Teen Wolf, and Louis Menand?s recent New Yorker article on ?Debating the Value of College in Ameri...

Datum: 08.06.2011 04:43 • Größe: 16.8 MB

854) Hang Up and Listen: The Tennis' Earl Campbell Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the first three games of the NBA Finals. They also talk about Rafael Nadal?s French Open win with Jon Wertheim and end by discussing Buster Posey and the ethics of smashing into home plate.

Datum: 06.06.2011 21:08 • Größe: 27.3 MB

853) OK to Ignore a Tweet?: Manners for the Digital Age #7

Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate the question: Is it rude not to reply to a Twitter message directed at you?

Datum: 06.06.2011 00:06 • Größe: 3.9 MB

852) Slate: The Tweeting your Staff Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The national economy, Mitt Romney enters the presidential race, and Anthony Weiner's tweets

Datum: 03.06.2011 05:58 • Größe: 21.3 MB

851) DoubleX Gafest: The Bunga Bunga Botox Edition

Listen to Slate?s show about Ariel Levy?s New Yorker article on Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi, Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin?s potential White House bids, and two articles on aging.

Datum: 02.06.2011 03:37 • Größe: 16.9 MB

850) Slate, The Culture Gabfest: We?re F#@king F#@ked Edition

Our critics discuss Terrence Malick?s The Tree of Life starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, the untimely death of Gil Scott-Heron, and David Mamet?s newfound conservativism on this week?s Culture Gabfest podcast.

Datum: 01.06.2011 04:50 • Größe: 18.9 MB

849) Hang Up and Listen: The Platonic Ideal of Team Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Mike Pesca and guest host Franklin Foer discuss the NBA Finals matchup, Jim Tressel's resignation, Barcelona's Champion's League title, FIFA's latest troubles, and cheerleading as a college sport.

Datum: 31.05.2011 22:34 • Größe: 25.2 MB

848) Audio Book Club: Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Our critics, including Yale historian David Blight, discuss the Civil War classic The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara.

Datum: 31.05.2011 02:38 • Größe: 20.1 MB

847) Hiding Your Guest List: Manners for the Digital Age #6

Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate the question: When is it all right to hide your guest list in an Evite or in the BCC line?

Datum: 29.05.2011 14:06 • Größe: 4.5 MB

846) Slate: The Crazy Ideological Jag Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Sarah Palin and the 2012 Republican presidential race, a victory for Democrats in New York, and the Supreme Court and California prisons

Datum: 27.05.2011 04:59 • Größe: 22.5 MB

845) Slate: Talking to Flannery Mullins: The first interview with one of the teens ch

Over the past year, Slate?s Emily Bazelon has been reporting on what led to the 2010 suicide of a 15-year-old Phoebe Prince. Emily Bazelon sat down for the first public interview with one member of the so-called South Hadley Six, a girl who has not spoken out until now about her experience in the l...

Datum: 26.05.2011 15:28 • Größe: 10.3 MB

844) Slate: Talking to Flannery Mullins: The first interview with one of the teens ch

Datum: 26.05.2011 04:10 • Größe: 10.3 MB

843) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Edge of Glory Is Sitting On My Face, But Don?t T

Listen to Slate's show about Lady Gaga?s Born This Way, Bob Dylan?s 70th birthday, and the latest controversy over acclaimed novelist Philip Roth.

Datum: 25.05.2011 03:27 • Größe: 20.7 MB

842) Hang Up and Listen: The How ESPN Changed the World Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Mike Pesca and guest host Richard Sandomir discuss a new oral history of ESPN, Comcast?s coming challenge to ESPN, and the ongoing financial troubles of New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon.

Datum: 23.05.2011 22:12 • Größe: 24.3 MB

841) Declaring Your Love on Facebook: Manners for the Digital Age #5

Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate social dilemmas caused by new technology. Today, is Facebook the right place to declare your love?

Datum: 22.05.2011 15:38 • Größe: 3.6 MB

840) Slate: The Breakfast at Tiffany's Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: President Obama?s Middle East speech, the Republican presidential race heating up, and the sexual escapades of prominent men

Datum: 20.05.2011 17:40 • Größe: 21.9 MB

839) DoubleX Gabfest: The Dodo and Barbie Edition

Listen to Slate?s show about Dominique Strauss-Kahn?s alleged sexual assault, Schwarzenegger?s secret love child, the rise in vaginoplasty and Roseanne Barr?s New York Magazine article.

Datum: 19.05.2011 01:46 • Größe: 16.6 MB

838) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Tacky But Vigorous Edition

This week our critics discuss the global reactions to the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Eurotrash at the Eurovision Song Contest, and the raunchy new comedy Bridesmaids.

Datum: 18.05.2011 03:24 • Größe: 19.4 MB

837) Hang Up and Listen: The Fair Enough Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the final four teams in the NBA playoffs. They also talk about the anonymity of baseball?s best hitter, an NBA executive?s decision to come out, and the decline of sports nicknames.

Datum: 16.05.2011 20:15 • Größe: 23.1 MB

836) Manners for the Digital Age #4: Late Night Texting

Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate social dilemmas caused by new technology. Today, is it ever too late to text?

Datum: 15.05.2011 14:48 • Größe: 3.9 MB

835) Manners for the Digital Age #4: Late Night Texting

Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate social dilemmas caused by new technology. Today, is it ever too late to text?

Datum: 15.05.2011 14:48 • Größe: 3.9 MB

834) Slate: The Miserly Scrooge Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Fallout over the death of Osama bin Laden, the debt ceiling fight, and whether Newt Gingrich will enter the presidential race

Datum: 13.05.2011 04:36 • Größe: 19.5 MB

833) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Grody, Moldy Breath of Tourists Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the latest documentary from Werner Herzog, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the earliest cave paintings ever discovered. For their second segment, they?re joined by Nina Shen Rastogi to discuss Wesley Yang?s New York article on Asian-Americans, ?Pap...

Datum: 11.05.2011 04:01 • Größe: 22.2 MB

832) Hang Up and Listen: The Pistol With a Ponytail Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the Lakers? playoff flameout and the concept of toughness in the NBA. They also talk about sports, war, and patriotism, and Jonathan Hock joins the show to talk about his documentary Off the Rez.

Datum: 09.05.2011 21:01 • Größe: 22.9 MB

831) Manners for the Digital Age #3: Groupon in a Group

Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate social dilemmas caused by new technology. Today, is it acceptable to split a check with an online coupon?

Datum: 09.05.2011 04:11 • Größe: 4.1 MB

830) Manners for the Digital Age #3: Groupon in a Group

Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate social dilemmas caused by new technology. Today, is it acceptable to split a check with an online coupon?

Datum: 09.05.2011 04:11 • Größe: 4.1 MB

829) Slate: The Justice and Revenge Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The death of Osama bin Laden, whether the photo of a dead bin Laden should be released to the public, and how his death affects the debate over torture

Datum: 06.05.2011 04:22 • Größe: 24.3 MB

828) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Where Are Our Manners? Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and John Swansburg discuss the death of Osama bin Laden, and whether it?s okay for Americans to celebrate his demise. They are then joined by Johann Hari, columnist for The Independent and presenter of the Johann Hari Podcast,...

Datum: 04.05.2011 02:30 • Größe: 19.4 MB

827) Hang Up and Listen: The Huge Win for America Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the matchup between the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics. Robert Lipsyte also joins the show to discuss his memoir An Accidental Sportswriter as well as sports leagues? recent responses to anti-gay slurs.

Datum: 02.05.2011 21:06 • Größe: 25.1 MB

826) Manners for the Digital Age #2: Dinner Party Downloading

Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate social dilemmas caused by new technology. Today, when is it acceptable to use a smart phone at a dinner party?

Datum: 02.05.2011 03:57 • Größe: 7.7 MB

825) Manners for the Digital Age #2: Dinner Party Downloading

Datum: 02.05.2011 03:57 • Größe: 7.7 MB

824) Slate: The Big Day Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The President?s birth certificate, the Administration?s security shake-up, and no defense for the Defense of Marriage Act

Datum: 29.04.2011 16:25 • Größe: 21.4 MB

823) Audio Book Club: Joshua Foer?s Moonwalking with Einstein

In this week’s audio book club, Slate’s Daniel Engber, David Plotz and Hanna Rosin discuss Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein, about his quest to compete in the U.S. Memory Championships, and what he learned about the human brain along the way.

Datum: 28.04.2011 02:40 • Größe: 16.8 MB

822) DoubleX Gabfest: The Rah Rah Rah Edition

Our editors discuss gender parity in college sports and whether Title IX needs to be reformed, the New York Times magazine piece about President Obama?s mother, and the state of the modern princess on the eve of the royal wedding.

Datum: 28.04.2011 02:09 • Größe: 14.1 MB

821) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Why All These Stupid Altruistic Urges? Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Atlas Shrugged Part 1, the new film adaptation of Ayn Rand?s novel. They are then joined by Slate senior editor Daniel Engber to discuss Gary Taubes? New York Times Magazine article ?Is Sugar Toxic?? F...

Datum: 27.04.2011 03:38 • Größe: 21.9 MB

820) Hang Up and Listen: The Swedish Hockey Twins Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Vancouver?s hockey-playing Sedin twins and last year?s NHL champs, the Chicago Blackhawks. They also talk about Major League Baseball?s takeover of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the NFL Draft.

Datum: 25.04.2011 22:01 • Größe: 26.2 MB

819) Manners for the Digital Age #1: Missed Call Etiquette

Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate social dilemmas caused by new technology. Today, do you have an obligation to return a missed call from a friend, even when the friend doesn't leave a message?

Datum: 25.04.2011 01:14 • Größe: 4.6 MB

818) Manners for the Digital Age #1: Missed Call Etiquette

Datum: 25.04.2011 01:14 • Größe: 4.6 MB

817) Slate: The Something Really Angry Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Michael Newman, and David Weigel. This week: The Donald Trump presidential bid, the debt ceiling fight, and the controversy over 3 Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson

Datum: 22.04.2011 18:18 • Größe: 25.2 MB

816) Slate: The Culture Gabfest Daddy, Can I Keep This Direwolf? Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Dana Stevens and Julia Turner are joined by Slate culture blogger Nina Shen Rastogi to discuss HBO?s new fantasy series Game of Thrones and Will Ferrell?s send-off for Steve Carell on The Office. They?re then joined by Slate culture editor John Swansburg t...

Datum: 20.04.2011 03:10 • Größe: 20.7 MB

815) Hang Up and Listen: The Crying in Football Edition

Josh Levin, Mike Pesca, and guest Joe Posnanski discuss the start of the NBA playoffs, the Sacramento Kings? likely relocation to Anaheim, ESPN?s documentary The Brady 6, and Baltimore Orioles pitcher Justin Duchscherer?s battle with depression.

Datum: 18.04.2011 19:36 • Größe: 24.5 MB

814) Slate: The Crazy Negotiating Posture Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The growing budget debate, long-term fiscal concerns, and bloggers take on Arianna Huffington

Datum: 15.04.2011 18:38 • Größe: 21.9 MB

813) Dancing on the Debt Ceiling

How Republicans are framing the debate about the debt ceiling and Democrats are playing along. By David Weigel. Read by Andy Bowers

Datum: 15.04.2011 05:24 • Größe: 4 MB

812) DoubleX Gabfest: The Three Balls Edition

Our editors discuss the federal budget and planned parenthood, tycoon Lynn Tilton and women in business, and the movie Hanna.

Datum: 14.04.2011 04:24 • Größe: 20.2 MB

811) Slate: The Culture Gabfest Drinkable Suede Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the classic films of recently deceased director Sidney Lumet and PBS?s new celebrity wine talk show Vine Talk. For their third segment, they?re joined by Slate culture critic Meghan O?Rourke to discuss...

Datum: 13.04.2011 04:46 • Größe: 21.7 MB

810) Hang Up and Listen: The Cabin Unlike Any Other Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Charl Schwartzel, Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Jim Nantz, Butler Cabin, and everything else at the Masters, Manny Ramirez?s positive drug test and sudden retirement, and Derrick Rose?s MVP candidacy.

Datum: 11.04.2011 20:48 • Größe: 21.2 MB

809) Slate: The Purdue Live Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Live from Purdue University, they discuss the federal budget showdown, the 2012 presidential campaign, and college admissions practices

Datum: 08.04.2011 07:57 • Größe: 25.6 MB

808) Slate: The Purdue Live Gabfest Questions

The question and answer session from the Slate Political Gabfest recorded live on April 7th, 2011 in West Lafayette, Indiana

Datum: 08.04.2011 07:00 • Größe: 13.1 MB

807) Google Cracks the Speech Recognition Code

Now You're Talking! Google has developed speech-recognition technology that actually works. By Farhad Manjoo

Datum: 07.04.2011 07:34 • Größe: 4.1 MB

806) Hang Up and Listen: The I Can't Believe It's Not Butler Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss UConn?s win over Butler in the NCAA title game and whether college athletes should be paid. John Thorn also joins to talk about baseball?s origin myths and his appointment as the game?s official historian.

Datum: 05.04.2011 21:26 • Größe: 24.8 MB

805) Slate: The Culture Gabfest Debonair Counterspy Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss AMC?s new murder mystery The Killing?based on the Danish series Forbrydelsen? and Spike?s reality series Coal, the latest from the producer of Deadliest Catch, Ice Road Truckers and Ax Men. For their f...

Datum: 05.04.2011 01:52 • Größe: 19.7 MB

804) Slate: The Yearning to be Free Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: American intervention in Libya, the Supreme Court?s look at Wal-Mart, and academic intimidation in the Midwest

Datum: 01.04.2011 08:42 • Größe: 22.5 MB

803) DoubleX Gabfest: The Crazypants Edition

Our editors discuss the Wal-Mart gender discrimination suit, Michele Bachmann?s potential run for president, and Tina Fey?s book Bossypants.

Datum: 31.03.2011 02:27 • Größe: 15.4 MB

802) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Gray Ladies Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Todd Haynes? new HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce starring Kate Winslet, the death of leading lady Elizabeth Taylor and the future of Web journalism in light of The New York Times? new paywall. ...

Datum: 30.03.2011 02:47 • Größe: 21.5 MB

801) Hang Up and Listen: The Balls in Court Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the surprising runs to the Final Four by Butler and VCU, the start of the baseball season, Barry Bonds? perjury trial, and the U.S. national soccer team?s 1-1 draw against Lionel Messi and Argentina.

Datum: 28.03.2011 21:47 • Größe: 24.1 MB

800) Audio Book Club: Karen Russell?s Swamplandia!

In this week?s Audio Book Club, Slate?s Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and Hanna Rosin discuss Karen Russell?s Swamplandia!, a new novel about the struggle of a family who runs an alligator-wrestling theme park.

Datum: 28.03.2011 01:40 • Größe: 20.3 MB

799) Slate: The Grit and Gristle Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The U.S. and allied intervention in Libya, the 2012 GOP race gets underway (really), and South Dakota makes abortion even more difficult.

Datum: 25.03.2011 18:01 • Größe: 21.2 MB

798) Slate: Bachmann Overdrive

Michele Bachmann for president? Among Republicans, she's more popular than you think. By David Weigel. Narrated by Andy Bowers.

Datum: 25.03.2011 03:18 • Größe: 3.4 MB

797) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Thousands Ridicule Teen Singer Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Netflix?s entry into original programming with David Fincher?s House of Cards, Web sensation Rebecca Black?s ?worst song ever? ?Friday,? and the debate surrounding the European Union?s proposed ?right ...

Datum: 23.03.2011 04:21 • Größe: 18.8 MB

796) Hang Up and Listen: The Super Sweet 16 Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the bracket-busting opening week of the NCAA Tournament and rule-breaking coaches Jim Tressel and Bruce Pearl. Jonah Keri also joins the show to talk about his book on the Tampa Bay Rays, The Extra 2%.

Datum: 21.03.2011 21:24 • Größe: 24.7 MB

795) Slate Presents The Memory Palace: The Brothers Booth

On Mondays in March, Slate presents episodes of The Memory Palace, a podcast from award-winning producer Nate DiMeo. Today, spare a thought for Edwin Booth, brother of the man who shot Abraham Lincoln.

Datum: 21.03.2011 04:30 • Größe: 5 MB

794) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The SXSW Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Mel Gibson in Jodie Foster?s The Beaver, their favorite concerts at South by Southwest and elsewhere, and the latest incarnation of Jane Eyre.

Datum: 18.03.2011 04:34 • Größe: 18.5 MB

793) DoubleX Gabfest: The Little Prince Edition

Our editors discuss Manning Up by Kay Hymowitz and other books about the end of men, the all-girls Pink Academy preschool, and the family of princess-to-be Kate Middleton.

Datum: 17.03.2011 01:49 • Größe: 14.4 MB

792) Slate: The Particularly Terrifying Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The nuclear situation in Japan, Private Manning?s treatment in prison, and the 2012 Republican presidential campaign

Datum: 16.03.2011 02:22 • Größe: 21.5 MB

791) Hang Up and Listen: The March Fabness Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the selections and seedings for the NCAA Tournament, new documentaries about the UNLV Runnin? Rebels and Michigan?s Fab Five, and the NHL?s response to a dangerous hit by the Boston Bruins? Zdeno Chara.

Datum: 14.03.2011 20:14 • Größe: 24.2 MB

790) Slate Presents The Memory Palace: Wonderful Boy

On Mondays in March, Slate presents episodes of The Memory Palace, a podcast from award-winning producer Nate DiMeo. Today, six scenes from the life of William James Sidis, a boy genius whose brilliance became a curse.

Datum: 14.03.2011 03:25 • Größe: 13.5 MB

789) Slate: The P.T. Barnum Hucksterism Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Wisconsin union uproar, Congressional hearings on the U.S. Muslim community, not closing Guantanamo, and de-funding NPR

Datum: 11.03.2011 04:45 • Größe: 23.6 MB

788) DoubleX Gabfest: Winning the Future Edition

Our editors discuss Charlie Sheen and domestic violence. The new study that looks at the sex lives of young adults. And Callista Gingrich, Newt's better half.

Datum: 10.03.2011 03:26 • Größe: 16.3 MB

787) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, How Does That Make You Feel? Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, Mike Pesca, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner are joined by Slate?s Farhad Manjoo to discuss his tirade against NPR listeners? tedious complaints. They then discuss gourmets, gluttons and B.R. Myers? Atlantic article, ?The Moral Crusade Against Foodies.? Finally, they?re ...

Datum: 09.03.2011 03:27 • Größe: 20 MB

786) Hang Up and Listen: The Sex and Basketball Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss BYU?s suspension of Brandon Davies for having premarital sex, the alleged greediness of NFL owners, and which continent has a better model for how pro sports leagues operate, Europe or North America.

Datum: 07.03.2011 21:42 • Größe: 23.2 MB

785) Slate Presents The Memory Palace: Nee Weinberg

On Mondays in March, Slate presents episodes of The Memory Palace, a podcast from award-winning producer Nate DiMeo. Today, the true story of a man who lived his life masquerading as others, but never forgot who he was.

Datum: 07.03.2011 05:16 • Größe: 8.4 MB

784) Slate: The Confidence Fairy Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The federal budget showdown, the Republican presidential campaign accelerates, and the Westboro Baptist Church and hate speech

Datum: 04.03.2011 18:58 • Größe: 22.9 MB

783) The Culture Gabfest, Adonis DNA Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Charlie Sheen?s bizarre career-killing antics, James Franco and Anne Hathaway at the 83rd Academy Awards, and the new Justin Bieber documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Director?s Fan Cut. ...

Datum: 02.03.2011 04:59 • Größe: 20.7 MB

782) Hang Up and Listen: The Battle of Detroit Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss college basketball and the coaching misdeeds of Bruce Pearl and Jim Calhoun, the showings of Ryan Mallett and Cam Newton at the NFL scouting combine, and the Pistons? revolt against coach John Kuester.

Datum: 28.02.2011 20:39 • Größe: 20.7 MB

781) Audio Book Club: Emma Donoghue?s Room

Slate?s Audio Book Club discusses Emma Donoghue?s Room, a best-selling novel about a 5-year-old boy raised by his mother in a shed where she has been held prisoner since before he was born.

Datum: 28.02.2011 02:35 • Größe: 18.4 MB

780) Slate: The Screw the American Worker Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The fight over public unions in Wisconsin, unrest in Libya, and the Defense of Marriage Act

Datum: 25.02.2011 04:36 • Größe: 22.1 MB

779) The Culture Gabfest, My Eyeballs Feel Like Boiled Eggs Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Lawrence Wright?s article ?Paul Haggis vs. Scientology? in The New Yorker, FX?s Elmore Leonard-inspired crime series Justified, and the future of marginalia in the age of the e-book. ...

Datum: 23.02.2011 02:27 • Größe: 17.4 MB

778) Hang Up and Listen: The Blatter Infection Edition

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss the Knicks? Carmelo Anthony trade. Arizona Cardinals kicker Jay Feely also joins the show to talk about the NFL?s labor talks and Sports Illustrated?s Grant Wahl explains his candidacy to replace FIFA?s Sepp Blatter.

Datum: 22.02.2011 20:45 • Größe: 25.6 MB

777) Slate: The Invisible Food Crisis

The Invisible Food Crisis: Food prices are going up everywhere. Will they start rising in America, too? By Annie Lowrey

Datum: 21.02.2011 05:27 • Größe: 2.9 MB

776) Slate: The Amazing Amalgam of Facts Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The budget fight in Washington, state budget woes in Wisconsin, and troubling news about Egypt

Datum: 18.02.2011 02:39 • Größe: 23.1 MB

775) The DoubleX Gabfest: The Aggro Edition

Our editors discuss the attacks on Lara Logan, a new sociological study on bullying, and the case of Julie Schenecker, who is accused of shooting her two teenagers.

Datum: 17.02.2011 03:12 • Größe: 14.8 MB

774) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Church of High Modernism and Puppies Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner are joined by Slate columnist Fred Kaplan to discuss the exhibition Abstract Expressionist New York at the Museum of Modern Art. They?re then joined by New York magazine?s music and architecture critic Justin ...

Datum: 16.02.2011 02:55 • Größe: 22.8 MB

773) Hang Up and Listen: The Don?t Be Sad That You Are Losing Every Game Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the best (Spurs) and worst (Cavs) NBA teams, Albert Pujols? contract negotiation, the Mets? entanglement with Bernie Madoff, and the on-ice fracas between the Pittsburgh Penguins and New York Islanders.

Datum: 14.02.2011 22:17 • Größe: 24 MB

772) Slate: Rooftop Pipe-Dream

Rooftop Pipe-Dream: Be wary of the booming market for pint-sized, roof-mounted windmills, by Amy Westervelt

Datum: 14.02.2011 03:39 • Größe: 3.4 MB

771) Slate: The What Was He Thinking Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The continuing political unrest in Egypt, the abrupt resignation of Republican Congressman Chris Lee, and the unlikely marriage of the Huffington Post and AOL

Datum: 11.02.2011 07:34 • Größe: 20 MB

770) DoubleX Gabfest: The Fried Kitty Edition

Our editors discuss the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, shaken baby syndrome and The Roommate.

Datum: 10.02.2011 02:52 • Größe: 16.1 MB

769) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Tear Down This Pay Wall Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Rupert Murdoch?s new iPad newspaper The Daily, Eugene Jarecki?s new HBO documentary Reagan, and the virtual museum tours of the Google Art Project.

Datum: 09.02.2011 03:19 • Größe: 17.5 MB

768) Hang Up and Listen: The Super Bowl of Lawsuits Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the Packers? Super Bowl win and the upcoming NFL labor negotiations. Washington City Paper editor Michael Schaffer also joins the show to discuss Redskins owner Dan Snyder?s suit against the paper.

Datum: 07.02.2011 23:43 • Größe: 28.5 MB

767) Slate: The Do-Nothing Congress

The Do-Nothing Congress: So far, House Republicans are honoring their pledge not to pass any major legislation, and gaining popularity for it, by David Weigel

Datum: 07.02.2011 06:10 • Größe: 3.1 MB

766) Slate: The Democracy is Messy Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Political unrest in Egypt, the latest court ruling on healthcare, and 2012 presidential politics

Datum: 04.02.2011 10:00 • Größe: 23 MB

765) Slate: The Democracy is Messy Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Political unrest in Egypt, the latest court ruling on healthcare, and 2012 presidential politics

Datum: 04.02.2011 10:00 • Größe: 23.1 MB

764) DoubleX Gabfest: The Evil Cinderella Edition

Our editors discuss women and the Egyptian protests, Slate?s Home Economics series, and also interview Cinderella Ate My Daughter author Peggy Orenstein.

Datum: 03.02.2011 02:37 • Größe: 19.4 MB

763) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Reality is Statham Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Troy Patterson, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Jason Statham in The Mechanic and the satirical Onion News Network on IFC. For the final segment, Dana and Julia are joined by Slate senior editor Michael Agger to discuss Jane McGonigal?s new book Real...

Datum: 02.02.2011 03:35 • Größe: 16.9 MB

762) Hang Up and Listen: The Smash-Mouth Slobberknockers Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the Pro Bowl and the state of the pro sports all-star game, how the NHL is dealing with Sidney Crosby?s concussion, a new report on NFL injuries, and the language we use when we talk about football.

Datum: 31.01.2011 20:50 • Größe: 24.7 MB

761) Slate: The Purpose of Science Fiction

The Purpose of Science Fiction: How it teaches governments, and citizens, how to understand the future of technology, by Robert J. Sawyer

Datum: 31.01.2011 02:51 • Größe: 2.9 MB

760) Slate: David?s Big Birthday Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The president?s State of the Union Address, Rahm Emanuel?s Chicago mayoral bid, and the civil unrest in Egypt

Datum: 28.01.2011 05:23 • Größe: 19.1 MB

759) Audio Book Club: "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" by Amy Chua

Hanna Rosin, Ann Hulbert, and Nina Shen Rastogi discuss Amy Chua's book, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother." We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Datum: 27.01.2011 07:05 • Größe: 19.2 MB

758) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, All Hail Hailee Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the 2011 Oscar nominations with Slate Brow Beat writer Nina Shen Rastogi, IFC?s new sketch comedy Portlandia with Slate associate editor Jessica Grose, and Brock Enright?s pay-per-thrill ?reality adventures? with Slate...

Datum: 26.01.2011 02:59 • Größe: 17.5 MB

757) Hang Up and Listen: The Cutler's Last Stand Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss how the Packers and Steelers made it to the Super Bowl and why the Bears and Jets didn?t, Jay Cutler?s injury, BYU basketball player Jimmer Fredette, and the Onion?s SportsCenter parody, SportsDome.

Datum: 24.01.2011 22:06 • Größe: 22.9 MB

756) Slate: Should They Stay or Should They Go?

Should They Stay or Should They Go?: Some Supreme Court justices are still in a snit over last year's State of the Union speech, by Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 24.01.2011 01:54 • Größe: 3.8 MB

755) Slate: The Clearly the World Leader Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The visit to Washington by China?s President, politics and health care reform, and Senator Joseph Lieberman?s retirement announcement

Datum: 21.01.2011 05:23 • Größe: 21.4 MB

754) DoubleX Gabfest: The Beauty Queen to the White House Edition

DoubleX's Jessica Grose, Hanna Rosin and Nina Rastogi discuss the new Miss America?s political ambition, ?Darwin?s Rape Whistle? in Slate, and A Strange Stirring, a new book about the Feminine Mystique by Stephanie Coontz.

Datum: 20.01.2011 02:45 • Größe: 16.9 MB

753) Slate: Repeal This

Repeal This: A pre-existing health-conditions study says half the country is uninsurable, by Timothy Noah

Datum: 20.01.2011 02:33 • Größe: 4 MB

752) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Entering the Age of Ophiuchus Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Gwyneth Paltrow in Country Strong and the recent kerfuffle over the shifting signs of the zodiac. They?re joined by author Lauren Redniss to discuss her new illustrated biography Radioactive: Marie & ...

Datum: 19.01.2011 03:18 • Größe: 17.7 MB

751) Hang Up and Listen: The Magazine Club of the Pod Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the Jets? win over the Patriots, the alleged jerkiness of the Bears? Jay Cutler, and (with special guest Zaid Abdul-Aziz) Sports Illustrated?s 1968 series The Black Athlete: A Shameful Story.

Datum: 19.01.2011 00:16 • Größe: 20.6 MB

750) Slate: Beautiful Noise

Beautiful Noise: How Obama used his speech in Tucson to elevate the political debate by John Dickerson

Datum: 17.01.2011 04:01 • Größe: 2.2 MB

749) Slate: The Clear and Present Danger Live Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The shooting in Arizona of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and others, the political discussion following the shooting, and the book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Datum: 13.01.2011 17:23 • Größe: 24.3 MB

748) Slate: The Clear and Present Danger Gabfest Questions

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This podcast contains the question and answer period from this week's live gabfest taping

Datum: 13.01.2011 16:54 • Größe: 8.6 MB

747) DoubleX Gabfest: The Nietzsche and Nirvana Edition

DoubleX editors Emily Bazelon, Jessica Grose and Hanna Rosin discuss Jared Loughner?s Parents, Claire Dederer?s Poser, and Caitlin Flanagan?s Hazards of Duke.

Datum: 13.01.2011 04:23 • Größe: 16.2 MB

746) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, ?Rags to Riches? And Back Again?? Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss PBS?s new upstairs-downstairs drama Downton Abbey, the controversy over NewSouth Books? new censored edition of Huckleberry Finn, and the overnight fame of a ?homeless man with a golden vo...

Datum: 12.01.2011 03:01 • Größe: 17.8 MB

745) Hang Up and Listen: The Winning Losers Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the first round of the NFL playoffs, talk college football with ESPN?s Desmond Howard, debate Andrew Luck?s decision to stay at Stanford, and run through the history of college football coaches in the NFL.

Datum: 10.01.2011 21:53 • Größe: 21.3 MB

744) Slate: Cash Out

Cash Out: Could using less cash drive down crime? By Christopher Beam

Datum: 10.01.2011 06:50 • Größe: 2.8 MB

743) Slate: The House of the People Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The new Congress, the U.S. Constitution, and iPads in the classroom

Datum: 07.01.2011 09:52 • Größe: 20.6 MB

742) Slate: Read It and Weep

Read It and Weep: How the Tea Party's fetish for the Constitution as written may get it in trouble, by Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 06.01.2011 04:28 • Größe: 3.9 MB

741) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Congratulations: Your Marriage is Probably Doomed Ed

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine, the year 2010 in film, andGoogle?s new Ngram database.

Datum: 05.01.2011 05:00 • Größe: 18.6 MB

740) Hang Up and Listen: The Unicorns on the Field Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the end of the NFL regular season and the dawn of the playoffs, TCU?s Rose Bowl win and the other college bowl games, the NHL?s rainy Winter Classic, and Allen Iverson?s post-NBA career in Turkey.

Datum: 03.01.2011 21:16 • Größe: 20.4 MB

739) Slate: Trimming Your Carbon Footprint

Trimming Your Carbon Footprint: What's the greenest way to shave? By Brian Palmer

Datum: 02.01.2011 11:40 • Größe: 3.4 MB

738) Slate: The Conundrum Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: For our year-end show, the panelists ponder a number of conundrums. Or is it conundra?

Datum: 31.12.2010 06:59 • Größe: 19.8 MB

737) DoubleX Audio Book Club: Lydia Davis? Translation of Madame Bovary

Emily Bazelon, Hanna Rosin and Margaret Talbot discuss the new translation of Gustave Flaubert's nineteenth century French classic Madame Bovary. Relive your college days with this dissection of the original desperate housewife.

Datum: 30.12.2010 02:37 • Größe: 16.5 MB

736) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Phoning It In Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and June Thomas discuss Sofia Coppola's latest film Somewhere with film critic Dan Kois. Plus the best TV shows of 2010 and their New Year's resolutions.

Datum: 29.12.2010 03:07 • Größe: 20.3 MB

735) Hang Up and Listen: Those Hypocrites at the NCAA Edition

In this week?s episode of Hang Up and Listen, Mike Pesca, Jeremy Schaap, and Peter Schrager discuss the New York Knicks, the proliferation of college football bowl games, and the record win streak of the University of Connecticut women?s basketball team.

Datum: 28.12.2010 01:40 • Größe: 20.2 MB

734) Slate: The Dulcet and Ebullient Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The New START treaty, the not-so-lame duck session of Congress, and what the 2010 census data means for politics.

Datum: 23.12.2010 19:05 • Größe: 19.5 MB

733) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: WE'RE NOT SCREAMING AT YOU Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the Coen brothers? film True Grit. They?re joined by Slate?s political reporter Christopher Beam to discuss the movement to abandon caps lock, and by Slate?s music critic Jody Rosen to discuss the deat...

Datum: 22.12.2010 04:09 • Größe: 18 MB

732) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Swarm of Humbugs Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss director Tom Hooper?s film The King?s Speech and NBC sitcom Community. They?re joined by Slate?s Daniel Engber to discuss the state of peer review.

Datum: 22.12.2010 03:07 • Größe: 20.2 MB

731) Hang Up and Listen: The Coaches Who Curse Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the Eagles? comeback win over the Giants and other happenings in the NFL, the NBA in the age of the super-team, and the debut of HBO?s 24/7 Penguins/Capitals: Road To the NHL Winter Classic.

Datum: 20.12.2010 20:41 • Größe: 20.9 MB

730) Audio Book Club: "Lord of Misrule," by Jaimy Gordon

Meghan O?Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Michael Agger discuss Jaimy Gordon's book, Lord of Misrule. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program

Datum: 19.12.2010 11:36 • Größe: 20.7 MB

729) Slate: The Washington Snow Rage Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The tax cut extensions, a challenge to Obama?s Health Care plan, and Mark Zuckerberg as Person of the Year

Datum: 17.12.2010 00:40 • Größe: 21.5 MB

728) DoubleX Gabfest: The Sex by Surprise Edition

DoubleX's Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, with The New Yorker?s Margaret Talbot, discuss the rape charges against Wikileaks? Julian Assange, incoming House Speaker John Beohner?s propensity to cry and how Facebook is killing the holiday greeting card.

Datum: 16.12.2010 03:21 • Größe: 15.6 MB

727) Hang Up and Listen: The Divided We Fall Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss whether the selection process for the NFL playoffs is fair and which sport?s economic system is the most fan-friendly. Julia Turner also joins the show to discuss ESPN?s new women?s sports venture, espnW.

Datum: 13.12.2010 21:24 • Größe: 23.6 MB

726) Slate: Ban the Benjamins!

Ban the Benjamins! Hundred-dollar bills are for criminals and sociopaths. Why do we still print them? By Timothy Noah

Datum: 13.12.2010 04:19 • Größe: 3.6 MB

725) Slate: The Consenting Adults Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Congressional tax cut battle, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and developments with California's Prop 8

Datum: 10.12.2010 03:31 • Größe: 20.6 MB

724) Slate: Busted Watchdog

Busted Watchdog: Is the Better Business Bureau a protection racket? By Timothy Noah

Datum: 09.12.2010 00:19 • Größe: 4 MB

723) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: It's Not Me, It's Me Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the fate of narcissism as a psychiatric disorder and director Andrew Jarecki?s film All Good Things. They?re joined by Slate pop critic Jonah Weiner to discuss Kanye West?s latest album, My Beautiful D...

Datum: 08.12.2010 16:46 • Größe: 20.3 MB

722) Hang Up and Listen: The Qatar Lessons Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Cam Newton and the Auburn-Oregon BCS title game matchup, FIFA?s decision to give the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, LeBron James? return to Cleveland, and the PR efforts of Tiger Woods and Michael Vick.

Datum: 06.12.2010 21:23 • Größe: 22.9 MB

721) Slate: Election Hangover

Election Hangover: The real legacy of Bush v. Gore, by Richard L. Hasen

Datum: 06.12.2010 05:12 • Größe: 2.7 MB

720) Slate: The Say the Phrase Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The fallout from the WikiLeaks documents, extending tax cuts, and repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Datum: 03.12.2010 06:33 • Größe: 21 MB

719) DoubleX Audio Book Club: Nicole Krauss? Great House

In this week?s gabfest, DoubleX's Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, along with The New Yorker?s Margaret Talbot, discuss Nicole Krauss? latest novel, Great House. They discuss why this novel is less light hearted than Krauss? last one, The History of Love.

Datum: 02.12.2010 03:17 • Größe: 18.3 MB

718) Slate:The Culture Gabfest: Seattle Live Q and A

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner answer questions from the audience live from Seattle's Town Hall.

Datum: 01.12.2010 19:35 • Größe: 7.7 MB

717) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Live from Seattle Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the new film Burlesque, MFA's and today's writers and Microsoft's latest gizmo Kinect.

Datum: 01.12.2010 17:27 • Größe: 21.3 MB

716) Hang Up and Listen: The Dunk of the Millennium Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Boise State?s loss to Nevada, the spying allegations against the Denver Broncos, Derek Jeter?s negotiations with the Yankees, and the ascendance of the Clippers? Blake Griffin.

Datum: 29.11.2010 22:18 • Größe: 23 MB

715) Slate: McSurance

McSurance: Crap health coverage wins a regulatory victory, by Timothy Noah

Datum: 29.11.2010 02:57 • Größe: 3.3 MB

714) Slate: The Chocolate Pie Conundrum Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The TSA flap over airport security, the Pope and condom use, and the Taliban leader who wasn?t

Datum: 25.11.2010 00:54 • Größe: 19.3 MB

713) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Junk-Touching Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Dan Engber, Troy Patterson, John Swansburg, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the outcry over TSA's new scanning procedures, the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly and HBO's new documentary Public Speaking.

Datum: 24.11.2010 03:37 • Größe: 21.8 MB

712) Hang Up and Listen: The Whore of Akron Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the Patriots-Colts rivalry, the great Manning-Brady debate, and Greg Oden?s latest season-ending injury. Esquire?s Scott Raab also joins to talk about Cleveland sports and his hatred of LeBron James.

Datum: 22.11.2010 21:21 • Größe: 23.2 MB

711) Slate: Give the People What We Want

Give the People What We Want: How both parties, but especially Republicans,use and abuse public opinion, by John Dickerson

Datum: 22.11.2010 01:38 • Größe: 3.6 MB

710) Slate: The Put On Your Praise Face Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon, with special guest Julia Turner. This week: The Lame Duck Congress, a terrorism trial decision, and Sarah Palin and the children of Royalty

Datum: 19.11.2010 02:54 • Größe: 23.1 MB

709) Hang Up and Listen: Raleigh Live Q and A

Hang Up and Listen went live in Raleigh NC taping their show before an audience of fans. Here is the Question and Answer Session from the event.

Datum: 18.11.2010 17:04 • Größe: 4.6 MB

708) Hang Up and Listen: The Live in Raleigh Edition

In the first-ever live taping of Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca chat with ex-N.C. State hoopster Julius Hodge, rant about the BCS, and discuss gender differences in sports with North Carolina soccer coach Anson Dorrance.

Datum: 18.11.2010 06:50 • Größe: 28 MB

707) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: I Can See My Ego From Russia Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Conan on basic cable, the many facets of James Franco, including his latest film, and the Yale University Press Anthology of Rap.

Datum: 17.11.2010 04:01 • Größe: 20.3 MB

706) DoubleX Gabfest: The Burn Your Pink Ribbon Edition

DoubleX editors Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose along with Slate?s Emily Yoffe discuss misguided breast cancer awareness efforts, the release of Myanmar dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, the New York Times Magazine article Housewives of God, and Thanksgiving.

Datum: 16.11.2010 03:23 • Größe: 15.3 MB

705) Audio Book Club: "Remainder," by Tom McCarthy

Meghan O?Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Michael Agger discuss Tom McCarthy's book, Remainder. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program

Datum: 15.11.2010 03:33 • Größe: 21.3 MB

704) Slate: The Michigan Live Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Election results in the rust belt, former President Bush?s new book, and a Supreme Court case on discrimination and immigration law

Datum: 11.11.2010 07:39 • Größe: 21 MB

703) Slate: Michigan Live Gabfest Questions

The question and answer session from the Slate Political Gabfest recorded live on November 10th, 2010 in An Arbor, Michigan

Datum: 11.11.2010 07:26 • Größe: 11.5 MB

702) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: A Farewell to Arm Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Conan on basic cable, the many facets of James Franco, including his latest film, and the Yale University Press Anthology of Rap.

Datum: 10.11.2010 06:00 • Größe: 20.9 MB

701) Hang Up and Listen: The $500 Handshake Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Zenyatta?s loss in the Breeders? Cup Classic, the allegations surrounding Auburn quarterback Cam Newton, and Jonathan Hock?s ESPN documentary about Marcus Dupree, The Best That Never Was.

Datum: 08.11.2010 21:53 • Größe: 24.5 MB

700) Slate: Electile Dysfunction

Electile Dysfunction: The GOP's incredible shrinking Boehner, by William Saletan

Datum: 08.11.2010 03:51 • Größe: 2.6 MB

699) Slate: The Canny Long-Term Strategy Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: An election results round-up, a look at women candidates, and redistricting

Datum: 05.11.2010 02:35 • Größe: 22.4 MB

698) Double X Gabfest: The Reality-Show Candidates Edition

Slate writers Dahlia Lithwick, Hanna Rosin and Emily Yoffe discuss the results of the midterm elections and what they mean for women. Lithwick asks: Does momism also affect the Supreme Court?

Datum: 04.11.2010 15:28 • Größe: 15 MB

697) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Things That Won't Die Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert?s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, the new zombie apocalypse show The Walking Dead, and Masterpiece Mystery?s irreverent new 21st century adaptation of Sherlock.

Datum: 03.11.2010 06:47 • Größe: 21 MB

696) Hang Up and Listen: The Tundra Is Not Frozen Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the Giants? 3-1 lead over the Rangers in the World Series and the Broadway play Lombardi. Slate?s road-race expert Michael Newman also joins the show to discuss the ins and outs of marathon running.

Datum: 01.11.2010 19:53 • Größe: 25.6 MB

695) Slate: The Faith-Based Vote

The Faith-Based Vote: In many of Tuesday's closest races, states will use those same old, suspect voting machines, by Brad Friedman

Datum: 31.10.2010 15:43 • Größe: 3.8 MB

694) Slate: The Rile Up the Base Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The elections draw near, dealing with a New Congressional Order, and video game violence comes before the Supreme Court

Datum: 29.10.2010 06:28 • Größe: 19.4 MB

693) Slate: Goodbye, Walkman

Goodbye, Walkman: Sony is shutting down production of its revolutionary portable music player, by Fred Kaplan

Datum: 27.10.2010 16:28 • Größe: 2.6 MB

692) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Stevie Likes It Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new documentary Inside Job, the FX show Terriers and New York magazine's anthropological exploration of the hipster.

Datum: 27.10.2010 01:55 • Größe: 18.9 MB

691) Hang Up and Listen: The Addition by Contraction Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the Giants-Rangers matchup in the World Series, the high-powered college football offenses at Oregon and Auburn, the start of the NBA season, and the possibility of contraction in pro basketball.

Datum: 25.10.2010 19:30 • Größe: 21.2 MB

690) Slate: Are We Starting To Win?

Are We Starting To Win? New weapon systems and, even more, improved intelligence may be giving Americans an edge in Afghanistan, by Fred Kaplan

Datum: 24.10.2010 16:07 • Größe: 2.7 MB

689) The Crazy Money and Crazier Candidates Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: A political roundup, Ginny Thomas calls Anita Hill, NPR dumps Juan Williams and European austerity

Datum: 22.10.2010 05:59 • Größe: 20.8 MB

688) DoubleX Gabfest: The Krystal Ball Edition

DoubleX's Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, along with The New Yorker?s Margaret Talbot, discuss the 28-year old Virginia candidate for Congress, Krystal Ball, the phone call Ginni Thomas placed to Anita Hill, and the appalling behavior of a Yale fraternity.

Datum: 21.10.2010 01:40 • Größe: 18 MB

687) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Friendly Barbarian Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the box office record set by Jackass 3D, the dueling magazine profiles of Gawker's Nick Denton and the best way to handle celebrity sightings.

Datum: 20.10.2010 03:08 • Größe: 20.6 MB

686) Hang Up and Listen: The Nonsense Math Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss helmet-to-helmet hits in the NFL, the book Death to the BCS, the Sports Illustrated story Confessions of an Agent, and the NBA?s attempt to get players to stop whining about foul calls.

Datum: 18.10.2010 19:38 • Größe: 23.9 MB

685) Slate: Privacy Rights Inc.

Privacy Rights Inc.: Your right to personal privacy is shrinking even as Corporate America's is growing, by Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 17.10.2010 16:01 • Größe: 2.9 MB

684) Slate: Q and A from New York Live Gabfest

The questions and answer session from the Slate Political Gabfest recorded live on Oct. 13, 2010 in New York.

Datum: 15.10.2010 17:54 • Größe: 13.7 MB

683) Slate: The New York Live Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week, live from New York: money and politics, the Obama presidency, and the documentary ?Waiting for Superman?

Datum: 15.10.2010 01:25 • Größe: 21.9 MB

682) Slate: Don't Worry, the Robot's Driving

Don't Worry, the Robot's Driving: Texting on the road is dangerous. The solution: self-driving cars, by Farhad Manjoo

Datum: 14.10.2010 04:09 • Größe: 3.3 MB

681) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Does It Get Better Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the It Gets Better web campaign against bullying, a newly unearthed Ted Hughes poem and HBO's Bruce Springsteen documentary.

Datum: 13.10.2010 03:13 • Größe: 22.4 MB

680) Hang Up and Listen: The Sleaziest Men in Sports Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the baseball playoffs, Deadspin?s allegations against Brett Favre, the new NHL season, and George Dohrmann?s book Play Their Hearts Out.

Datum: 11.10.2010 21:45 • Größe: 24 MB

679) Slate: Toxic Persons

Toxic Persons: New research shows precisely how the prison-to-poverty cycle does its damage, by Sasha Abramsky

Datum: 11.10.2010 02:21 • Größe: 2.8 MB

678) Slate: The Marinating in Anger Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Democrats move up in the polls, the Palin spat, and defense spending

Datum: 08.10.2010 07:39 • Größe: 19.7 MB

677) DoubleX Audio Book Club: Jonathan Franzen?s Freedom.

In this week's audio book club, DoubleX's Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin and The New Yorker's Margaret Talbot discuss Jonathan Franzen's Freedom. The novel follows Patty and Walter Berglund's failing marriage and serves as a commentary on how we live.

Datum: 07.10.2010 02:11 • Größe: 23.4 MB

676) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Barely Legal Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Malcolm Gladwell's latest piece on activism and social media, Law and Order LA and Civil War tourism with Slate's John Swansburg.

Datum: 06.10.2010 02:35 • Größe: 18.4 MB

675) Hang Up and Listen: The Ugly Sweater Shootout Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the baseball playoffs, golf?s Ryder Cup, Australian Rules Football?s Grand Final replay, and the height of the rim in women?s hoops.

Datum: 04.10.2010 18:35 • Größe: 21.2 MB

674) Slate: Elitist Nonsense

Elitist Nonsense: The right's favorite scare word is "elitism." What does it mean? By Jacob Weisberg

Datum: 04.10.2010 03:02 • Größe: 3.7 MB

673) Slate: The Don't Gang Up on David Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Obama administration and the fall election, the fall docket for the Supreme Court, and the sad death of Tyler Clementi

Datum: 01.10.2010 09:24 • Größe: 23.3 MB

672) Slate: The Don't Gang Up on David Gabfest

Datum: 01.10.2010 09:24 • Größe: 23.3 MB

671) Slate: Making the World Safe for China

Making the World Safe for China: China succeeds by behaving more like a multinational company than a global superpower, by Anne Applebaum

Datum: 30.09.2010 07:19 • Größe: 2.6 MB

670) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Jesse's Girls Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new film about Facebook, The Social Network, Oliver Stone's Money Never Sleeps and the new NBC comedy Outsourced.

Datum: 29.09.2010 02:52 • Größe: 20.6 MB

669) Hang Up and Listen: The Sidebottoms and Behinds Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Michael Vick?s resurgence, Ken Burns? documentary The Tenth Inning, the retirements of baseball managers Joe Torre, Bobby Cox, and Lou Piniella, and the draw in Australian Rules Football?s grand final.

Datum: 27.09.2010 19:30 • Größe: 22.2 MB

668) Slate: The Republican Spending Addiction

The Republican Spending Addiction: Even if the GOP believed in its Pledge to America, it wouldn't touch the biggest parts of the federal budget, by James Ledbetter

Datum: 26.09.2010 16:10 • Größe: 3.5 MB

667) Slate: The Fur Coat of Irony Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: the GOP Pledge for America, John's swing through Ohio, Colbert and Stewart march on Washington, and Obama's wars

Datum: 24.09.2010 07:07 • Größe: 15.9 MB

666) DoubleX Gabfest: The Ritual Matricide Edition

DoubleX?s Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin and the New Yorker?s Margaret Talbot discuss Christine O?Donnell, Rebecca Traister?s new book Big Girls Don?t Cry, and Susan Faludi?s essay on feminism in Harper?s.

Datum: 23.09.2010 02:03 • Größe: 14.1 MB

665) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: The Velveteen Gabfest Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new HBO series Boardwalk Empire and the controversial documentary Catfish. They are also joined by Slate contributor Joshua Wolf Shenk to talk about John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and his series on creative pairs.

Datum: 22.09.2010 03:50 • Größe: 21.7 MB

664) Hang Up and Listen: The "That's Gamesmanship!" Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Colorado shortstop Troy Tulowitzki?s amazing hot streak, Ines Sainz and women reporters in the locker room (with the Washington Post?s Sally Jenkins), and the ethics of Derek Jeter?s faux hit by pitch.

Datum: 20.09.2010 21:23 • Größe: 22.8 MB

663) Audio Book Club: "Super Sad True Love Story," by Gary Shteyngart

Jacob Weisberg, Jody Rosen and Troy Patterson discuss Gary Shteyngart's book, Super Sad True Love Story. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program

Datum: 20.09.2010 02:44 • Größe: 16.8 MB

662) Slate: The Dangerous Prognostication Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: the latest primary results, the Tea Party candidate surge, and Republican leader John Boehner

Datum: 17.09.2010 08:17 • Größe: 16.8 MB

661) Slate: Smells Like Green Spirit

Smells Like Green Spirit: Are air fresheners bad for the environment? By Brian Palmer

Datum: 16.09.2010 06:08 • Größe: 3.1 MB

660) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Toast to the Douchebags Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss round two of the Kanye vs Taylor Swift VMA face-off, the new Robert Rodriguez film Machete and the monetization of sex on Craigslist.

Datum: 15.09.2010 02:15 • Größe: 16.8 MB

659) Hang Up and Listen: The Get Your Swell On Edition

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Team USA?s win at the world basketball championships and the NFL?s first week. June Thomas also joins to talk about the U.S. Open and the Chris Evert-Martina Navratilova documentary Unmatched.

Datum: 13.09.2010 21:08 • Größe: 23.3 MB

658) Slate: My Computer's Faster Than Your Computer

My Computer's Faster Than Your Computer: A screaming-fast PC changed my life. It will change yours, too, by Farhad Manjoo

Datum: 13.09.2010 05:27 • Größe: 3.7 MB

657) Slate: The Doom for Democrats Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: A political election update, the politicization of 9/11, and Rahm Emanuel as Chicago politician

Datum: 10.09.2010 07:23 • Größe: 18.7 MB

656) DoubleX Gabfest: The Sister Wives Edition

DoubleX?s Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose along with the New Yorker?s Margaret Talbot discuss young women outearning their male counterparts, Jennifer Weiner, Jodi Picoult and the Franzenfreude frenzy, and Jenny Slate?s exit from Saturday Night Live.

Datum: 09.09.2010 01:47 • Größe: 15.5 MB

655) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Mooney Clooney Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss George Clooney's latest flick The American, income inequality with Slate's own Timothy Noah and the phone hacking scandal in the Murdoch media empire.

Datum: 08.09.2010 03:21 • Größe: 21.3 MB

654) Hang Up and Listen: The Raw Meat on a Train Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Boise State-Virginia Tech, preview the NFL with Football Outsiders? Aaron Schatz, and talk tailgating with the Sporkful?s Dan Pashman.

Datum: 07.09.2010 21:12 • Größe: 23.4 MB

653) Slate: The No Story Too Crazy Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon, along with special guest Steven Greene. This week: The beginning of the end in Iraq, a Palin profile, and the DC mayoral election

Datum: 03.09.2010 04:29 • Größe: 20.3 MB

652) Slate: America's Most Underestimated Company

America's Most Underestimated Company: Why is everyone always writing off Netflix? By James Ledbetter

Datum: 02.09.2010 02:14 • Größe: 2.6 MB

651) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, King of the Beach Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and June Thomas discuss this years Emmy's ceremony, the new handbook True Prep and the songs of summer of 2010.

Datum: 01.09.2010 03:15 • Größe: 20.8 MB

650) Hang Up and Listen: The Can-Miss Prospect Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca, and Patrick Hruby discuss Stephen Strasburg?s elbow, Albert Pujols' and Tony La Russa?s love-in with Glenn Beck, and the Madden video-game series.

Datum: 30.08.2010 19:48 • Größe: 22.1 MB

649) Slate: The Female Factor

The Female Factor: Will the presence of three women really change the court in any real way? By Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 30.08.2010 05:14 • Größe: 2.8 MB

648) Slate: The Golden Touch Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: A primary update, a Republican comes out, and Glenn Beck prepares to rally in Washington

Datum: 27.08.2010 05:01 • Größe: 20.7 MB

647) DoubleX Gabfest: The Mercurial Mommy Edition

In this week's Gabfest, DoubleX?s Jessica Grose and Hanna Rosin along with Slate?s June Thomas discuss Sarah Palin?s primary endorsements, a new palliative care study, and Jennifer Aniston?s terrible rom com record

Datum: 26.08.2010 14:13 • Größe: 17.7 MB

646) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Rambo in Blush Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and June Thomas discuss twenty-somethings, Sylvester Stallon's latest action flick, and the new Arcade Fire album.

Datum: 25.08.2010 03:28 • Größe: 20 MB

645) Hang Up and Listen: The Narcissistic Athlete Disorder Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the loathsomeness of Brett Favre and Roger Clemens, low-payroll teams in Major League Baseball, and Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully.

Datum: 23.08.2010 20:33 • Größe: 22.4 MB

644) Slate: Premature Maturity

Premature Maturity: Are children today really going through puberty earlier? By Darshak Sanghavi

Datum: 23.08.2010 02:04 • Größe: 3.3 MB

643) Slate: The Free-Fall Political Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Michael Newman and Dave Weigel. This week: The New York City Mosque, our Muslim president, and they provide a political primary update

Datum: 20.08.2010 06:02 • Größe: 18.4 MB

642) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Eat, Pray, Vomit Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Julia Roberts in Eat, Pray, Love, the sanctity of academic tenure and the Starbucks' bagel standoff.

Datum: 18.08.2010 02:29 • Größe: 18.6 MB

641) Hang Up and Listen: The Rex Goes To Camp Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the bunker kerfuffle at the PGA Championship, HBO?s Hard Knocks, the World Basketball Championships, and the demise of the tie game.

Datum: 16.08.2010 19:28 • Größe: 21.7 MB

640) Audio Book Club: "The Imperfectionists," by Tom Rachman

Julia Turner, June Thomas and Troy Patterson discussTom Rachman's book, "The Imperfectionists." We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program

Datum: 16.08.2010 00:24 • Größe: 18.8 MB

639) Slate: The Groping Duck Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, William Saletan and special Guest Eliot Spitzer. This week: Mid-term primary elections, the state of the economy, and workplace rage

Datum: 13.08.2010 05:45 • Größe: 15.5 MB

638) DoubleX Audio Book Club: Mr. Peanut

DoubleX?s Hanna Rosin and Emily Bazelon along with the New Yorker?s Margaret Talbot discuss Adam Ross?s debut novel, Mr. Peanut.

Datum: 12.08.2010 02:05 • Größe: 18.1 MB

637) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Flavor Burst Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Dan Kois, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner and Jacob Weisberg discuss the new comic action film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the rules regulating spoilers and the loss of the British historian Tony Judt.

Datum: 11.08.2010 02:24 • Größe: 22.2 MB

636) Hang Up and Listen: The Missing Forehead Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca, Michael Agger, and Hanna Rosin discuss Scrabble, A-Rod?s 600th home run, Agger?s series on golf?s statistical revolution, and Friday Night Lights.

Datum: 09.08.2010 20:41 • Größe: 19.8 MB

635) Slate: Byte-Sized Books

Byte-Sized Books: Digital publishing levels the playing field for small publishers, by Jill Priluck

Datum: 08.08.2010 23:13 • Größe: 3.3 MB

634) Slate: The 8th Century Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, Dahlia Lithwick and Cord Jefferson. This week: A federal judge over-rules Proposition 8, New York?s Islamic Center controversy, and the Democratic Congress? ethics problems

Datum: 06.08.2010 09:12 • Größe: 20.3 MB

633) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Biometric Barbie Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Dahlia Lithwick, Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss The Real Housewives of Washington D.C., publisher Andrew Wylie's big bet on eBooks and the new FX comedy television show Louie.

Datum: 04.08.2010 03:12 • Größe: 19.3 MB

632) Hang Up and Listen: The Thin Line Between Fat and Big-Boned Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss ESPN and LeBron James, the start of NFL training camps, and Ozzie Guillen?s thoughts on the treatment of Latin baseball players.

Datum: 02.08.2010 22:16 • Größe: 21.4 MB

631) Slate: Judging a Girl by Her Cover

Judging a Girl by Her Cover: Why I'll miss a world where books make the first move, by Mark Oppenheimer

Datum: 02.08.2010 05:16 • Größe: 3 MB

630) Slate: The Big Babies and Liars Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon, with special guest Farhad Manjoo. This week: The Wiki war leaks, Arizona's immigration law in court, updating the Bush-era tax cuts, and Charlie Rangel on trial

Datum: 30.07.2010 03:45 • Größe: 18.1 MB

629) DoubleX Gabfest: The Leave Chelsea Alone Edition

In this week's Gabfest, DoubleX's Emily Bazelon, Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose discuss the abortion documentary 12th & Delaware, the Time Magazine cover story on only children, and Chelsea Clinton's wedding.

Datum: 29.07.2010 02:24 • Größe: 15.7 MB

628) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Angelina Jolie/Model American Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Jessica Grose, Stephen Metcalf, John Swansburg and Julia Turner discuss the new Angelina Jolie blockbuster Salt, Comic-Con with Time Magazine's Lev Grossman and the Mad Man Season 4 premiere.

Datum: 28.07.2010 02:54 • Größe: 21.8 MB

627) Hang Up and Listen: The Pimps Go To College Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss agents and college sports, Major League Baseball?s alleged year of the pitcher, and Jeremy Lin, Asian-American basketball pioneer.

Datum: 26.07.2010 20:29 • Größe: 21.8 MB

626) Slate: Restore the Estate Tax!

Restore the Estate Tax! The billionaire, the union leader, and the heiress trying to bring back the tax on inherited wealth, by Daniel Gross

Datum: 25.07.2010 21:54 • Größe: 3 MB

625) Slate: The Spasmodic Drama Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Daniel Gross, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The economy and the fall election, the Shirley Sherrod debacle, and the complications of the Phoebe Prince internet bullying death

Datum: 22.07.2010 22:56 • Größe: 18.6 MB

624) The Disrupters for July 22, 2010

The Big Money presents The Disrupters, a new podcast about the companies shaking up American business in the 21st century. On today's show, host Chadwick Matlin asks what our tweets say about our happiness.

Datum: 22.07.2010 03:26 • Größe: 7.7 MB

623) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner and Dana Stevens discuss Christopher Nolan?s summer blockbuster Inception, Slate?s Josh Levin joins the gabbers to talk about Steve Jobs and the woes of the iPhone 4 and finally Old Spice ads gone viral.

Datum: 21.07.2010 03:30 • Größe: 21.2 MB

622) Hang Up and Listen: The Last American Sports Hero Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the British Open and Tiger Woods? poor form, the Tour de France and the cloud over Lance Armstrong, and George Steinbrenner?s legacy.

Datum: 19.07.2010 21:04 • Größe: 21 MB

621) Audio Book Club: "Imperial Bedrooms," by Bret Easton Ellis

Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, and Michael Agger discuss Bret Easton Ellis? book, Imperial Bedrooms. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program

Datum: 17.07.2010 23:58 • Größe: 19.1 MB

620) Slate: The Bracing for a Backlash Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Will Saletan, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Regaining control of the House, abortion providers, and the NAACP takes on the Tea Party

Datum: 16.07.2010 04:48 • Größe: 20.5 MB

619) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, What's Your Provenance Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss the new film The Kids are All Right, Jezebel verses The Daily Show and The New Yorker's David Grann on authenticating a masterpiece.

Datum: 14.07.2010 02:35 • Größe: 21.8 MB

618) Hang Up and Listen: The Battle of the Horrible Pundits Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Spain?s win in the World Cup and LeBron James? move to Miami. John Dickerson also joins in to talk about sports and political punditry.

Datum: 12.07.2010 22:18 • Größe: 23.1 MB

617) Slate: The New Commander

The New Commander: James Mattis will replace David Petraeus as the commander of Centcom, by John Dickerson

Datum: 12.07.2010 03:59 • Größe: 2.8 MB

616) Slate: The Errant Tweet Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Christopher Beam, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Michael Steele inserts his other shoe, the U.S. sues the state of Arizona over immigration, and a media firing over an errant tweet

Datum: 09.07.2010 04:24 • Größe: 15.6 MB

615) The Disrupters for July 8, 2010

The Big Money presents The Disrupters, a new podcast about the companies shaking up American business in the 21st century. On today's show, host Chadwick Matlin ponders the popularity of Foursquare and what happens to a social network when it goes from a tech curiosity to a full blown phenomenon.

Datum: 08.07.2010 02:24 • Größe: 9 MB

614) DoubleX Gabfest: The Happiest Clams Edition

In this week's Gabfest, Jessica Grose of DoubleX and Nina Rastogi and June Thomas of Slate discuss a new Pew study on gender equality, the New York Magazine cover story about motherhood and unhappiness, and the new Showtime series The Real L Word.

Datum: 08.07.2010 01:16 • Größe: 15.6 MB

613) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Do Not Go Gently Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the age when novelists hit their prime, the latest musical foray from Liz Phair and the retirement of music writer Robert Christgau's "Consumer Guide."

Datum: 07.07.2010 03:33 • Größe: 15.9 MB

612) Hang Up and Listen: The Disgusting Display Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Uruguay?s controversial handball, Germany?s World Cup success, the NBA free agency saga, and the Nathan?s Hot Dog Eating Contest.

Datum: 06.07.2010 21:07 • Größe: 20.2 MB

611) Slate: Why Do Babies Smile?

Why Do Babies Smile? Not necessarily because they're happy, by Nicholas Day

Datum: 05.07.2010 00:58 • Größe: 2.8 MB

610) Slate: The Groping for Answers Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Dahlia Lithwick, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings, gun rights in Chicago, and Al Gore's masseuse problem

Datum: 02.07.2010 01:25 • Größe: 18.5 MB

609) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Beauty in the Sky Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Dan Engber, Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, Dana Stevens, James Sturm, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss life without the Internet, June?s must see list of summer TV shows and love 'em or hate 'em no Fourth of July is complete without fireworks.

Datum: 30.06.2010 03:53 • Größe: 18.5 MB

608) Hang Up and Listen: The America and the Beautiful Game Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss Team USA?s loss to Ghana, the future of U.S. soccer, replay and the World Cup, the epic Isner-Mahut tennis match, and the chase for LeBron James.

Datum: 28.06.2010 22:43 • Größe: 21.2 MB

607) Slate: Are Climate Skeptics Lousy Scientists?

Are Climate Skeptics Lousy Scientists? The White House says they are, by Michael Levi

Datum: 26.06.2010 14:23 • Größe: 3.6 MB

606) Slate: The Studly Young Hero Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Will Saletan, and Emily Bazelon. This week: General McChrystal is removed as the country's top officer in Afghanistan, a Supreme Court roundup with more on Elena Kagan, and the World Cup

Datum: 25.06.2010 02:06 • Größe: 16.7 MB

605) The Disrupters for June 24, 2010

The Big Money presents The Disrupters, a new podcast about the companies shaking up American business in the 21st century. On today's show, host Chadwick Matlin asks what the new iPhone and Tickle Me Elmo have in common.

Datum: 24.06.2010 03:25 • Größe: 7.3 MB

604) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Maximum Fun Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Clive Thompson and Julia Turner discuss the third installment of Disney-Pixar's Toy Story, the science behind a great vacation in The Boston Globe and an answer to that eternal question can an IBM's supercomputer win at Jeopa...

Datum: 23.06.2010 03:34 • Größe: 17.3 MB

603) Hang Up and Listen: The Scalped in South Africa Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca, and special guest David Plotz discuss the USA?s draw with Slovenia, chaos in the English and French World Cup camps, and the NBA Finals end.

Datum: 21.06.2010 22:21 • Größe: 17.3 MB

602) Audio Book Club: "Reality Hunger A Manifesto," by David Shields

Meghan O?Rourke, Troy Patterson and Jody Rosen discuss David Shields? book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program

Datum: 21.06.2010 01:08 • Größe: 25.9 MB

601) Slate: The Curious Candidate Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: President Obama and the BP spill, California's Proposition Eight, and the unlikely Democratic candidate from South Carolina

Datum: 18.06.2010 09:41 • Größe: 17.2 MB

600) DoubleX Audio Book Club: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

DoubleX editors Hanna Rosin and Emily Bazelon along with The New Yorker's Margaret Talbot discuss Rebecca Skloot's new novel, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Datum: 17.06.2010 01:38 • Größe: 15.4 MB

599) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Old Ball and Chain Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Hanna Rosin, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the new documentary on Joan Rivers, the Bravo reality show Work of Art and the downfall of men as reported in The Atlantic.

Datum: 16.06.2010 02:41 • Größe: 18 MB

598) Hang Up and Listen: The Mike Plays the Vuvuzela Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis and Mike Pesca join Josh Levin from South Africa. Topics discussed include the atmosphere and fan experience at the World Cup, the USA-England game, and the NBA Finals.

Datum: 14.06.2010 22:33 • Größe: 20.4 MB

597) Slate: Presidential Anger Management

Presidential Anger Management: Why Obama, like his predecessors, can't get angry in public, by John Dickerson

Datum: 14.06.2010 02:09 • Größe: 2.5 MB

596) Slate: The Palin Effect Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: An election roundup, more on the gulf oil spill and BP, and Helen Thomas retires

Datum: 11.06.2010 02:33 • Größe: 20.5 MB

595) The Disrupters for June 10, 2010

The Big Money presents The Disrupters, a new podcast about the companies shaking up American business in the 21st century. On today's show, host Chadwick Matlin ponders how life has changed some two years after the Kindle.

Datum: 10.06.2010 01:57 • Größe: 7.3 MB

594) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Girl with the Wealth of Boring Details Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Michael Agger, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the Stieg Larsson obsession, our brains on the Internet (revisited) and World Cup mania.

Datum: 09.06.2010 14:20 • Größe: 20.9 MB

593) Hang Up and Listen: The Out, Damned Fouls Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca discuss the NBA Finals, Armando Galarraga?s near-perfect game, Stephen Strasburg?s debut, John Wooden?s legacy, and college conference realignment.

Datum: 07.06.2010 20:57 • Größe: 22.5 MB

592) Slate: Fracking, Oil Sands, and Deep-Water Drilling

Fracking, Oil Sands, and Deep-Water Drilling: The dangerous new era of "extreme energy," by Daniel Gross

Datum: 07.06.2010 00:30 • Größe: 11 MB

591) Slate: The Not My Spittle Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The BP oil spill continues, the Gaza flotilla, and the White House meddles again

Datum: 04.06.2010 02:20 • Größe: 17.6 MB

590) DoubleX Gabfest: The Big Red F Edition

In this week's Gabfest, DoubleX founding editors Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin and managing editor Jessica Grose discuss Al and Tipper Gore's separation, Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman's California races, and the backlash to the Sex and the City 2 backlash.

Datum: 03.06.2010 02:05 • Größe: 16.1 MB

589) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Truffle Fries Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the pop star M.I.A's beef with The New York Times, the new documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop and a Wired article that asks whether the Internet has uncivilized our brains.

Datum: 02.06.2010 02:32 • Größe: 18 MB

588) Hang Up and Listen: The Dead Solid Perfect Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca discuss the NHL?s Stanley Cup Finals, the Celtics-Lakers NBA Finals matchup, Roy Halladay?s perfect game, and Team USA?s final World Cup tune-ups.

Datum: 01.06.2010 20:01 • Größe: 22.9 MB

587) The Sporkful: Buffet Secrets and Strategy

On Mondays in May, the Slate Daily Podcast welcomes The Sporkful, a food podcast hosted by Dan Pashman and Mark Garrison. On today's show, Dan and Mark discuss buffet strategy, including seat selection, line etiquette, and outsmarting the Buffet Master.

Datum: 31.05.2010 00:05 • Größe: 10.9 MB

586) Slate: The Brotherly Love Live Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon, live from Philadelphia. This week: The BP oil spill, a political grab-bag, and Red and Blue America.

Datum: 28.05.2010 06:28 • Größe: 24.6 MB

585) The Disrupters for May 27, 2010

The Big Money presents The Disrupters, a new podcast about the companies shaking up American business in the 21st century. On today's show, host Chadwick Matlin breaks down Facebook's very public privacy crisis and The New York Times' paywall.

Datum: 27.05.2010 05:14 • Größe: 6.7 MB

584) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Kung-Chung Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens, John Swansburg and Julia Turner discuss Law and Order the final episode, breathing life into the 50 year old Breathless and the vocal stylings of the soon to be pop sensation Janelle Monae.

Datum: 26.05.2010 02:59 • Größe: 22.3 MB

583) Hang Up and Listen: The Hanley Hustle Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca discuss the NBA playoffs, cyclist Floyd Landis? drug admission, Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov?s media blitz, and Hanley Ramirez?s lack of hustle.

Datum: 24.05.2010 19:51 • Größe: 22.8 MB

582) The Sporkful: Apples vs. Oranges

On Mondays in May, the Slate Daily Podcast welcomes The Sporkful, a food podcast hosted by Dan Pashman and Mark Garrison. On today's episode, Dan, Mark and guest eater Win Rosenfeld attempt the impossible -- comparing apples and oranges.

Datum: 24.05.2010 04:43 • Größe: 11 MB

581) The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

The Big Money presents Every Day I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest is Daniel Okrent, author of the book, "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition"

Datum: 22.05.2010 21:33 • Größe: 25.6 MB

580) Slate: The Tea Party Tea Leaves Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz. This week: Arlen Specter loses in PA, Rand Paul wins in KY, and Richard Blumenthal puts CT in the toss-up column.

Datum: 21.05.2010 02:07 • Größe: 17.8 MB

579) DoubleX Gabfest: The Which Lie Is Worse Edition

In this week's Gabfest, Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin of DoubleX and The New Yorker?s Margaret Talbot discuss Elena Kagan?s singledom, Republican Mark Souder?s sex scandal, and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's lie about his war record.

Datum: 20.05.2010 01:36 • Größe: 13.1 MB

578) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, First Ever Live Gabfest Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss director Ridley Scott?s retelling of the Robin Hood myth starring Russell Crowe, Sam Lipsyte?s novel The Ask and the ongoing dispute over Facebook?s privacy setings.

Datum: 19.05.2010 03:43 • Größe: 26.9 MB

577) Hang Up and Listen: The LeBron in Cement Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca discuss LeBron James, the Flyers? big comeback against the Bruins in the NHL playoffs, sports and genetics, and the 2010 World Cup.

Datum: 17.05.2010 19:59 • Größe: 20.6 MB

576) The Sporkful: Krulwich on Sandwiches

On Mondays in May, the Slate Daily Podcast welcomes The Sporkful, a food podcast hosted by Dan Pashman and Mark Garrison. On today's episode, Dan and Mark welcome NPR science correspondent Robert Krulwich to discuss the science of sandwiches.

Datum: 17.05.2010 07:28 • Größe: 12 MB

575) To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee: Slate's Audio Book Club

Meghan O?Rourke, Troy Patterson and Emily Bazelon discuss Harper Lee's book, To Kill A Mockingbird. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Datum: 16.05.2010 20:02 • Größe: 24.2 MB

574) Slate: The Incumbents Aren't Alright Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and Bill Smee. This week: Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, primary season heating up, and the Gulf oil spill on Capitol Hill.

Datum: 14.05.2010 03:00 • Größe: 18.4 MB

573) The Disrupters for May 13, 2010

The Big Money presents The Disrupters, a new podcast about the companies shaking up American business in the 21st century. On today's show, host Chadwick Matlin looks at the Google tablet, and Microsoft's online Office.

Datum: 13.05.2010 03:44 • Größe: 6.5 MB

572) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Bigger Explosions, Smaller Laughs Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss 88-year-old Betty White?s appearance on Saturday Night Live, the 50th anniversary of "the pill," and the release of Iron Man 2.

Datum: 12.05.2010 04:06 • Größe: 15.3 MB

571) Hang Up and Listen: The Soft on General Managers Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca discuss the NBA playoffs, athletes and sociopathy, NFL bust JaMarcus Russell, and the sports world?s response to the Arizona immigration law.

Datum: 10.05.2010 20:18 • Größe: 24.3 MB

570) Slate Presents The Sporkful: S'mores

On Mondays in May, the Slate Daily Podcast welcomes The Sporkful, a food podcast hosted by Dan Pashman and Mark Garrison. On today's episode, Dan and Mark invite eight-year-old Nathaniel Goodyear to discuss s'mores.

Datum: 10.05.2010 02:05 • Größe: 10.7 MB

569) Slate: The Really Squirrely Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: The New York City bombing attempt, the Gulf oil spill, and a media echo chamber

Datum: 07.05.2010 04:07 • Größe: 16.7 MB

568) DoubleX Audio Book Club: The Surrendered

DoubleX editors Hanna Rosin and Emily Bazelon along with The New Yorker's Margaret Talbot discuss Chang-rae Lee's new novel, The Surrendered.

Datum: 06.05.2010 02:25 • Größe: 19.4 MB

567) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Optimization of Selfhood Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and June Thomas discuss a new biography of Oprah, the Data-Driven Life as quantified by Gary Wolf, and the new film Please Give from director Nicole Holofcener.

Datum: 05.05.2010 04:33 • Größe: 15.7 MB

566) Hang Up and Listen: The Sumo Goalie Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca discuss the NHL playoffs, Lorena Ochoa?s retirement, gay Welsh rugby player Gareth Thomas, and the science behind our love of the underdog.

Datum: 03.05.2010 21:09 • Größe: 24.4 MB

565) Slate Presents The Sporkful: Burger Toppings

On Mondays in May, Slate welcomes The Sporkful to the Daily Podcast feed. The Sporkful is a food podcast hosted by Dan Pashman and Mark Garrison. On today's episode, Dan and Mark debate the finer points of burger toppings.

Datum: 02.05.2010 21:50 • Größe: 11.5 MB

564) Slate: The Dangerous and Violent Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon, with special guest Jacob Weisberg in England. This week: The British election debate, the Florida Senate race, immigration in Arizona, and several Supreme Court cases

Datum: 30.04.2010 04:26 • Größe: 20 MB

563) The Disrupters, Episode 5

The Big Money presents The Disrupters, a new podcast about the companies shaking up American business in the 21st century. On today's show, host Chadwick Matlin examines what's to 'like' about Facebook.

Datum: 29.04.2010 02:52 • Größe: 5.5 MB

562) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Naked Doorway Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Lisa Tharpe and Julia Turner discuss the Marina Abramovic retrospective at MOMA, censoring and the 201st episode of South Park and Al Pacino knows Jack Kevorkian in HBO?s new biopic You Don?t Know Jack.

Datum: 28.04.2010 03:09 • Größe: 22 MB

561) Hang Up and Listen: The Loser's Curse Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca discuss the NFL draft, the rise of the Oklahoma City Thunder, the 68-team NCAA hoops tournament, and baseball?s unwritten rules.

Datum: 26.04.2010 19:56 • Größe: 23.7 MB

560) Slate: Lose 300 Million Tons Of CO2 in Just Three Weeks!

Lose 300 Million Tons Of CO2 in Just Three Weeks! A great way for businesses to shed excess carbon? The humble diet diary, by Kate Sheppard

Datum: 25.04.2010 22:22 • Größe: 3 MB

559) Slate: The Too Powerful and Too Big Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: Banking reform, the Supreme Court succession guessing is underway, and Politico takes over Washington

Datum: 23.04.2010 04:33 • Größe: 17.4 MB

558) DoubleX Gabfest: The All-Sarah Edition

Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose of DoubleX and Slate media critic Jack Shafer discuss Sarah Palin's speaking tour, Sarah Brown and the treatment of political wives in the British election, and a few recent profiles of comedian Sarah Silverman.

Datum: 22.04.2010 02:46 • Größe: 13.7 MB

557) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, I'm Not Going to Say That on the Gabfest Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the new film Kick-Ass, literature and cognitive neuroscience and the Library of Congress preserving your tweets.

Datum: 21.04.2010 02:30 • Größe: 20.2 MB

556) Hang Up and Listen: The Redskins and Indians Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca, and Dave McKenna discuss the NBA and NHL playoffs, the NFL draft, Ben Roethlisberger?s likely NFL suspension, and the Allen Iverson documentary No Crossover.

Datum: 19.04.2010 20:53 • Größe: 21.9 MB

555) Audio Book Club: "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine," by Michael Lewis

Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, and Daniel Gross discuss Michael Lewis' book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program

Datum: 19.04.2010 01:35 • Größe: 20.4 MB

554) Slate: The Actual Listener Participation Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon, with cocktail chatter from listener Beth Feldman. This week: Who belongs to the Tea Party, an opening on the Supreme Court, and where now the space program

Datum: 16.04.2010 03:27 • Größe: 15.9 MB

553) The Disrupters, Episode 4

The Big Money presents The Disrupters, a new podcast about the companies shaking up American business in the 21st century. On today's show, host Chadwick Matlin explores the ad model for your Twitter feeds.

Datum: 15.04.2010 02:08 • Größe: 6.9 MB

552) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Ooh La La Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss David Simon's latest HBO endeavor Treme, the loss of British punk rocker Malcolm McLaren and the comic musings of Tina Fey.

Datum: 14.04.2010 05:01 • Größe: 20.5 MB

551) Hang Up and Listen: The Hug to Remember Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the Masters, the length of baseball games, Zenyatta?s record-setting victory, and the dumb questions NFL teams ask potential draftees.

Datum: 13.04.2010 00:50 • Größe: 23.7 MB

550) Slate: The Secret Life of Juan Valdez

The Secret Life of Juan Valdez: How Colombia's most famous coffee picker is challenging Starbucks, by Daniel Gross

Datum: 11.04.2010 14:36 • Größe: 2.4 MB

549) Slate: The Tapestry of Magic Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: Leaked Iraqi War video, Virginia's Governor and Confederate History Month, and net neutrality

Datum: 09.04.2010 03:54 • Größe: 15.6 MB

548) DoubleX Gabfest: The Bottle Girls and Basketball Edition

Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose of DoubleX and Slate media critic Jack Shafer discuss the New York Magazine cover story "The Half-Hooker Economy," women's basketball player Brittney Griner, and whether women are becoming more violent.

Datum: 08.04.2010 02:59 • Größe: 14.8 MB

547) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, I Want to Touch the Machine Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Seth Stevenson and Julia Turner discuss Seth Stevenson's new travel book "Grounded", creating your own TV ad with a little help from Google and Apple's much hyped IPad.

Datum: 07.04.2010 02:32 • Größe: 21.6 MB

546) Hang Up and Listen: The Hating Duke Is a Cliché Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the men?s and women?s Final Fours, the Eagles trading Donovan McNabb to the Redskins, and the idea of floating realignment in baseball.

Datum: 05.04.2010 19:44 • Größe: 23.5 MB

545) Slate: Inspiration Nation

Inspiration Nation: Sarah Palin's new TV show proves that what she says has consequences, by Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 05.04.2010 02:04 • Größe: 3.4 MB

544) Slate: The Land of Formica Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Christopher Beam and Emily Bazelon. This week: Health care reform, drill baby drill, and bullying

Datum: 02.04.2010 04:32 • Größe: 14.9 MB

543) The Disrupters, Episode 3

The Big Money presents The Disrupters, a new podcast about the companies shaking up American business in the 21st century. On today's show, host Chadwick Matlin counts down to the release of Apple's new iPad with an Apple minded show.

Datum: 01.04.2010 03:09 • Größe: 6.5 MB

542) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Shake Your Bon-Bon Edition

IIn this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss the new CBS television show Undercover Boss, the language of coming out when your a celebrity and the website TV Tropes.

Datum: 31.03.2010 02:51 • Größe: 20.7 MB

541) Hang Up and Listen: The Fight at T.G.I. Friday's Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca, and Dave McKenna discuss the second weekend of the NCAA tournament, Urban Meyer?s fracas with a newspaper reporter, and the state of professional wrestling.

Datum: 29.03.2010 21:36 • Größe: 19.4 MB

540) Slate: Is 2010 Going To Be 1994 or 1934?

Is 2010 Going To Be 1994 or 1934? The economy is recovering, which means Democrats may not get routed in November, by Daniel Gross

Datum: 27.03.2010 22:28 • Größe: 2.7 MB

539) Slate: A Matter of Faith Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Will Saletan. This week: Health care reform passes Congress, health care and abortion, and a scandal in the Catholic Church

Datum: 26.03.2010 04:05 • Größe: 19.8 MB

538) DoubleX Audio Book Club: The Three Weissmanns of Westport

DoubleX's Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin and The New Yorker's Margaret Talbot discuss Cathleen Schine's new novel The Three Weissmanns of Westport.

Datum: 25.03.2010 01:24 • Größe: 16.5 MB

537) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Number One Record Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Mike Pesca, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discus the death of Big Star front man Alex Chilton, music criticism is it worthless and replacing William Safire at The New York Times.

Datum: 24.03.2010 03:15 • Größe: 20.2 MB

536) Hang Up and Listen: The Skinny, Skilled Big Man Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the NCAA tournament, Tiger Woods? return to golf, the Nationals sending Stephen Strasburg to the minors, and Joe Mauer?s new contract.

Datum: 22.03.2010 19:31 • Größe: 22.2 MB

535) Slate: You Can Text Me Now

You Can Text Me Now: The one simple rule you need to know to have perfect texting etiquette, by Farhad Manjoo

Datum: 21.03.2010 14:51 • Größe: 3.5 MB

534) Slate: The We're All Headed for Tyranny Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: The fight over health care reform reaches a crescendo, harsh words for Israel, and the Tea Party and Clarence Thomas' wife

Datum: 19.03.2010 02:55 • Größe: 17.6 MB

533) The Disrupters, Episode 2

The Big Money presents The Disrupters, a new podcast about the companies shaking up American business in the 21st century. On today's show, host Chadwick Matlin explores whether Twitter will soon include ads, and the rise of location-based apps.

Datum: 18.03.2010 04:43 • Größe: 5.7 MB

532) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, This is Event Programming, Dammit Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and June Thomas discuss HBO's new mini-series The Pacific, Variety firing it's critics and mommy bloggers in The New York Times.

Datum: 17.03.2010 03:27 • Größe: 20.4 MB

531) Hang Up and Listen: The Shining Moments Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca talk about March Madness, the declining number of black baseball players, and the Knicks-Pacers documentary Winning Time.

Datum: 15.03.2010 19:27 • Größe: 24 MB

530) Audio Book Club: Wolf Hall

Troy Patterson, Jacob Weisberg, and John Swansburg discuss Hilary Mantel's book, Wolf Hall. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program

Datum: 15.03.2010 01:58 • Größe: 20.7 MB

529) Slate: The Tickle Fight Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: The sad tale of Eric Massa, Rahm Emanuel, and the Supreme Court fights back

Datum: 12.03.2010 06:10 • Größe: 17.8 MB

528) DoubleX Gabfest: Too Tired for Sex Edition

Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose of DoubleX along with Slate's Jack Shafer discuss Liz Cheney's campaign against the al-Qaida 7, Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar win and a new study that says Americans are too tired for sex.

Datum: 11.03.2010 02:41 • Größe: 12.8 MB

527) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Busby Berkeley Dreams Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the Oscars, finding your way through New York's Penn Station and whether The National Enquirer should be eligible for a Pulitzer.

Datum: 10.03.2010 03:54 • Größe: 22.5 MB

526) Hang Up and Listen: The Ultimate Zone Rating Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca talk about one-and-done college stars, UConn women?s hoops, baseball?s next statistical revolution, and athletes who play despite health risks.

Datum: 08.03.2010 20:12 • Größe: 20.3 MB

525) Slate: Notes on a Scandal

Notes on a Scandal: Why pledges to "clean up Washington" never work, by Christopher Beam

Datum: 08.03.2010 03:19 • Größe: 3 MB

524) Slate: The Live From New York Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: Health care reform, New York State politics, and the Supreme Court takes on the second amendment

Datum: 04.03.2010 21:57 • Größe: 25.9 MB

523) The Disrupters, Episode 1

The Big Money presents The Disrupters, a new podcast that zeroes in on companies like Facebook, Google, Hulu and Apple as they change the face of American business. Chadwick Matlin hosts.

Datum: 04.03.2010 14:52 • Größe: 5.8 MB

522) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Warbly Strangly Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the singer song-writer Joanna Newsom, the new NBC show "The Marriage Ref" and ten rules for writing fiction.

Datum: 03.03.2010 03:19 • Größe: 18.8 MB

521) Hang Up and Listen: The Pulling the Goalie Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca talk about Canada?s Olympic hockey win, the end of the Vancouver Games, the NFL?s scouting combine, and a push for increased HGH testing.

Datum: 01.03.2010 20:17 • Größe: 21.1 MB

520) Slate: Going for the Green

Going for the Green: Can Vail's ski resort cut its energy use 10 percent? By Daniel Gross

Datum: 01.03.2010 00:42 • Größe: 2.6 MB

519) Slate: The Crazy as a Loon Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: Obama's health care meeting, a verdict on Bush Administration lawyers and torture, and the trials of Toyota

Datum: 26.02.2010 05:34 • Größe: 17.6 MB

518) DoubleX Gabfest: The Bond Girl Edition

Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose of DoubleX and Margaret Talbot of The New Yorker discuss South Korean skater Kim Yu-Na's Bond girl routine, Michelle Obama's childhood obesity campaign, and Judith Warner's new book on medicating children, We've Got Issues.

Datum: 25.02.2010 03:03 • Größe: 14.3 MB

517) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Meet the Crotchman Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss this Esquire profile of film critic Roger Ebert, the new animated HBO incarnation of The Ricky Gervias Show, and ChatRoulette the international chat room that pairs you and your webcam with a total str...

Datum: 24.02.2010 03:46 • Größe: 19.2 MB

516) Hang Up and Listen: The Tape Delay Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca talk about Sunday?s USA-Canada hockey match, NBC?s Olympics coverage, Tiger Woods? public apology, and the NBA?s salary cap shenanigans.

Datum: 22.02.2010 20:10 • Größe: 24.6 MB

515) Slate: The Chemist's War

The Chemist's War: The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences, by Deborah Blum

Datum: 22.02.2010 04:06 • Größe: 5 MB

514) Slate: The Sins Both Large and Small Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week:Evan Bayh's election decision, should Rahm Emmanuel leave the White House, and the Tea Party Manifesto

Datum: 19.02.2010 05:38 • Größe: 17.3 MB

513) Slate: Money Talks, February 4, 2010

The Big Money's Chadwick Matlin discusses the iPad with Marion Maneker and Daniel Gross.

Datum: 18.02.2010 07:05 • Größe: 25.7 MB

512) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: We're Saving Our Own Lives Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss "We Are the World" take two, singer-songwriter John Mayer's disturbing Playboy Interview and the start of the 2010 winter games.

Datum: 17.02.2010 03:14 • Größe: 22 MB

511) Hang Up and Listen: The Olympics Are Decadent and Depraved Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca talk about the death of an Olympic luger, the media pose of American skier Lindsey Vonn, and a sportswriter who solicited donations on the Web.

Datum: 15.02.2010 21:54 • Größe: 25.1 MB

510) Audio Book Club: Don DeLillo

Meghan O?Rourke, Stephen Metcalf, and Troy Patterson discuss Don DeLillo's book, White Noise. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program

Datum: 14.02.2010 23:27 • Größe: 23.4 MB

509) Slate: The Ice-Bound Edition Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: President Obama and party politics, where to hold terrorist trials, and why we care about the Olympics

Datum: 12.02.2010 05:34 • Größe: 16.8 MB

508) DoubleX Audio Book Club: Elizabeth Gilbert?s Committed

Emily Bazelon, Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose, editors of DoubleX, Slate?s section for women, discuss Elizabeth Gilbert?s new memoir Committed.

Datum: 11.02.2010 02:10 • Größe: 12.2 MB

507) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: We Have No Pants Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Seth Stevenson, Julia Turner and Dana Stevens discuss this years crop of Super Bowl ads, the HBO Temple Grandin biopic and The New York Times story on a killer karaoke Sinatra song.

Datum: 10.02.2010 04:00 • Größe: 19 MB

506) Hang Up and Listen: The Who Dat Ambush Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca talk about all things Super Bowl: the key moments in the Saints? win, the coaches, the quarterbacks, the ads, and the media coverage.

Datum: 08.02.2010 20:27 • Größe: 22.8 MB

505) Slate: The Retarded Controversy

The Retarded Controversy: Lay off Rahm Emanuel already! By Jack Shafer

Datum: 08.02.2010 01:26 • Größe: 2.4 MB

504) Slate: The Turkeys Come Home to Roost Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: The budget debate starts in earnest, Don't ask, don't tell, don't care, and abortion at the Superbowl

Datum: 05.02.2010 03:35 • Größe: 16.7 MB

503) Slate: Money Talks, February 4, 2010

The Big Money's Chadwick Matlin discusses the iPad with Marion Maneker and Daniel Gross.

Datum: 04.02.2010 02:46 • Größe: 21.7 MB

502) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Mourning in America Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson and Dana Stevens discuss Oscar nominations, death and mourning in American and the loss of author JD Salinger.

Datum: 03.02.2010 02:48 • Größe: 17.7 MB

501) Hang Up and Listen, the Tebow v. ManCrunch Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca talk about the NFL?s Pro Bowl, Tim Tebow?s pro-life Super Bowl ad and NFL prospects, tennis? Australian Open, and a golf equipment controversy.

Datum: 01.02.2010 19:37 • Größe: 22.7 MB

500) Slate: The Gang of Five, and How They Nearly Ruined Us

The Gang of Five, and How They Nearly Ruined Us: The little-known reason why investment banks got too big, too greedy, too risky, and too powerful, by Daniel Gross

Datum: 01.02.2010 03:04 • Größe: 2.6 MB

499) Slate: The Something We're Good At Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Christopher Beam, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Reaction to the State of the Union, more help for the Democrats, and dissecting the IPad

Datum: 29.01.2010 07:26 • Größe: 17.5 MB

498) DoubleX Gabfest: Spouses and Staches Edition

Jessica Grose and Hanna Rosin, editors of Slate's women's magazine DoubleX, discuss topics in the news. This week: The New Yorker's Margaret Talbot joins to talk about a Pew report called "The Rise of Wives", the gay marriage trial in California and whether Tina Fey can bring back the female mustach...

Datum: 28.01.2010 03:37 • Größe: 12.9 MB

497) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: The Origin of Speciousness Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Mike Pesca and Dana Stevens discuss the new Charles Darwin biopic Creation, John Stewart's takes on Keith Olbermann and the death of Air America and finally The New York Times announcement that it will soon to be hiding behind a pay wall

Datum: 27.01.2010 04:11 • Größe: 19.7 MB

496) Hang Up and Listen: The Farewell Favre, Saints March In Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca talk about the NFL conference championship games, NASCAR?s attempts to attract fans, and Stephen Colbert?s embrace of Olympic Speed skating.

Datum: 25.01.2010 20:08 • Größe: 18.3 MB

495) Slate: Only Connect!

Only Connect! How Obama's cool, detached temperament is hurting him and his party, by Jacob Weisberg

Datum: 25.01.2010 05:10 • Größe: 2.9 MB

494) Slate: The Yearning for the Clarity of George Bush Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, Dahlia Lithwick and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Supreme Court rules on corporations and the First Amendment, Scott Brown takes over Massachusetts, and a run-down of the Obama Administration's first year

Datum: 22.01.2010 02:01 • Größe: 17.4 MB

493) Slate: Authority, Meet Technology

Authority, Meet Technology: A Slate/New America Foundation discussion about China, Google, and Internet freedom

Datum: 21.01.2010 03:54 • Größe: 40.1 MB

492) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: The Golden Globalization Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Troy Patterson, Dana Stephens and June Thomas discuss the Golden Globes, the Americanization of Mental Illness from the New York Times Magazine and the latest video to go viral from American Idol.

Datum: 20.01.2010 04:50 • Größe: 15.9 MB

491) Hang Up and Listen: The Porno Epaulet Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca talk about the NFL?s final four, nepotism in coaching, the Marvin Harrison shooting case, U.S. soccer players abroad, and skater Johnny Weir.

Datum: 19.01.2010 21:40 • Größe: 21.9 MB

490) Audio Book Club: Mary Karr

Meghan O?Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and Troy Patterson discuss Mary Karr's memoir, Lit. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Datum: 18.01.2010 04:09 • Größe: 18.6 MB

489) Slate: The He's No Bobby Kennedy Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: Earthquake relief for Haiti, the week's political roundup, and gay marriage on YouTube

Datum: 15.01.2010 03:08 • Größe: 18.2 MB

488) DoubleX Gabfest: Saint or Sinner Edition

Emily Bazelon, Jessica Grose and Hanna Rosin, editors of Slate's women's magazine DoubleX.com discuss the portrayal of women in the 2008 Presidential campaign in the new book "Game Change". The trial of the suspected killer in the murder of the abortion doctor in Kansas, George Tiller. And a recent...

Datum: 14.01.2010 03:18 • Größe: 13.2 MB

487) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: I've Got Ten Cartridges of Toner in My Pants Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stephens and Julia Turner discuss the fate of late night TV, the works of the late French director Eric Rohmer and twenty years of The Simpsons.

Datum: 13.01.2010 02:55 • Größe: 18 MB

486) Hang Up and Listen: The Gum on the Backboard Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca talk about an NFL anti-trust case, the Pacquiao-Mayweather negotiations, the economics of the three pointer, and chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen.

Datum: 11.01.2010 20:04 • Größe: 20.3 MB

485) Slate: Bernie Madoff, M.D.

Bernie Madoff, M.D.: Is the recession good for your health? by Timothy Noah

Datum: 09.01.2010 15:29 • Größe: 4.1 MB

484) Slate: The Road to Salvation Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: Airplane security, the changing national political landscape, and Brit Hume, Tiger Woods and God

Datum: 08.01.2010 05:47 • Größe: 19.7 MB

483) Slate: Money Talks, January 7, 2010

The Big Money Editor James Ledbetter leads a discussion with Chadwick Matlin and Marion Maneker on the site's two new tech blogs.

Datum: 07.01.2010 03:55 • Größe: 30.6 MB

482) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Scary Bunny Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Adam Gopnik, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stephens and Julia Turner discuss sex and the American novel, the fate of magazines and van Gogh's ear.

Datum: 06.01.2010 05:49 • Größe: 19.7 MB

481) Hang Up and Listen: Buffalo Sabermetrics Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca talk about NFL teams resting their starters, the firing of Texas Tech?s Mike Leach, Gilbert Arenas? gunplay, and the NHL?s Winter Classic.

Datum: 05.01.2010 00:10 • Größe: 20.4 MB

480) Slate: Pulling the Plug

Pulling the Plug: How to dispose of old electronics in a responsible way, by Nina Shen Rastogi

Datum: 04.01.2010 02:58 • Größe: 3.7 MB

479) Slate: The Apolitical Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: The trio answers your year-end truth-or-dare questions!

Datum: 31.12.2009 04:33 • Größe: 11.1 MB

478) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Puny Ingratiation Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the mistress of yuppie comedy Nancy Meyers latest film It?s Complicated, the loss of singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt and they pear into a crystal ball and predictions for the decade to come.

Datum: 30.12.2009 02:48 • Größe: 19.6 MB

477) Hang Up and Listen: The Strength of Victory Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca, and special guest Tom Scocca discuss NFL tiebreakers, sadsack franchises, the retirement and unretirement of Florida?s Urban Meyer, and the NBA?s economic woes.

Datum: 28.12.2009 20:13 • Größe: 21.4 MB

476) Slate: Fifth Period Is Facebook

Fifth Period Is Facebook: Why schools should stop blocking social network sites, by Nicholas Bramble

Datum: 28.12.2009 06:09 • Größe: 3.7 MB

475) Slate: The Unsafe for Vegetarians Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Timothy Noah and Emily Bazelon. This week: Final debate on the Senate health care bill, airline passenger rights, and the real Salahis

Datum: 24.12.2009 13:39 • Größe: 17.6 MB

474) Slate: Money Talks, Dec 24, 2009

The Big Money Editor James Ledbetter leads a discussion with Daniel Gross and Heidi Moore on Facebook's privacy pickle, walking away from your mortgage and the first year of Obamanomics.

Datum: 24.12.2009 04:45 • Größe: 34.9 MB

473) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Do You Want to Touch My Poof Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Jessica Grose, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss the best TV shows and films of the year and decade and the polluted waters of MTV's reality show Jersey Shore.

Datum: 23.12.2009 03:35 • Größe: 20.6 MB

472) Hang Up and Listen: The Offseason Champions Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca, and special guest Dan Steinberg discuss the Washington Redskins, the potential expansion of March Madness, and a pair of college coaching controversies.

Datum: 23.12.2009 03:32 • Größe: 23.1 MB

471) Audio Book Club: Vladimir Nabokov

Meghan O?Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and Troy Patterson discuss Vladimir Nabokov's book, The Original of Laura. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Datum: 21.12.2009 01:01 • Größe: 20.7 MB

470) Slate: The Kitchen Bitch Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: Health care reform and Joe Lieberman, the climate in Copenhagen, and on-line bullying

Datum: 18.12.2009 03:53 • Größe: 19.6 MB

469) DoubleX Gabfest: Audio Book Club on Alice Munro's "Too Much Happiness"

Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, editors of Slate's new women's magazine DoubleX.com, and "New Yorker" writer Margaret Talbot discuss topics in the news. This week: a discussion of Alice Munro's book "Too Much Happiness"

Datum: 17.12.2009 03:02 • Größe: 14.5 MB

468) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Better Than an Emery Board to the Eyeballs Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Daniel Engber, Stephen Metcalf, Chris Suellentrop, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the whether you should see James Cameron's Avatar, women both in and absent in the film world and video games as art.

Datum: 16.12.2009 03:31 • Größe: 20.8 MB

467) Hang Up and Listen: The Quitting Sports Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Tiger Woods? absence from golf, the Heisman Trophy, college football hostesses, and John Swansburg?s article on quitting sports.

Datum: 14.12.2009 20:19 • Größe: 21.9 MB

466) Slate: Are Republicans Serious About Fixing Health Care?

Are Republicans Serious About Fixing Health Care? No, and here's the proof, by Jacob Weisberg

Datum: 14.12.2009 02:51 • Größe: 3.3 MB

465) Slate: The You Say Tomato Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week: A compromise brewing on health care, Obama's Nobel speech, and texting traps

Datum: 11.12.2009 01:49 • Größe: 17 MB

464) Slate: Money Talks, Dec 10, 2009

The Big Money Editor James Ledbetter leads a discussion with Daniel Gross and Marion Maneker on the state of the TARP and unemployment.

Datum: 10.12.2009 15:51 • Größe: 9.9 MB

463) Slate: The Culture Gabfest: That's My Gingerbread Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the decade of change in the music business, the art of selling out and the everlasting Facebook.

Datum: 09.12.2009 03:13 • Größe: 21.2 MB

462) Hang Up and Listen: The Axis of Gyro Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the 12-0 New Orleans Saints, Marion Jones? hoops comeback, the latest BCS imbroglio, the World Cup draw, and Allen Iverson?s legacy.

Datum: 07.12.2009 19:24 • Größe: 23.8 MB

461) Slate: Quantum of Lawless

Quantum of Lawless: The critics of the KSM trial can't ask for more law and less law at the same time, by Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 07.12.2009 02:10 • Größe: 2.9 MB

460) Slate: The Endless Afghanistan Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week: Obama's Afghanistan plan, the climate change e-mail dust-up, and potential political problems for Mike Huckabee

Datum: 04.12.2009 04:54 • Größe: 17 MB

459) DoubleX Gabfest: The Between Tiger and Desire Edition

Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, editors of Slate's new women's magazine DoubleX.com, discuss topics in the news. This week: Slate's Jack Shafer joins to talk about Tiger Woods, Abortion and Pro Choice, and the mystery of female desire.

Datum: 03.12.2009 03:47 • Größe: 14.1 MB

458) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, They'll Remember Me 100 Years From Now Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss White House party crashers, the "decade from hell," and Eva Tanguay, the first rock star.

Datum: 02.12.2009 03:33 • Größe: 18.3 MB

457) Hang Up and Listen: The Tiger in His Tank Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Vince Young?s resurgence, the insanity surrounding Tiger Woods, the Nets? 0-17 start, and the latest on concussions and the NFL.

Datum: 30.11.2009 19:09 • Größe: 21.9 MB

456) Slate: Obama's Brilliant First Year

Obama's Brilliant First Year: By January, he will have accomplished more than any first-year president since Franklin Roosevelt, by Jacob Weisberg

Datum: 30.11.2009 00:48 • Größe: 2.8 MB

455) Slate: The McKinsey War Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week: The Administration's decision on Afghanistan, Obama's approval ratings drop below 50%, and troubled times at Thanksgiving

Datum: 26.11.2009 02:32 • Größe: 18.6 MB

454) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Tangled Up in Yule Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Jody Rosen, June Thomas, Julia Turner and Dana Stevens discuss Bob Dylan?s Christmas CD Christmas in the Heart, the South African sprinter Caster Semenya and filmmaker Frederick Wiseman?s new documentary Le Danse.

Datum: 25.11.2009 03:25 • Größe: 25 MB

453) Hang Up and Listen: The Bad Luck of the Irish Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss soccer?s MLS Cup finals, the Ireland-France handball imbroglio, NASCAR?s Jimmie Johnson, and baseball players who study advanced stats.

Datum: 23.11.2009 21:54 • Größe: 21.2 MB

452) Slate: Stupid Drug Story of the Week

Stupid Drug Story of the Week: NBC's Today show discovers huffing, by Jack Shafer

Datum: 23.11.2009 04:14 • Größe: 2.7 MB

451) Slate: The Following of Nutters Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week: Trying five terrorists in New York City, confusing, conflicting information about mammograms, and Sarah Palin turns a new page

Datum: 20.11.2009 03:49 • Größe: 16.4 MB

450) DoubleX Gabfest: The Rogue Edition

Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, editors of Slate's new women's magazine DoubleX.com, and "New Yorker" writer Margaret Talbot discuss topics in the news. This week: Sarah Palin's new book "Going Rogue," The Stupak Amendment and the movie "Precious.

Datum: 19.11.2009 02:42 • Größe: 18 MB

449) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Plutonium Blonde Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner and guests Troy Patterson and Juliet Lapidos discuss what's so great about Lady Gaga anyway, filmmaker Wes Anderson's latest, and how to translate "nuclear waste" to society some 10,000 years from now.

Datum: 18.11.2009 02:30 • Größe: 22.2 MB

448) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Plutonium Blonde Edition

Datum: 18.11.2009 02:30 • Größe: 21.9 MB

447) Hang Up and Listen: The Should I Punt or Should I Go Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the Colts? tight win over the Patriots, college football?s BCS rankings, and the Larry Bird/Magic Johnson book When the Game Was Ours.

Datum: 16.11.2009 18:05 • Größe: 20.9 MB

446) Audio Book Club: Raymond Carver

Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and Troy Patterson compare two versions of a story by Raymond Carver - "The Bath," and "A Small Good Thing." One version was heavily edited by Gordon Lish. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the stories before listening to this audio...

Datum: 15.11.2009 18:55 • Größe: 22.2 MB

445) Slate: The Nightmare Agenda Live Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week: Health Care Reform, the Obama Presidency, and the shootings at Fort Hood. Plus, questions from our live audience.

Datum: 13.11.2009 18:11 • Größe: 32.6 MB

444) Slate: Money Talks, Nov 13, 2009

The Big Money Editor James Ledbetter leads a discussion with Daniel Gross and Heidi Moore on running bailed out companies, job growth and Senator Dodd's plan for economic recovery.

Datum: 12.11.2009 18:58 • Größe: 11.2 MB

443) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Cute vs. Evil Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner take on the film Precious, the novel Black Dogs (about the fall of communism) and the nauseating, exploitative menace otherwise known as cute.

Datum: 11.11.2009 05:15 • Größe: 20.1 MB

442) Hang Up and Listen: The Blood Everywhere Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the best and worst teams in the NFL, CBS? foray into mixed martial arts, and Bill Simmons? Book of Basketball.

Datum: 10.11.2009 02:08 • Größe: 20.1 MB

441) Slate: Squawking Hawks

Squawking Hawks: The current deficit debate is for the birds, by Daniel Gross

Datum: 07.11.2009 21:14 • Größe: 3 MB

440) Slate: The Post Off-Year Election Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week: We dissect Tuesday's election results from New Jersey, Virginia, Upstate New York, Maine, and what it all means.

Datum: 06.11.2009 04:39 • Größe: 17.4 MB

439) DoubleX Audio Book Club on A.S. Byatt's "The Children's Book"

Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, editors of Slate's new women's magazine DoubleX.com, and "New Yorker" writer Margaret Talbot discuss A.S. Byatt's "The Children's Book."

Datum: 05.11.2009 04:34 • Größe: 16.8 MB

438) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Good Breeding Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner and guest June Thomas discuss ABC's new sitcom "Modern Family", Tad Friend's latest memoir and a hundred things a restaurant staffer should never do.

Datum: 04.11.2009 05:05 • Größe: 18.8 MB

437) Hang Up and Listen: The A-Rod's Redemption Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the World Series, Brett Favre?s return to Green Bay, and new books by Andre Agassi and Tim Donaghy.

Datum: 02.11.2009 21:26 • Größe: 19.6 MB

436) Slate: The End of Prohibition

The End of Prohibition: Why gay marriage, getting high, and going to Cuba will soon be legal, by Jacob Weisberg

Datum: 02.11.2009 00:02 • Größe: 3 MB

435) Slate: The Boys Club Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week: Health care reform limps forward, vaccinations, and the Obama marriage.

Datum: 30.10.2009 17:45 • Größe: 17.2 MB

434) Slate: Money Talks, October 29, 2009

The Big Money Editor James Ledbetter leads a discussion with Chadwick Matlin and Marion Maneker on "Too Big to Fail" and regulatory reform.

Datum: 29.10.2009 03:54 • Größe: 11.2 MB

433) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Bombard Me With Phonemes Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new season of 30 Rock, the refund offer from Baby Einstein, and the genius ? and crossover potential ? of country music star Brad Paisley.

Datum: 27.10.2009 23:38 • Größe: 21.4 MB

432) Hang Up and Listen, the Early Winter Classic Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Mike Pesca, and Drew Magary discuss the demise of the workhorse running back, competitive balance in the NBA, and the later-than-ever start of the World Series.

Datum: 26.10.2009 19:31 • Größe: 17.8 MB

431) How China and America Became One Economy

The Big Money presents Every Day I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest is Zachary Karabell, author of the book, "Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on It."

Datum: 26.10.2009 05:48 • Größe: 9.7 MB

430) Slate: The Things That Don't Make Sense Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Bill Smee and Emily Bazelon. This week: Afghanistan, limits to Wall Street compensation, and the New Jersey Governor's race

Datum: 23.10.2009 03:19 • Größe: 17.8 MB

429) DoubleX Gabfest: The Boobs and Hot Air Balloon Edition

Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, editors of Slate's new women's magazine DoubleX.com, discuss topics in the news. This week: Slate's Jack Shafer joins to talk about Meghan McCain, the balloon boy hoax, and "Where the Wild Things Are."

Datum: 22.10.2009 02:56 • Größe: 13.6 MB

428) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Flying Circus Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the media circus surrounding the Colorado ?Balloon Boy,? the case for and against circumcision in New York Magazine, and the new documentary on the 40th anniversary of comedy troupe Monty Python

Datum: 20.10.2009 23:03 • Größe: 19 MB

427) Hang Up and Listen: The Rush on the Attack Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Rush Limbaugh?s failed bid to become an NFL owner, the nascent United Football League, and a statistical controversy in the NBA.

Datum: 19.10.2009 19:44 • Größe: 20.6 MB

426) Audio Book Club: The Anthologist

Meghan O?Rourke, Michael Agger, and Troy Patterson discuss Nicholson Baker's book, The Anthologist. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Datum: 18.10.2009 21:14 • Größe: 21.2 MB

425) Slate: The Kinder, Gentler Political Conversation Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: More on Health Care Reform, the White House gay policy, and partisan political fighting from Fox News

Datum: 16.10.2009 02:29 • Größe: 16.8 MB

424) Slate: Money Talks, October 15, 2009

The Big Money Editor James Ledbetter leads a discussion with Daniel Gross and Marion Maneker on the Chamber of Commerce, global economic recovery and The Great Depression: A Diary.

Datum: 15.10.2009 20:41 • Größe: 12 MB

423) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The I'll Eat You Up Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Spike Jonze?s film adaptation of Maurice Sendak?s Where The Wild Things Are, the idea that comedians are starting to take aim at President Obama, and a series on obesity in America by Slate?s Daniel Engber

Datum: 14.10.2009 05:58 • Größe: 21.2 MB

422) Hang Up and Listen: The Human Dogfighting Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the MLB playoffs, the U.S. soccer team, Malcolm Gladwell?s article on the NFL and dogfighting, and the state of the WNBA.

Datum: 12.10.2009 20:08 • Größe: 20.4 MB

421) The Ascent of Jamie Dimon

The Big Money presents Every Day I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest is Duff McDonald, author of the book, "Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase."

Datum: 12.10.2009 03:46 • Größe: 14.1 MB

420) Slate: The Island Nation Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: National Security and Afghanistan, the FTC regulates bloggers, and a roundup of action at the Supreme Court

Datum: 09.10.2009 03:33 • Größe: 19 MB

419) DoubleX Gabfest: The Opt-Out Blip Edition

Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, editors of Slate's new women's magazine DoubleX.com, and "New Yorker" writer Margaret Talbot discuss topics in the news. This week: the opt-out revolution, the death of "Gourmet" and "Cookie," and "Mad Men."

Datum: 08.10.2009 02:10 • Größe: 11.5 MB

418) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Damage Control Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the blackmail scandal surrounding David Letterman?s sexual relationship with some of his female employees, the New Yorker?s profile of Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke, and Conde Nast?s decision to shutter Gourmet Magazine

Datum: 07.10.2009 04:02 • Größe: 20.4 MB

417) Hang Up and Listen: The Favre Favre Favre Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Brett Favre taking on the Packers; the start of the baseball playoffs; and whether table tennis will be the next big TV sport.

Datum: 05.10.2009 20:28 • Größe: 18.6 MB

416) Slate: Condo Leakage

Condo Leakage: No smoking in your own apartment, by William Saletan

Datum: 05.10.2009 02:41 • Größe: 2.6 MB

415) Slate: The Outrageous Behavior Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The health care debate continues, guns back before the Supreme Court, and proposing a coup in the U.S.

Datum: 02.10.2009 02:26 • Größe: 17.7 MB

414) Slate: Money Talks for Nov. 1, 2009

The Big Money Editor Jim Ledbetter leads a discussion with Chadwick Matlin and Heidi N. Moore on unemployment, the biggest government bailout and the Daily Beast's new venture.

Datum: 01.10.2009 03:12 • Größe: 10.3 MB

413) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Teen Beat Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Roman Polanski?s arrest in Switzerland and possible extradition to California for sentencing on a decades old sexual abuse case, the new Fox TV musical drama Glee, and the New York Times Magazine cover story on gay teenagers

Datum: 30.09.2009 05:43 • Größe: 19.3 MB

412) Hang Up and Listen: The Russian Is Coming Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Chicago?s bid to host the 2016 Olympics; a Russian oligarch buying into the NBA; and whether the NHL can survive in Phoenix, Ariz.

Datum: 28.09.2009 20:02 • Größe: 18.1 MB

411) Slate: Chrome for Clunkers

Chrome for Clunkers: Google's ingenious plan to spruce up outdated versions of Internet Explorer, by Farhad Manjoo

Datum: 27.09.2009 10:34 • Größe: 3 MB

410) Slate: The Political Second Acts Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week the panelists discuss Afghanistan, this week's parade of leaders at the U.N., and attempted comebacks of Sarah Palin, Tom DeLay, and John Edwards.

Datum: 25.09.2009 14:06 • Größe: 15.7 MB

409) DoubleX Gabfest: Sad Wife, Good Wife Edition

Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, editors of Slate's new women's magazine DoubleX.com, This week: join "New Yorker" writer Margaret Talbots to discuss studies on the paradox of female unhappiness, the Hofstra rape hoax case, and "The Good Wife."

Datum: 24.09.2009 01:48 • Größe: 13.4 MB

408) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The If You Were Keats You'd Be Dead By Now Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the recent spate of politicians (real and fictional) on TV, led by President Obama on Letterman; Jane Campion?s new film about John Keats and Fannie Brawne; and Neil Patrick Harris as Emmy Awards host with guest June Thomas

Datum: 23.09.2009 05:28 • Größe: 21.1 MB

407) Hang Up and Listen: The Six Flags Over Jerry Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the new Cowboys Stadium; whether the Jets? Rex Ryan augurs the end of dour NFL coaches; and the legacy of NCAA president Myles Brand.

Datum: 21.09.2009 19:32 • Größe: 18.5 MB

406) DoubleX Audio Book Club on Lorrie Moore's "A Gate at the Stairs"

Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, editors of Slate's new women's magazine DoubleX.com, discuss topics in the news. This week: New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot joins for a discussion of Lorrie Moore's new novel, "A Gate at the Stairs."

Datum: 21.09.2009 04:19 • Größe: 18.9 MB

405) Slate: The Baucus Without the Bacchus Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: A more sober panel discusses Sen. Max Baucus's health care plan, Jimmy Carter's charges of anti-Obama racism, and ACORN's pimp problem.

Datum: 18.09.2009 05:43 • Größe: 17 MB

404) Audio Book Club: The Catcher in the Rye

Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, and James Ryerson discuss J.D. Salinger's classic novel The Catcher in the Rye. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Datum: 17.09.2009 04:09 • Größe: 29.1 MB

403) Slate: The Culture Podcast, The Kill Rock Stars Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Kanye West?s outburst at the VMAs and other recent examples of bad manners by celebrities; the new, prime-time, Jay Leno Show; and an exhibition of Claude Monet?s paintings of water lilies at New York?s Museum of Modern Art

Datum: 16.09.2009 04:50 • Größe: 20.3 MB

402) Hang Up and Listen: The Down Your Bleeping Throat Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the the first week of the NFL season; Serena Williams? outburst at the U.S. Open; and Michael Jordan?s Hall of Fame induction speech.

Datum: 14.09.2009 18:57 • Größe: 18.5 MB

401) Slate: The Lehman Shock

The Lehman Shock: Why the bank's failure one year ago was so much more devastating for the rest of the world than for the United States, by Daniel Gross

Datum: 13.09.2009 23:46 • Größe: 2.8 MB

400) Slate: The Pie-Eyed Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Obama's health care speech to Congress, free speech before the Supreme Court, and Dan Brown wows Washington with The Lost Symbol

Datum: 11.09.2009 01:59 • Größe: 17.2 MB

399) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Soft in the Middle

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner chat about the release of the new digitally remastered Beatles box set, bellies on models and hipsters and the new Mike Judge film, "Extract."

Datum: 09.09.2009 03:46 • Größe: 18.3 MB

398) Hang Up and Listen: The Fire in the Belly Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the rise of Melanie Oudin; the NFL?s potential for economic doom; and whether fans have an obligation to go watch their favorite teams.

Datum: 08.09.2009 18:41 • Größe: 19.7 MB

397) Slate: Let Citizens United Speak!

Let Citizens United Speak! Why the Supreme Court should abolish political speech limits on corporations and unions, by Eliot Spitzer

Datum: 07.09.2009 02:51 • Größe: 3.2 MB

396) Slate: The Jamming it Through Congress Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The latest on health care, the week in Afghanistan, and the troubling case of Jaycee Dugard

Datum: 04.09.2009 05:24 • Größe: 15.6 MB

395) Slate: Money Talks for Sept. 3, 2009

The Big Money Editor Jim Ledbetter leads a discussion with Daniel Gross and Chadwick Matlin on the anniversary of the financial collapse, the Obama failure caucus, and the return of the corporate deal.

Datum: 03.09.2009 13:43 • Größe: 10.5 MB

394) Slate: McCan't and McShouldn't

McCan't and McShouldn't: At a Kansas City forum, John McCain and Mitch McConnell show why bipartisanship on health care is impossible, by Christopher Beam

Datum: 03.09.2009 03:29 • Größe: 2.7 MB

393) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Old Fogies and Jailbait Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens are joined by Slate's John Swansburg and Jody Rosen. Topics on deck include, Mad Men's Musical Episode, pop star Taylor Swift, and the new Vogue documentary "The September Issue."

Datum: 02.09.2009 02:48 • Größe: 20.1 MB

392) Double X Gabfest: The Beaten to Death Edition

Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, the editors of Slate's new women's magazine DoubleX.com, join New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot discuss topics in the news. This week: A kidnapping in California, a plea for circumcision, and falling in love with your newborn.

Datum: 01.09.2009 05:05 • Größe: 14.3 MB

391) Hang Up and Listen: The Mighty Gator Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow, the death of the general-interest sports columnist, and a statistical scandal in the NBA.

Datum: 31.08.2009 18:00 • Größe: 18 MB

390) Slate: The Republican Death Machine

The Republican Death Machine: Who's really pulling the plug on Grandma? By Jacob Weisberg

Datum: 30.08.2009 20:32 • Größe: 3 MB

389) Slate: The Unkindest Cut Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The legacy of Ted Kennedy, investigating torture, and required circumcision

Datum: 28.08.2009 19:00 • Größe: 17.5 MB

388) Slate: The Green Lantern Goes to the Bathroom

The Green Lantern Goes to the Bathroom: How to do your business green, by Nina Shen Rastogi

Datum: 27.08.2009 02:11 • Größe: 2.7 MB

387) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Springtime for Tarantino Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Quentin Tarantino?s new WWII fantasy, Inglourious Basterds, with special guest Ron Rosenbaum; the new, long-delayed, season of the fashion design reality series Project Runway; and the winning sketches of Steve.

Datum: 26.08.2009 07:43 • Größe: 21.6 MB

386) Hang Up and Listen: The Kids Aren't Alright Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Brett Favre?s latest unretirement, the dawn of fantasy football season, and the annual hue and cry over the Little League World Series.

Datum: 24.08.2009 18:01 • Größe: 20.4 MB

385) Slate: The Scintillating, Fascinating and Excellent Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest featuring Slate Foreign Editor and Guest Host June Thomas, along with Jacob Weisberg, Editor in Chief of the Slate Group, and Slate Deputy Editor Julia Turner. This week: The latest developments in health care, elections in Afghanistan and a renewed rivalry between New York...

Datum: 21.08.2009 03:18 • Größe: 15.4 MB

384) Audio Book Club: "A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First

Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and guest Laura Kipnis discuss Cristina Nehring's "A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century." We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program

Datum: 20.08.2009 02:32 • Größe: 18.8 MB

383) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Total Commitment Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Ponyo, the new film by Hayao Miyazaki; the to do over Whole Foods CEO John Mackey?s opinion on health care reform; and the legacy of the late Les Paul, via the musings of three rock guitar gods.

Datum: 19.08.2009 05:37 • Größe: 19.3 MB

382) Hang Up and Listen: The World's Fastest Edition

In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Usain Bolt?s record-setting 100 meter dash; Tiger Woods? shocking come-from-ahead loss at the PGA Championship; and Michael Vick?s performance on 60 Minutes.

Datum: 17.08.2009 18:25 • Größe: 15 MB

381) Slate: The Death Panel Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest featuring Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and Gabfest intern Jefferson Pestronk. This week: Turmoil in the town halls, the tricky politics of presidential vacations, and a farewell to Eunice Kennedy Shriver.

Datum: 14.08.2009 02:27 • Größe: 17 MB

380) TBM: David Wessel on In Fed We Trust

The Big Money presents Every Day I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest is David Wessel, author of the book, "In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic."

Datum: 13.08.2009 07:16 • Größe: 13 MB

379) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The ?I Weep for the Future? Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the passing and the films of 80s auteur John Hughes, the distortion of rock concert ticket prices by forces corporate and renegade, and the rise of cultural tourism.

Datum: 12.08.2009 05:32 • Größe: 21.4 MB

378) Slate: Out of Balance

Out of Balance: The lamest business excuse of 2009: "We're a good company with a bad balance sheet." By Daniel Gross

Datum: 11.08.2009 02:48 • Größe: 2.9 MB

377) Hang Up and Listen Episode 2

In this week's episode of Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Michael Vick and the NFL's disciplinary policy; Delaware's legalization of sports gambling; and whether Twitter makes the sports world a better place.

Datum: 10.08.2009 17:50 • Größe: 15.8 MB

376) Slate: John Hughes

John Hughes: He reinvented the teen movie for an entire generation. By Dana Stevens

Datum: 10.08.2009 02:31 • Größe: 2.9 MB

375) Slate: The Flat is the New Up Gabfest

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Newsweek's Economics Editor Dan Gross talk politics. This week: Is the economy getting better, the latest on health care and former President Bill Clinton brings home two Americans imprisoned in North Korea

Datum: 07.08.2009 03:54 • Größe: 16 MB

374) Slate: Money Talks, August 6, 2009

The Big Money Editor Jim Ledbetter leads a discussion with Chadwick Matlin and Marion Maneker on cash for clunkers, the Geithner-Bair feud and Recessionary Road.

Datum: 06.08.2009 02:20 • Größe: 12.8 MB

373) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The All Hail Meryl Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Meryl Streep?s new movie about Julia Child, Julie & Julia; Amazon?s beloved, vexing Kindle e-reader; and Josh Levin?s new series on Slate about the end of America.

Datum: 05.08.2009 03:26 • Größe: 20.4 MB

372) Double X Gabfest: The Gizzard Edition

Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, the editors of Slate's new women's magazine DoubleX.com, discuss topics in the news with Margaret Talbot of The New Yorker. This week: Why no one cooks anymore, girl superheroes and health insurance

Datum: 04.08.2009 04:05 • Größe: 13.7 MB

371) Slate: New President, Old Mistake

New President, Old Mistake: Is Obama trying too hard not to be like his predecessors? By Jacob Weisberg

Datum: 03.08.2009 02:23 • Größe: 3.1 MB

370) Slate: The Coalition of the Swilling Gabfest

John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and Michael Newman talk politics. This week: Disapproval over Obama's plan for health care, racism and beer at the White House, and more on Sonia Sotomayor

Datum: 31.07.2009 17:37 • Größe: 16.5 MB

369) Slate: I Do Good

I Do Good: Can I turn my wedding into a charity fundraiser? By Sandy Stonesifer

Datum: 30.07.2009 02:39 • Größe: 2.2 MB

368) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Shrinky Dink Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the arrival of Judd Apatow?s third movie, Funny People; the rapid disappearance of the music magazine; and the controversy over some of the new psychological disorders that might be included in the DSM-V.

Datum: 29.07.2009 04:57 • Größe: 18.8 MB

367) Slate: A Man's Home Is His Constitutional Castle

A Man's Home Is His Constitutional Castle: Henry Louis Gates Jr. should have taken his stand on the Bill of Rights, not on his epidermis or that of the arresting officer, by Christopher Hitchens

Datum: 28.07.2009 01:10 • Größe: 2.8 MB

366) Slate:Who Is Killing America's Millionaires?

Who Is Killing America's Millionaires? It isn't the tax man, by Daniel Gross

Datum: 26.07.2009 23:08 • Größe: 3.4 MB

365) Slate: The Game-Changer Gabfest

Emily Bazelon, Jacob Weisberg and James Ledbetter talk politics. This week: President Obama and health care, racism and the Cambridge Massachusetts Police Department, and the stimulus package

Datum: 24.07.2009 00:46 • Größe: 19.1 MB

364) Slate Debate: Newspapers vs. the Web

A debate about who's better informed, Web surfers or newspaper readers. Between July 21 and July 23, 2009, Seth Stevenson and Emily Yoffe only consumed Web media, while Timothy Egan and Sam Howe Verhovek read only print newspapers. Michael Kinsley and Michael Newman moderate the debate.

Datum: 23.07.2009 06:36 • Größe: 11.5 MB

363) Money Talks, July 23, 2009

The Big Money Editor Jim Ledbetter leads a discussion with Daniel Gross and Marion Maneker on the end of the recession, health care reform and The Big Money's Obama-inspired stock portfolio.

Datum: 23.07.2009 03:39 • Größe: 9.8 MB

362) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Rocket Experience Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni?s struggle with bulimia, and the glut of nominations for the 61st Emmy Awards.

Datum: 22.07.2009 14:32 • Größe: 19.5 MB

361) Slate: Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009

Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009: Watching the anchorman in a news family, by John Dickerson

Datum: 19.07.2009 19:51 • Größe: 2.8 MB

360) Slate: The Abolish August Gabfest

John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and Chris Beam talk politics. This week: Judge Sotomayor makes it through a week of hearings, Health Care moves toward front and center, and Dick Cheney is in the news again

Datum: 17.07.2009 05:09 • Größe: 17.4 MB

359) Audio Book Club: Thy Neighbor's Wife, by Gay Talese

Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and Troy Patterson discuss Gay Talese's "Thy Neighbor's Wife." We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program

Datum: 16.07.2009 04:51 • Größe: 21.1 MB

358) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The In Bruno Veritas Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Bruno, the confrontational new comedy from Sacha Baron Cohen; the links between Goldman Sachs and each of the major financial bubbles of the last 80 years; and a new book on the decline of French food and wine by Slate?s Mike Steinberger.

Datum: 15.07.2009 06:38 • Größe: 20.1 MB

357) Slate: State of Fear

State of Fear: State governments are in even more trouble than they seem to be. Here's how to save them, by Eliot Spitzer

Datum: 14.07.2009 00:34 • Größe: 3.3 MB

356) Slate: Confirmation in 60 Seconds

Confirmation in 60 Seconds: Everything you need to know about Sonia Sotomayor's upcoming hearings, by Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 12.07.2009 20:41 • Größe: 3.4 MB

355) Slate: The New Media Gal Gabfest

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: Sarah Palin bows out, an Obama round-up, and so-long Salon at the Washington Post

Datum: 10.07.2009 03:05 • Größe: 17.5 MB

354) Money Talks, July 9, 2009

The Big Money Editor James Ledbetter leads a discussion with Daniel Gross and Marion Maneker on antitrust, the prospect of a second stimulus, and the Japanese economy.

Datum: 09.07.2009 17:23 • Größe: 10.6 MB

353) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Smooth Criminal Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the memorial service for Michael Jackson, Michael Mann?s new depression-era bank robber movie Public Enemies, and the various uses they?ve found for the website UrbanDictionary.com.

Datum: 08.07.2009 06:45 • Größe: 19.2 MB

352) Slate: Hang Up and Listen

Slate's Josh Levin hosts a discussion of recent sports highlights with Mike Pesca of NPR and Stefan Fatsis, author of A Few Seconds of Panic. On the agenda: Sunday's epic Wimbledon final, the return of baseball's Manny Ramirez, and U.S. soccer's surprising win streak

Datum: 06.07.2009 20:34 • Größe: 14.8 MB

351) Slate: The Saucy Sarah Gabfest

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: That's Senator Franken if you please, Sarah Palin is back, and the Supreme Court rules on New Haven

Datum: 03.07.2009 04:22 • Größe: 15.3 MB

350) Slate: Keeping the Fizz in the Journalism Biz

Keeping the Fizz in the Journalism Biz: Thanks to technology, we may be entering a golden age, by Jack Shafer

Datum: 02.07.2009 04:50 • Größe: 3.4 MB

349) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Everybody's Dead Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the recent spate of celebrity deaths, starting with Michael Jackson and the lesser lights ? Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon and Billy Mays ? eclipsed by his passing, the way obituaries have changed in the internet era, and what makes a good obit.

Datum: 01.07.2009 06:05 • Größe: 17.8 MB

348) Slate: Your Money or Your Health

Your Money or Your Health: Everyone wants to cut costs. But what if saving my life is expensive? by Christopher Beam

Datum: 30.06.2009 00:03 • Größe: 3.1 MB

347) Slate: Denver's Secret

Denver's Secret: Why so many green jobs are sprouting in Colorado, by Daniel Gross

Datum: 29.06.2009 03:48 • Größe: 2.9 MB

346) Slate: The Totally Unstable, Lost and Confused Gabfest

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: President Obama and Iran, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, and several decisions from the Supreme Court

Datum: 26.06.2009 02:58 • Größe: 18.4 MB

345) Slate: Butt Piracy

Butt Piracy: Why ban the tobacco industry when you can hijack it instead? By William Saletan

Datum: 25.06.2009 01:52 • Größe: 3 MB

344) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Failed Species Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Woody Allen?s new film Whatever Works, the HBO vampire drama True Blood, and A Vindication of Love, Cristina Nehring?s defense of swooning passion.

Datum: 24.06.2009 05:07 • Größe: 19.7 MB

343) Double X Gabfest: Who's That Scary Lady Edition

Emily Bazelon, Meghan O'Rourke, and Hanna Rosin, the editors of Slate's new women's magazine DoubleX.com, discuss topics in the news. This week: martyr myths and the Neda video, passionate marriages, and the downness of "Up."

Datum: 23.06.2009 17:56 • Größe: 23.5 MB

342) The Myth of the Rational Market

The Big Money presents Every Day I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest is Justin Fox, author of the book, "The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street."

Datum: 22.06.2009 17:54 • Größe: 10.8 MB

341) Slate: Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams: Father's Day advice from Dwyane Wade, Alonzo Mourning, and Joe Biden, by Christopher Beam

Datum: 21.06.2009 04:46 • Größe: 2.6 MB

340) Slate: The Kitchen Bitch Gabfest

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: Unrest in Iran, President Obama's reaction to events in Iran, and an interesting discussion of divorce

Datum: 19.06.2009 17:56 • Größe: 18.5 MB

339) Slate: Audio Book Club: John Cheever's 'The Swimmer,' and Flannery O'Connor's 'A

Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and Troy Patterson discuss two short stories - John Cheever's 'The Swimmer,' and Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard To Find.' We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Datum: 18.06.2009 06:20 • Größe: 19.9 MB

338) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Heavy Traffic Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Twitter?s role in the post-election protests in Iran, nostalgia for a grittier New York City, and Times Square?s pedestrian makeover.

Datum: 17.06.2009 05:26 • Größe: 19.4 MB

337) Slate: The Almighty Dollar (Store)

The Almighty Dollar (Store): General, the retailer that figured out how to beat the recession, by Daniel Gross

Datum: 16.06.2009 00:18 • Größe: 2.9 MB

336) Slate: About Climate Change: Never Mind

About Climate Change: Never Mind: How one think tank adapted when the debate moved on from its favorite issue, by Lydia DePillis

Datum: 15.06.2009 02:33 • Größe: 3.1 MB

335) Slate: The Dreamboat Gabfest

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: A Health Care Reform update, National Republican party woes, and a coup in New York state politics

Datum: 12.06.2009 01:52 • Größe: 14.9 MB

334) Slate: Money Talks, June 11, 2009

The Big Money Editor Jim Ledbetter leads a discussion with Chadwick Matlin and Marion Maneker on Henry Paulson, big tobacco and Google's antitrust situation.

Datum: 11.06.2009 00:51 • Größe: 9.5 MB

333) The Slate Culture Gabfest, The Middle of the Road Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Stephen Colbert?s trip to Baghdad and his guest editorship of Newsweek, the Tony awards and the year in Broadway, and the end of General Motors (and American car culture?) as we know it.

Datum: 10.06.2009 04:10 • Größe: 18.4 MB

332) Double X Gabfest: The Endless Checklist Edition

Emily Bazelon, Meghan O'Rourke, and Hanna Rosin, the editors of Slate's new women's magazine DoubleX.com, discuss topics in the news. This week: questions raised by George Tiller's murder, Obama's speech in Cairo, and the sentencing of Laura Ling and Euna Lee.

Datum: 09.06.2009 06:48 • Größe: 22 MB

331) Slate: A Formula for Success

A Formula for Success: Want more women to study science? Hire more female professors, by Ray Fisman

Datum: 07.06.2009 20:07 • Größe: 3.8 MB

330) Slate: The Ravaged and Burned Gabfest

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: President Obama speaks to the Muslim world, the murder of an abortion doctor, and getting ready for Supreme Court nomination hearings

Datum: 05.06.2009 04:24 • Größe: 18.3 MB

329) The Birth of a "Bailout Nation"

The Big Money presents Every Day I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest is Barry Ritholtz, author of the book, "Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy."

Datum: 04.06.2009 03:08 • Größe: 13 MB

328) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Posh New Digs Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics (plus guest gabber Troy Patterson) discuss Conan O?Brien?s first night as the host of the Tonight Show, the reality show/tabloid phenomenon Jon & Kate Plus 8, and UP, from non-stop hit factory Pixar.

Datum: 03.06.2009 04:03 • Größe: 18.8 MB

327) Slate: Crazy Eddie's House Sale

Crazy Eddie's House Sale: Home sellers should offer price protection the way many electronic retailers do, by Ian Ayers and Daniel Markovits

Datum: 02.06.2009 03:46 • Größe: 2.6 MB

326) Slate: There Are Already 355 Terrorists in American Prisons

There Are Already 355 Terrorists in American Prisons: The preposterous arguments against allowing Gitmo detainees into the U.S., by Fred Kaplan

Datum: 01.06.2009 01:34 • Größe: 3.5 MB

325) Slate: The Hermit Kingdom Goes Nuclear Gabfest

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: Obama's Supreme Court nomination, Proposition 8 is upheld by California's high court, and the Hermit Kingdom goes nuclear again

Datum: 29.05.2009 02:09 • Größe: 17.9 MB

324) Slate: Money Talks, May 28, 2009

The Big Money Editor Jim Ledbetter leads a discussion with Daniel Gross and Marion Maneker on the bankruptcy of General Motors, plummeting housing prices and Facebook's new friend.

Datum: 28.05.2009 13:58 • Größe: 11.5 MB

323) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Boo-Effing-Hoo Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the return (er, relapse?) of the rapper Eminem, whether working with your hands is the new outlet for cultural elitism, and the forthcoming memoir by former Kennedy intern/lover Mimi Beardsley Alford.

Datum: 27.05.2009 05:16 • Größe: 17.8 MB

322) Double X Gabfest: The Supremes Edition

Emily Bazelon, Meghan O'Rourke, and Hanna Rosin, the editors of Slate's new women's magazine DoubleX.com, discuss topics in the news. This week: Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court, women superheroes and the new Terminator, and Jon and Kate Plus 8.

Datum: 26.05.2009 06:44 • Größe: 11.7 MB

321) Slate: Explosions in the Lab

Explosions in the Lab: What can be learned from the death of a young biochemist at UCLA? By Beryl Lieff Benderly

Datum: 26.05.2009 02:11 • Größe: 3.2 MB

320) How J.P. Morgan Struck "Fool's Gold"

The Big Money presents Every Day I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest is Gillian Tett, author of the book, "Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe."

Datum: 24.05.2009 19:38 • Größe: 13.7 MB

319) Slate: The Nonplussed Gabfest

David Plotz, Christopher Beam and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: President Obama and Dick Cheney square off over torture, more on Michael Steele, and the California budget meltdown

Datum: 22.05.2009 02:57 • Größe: 17.9 MB

318) Audio Book Club: Atmospheric Disturbances, by Rivka Galchen

Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and Troy Patterson discuss Rivka Galchen's Atmospheric Disturbances. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Datum: 21.05.2009 01:37 • Größe: 21 MB

317) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Mature Adaptation Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the end (and future) of the network television season, the Maureen Dowd plagiarism scandal, and the idea of happiness as explored by a 70 year-old Harvard psychology study.

Datum: 20.05.2009 05:30 • Größe: 19.8 MB

316) The Very First Double X Gabfest

Emily Bazelon, Meghan O'Rourke, and Hanna Rosin, the editors of Slate's new women's magazine DoubleX.com, discuss topics in the news. This week: Obama's kinder, gentler abortion language, Nancy Pelosi's torture troubles, and what to make of a new crop of parenting books.

Datum: 19.05.2009 04:21 • Größe: 14.3 MB

315) Slate: The Secrets of Chang

The Secrets of Chang: The recession is killing chain restaurants. So why is P.F. Chang's thriving? By Daniel Gross

Datum: 18.05.2009 01:19 • Größe: 2.9 MB

314) Slate: The Taking It to the Streets Gabfest

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: President Obama reverses his stand on torture photos, more on gay rights, and the last laugh over the White House Correspondents Dinner

Datum: 15.05.2009 04:21 • Größe: 31.5 MB

313) Slate: Money Talks, May 14, 2009

The Big Money Editor Jim Ledbetter leads a discussion with Dan Gross and Marion Maneker on health care, the "stress tests" and the potential for economic recovery.

Datum: 14.05.2009 03:05 • Größe: 11.7 MB

312) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Franchise Reboot Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new Star Trek movie directed by J.J. Abrams, Wanda Sykes?s routine at the White House Correspondent?s dinner, and the new line of upscale McCafé coffee drinks at McDonald?s.

Datum: 13.05.2009 05:34 • Größe: 19.2 MB

311) Slate: It's Obama's War Now

It's Obama's War Now: The ouster of Afghanistan commander David McKiernan could make or break the Obama presidency, by Fred Kaplan

Datum: 12.05.2009 02:42 • Größe: 2.5 MB

310) Slate: Soap to Ploughshares

Soap to Ploughshares: How to return Mother's Day to its original meaning, by Ruth Rosen

Datum: 11.05.2009 01:43 • Größe: 3.1 MB

309) Slate: The Attack the Priesthood Gabfest

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: Speculation on a Supreme Court replacement, it was Pakistan-Afghanistan crisis week in Washington, and the Elizabeth Edwards tell-all

Datum: 08.05.2009 02:45 • Größe: 16.9 MB

308) Slate: Frank Partnoy on The Match King

The Big Money presents Every Day I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest today is Frank Partnoy, author of the new book, "The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals."

Datum: 07.05.2009 03:55 • Größe: 12.7 MB

307) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Performance Anxiety Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the use of so-called neuro-enhancing drugs to aid study or work, the plight of the embattled-but-seemingly-safe-for-now newspaper the Boston Globe, and which upcoming summer movies they?re most looking forward to (or looking forward to hating).

Datum: 06.05.2009 05:04 • Größe: 17.3 MB

306) Slate: Pizza Party

Pizza Party: Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, and Eric Cantor experiment with bottom-up Republicanism, by Christopher Beam

Datum: 04.05.2009 23:16 • Größe: 2.6 MB

305) Slate: Jolly Madison

Jolly Madison: Why life is still good for business school students in Wisconsin, by Daniel Gross

Datum: 04.05.2009 04:08 • Größe: 3.3 MB

304) Slate: The Shift Happens Podcast

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: Swine Flu, Arlen Specter Flips, and the first 100 Days of Obama

Datum: 01.05.2009 03:21 • Größe: 19.6 MB

303) Slate: The Shift Happens Podcast

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: Swine Flu, Arlen Specter Flips, and the first 100 Days of Obama

Datum: 01.05.2009 03:21 • Größe: 19.6 MB

302) Slate: Money Talks, April 30, 2009

The Big Money Editor Jim Ledbetter leads a discussion with Sara Behunek and Chadwick Matlin on the pay to play scandal, the closing of Portfolio magazine, and the big bank "stress tests."

Datum: 29.04.2009 16:17 • Größe: 10.8 MB

301) Slate: Specter's Defection

Specter's Defection: A Pennsylvania senator gives an early 100th-day present to President Obama, by John Dickerson

Datum: 29.04.2009 00:59 • Größe: 2.8 MB

300) Slate: An Outbreak of Opportunism

An Outbreak of Opportunism: Mexico's president is trying to use the swine flu to consolidate his power, by John M. Ackerman

Datum: 28.04.2009 02:40 • Größe: 2.7 MB

299) Slate: We're All Torturers Now

We're All Torturers Now: Will anything about the U.S. torture scandal ever scandalize us again? By Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 27.04.2009 00:39 • Größe: 3.3 MB

298) Slate: The Tighty Whitie Podcast

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: More on the torture memos, the Supreme Court takes on school strip searchs, and the Chavez

Datum: 24.04.2009 04:56 • Größe: 17.2 MB

297) Slate: Spring Cleaning Your Supply Closet

Spring Cleaning Your Supply Closet: Should I use up old cleaners or replace them right away? By Nina Shen Rastogi

Datum: 23.04.2009 03:24 • Größe: 3.2 MB

296) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Oh My God Ugly People Can Sing Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss their adventures in the world of Twitter, the new HBO feature adaptation of the documentary Grey Gardens, and the surprising web obsession with the gifted but plain singer Susan Boyle.

Datum: 22.04.2009 04:46 • Größe: 20.8 MB

295) Slate: No Se Puede

No Se Puede: Daniel Ortega campaigns to become the United States' least-favorite Latin American leader, by Christopher Beam

Datum: 21.04.2009 03:40 • Größe: 2.8 MB

294) Slate: My Mythical Online Rental Service for Movies

My Mythical Online Rental Service for Movies: Why Hollywood is so slow to catch up on offering all of its movies and shows online, by Farhad Manjoo

Datum: 20.04.2009 02:14 • Größe: 4.1 MB

293) Slate: The Emotionless Bickering Gabfest

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: The release of torture memos, Pirates Ahoy and the national tax protest

Datum: 17.04.2009 04:23 • Größe: 18.1 MB

292) Slate: Money Talks, April 16, 2009

The Big Money Editor Jim Ledbetter leads a discussion with Sara Behunek and Chadwick Matlin on Skype, taxes, and IRS agents with guns.

Datum: 16.04.2009 11:12 • Größe: 9.7 MB

291) Slate: Money Talks, March 24, 2009

The Big Money Editor Jim Ledbetter leads a discussion with Sara Behunek and Daniel Gross on AIG bonuses, the state of the bailout, and the case for optimism.

Datum: 16.04.2009 11:11 • Größe: 11 MB

290) Slate: Do You Think Bandwidth Grows on Trees?

Do You Think Bandwidth Grows on Trees? User-generated content may have changed the Internet, but sites like YouTube are suffocating under the costs of storing it, by Farhad Manjoo

Datum: 15.04.2009 11:11 • Größe: 4.1 MB

289) Slate: In the Hole

In the Hole: Watching the Masters in a recession, by Robert Weintraub

Datum: 14.04.2009 02:37 • Größe: 3.3 MB

288) Slate: Sweet Surrender

Sweet Surrender: Taxing soda to make you stop drinking it, by William Saletan

Datum: 13.04.2009 01:23 • Größe: 2.5 MB

287) Slate: The Velvet Snuggy Podcast

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: President Obama overseas and what he faces at home, gay marriage in America, and a week for the Justice Department

Datum: 10.04.2009 04:12 • Größe: 16.6 MB

286) Slate: Deeper Digital Penetration

Deeper Digital Penetration: The expanding invasion of the naked body scanners, by William Saletan

Datum: 09.04.2009 00:46 • Größe: 2.9 MB

285) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Empty Calories Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new film Sugar and A.O. Scott's (flawed?) concept of Neo-Neo Realism, Levi Johnston's interview on the Tyra Banks show, and the war between sugar and high fructose corn syrup.

Datum: 08.04.2009 20:09 • Größe: 25.5 MB

284) Slate: I See You Typing

I See You Typing: Spying on someone by hacking into his webcam is disturbingly easy. Why don't more people do it? By Christopher Beam

Datum: 07.04.2009 05:16 • Größe: 3.5 MB

283) Slate: The Final Snore

The Final Snore: A charmless oligarchy of schools has sucked the excitement out of the NCAA Tournament, by Charles Pierce

Datum: 06.04.2009 01:16 • Größe: 3.5 MB

282) Slate: The Twitter Avatar Gabfest

John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: The failing auto industry, President Obama makes an 8-day, five country tour of Europe and accusations against Obama appointees Dawn Johnson and Harold

Datum: 03.04.2009 05:41 • Größe: 15.2 MB

281) Slate: Paper Money

Paper Money: Newspapers aren't assets to be flipped, leveraged, and stripped, by Daniel Gross

Datum: 02.04.2009 03:07 • Größe: 3 MB

280) Slate: A Banker Bridges the Wealth Gap

The Big Money presents Every Day I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest today is Jacqueline Novogratz, author of the new book, "The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World."

Datum: 01.04.2009 05:26 • Größe: 13.1 MB

279) Slate: A Pressing Issue

A Pressing Issue: What's the greenest way to keep my clothes looking sharp? by Nina Shen Rastogi

Datum: 31.03.2009 02:53 • Größe: 2.8 MB

278) Slate: Can't Believe I Just Sent That

Can't Believe I Just Sent That: How to prevent embarrassing, misfired e-mails, by Michael Agger

Datum: 30.03.2009 02:33 • Größe: 3.1 MB

277) Slate: What Is Good Design Now?

What Is Good Design Now? A Slate panel moderated by Adam Gopnik. March 26, 2009. The panelists are potter and designer Jonathan Adler, architect and landscape architect Ahmad Sardar-Afkhami, and graphic designer and Pentagram partner Paula Scher.

Datum: 27.03.2009 14:55 • Größe: 27.2 MB

276) Slate: The Locavore Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The bank bailout, Obama?s week on television, and the White House goes Organic

Datum: 27.03.2009 05:45 • Größe: 16.9 MB

275) Slate: Fetal Foreclosure

Fetal Foreclosure: If you stop paying a surrogate mother, what happens to the fetus? By William Saletan

Datum: 26.03.2009 02:08 • Größe: 2.7 MB

274) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Why Do I Know This Word? Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Paul Rudd and Jason Segal's bromance in the new movie I Love You, Man, the implications of the Obamas' vegetable garden, and the minor duststorm kicked up over off-the-record media chatroom JournoList.

Datum: 25.03.2009 14:28 • Größe: 21.4 MB

273) Slate: TBM: William D. Cohan on House of Cards

The Big Money presents Every Day I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest today is William D. Cohan, author of the new book, "House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street."

Datum: 23.03.2009 02:14 • Größe: 15.3 MB

272) Slate: The Outrage Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Chris Beam, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The AIG mess, Dick Cheney says America is less safe, and John Stewart takes Jim Cramer to school

Datum: 20.03.2009 06:27 • Größe: 15.6 MB

271) Slate: Dirty Butts

Dirty Butts: Can cigarette smoking ever be green? By Nina Shen Rastogi

Datum: 19.03.2009 01:50 • Größe: 3 MB

270) Slate's Audio Book Club: Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace

Slate's Audio Book Club. Katie Roiphe, Troy Patterson, and James Surowiecki discuss David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program

Datum: 18.03.2009 02:00 • Größe: 27.2 MB

269) Slate: Hello and Goodbye to the P-I

Hello and Goodbye to the P-I: Thoughts upon the venerable Seattle daily becoming a Web-only operation, by Jack Shafer

Datum: 17.03.2009 04:01 • Größe: 3.7 MB

268) Slate: Dr. No, But...

Dr. No, But... Mark Sanford's bizarre rationale for redirecting South Carolina's stimulus money, by Christopher Beam

Datum: 16.03.2009 02:00 • Größe: 2.9 MB

267) Slate: The Right to Bare Arms Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Hanna Rosin. This week: Is President Obama taking on too much? A renewed fight over stem cells, and Michelle Obama?s arms

Datum: 13.03.2009 03:38 • Größe: 16.4 MB

266) Slate: Dietary Fibber

Dietary Fibber: Don't be fooled by polydextrose and other fiber additives, by Jacob Gershman

Datum: 12.03.2009 03:51 • Größe: 3.8 MB

265) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Commodified Girl Power Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new movie version of the classic graphic novel Watchmen, a new book on the canon of female American writers called A Jury of Her Peers by Elaine Showalter, and a tween-style makeover for kiddie cartoon hero Dora the Explorer.

Datum: 11.03.2009 06:42 • Größe: 18.7 MB

264) Slate: Sniffle While You Work

Sniffle While You Work: Why doctors go to work sick, by Zachary Meisel and Jesse Pines

Datum: 09.03.2009 03:32 • Größe: 3.1 MB

263) Slate: Loan Ranger

Loan Ranger: The way Americans pay for college is a mess. Here's how to fix it, by Eliot Spitzer

Datum: 06.03.2009 06:52 • Größe: 3.4 MB

262) Slate: The Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Obama approval ratings remain high, Rush Limbaugh as Republican leader, and newly-released Justice Department memos

Datum: 05.03.2009 04:22 • Größe: 17 MB

261) Slate: Daniel Gross on Dumb Money

The Big Money presents Every Day I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. This week, Jim Ledbetter, editor of The Big Money, turns the tables and interviews Dan about his new book, "Dumb Money."

Datum: 04.03.2009 04:40 • Größe: 10 MB

260) Slate: Kill Your Computer

Kill Your Computer: The cloud wants to set you free, by Michael Agger

Datum: 03.03.2009 03:24 • Größe: 3.6 MB

259) Slate: Obama's Testing Test

Obama's Testing Test: Why is the Justice Department on the wrong side of a Supreme Court case about DNA evidence? By William S. Sessions

Datum: 02.03.2009 03:33 • Größe: 2.6 MB

258) Slate: The Dorcas Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Obama budget, the First Family settles on a dog breed, and a Supreme Court ruling on free speech

Datum: 27.02.2009 08:00 • Größe: 17.7 MB

257) Slate: We Are Not Quitters

We Are Not Quitters: Can Obama turn his confidence into success? By John Dickerson

Datum: 26.02.2009 03:36 • Größe: 4.1 MB

256) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Public Disgust Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the Academy Awards, Rick Santelli's rant, the Octomom, and the backlash over a juice carton

Datum: 25.02.2009 17:12 • Größe: 18.8 MB

255) Slate: The New Hybrids

The New Hybrids: Why the debate about financing journalism misses the point, by Jacob Weisberg

Datum: 23.02.2009 05:44 • Größe: 3.2 MB

254) Slate: The Friendly Taliban Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The rollout of the Obama home foreclosure plan, Eric Holder and racism, and the Uighurs get their day in court

Datum: 20.02.2009 06:48 • Größe: 17.4 MB

253) Slate's Audio Book Club: Rabbit, Run, by John Updike

Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss John Updike's Rabbit, Run. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Datum: 19.02.2009 02:58 • Größe: 23.6 MB

252) Slate: The Rise and Fall of Texas Oil Fortunes

The Big Money presents Every Day I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest today is Bryan Burrough, author of the new book, "The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes."

Datum: 18.02.2009 06:15 • Größe: 12.9 MB

251) Slate: What Are They So Scared Of? I'm Just a Little Old Lady

"What Are They So Scared Of? I'm Just a Little Old Lady." Alison Des Forges, 1942-2009, by Michael J. Kavanagh

Datum: 17.02.2009 04:57 • Größe: 2.5 MB

250) Slate: Textual Misconduct

Textual Misconduct: What to do about teens and their dumb naked photos of themselves, by Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 16.02.2009 05:01 • Größe: 3.9 MB

249) Slate: The Frankenstein's Monster Stimulus Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Pay dirt for the stimulus package, Obama holds his first news conference, and the State Secrets Act lives on

Datum: 13.02.2009 06:11 • Größe: 15 MB

248) Slate: Stimulate First, Ask Questions Later

Stimulate First, Ask Questions Later: With the stimulus bill, Obama chose urgency over transparency, by John Dickerson

Datum: 12.02.2009 03:22 • Größe: 2.3 MB

247) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Enough Already Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss Alex Rodriguez's steroid admission, whether a Manhattan banker can live on $500,000, the "25 Random Things About Me" frenzy on Facebook, and the Grammys.

Datum: 11.02.2009 07:00 • Größe: 19.1 MB

246) Slate: Money Talks, Feb. 10, 2009

The Big Money's Editor Jim Ledbetter leads a discussion with Liza Featherstone and Daniel Gross on the state of the bailout, executive compensation and Labor Secretary-desgnee Hilda Solis.

Datum: 10.02.2009 08:24 • Größe: 8.7 MB

245) Slate: Must-Geek TV

Must-Geek TV: Is the world ready for an Asperger's sitcom? By Paul Collins

Datum: 09.02.2009 03:05 • Größe: 3.5 MB

244) Slate: The Lack of Stimulus Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The state of the Obama administration after its worst day ever, Tom Daschle?s hasty retreat, and William Kristol is out at the New York Times

Datum: 06.02.2009 06:06 • Größe: 16.1 MB

243) Slate: David Ogilvy, King of Madison Avenue

The Big Money presents Everyday I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest today is Kenneth Roman, author of the new book, "The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising ."

Datum: 05.02.2009 04:41 • Größe: 12.9 MB

242) Slate: Dying To Play

Dying To Play: Why don't we prevent more sudden deaths in athletes? By Darshak Sanghavi

Datum: 04.02.2009 04:42 • Größe: 3.8 MB

241) Slate: He Should Have Played "The Wrestler"

He Should Have Played "The Wrestler": Bruce Springsteen misreads the national mood in his halftime performance, by Stephen Metcalf

Datum: 03.02.2009 03:02 • Größe: 2.5 MB

240) Slate: Law! Law! Law!

Law! Law! Law! The terrifying prospect of an America without lawyers, by Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 02.02.2009 03:41 • Größe: 3.3 MB

239) Slate: The Absurd and a Little Testy Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The stimulus package passes the House of Representatives, Presidential drinking and legislative civility, and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act

Datum: 30.01.2009 05:48 • Größe: 20 MB

238) Slate: Let Them Into the House

Let Them Into the House: The D.C. Voting Rights Act is probably unconstitutional. Congress should pass it, by Richard L. Hasen

Datum: 29.01.2009 03:15 • Größe: 3.6 MB

237) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Brace for Impact Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Barack Obama's inauguration, Hua Hsu?s Atlantic Montly piece on the end of white demographic dominance, Daniel Bergner?s NYT Magazine piece on the vexing question of female desire and the death of author John Updike.

Datum: 28.01.2009 06:12 • Größe: 20.1 MB

236) Slate: Razing Arizona

Razing Arizona: The Cardinals' presence in the Super Bowl is fluky and disgraceful, by Charles P. Pierce

Datum: 27.01.2009 03:41 • Größe: 3 MB

235) Slate: What Does Obama Think Government Should Do

What Does Obama Think Government Should Do? He still hasn't told us. That's worrisome, by Jacob Weisberg

Datum: 26.01.2009 03:02 • Größe: 3.3 MB

234) Slate: The First Act Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: It?s surviving the inaugural crush, Obama?s first week actions, and sacrifice begins at home

Datum: 23.01.2009 06:06 • Größe: 16.3 MB

233) Slate: Inaugorophobia, Part 3

Inaugorophobia, Part 3: How Ted Kennedy's illness accelerates a shakedown on his behalf, by Timothy Noah

Datum: 22.01.2009 03:59 • Größe: 2.5 MB

232) Slate: Beverly Gage on The Day Wall Street Exploded

The Big Money presents Every Day I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest today is Beverly Gage, author of the new book, "The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror."

Datum: 21.01.2009 05:13 • Größe: 11.7 MB

231) Slate: The Inaugural Gabfest Live

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon, live for the first time in Washington, DC. This week: the inaugural festivities, expectations for the first year of the Obama administration, and the Obama Blackberry

Datum: 20.01.2009 07:59 • Größe: 18.6 MB

230) Slate: Gabfest Live Questions

Part 2 of the Political Gabfest live inauguration special. John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz answer audience questions about the new administration, the future of journalism, and much more.

Datum: 20.01.2009 06:24 • Größe: 17.6 MB

229) Slate: Mission Accomplished

Mission Accomplished: The "war on science" is over. Now what? By Chris Mooney

Datum: 19.01.2009 03:35 • Größe: 3.5 MB

228) Slate: The Final Days Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: It?s the final week for Barak Obama as president-elect, there?s trouble for the Treasury nominee, and the last days of the Bush presidency

Datum: 16.01.2009 05:34 • Größe: 19.1 MB

227) Slate: Money Talks, Jan. 15, 2009

The Big Money's editor Jim Ledbetter leads a discussion with Daniel Gross and Liza Featherstone about the Bernie Madoff mess, Obama's economic stimulus package, and how to monitize the Bush Presidency

Datum: 15.01.2009 05:44 • Größe: 8.9 MB

226) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The You Again? Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the Golden Globe awards (and awards-season ennui), the long-delayed return of TV's pro-torture hit 24, and the Biggie Smalls biopic Notorious.

Datum: 14.01.2009 06:32 • Größe: 16.5 MB

225) Slate: Doping Deficit Disorder

Doping Deficit Disorder: Need performance-enhancing drugs? Claim ADHD, by William Saletan

Datum: 13.01.2009 04:06 • Größe: 2.7 MB

224) Slate: The Enigma in Chief

The Enigma in Chief: We still don't know how or why Bush made the key decisions of his administration, by Jacob Weisberg

Datum: 12.01.2009 04:51 • Größe: 2.8 MB

223) Slate: The Get the Inauguration Over Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: the economic stimulus package, Bill Richardson?s departure and the too-long inauguration planning

Datum: 09.01.2009 06:17 • Größe: 15 MB

222) Slate: Matt Miller on The Tyranny of Dead Ideas

The Big Money presents Everyday I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest today is Matt Miller, a contributing editor at Fortune Magazine, host of public radio's "Left, Right and Center," and author of the new book, "The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go Of The Old Ways Of Thinking To Un...

Datum: 08.01.2009 06:04 • Größe: 11.4 MB

221) Slate: Night of the Living Dad

Night of the Living Dad: Software, soldiers, and the future of ghosts, by William Saletan

Datum: 07.01.2009 05:55 • Größe: 2.6 MB

220) Slate: Robots, Not Roads

Robots, Not Roads: The Obama stimulus package should be spent on transformative investments, not bridges and buildings, by Eliot Spitzer

Datum: 06.01.2009 03:03 • Größe: 3.2 MB

219) Slate: Should My Baby Wear Huggies

Should My Baby Wear Huggies? Going diaper shopping for the Little Green Penlight, by Brendan Koerner

Datum: 05.01.2009 05:41 • Größe: 3.1 MB

218) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The "Valkyrie Gives You Pinkeye" Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and June Thomas discuss Tom Cruise's role as a one-eyed Nazi in Valkyrie, Bruce Springsteen's exclusive deal with Wal-Mart, and the year in culture.

Datum: 01.01.2009 17:06 • Größe: 16.7 MB

217) Slate: The Blagojevich Blowout Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, Terence Samuel, and Bill Smee. This week the embattled Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich, appoints a Senator to replace Barack Obama, war rages in Gaza, and it?s NFL playoff time

Datum: 31.12.2008 05:18 • Größe: 14.4 MB

216) Slate: Tainted Government

Tainted Government: How did the Food and Drug Administration let melamine into the U.S. food supply? By James McWilliams

Datum: 30.12.2008 05:14 • Größe: 3.4 MB

215) Slate: Blackballed

Blackballed: Why are there are so few black coaches in college football? By Richard Thompson Ford

Datum: 29.12.2008 05:24 • Größe: 4.2 MB

214) Slate: The No Discipline, Year-end Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: a free-flowing wrap-up of some of the year?s most memorable moments

Datum: 26.12.2008 06:59 • Größe: 13.6 MB

213) Slate: No Reason for the Season

No Reason for the Season: The joy of celebrating a godless Christmas, by Torie Bosch

Datum: 24.12.2008 04:30 • Größe: 13.6 MB

212) Slate: Open and Shut Cases

Open and Shut Cases: Dick Cheney's unique gift for making hard questions easy and vice versa, by Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 23.12.2008 05:52 • Größe: 3.6 MB

211) Slate: Captain Underpants Doesn't Need a Newbery Medal

Captain Underpants Doesn't Need a Newbery Medal: In defense of the premier award in children's literature, by Erica S. Perl

Datum: 22.12.2008 03:30 • Größe: 3.9 MB

210) Slate: The Invocation Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Inauguration controversy, why Caroline Kennedy and will torture be investigated?

Datum: 19.12.2008 04:35 • Größe: 13.6 MB

209) Slate: Can Cities Save the Planet

Can Cities Save the Planet? Scientists are skeptical. Planners are hopeful. The Dutch are pragmatic, by Witold Rybczynski

Datum: 18.12.2008 04:40 • Größe: 2.7 MB

208) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Undead Again Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss Leno and late night TV, the dire state of the publishing industry, and Hollywood's ultimate back-from-the-dead star, Mickey Rourke.

Datum: 17.12.2008 07:47 • Größe: 14.7 MB

207) Slate: Money Talks, Dec. 16, 2008

The Big Money presents Money Talks. This week, Daniel Gross leads a discussion with Chadwick Matlin and Liza Featherstone about Bernard Madoff's massive pyriamid scheme and the state of the auto industry bailout.

Datum: 16.12.2008 07:04 • Größe: 11.4 MB

206) Slate: Political Corruption Smackdown

Political Corruption Smackdown: Which state is the most crooked?Illinois or Louisiana? By Jacob Weisberg

Datum: 15.12.2008 02:38 • Größe: 3.2 MB

205) Slate: The Free Ticket Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: the Illinois Governor faces charges, more news from the incoming Obama Administration and the decline of journalism

Datum: 12.12.2008 04:05 • Größe: 13.5 MB

204) Slate: Should I Buy a Fake Fir

Should I Buy a Fake Fir? Or is it better for the environment to cut down a real Christmas tree? By Brendan Koerner

Datum: 11.12.2008 04:52 • Größe: 2.9 MB

203) Slate: No Change for Sale

No Change for Sale: Obama looks great in Gov. Rod Blagojevich's indictment, by John Dickerson

Datum: 10.12.2008 03:40 • Größe: 3 MB

202) Slate: Desperate Housewares

Desperate Housewares: Observing the Christmas carnage at FAO Schwarz, Bottega Veneta, and Bergdorf Goodman, by Daniel Gross

Datum: 09.12.2008 03:39 • Größe: 2.9 MB

201) Slate: Nursing Grudges

Nursing Grudges: Why do we protect the moral convictions of only some health workers? By Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 08.12.2008 05:41 • Größe: 3.3 MB

200) Slate: The Team Obama Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, Hanna Rosin, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Team Obama strengthens its identity, terrorism strikes India, and the continuing car industry woes

Datum: 05.12.2008 04:37 • Größe: 13.6 MB

199) Slate: Keep On Plugging

Keep On Plugging: Should you run your laptop off battery power or use a charger? By Jacob Leibenluft

Datum: 04.12.2008 04:55 • Größe: 2.4 MB

198) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Love Me for Who I Am Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new movie, Milk, Beyonce and Black Friday

Datum: 03.12.2008 06:00 • Größe: 14.4 MB

197) Slate: Paul Krugman on Our Depressed Economy

The Big Money presents Everyday I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest today is Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist, Nobel laureate, and author of the new book, "The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008."

Datum: 02.12.2008 03:30 • Größe: 12.2 MB

196) Slate: Holes in Our Socks

Holes in Our Socks: Why it's so hard to predict how bad the recession will be, by Tim Harford

Datum: 01.12.2008 03:37 • Größe: 2.2 MB

195) Slate: The Free Hybrid Parking Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: It?s talk of appointments to the Obama Cabinet, the financial bailout and other economic woes, and the Obamas pick a school

Datum: 26.11.2008 05:03 • Größe: 13 MB

194) Slate's Audio Book Club: The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss the American classic The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Datum: 25.11.2008 03:25 • Größe: 20.4 MB

193) Slate: I Hate You, Blue-Tux-Wearing Viagra Guy

I Hate You, Blue-Tux-Wearing Viagra Guy! Web video ads are annoying and repetitive. Here's how to fix them, by Farhad Manjoo

Datum: 24.11.2008 03:19 • Größe: 4.9 MB

192) Slate: The Quaker Meeting Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Obama administration begins to take shape, Washington political happenings, and the Big Three automakers come to town

Datum: 21.11.2008 04:06 • Größe: 13 MB

191) Slate: Tackling the Tough Issues

Tackling the Tough Issues: Why is Barack Obama obsessed with reforming college football? By Josh Levin

Datum: 20.11.2008 03:03 • Größe: 3.8 MB

190) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Identity Crisis Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the Malcolm Gladwell phenomenon, Michelle Obama's role as First Lady and Mom-in-Chief, and the post-Obama buzz kill of Prop 8.

Datum: 19.11.2008 05:04 • Größe: 14.8 MB

189) Slate: Rupert Murdoch and the Reverse Ferret

Rupert Murdoch and the Reverse Ferret: Explaining the mogul's flattering treatment of Barack Obama in the New York Post, by Jack Shafer

Datum: 18.11.2008 05:10 • Größe: 2.2 MB

188) Slate: Obama's New Toy

Obama's New Toy: Snazzy new technology isn't enough to bring transparency to the White House, by John Dickerson

Datum: 17.11.2008 03:19 • Größe: 3.3 MB

187) Slate: The Huge Agenda Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Obama election and presidency, and the future of Palin

Datum: 14.11.2008 04:40 • Größe: 13.3 MB

186) Slate: Money Talks, Nov. 13, 2008

The Big Money's editor Jim Ledbetter leads a discussion with Daniel Gross and Chadwick Matlin about the current economic crisis, and the state of the federal bailout.

Datum: 13.11.2008 06:33 • Größe: 9.8 MB

185) Slate: Wood, I Wouldn't

Wood, I Wouldn't: It's better to heat your home with gas than with trees, by Jacob Leibenluft

Datum: 12.11.2008 04:26 • Größe: 2.4 MB

184) Slate: What's the Matter With Greenwich

What's the Matter With Greenwich? Why the rich voted for Obama against their own economic interest, by Daniel Gross

Datum: 11.11.2008 04:00 • Größe: 3.5 MB

183) Slate: Goode Riddance

Goode Riddance: A Darfur-supporting, time-tithing, self-deprecating newcomer becomes Virginia's big electoral surprise, by Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 10.11.2008 00:18 • Größe: 3.2 MB

182) Slate: The Sharp Elbows Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: What happened, what's next, and what happens to Palin?

Datum: 07.11.2008 03:17 • Größe: 13.5 MB

181) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Wow Edition

In this week?s Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Obama, Obama, and Obama. What happened with the election, how the media covered it, and what lies ahead for culture under future President Barack Obama.

Datum: 06.11.2008 05:15 • Größe: 15.6 MB

180) Slate: Rebuilding the McCain Brand

Rebuilding the McCain Brand: Six ways he can recapture his former glory, by Christopher Beam

Datum: 05.11.2008 07:27 • Größe: 3 MB

179) Slate: The Undecided Amish

The Undecided Amish: To vote or not to vote, by Noreen Malone

Datum: 04.11.2008 07:17 • Größe: 4.6 MB

178) Slate: Spread It Around

Spread It Around: Barack Obama favors redistributing wealth. So does John McCain, by Jacob Weisberg

Datum: 03.11.2008 07:53 • Größe: 3 MB

177) Slate: The Almost-Over Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: It?s all about the last week of the presidential campaign, and just a little about the Philadelphia Phillies

Datum: 31.10.2008 08:13 • Größe: 13.2 MB

176) Slate: Money Talks, Oct. 29, 2008

The Big Money's editor Jim Ledbetter leads a discussion with Daniel Gross and Liza Featherstone about the current economic crisis, and what the state of Starbucks says about it.

Datum: 29.10.2008 06:08 • Größe: 11.3 MB

175) Slate: Registering Doubt

Registering Doubt: If we can nationalize banks, why not our election process? By Richard L. Hasen

Datum: 28.10.2008 03:17 • Größe: 2.8 MB

174) Slate: Wingtip Warriors

Wingtip Warriors: Why those "armies" of lawyers are our last, best hope for an honest Election Day, by Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 27.10.2008 02:29 • Größe: 3.5 MB

173) Slate: The Emperor's New Clothes Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and Michael Newman. This week: the latest from the presidential campaign trail, a Vice Presidential wardrobe and a super secret topic

Datum: 24.10.2008 05:48 • Größe: 15.5 MB

172) Slate: Bringing Down the House

Bringing Down the House: These days, it's terrifyingly easy to destabilize an entire nation, by Anne Applebaum

Datum: 23.10.2008 04:04 • Größe: 2.8 MB

171) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Bad Therapy Edition

In this week?s Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the catharsis they felt watching Oliver Stone's W., and revisit past Gabfest topics, including the ongoing Fey/Palin tragicomedy, Rachel Maddow's success and environmentalism after the financial crisis.

Datum: 22.10.2008 06:19 • Größe: 14.3 MB

170) Slate: Minds in the Toilet

Minds in the Toilet: There's a sewage crisis, so hold your nose and think hard, by Johann Hari

Datum: 21.10.2008 07:13 • Größe: 5 MB

169) Slate: McCain on Letterman

McCain on Letterman: America loves a good reconciliation,? by Troy Patterson

Datum: 20.10.2008 04:38 • Größe: 2.5 MB

168) Slate: The Joe the Plumber Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin. This week:The last presidential debate, the state of the presidential race, and why Andrew Sullivan blogs

Datum: 17.10.2008 06:21 • Größe: 13.4 MB

167) Slate: Money Talks, Oct. 16, 2008

Jim Ledbetter, editor of Slate's The Big Money, hosts a discussion about what the heck is going on this week in the financial crisis. Joining Jim are Chadwick Matlin and Liza Featherstone.

Datum: 16.10.2008 16:17 • Größe: 11.1 MB

166) Slate: The Overflowing Box of Veggies

The Overflowing Box of Veggies: My CSA gives me more food than I can eat ? is that bad? By Jacob LeibenluftThe Overflowing Box of Veggies: My CSA gives me more food than I can eat ? is that bad? By Jacob Leibenluft

Datum: 15.10.2008 04:22 • Größe: 2.7 MB

165) Slate: Vote for Obama

Vote for Obama: McCain lacks the character and temperament to be president. And Palin is simply a disgrace, by Christopher Hitchens

Datum: 14.10.2008 05:38 • Größe: 2.8 MB

164) Slate: Is Petraeus Beyond Naïve

Is Petraeus Beyond Naïve? He thinks we should negotiate with our enemies?just like Obama, by Fred Kaplan

Datum: 13.10.2008 01:14 • Größe: 2.7 MB

163) Slate: The Hand on the Till Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and Bill Smee. This week: The world economy meltdown, the latest on the Presidential Campaign trail, and the movie, ?W.?

Datum: 10.10.2008 19:26 • Größe: 16 MB

162) Slate's Audio Book Club: The Night of the Gun, by David Carr

Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and Troy Patterson discuss New York Times columnist David Carr's The Night of the Gun, a memoir in which he uses his journalistic skills to dig up the details he's forgotten about his earlier life as a drug addict. We recommend, but don't insis...

Datum: 09.10.2008 06:00 • Größe: 21.6 MB

161) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Sore Loser Edition

In this week?s Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the Nobel Prize for Literature's snub of American writers, Tina Fey's pitch-perfect imitation of Governor Palin, and the lack of interest in the recent trial of OJ Simpson.

Datum: 08.10.2008 15:13 • Größe: 13.1 MB

160) Slate: Bad Cop

Bad Cop: Why Obama is getting criminal justice policy wrong, by Radley Balko

Datum: 07.10.2008 03:06 • Größe: 4.1 MB

159) Slate: Nobel Gas

Nobel Gas: The Swedes have no clue about American literature, by Adam Kirsch

Datum: 06.10.2008 04:39 • Größe: 3.5 MB

158) Slate: The Couples Therapy Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson and Hanna Rosin. This week: The Vice Presidential Debate, the general state of the presidential race, and the financial bail-out bill

Datum: 03.10.2008 19:57 • Größe: 13.2 MB

157) Slate: Gabfest Coming Soon

The Slate Political Gabfest will be post later than usual this week. Check back on Friday afternoon, Oct. 3, for the gang's discussion of the Biden/Palin debate and the rest of the week's news.

Datum: 03.10.2008 04:31 • Größe: 206.6 KB

156) Slate: Chinese Democracy

Chinese Democracy: Why don't we ever hear about the Asian-American vote? By Christopher Beam

Datum: 02.10.2008 04:47 • Größe: 5.1 MB

155) Slate: Should We Dispose of Disposals

Should We Dispose of Disposals? The best way to get rid of your leftover food, by Jacob Leibenluft

Datum: 01.10.2008 02:42 • Größe: 2.2 MB

154) Slate: I'm a PC, and I'm Worried About My Image

I'm a PC, and I'm Worried About My Image: Microsoft's $300 million campaign to prove Windows isn't lame, by Farhad Manjoo

Datum: 30.09.2008 02:42 • Größe: 3.6 MB

153) Slate: All for a Brookstone Massage Chair

All for a Brookstone Massage Chair? Ted Stevens on trial, by Charles Homans

Datum: 29.09.2008 02:32 • Größe: 3.1 MB

152) Slate: The Jittery Ball of Sunshine Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Republican Presidential candidate John McCain suspends his campaign, or maybe not; the economy woes of the country; and the exciting week for the vice presidential candidates.

Datum: 26.09.2008 00:18 • Größe: 13.1 MB

151) Slate: Wall Street Strip

Wall Street Strip: Is Paulson's bailout bill unconstitutional? By Rod Smolla

Datum: 25.09.2008 03:19 • Größe: 3.2 MB

150) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, End of Days Edition

In this week?s Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the financial meltdown, a trillion and counting, the ominous death of author David Foster Wallace, and more from that lovable comedy duo, Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld.

Datum: 24.09.2008 04:10 • Größe: 12.3 MB

149) Slate: Nice Bailout. Now Pay for It

Nice Bailout. Now Pay for It! Congress and the president favor a $700 billion Wall Street bailout, but they're afraid to say how they'll pay for it, by Daniel Gross

Datum: 23.09.2008 04:42 • Größe: 3 MB

148) Slate: Obama's Message Deficit

Obama's Message Deficit: Why he needs an economic slogan, by Jacob Weisberg

Datum: 22.09.2008 02:31 • Größe: 3 MB

147) Slate: The Economic Collapse Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and special guest Bill Smee. This week: the dismal state of the economy and how the presidential candidates are addressing it, did McCain invent the BlackBerry, and Joe Biden as champion of women everywhere.

Datum: 19.09.2008 04:52 • Größe: 13.2 MB

146) TBM: Why AIG Needed to be Saved

Why did the federal government step in to save insurance giant AIG? What might have happened if the company had been allowed to fail? NPR's Adam Davidson explains in this exclusive Big Money podcast. You'll find more of Adam's business coverage at www.npr.org/money

Datum: 18.09.2008 03:32 • Größe: 2 MB

145) Slate: Grande Americano, Extra Green

Grande Americano, Extra Green: What's the best way to drink your morning joe? By Jacob Leibenluft

Datum: 17.09.2008 03:50 • Größe: 2.8 MB

144) Slate: Sundance for Silicon Valley

Sundance for Silicon Valley: The TechCrunch50 conference generates a lot fewer than 50 great ideas, by Farhad Manjoo

Datum: 16.09.2008 02:34 • Größe: 3.2 MB

143) Slate: The Sorrow and the Pity

The Sorrow and the Pity: When it comes to foreign policy, Sarah Palin doesn't know what she's talking about, by Fred Kaplan

Datum: 15.09.2008 03:43 • Größe: 4.4 MB

142) Slate: The Phenom Rolls On Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Palin phenomenon rolls on, the state of the political race to date, and the Obama campaign

Datum: 12.09.2008 03:59 • Größe: 13.2 MB

141) Slate: Ms. Piggy

Ms. Piggy: McCain's campaign perfects its outrage over sexism, by John Dickerson

Datum: 11.09.2008 03:10 • Größe: 2.7 MB

140) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Resistance is Futile Edition

In this week?s Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the dissection of Sarah Palin's personal life in the tabloids, the new Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC and the hyper-quirky PC ad featuring heroes from yesteryear, Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld.

Datum: 10.09.2008 15:15 • Größe: 14.5 MB

139) Slate: How To Debate a Girl and Win

How To Debate a Girl, and Win: Joe Biden can beat Sarah Palin by pretending she's a man. And that he's not Joe Biden, by Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 09.09.2008 04:33 • Größe: 3.7 MB

138) Slate's Audio Book Club: American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld

Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and Julia Turner discuss the novel American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Datum: 08.09.2008 00:03 • Größe: 20.6 MB

137) Slate: The Palin in Comparison Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson and Terence Samuel. This week: The convention yawner from John McCain, the power of Palin, and the Republican flip-flop, from experience to change

Datum: 05.09.2008 21:18 • Größe: 13.1 MB

136) Slate: The Bad News About Falling Oil Prices

The Bad News About Falling Oil Prices: If commodity prices are dropping, how come inflation might be getting worse? By Daniel Gross

Datum: 04.09.2008 02:50 • Größe: 3 MB

135) Slate: Eco-Pencils

Eco-Pencils: A Green Lantern back-to-school special, by Jacob Leibenluft

Datum: 03.09.2008 02:53 • Größe: 2.7 MB

134) Slate: Sarah Surprise

Sarah Surprise: Palin's candidacy is fun to cover but raises serious questions about McCain's judgment,? by John Dickerson

Datum: 03.09.2008 02:51 • Größe: 2.7 MB

133) Slate: No Experience Necessary

No Experience Necessary: How Sarah Palin made the GOP change its mind about presidential qualifications, by Michael Kinsley

Datum: 31.08.2008 20:00 • Größe: 2.8 MB

132) Slate: The DNC Wrap-Up Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson. This week: The Democrats wrap up their convention in Denver, and John McCain picks Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Datum: 29.08.2008 18:29 • Größe: 13.7 MB

131) Slate: 8/29 Gabfest Coming Soon

The Aug. 29, 2008, Political Gabfest will be posted a little later than usual this week, in order to bring you all the news from this week's Democratic National Convention. It should be available by early afternoon EDT.

Datum: 29.08.2008 05:10 • Größe: 421.7 KB

130) Slate: Pills and Politics

Pills and Politics: The normally GOP-friendly drug industry now favors Obama, by James Ledbetter

Datum: 28.08.2008 04:55 • Größe: 2.6 MB

129) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Fine Line Edition

In this week?s Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the merits and frivolities of Mad Men, the odds that Tropic Thunder will revive Tom Cruise's career, and the new documentary film, Man On Wire.

Datum: 27.08.2008 05:13 • Größe: 14.7 MB

128) Slate: Untouchable

Untouchable: Did Michael Phelps get a gold medal for a race he lost? By William Saletan

Datum: 26.08.2008 00:58 • Größe: 2.6 MB

127) Slate: If Obama Loses

If Obama Loses: Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him, by Jacob Weisberg

Datum: 25.08.2008 03:15 • Größe: 3.1 MB

126) Slate: The Olympic God Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, Jhn Dickerson and Terence Samuel. This week: The race tightens going into the Democratic Convention, chaos continues in Russia and the Olympics winds down.

Datum: 22.08.2008 03:59 • Größe: 13 MB

125) Slate: Money Talks, Episode 2

The second episode of Money Talks, a new podcast from the writers and editors of The Big Money, Slate's new business magazine that launches in September.

Datum: 21.08.2008 05:52 • Größe: 9.8 MB

124) Slate: For Sale, Your Browser History

For Sale, Your Browser History: Behavioral ad targeting, Web companies' favorite new way to invade your privacy, by Farhad Manjoo

Datum: 20.08.2008 04:47 • Größe: 4.4 MB

123) Slate: Love You. Mean It

Love You. Mean It: Actual sincerity might be on display at the Democratic convention, by John Dickerson

Datum: 19.08.2008 03:45 • Größe: 2.9 MB

122) Slate: The Chick-fil-A Church

The Chick-fil-A Church: How "video venues" are helping megachurches franchise, by Andrew Park

Datum: 18.08.2008 05:33 • Größe: 4.3 MB

121) Slate: The Free-form Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and Josh Levin. This week: Obama is in Hawaii, the Russians are in Georgia and Politics is dirty.

Datum: 15.08.2008 05:58 • Größe: 13.7 MB

120) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Twilight of the Idols Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the Beijing Olympics and "The Redeem Team," the too-famous-too-fast Seth Rogen and his new film, Pineapple Express, and the death of comedian Bernie Mac.

Datum: 14.08.2008 05:43 • Größe: 14 MB

119) Slate: What's the Deal With Offshore Drilling

What's the Deal With Offshore Drilling? Will it do any good at all? By Jacob Leibenluft

Datum: 13.08.2008 04:49 • Größe: 2.9 MB

118) Slate: The Death of Planned Obsolescence

The Death of Planned Obsolescence: Why today's gadgets keep getting better, at least until the battery dies, by Farhad Manjoo

Datum: 12.08.2008 04:41 • Größe: 4 MB

117) Slate: It Takes a Hothead

It Takes a Hothead? Why does it take a cliché to draw attention to the problem of fathers' rights? By Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 11.08.2008 04:41 • Größe: 2.6 MB

116) Slate: The Risky Man Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and William Saletan. This week: It's the end of the anthrax case, presidential politics and the China Olympics

Datum: 08.08.2008 02:01 • Größe: 13.2 MB

115) Slate: Dispatches From the R. Kelly Trial

A special treat for the dog days of summer: The Complete Dispatches From the R. Kelly Trial, read by the author, Josh Levin.

Datum: 07.08.2008 04:04 • Größe: 33.4 MB

114) Slate's Audio Book Club: Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh

Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss the novel Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Datum: 06.08.2008 03:55 • Größe: 25.5 MB

113) Slate: Wandering Through the Desert With Windows

Wandering Through the Desert With Windows: Microsoft's strange, passive-aggressive "Mojave Experiment,? by Farhad Manjoo.

Datum: 05.08.2008 12:25 • Größe: 3.1 MB

112) Slate: Turn Him Into a Snob

Turn Him Into a Snob: The Republican effort to depict Obama as a pompous, out-of-touch snob, by Jeff Greenfield

Datum: 04.08.2008 18:49 • Größe: 2.7 MB

111) Slate: The Cursed Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: John McCain accuses Barack Obama of playing the race card, Obama's law school exams are under review, and the Justice Department faces charges of illegal hiring

Datum: 01.08.2008 06:11 • Größe: 13.5 MB

110) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Monopoly Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Joss Whedon?s new web-only musical show ?Dr. Horrible?s Sing-Along Blog?, Starbucks? abrupt move to shutter a sizable number of its stores in the United States and abroad, and Google?s newest challenger in the search field, Cuil.

Datum: 31.07.2008 04:27 • Größe: 15 MB

109) Slate: Are Revolving Doors More Energy Efficient

Are Revolving Doors More Energy Efficient? What about the ones that turn automatically? By Jacob Leibenluft

Datum: 30.07.2008 04:06 • Größe: 2.3 MB

108) Slate: Even Lamer Than Second Life

Even Lamer Than Second Life: Google Lively, yet another pointless virtual world, by Farhad Manjoo

Datum: 29.07.2008 04:13 • Größe: 3 MB

107) Slate: The Bauer of Suggestion

The Bauer of Suggestion: Our torture policy has deeper roots in Fox television than the Constitution, by Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 28.07.2008 02:21 • Größe: 3 MB

106) Slate: The Edwards Slugfest Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: It's Barack to Iraq, the state of the presidential race, and John Edwards vs. the National Enquirer

Datum: 25.07.2008 14:50 • Größe: 22.5 MB

105) Slate: Pick a Lock, Any Lock

Pick a Lock, Any Lock: YouTube makes it easy to learn the finer points of breaking and entering?and locksmiths aren't happy, by Farhad Manjoo

Datum: 24.07.2008 02:47 • Größe: 3.6 MB

104) Slate: Money Talks, Episode 1

The inaugural episode of Money Talks, a new podcast from the writers and editors of The Big Money, Slate's new business magazine that launches in September.

Datum: 23.07.2008 07:35 • Größe: 11.2 MB

103) Slate: Things Are Not What They Stream

Things Are Not What They Stream: Have corporate-sponsored Internet pranks gone too far? By Farhad Manjoo

Datum: 22.07.2008 04:31 • Größe: 3.4 MB

102) Slate: Situation Normal

Situation Normal: What Generation Kill gets right about the invasion of Iraq, by Peter Maass

Datum: 21.07.2008 05:26 • Größe: 3.5 MB

101) Slate: The Hell in a Handbasket Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The economy takes another hit or two, Obama tries to improve his foreign policy credentials and the return of the flip-flop

Datum: 18.07.2008 06:30 • Größe: 13.4 MB

100) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Overblown Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new Batman movie The Dark Knight, the New Yorker Magazine?s cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as anti-American Mujahideen, and the mysterious relationship between Madonna and Alex Rodriguez.

Datum: 17.07.2008 05:52 • Größe: 15.1 MB

99) Slate's Audio Book Club: Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill

Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katie Roiphe discuss the novel Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Datum: 16.07.2008 02:42 • Größe: 20.7 MB

98) Slate: Long Tails and Big Heads

Long Tails and Big Heads: Why Chris Anderson's theory of the digital world might be all wrong, by Farhad Manjoo

Datum: 15.07.2008 03:36 • Größe: 3.4 MB

97) Slate: Unzipped

Unzipped: High gas prices threaten the car-sharing model?yet more companies than ever want in on the action, by Chadwick Matlin

Datum: 14.07.2008 04:38 • Größe: 3.8 MB

96) Slate: The Semi-Sweet Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and Lynette Clemetson substituting for John Dickerson. This week: Barack Obama and Jesse Jackson clash, Iran launches some missiles and the Gabfest Crew talk about the way the cookie crumbles.

Datum: 11.07.2008 07:09 • Größe: 13.6 MB

95) Slate: Crap and Trade

Crap and Trade: Why public toilets should pay you, by William Saletan

Datum: 10.07.2008 05:14 • Größe: 2.9 MB

94) Slate: Green Beaters

Green Beaters: Is it more energy-efficient to buy a gas-guzzling used car than a brand-new hybrid? By Brendan Koerner

Datum: 09.07.2008 04:05 • Größe: 2.9 MB

93) Slate: Al Franken's Quandary

Al Franken's Quandary: The Minnesota Senate candidate has been telling jokes for 30 years. How does he explain away the bad ones? By Michael Kinsley

Datum: 08.07.2008 04:57 • Größe: 2.6 MB

92) Slate: Get Your Motor Runnin

Get Your Motor Runnin': If gas prices are killing you, here's a guide to thrifty motorcycles and scooters,? and it?s written by Sam Whitehead

Datum: 07.07.2008 02:29 • Größe: 3 MB

91) Slate: The Independence Day Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and Terry Samuel substituting for John Dickerson. This week: Wesley Clark speaks out, another McCain Campaign shake-up, and the U.S. sanctions Chinese torture

Datum: 04.07.2008 02:44 • Größe: 13.1 MB

90) Slate: Super-vise Me

Super-vise Me: It's OK to feel guilty about eating fast food, but is it the government's job? By Christopher Flavelle

Datum: 03.07.2008 03:29 • Größe: 4.2 MB

89) Slate: Culture Gabfest, Community Standards Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the re-release of Liz Phair?s feminist indie rock masterpiece Exile in Guyville, the media?s semi-hysterical reaction to news of a ?pregnancy pact? amongst teenage girls at a high school in Gloucester, MA, and the death of comedian George Carlin.

Datum: 02.07.2008 05:25 • Größe: 13 MB

88) Slate: What's in a Name

What's in a Name? Everything, according to an amazing book about America, by Matt Weiland

Datum: 01.07.2008 06:00 • Größe: 4.5 MB

87) Slate: Wage Against the Machine

Wage Against the Machine: If Costco's worker generosity is so great, why doesn't Wal-Mart imitate it? By Liza Featherstone

Datum: 30.06.2008 04:16 • Größe: 3.4 MB

86) Slate: The Supreme Court wrap-up Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick substituting for John Dickerson. This week: The Supreme Court rules, campaign hijinks and a run-off election in Zimbabwe

Datum: 27.06.2008 05:07 • Größe: 13.6 MB

85) Slate: My Dog Has a Crush on My Ram

My Dog Has a Crush on My Ram: A Love Story, by Jon Katz

Datum: 26.06.2008 07:11 • Größe: 3.4 MB

84) Slate: Taste-Testing Nutraloaf

Taste-Testing Nutraloaf: The prison food that just might be unconstitutionally bad, by Arin Greenwood

Datum: 25.06.2008 04:13 • Größe: 3.9 MB

83) Slate: The Great Barbecue Debate

The Great Barbecue Debate: Is charcoal bad for the planet? By Brendan I. Koerner

Datum: 24.06.2008 03:36 • Größe: 2.4 MB

82) Slate: Camp Rock

Camp Rock: The Jonas Brothers begin their journey toward world domination, by Troy Patterson

Datum: 23.06.2008 01:54 • Größe: 2.9 MB

81) Slate: The Flip Flop Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Will Saletan, and Emily Bazelon. This week: McCain and Obama as flip-floppers, what is the role for campaign wives, and legalizing gay marriage

Datum: 20.06.2008 05:11 • Größe: 13.2 MB

80) Slate: Michelle Obama on The View

Michelle Obama on The View: Decoding her outfit, her aspect, her mouth full of granola, by Troy Patterson

Datum: 19.06.2008 16:07 • Größe: 2.5 MB

79) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Unexpected Outcome Edition

Slate's Culture Gabfest for June 18th, 2008, with Julia Turner, Dana Stevens and John Swansburg. This week our critics discuss the unexpected outcome of the R. Kelly trial, the song of the summer and the Atlantic's story: "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"

Datum: 18.06.2008 07:37 • Größe: 14.4 MB

78) Slate: Scrubbing Out Sea Life

Scrubbing Out Sea Life: Exfoliating plastic beads feel good?unless you live in the ocean, by Hillary Rosner

Datum: 17.06.2008 04:11 • Größe: 2.4 MB

77) Slate: The Great Snipe Hunt of 2008

The Great Snipe Hunt of 2008: Tracking the much discussed Hillary-turned-McCain voters, by John Dickerson

Datum: 16.06.2008 03:49 • Größe: 3.6 MB

76) Slate: The Friday the 13th Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Obama's Vice President mis-step, Clinton supporters for McCain, and the Supreme Court rules on Guantanamo - againSlate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Obama...

Datum: 13.06.2008 13:42 • Größe: 15.3 MB

75) Slate: Give Us Something To Talk About

Give Us Something To Talk About: The presidential candidates aren't serious about the budget, by John Dickerson

Datum: 12.06.2008 05:50 • Größe: 3.6 MB

74) Slate: Debunking the Wealth Effect

Debunking the Wealth Effect: Declining house prices don't necessarily slow down consumer spending, by Christopher Flavelle

Datum: 11.06.2008 03:35 • Größe: 2.7 MB

73) Slate: Words, words, words

Words, words, words: A brilliant new scheme for measuring the productivity of journalists, by Michael Kinsley

Datum: 10.06.2008 03:43 • Größe: 2.9 MB

72) Slate: A girl worth fighting for

A girl worth fighting for: What Hillary did right, by Bruce Reed

Datum: 09.06.2008 05:46 • Größe: 3 MB

71) Slate: The Suck Up Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Obama claims a sweet victory, what's next for Hillary, and the Vice Presidential Parlor Game begins in earnest

Datum: 06.06.2008 08:26 • Größe: 13.4 MB

70) Slate's Audio Book Club: Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy

Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Datum: 05.06.2008 03:30 • Größe: 20.6 MB

69) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Grownup Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Vanity Fair?s sprawling, dishy takedown of President Clinton, Sex and the City?s boffo success in movie theatres, and the ear-splitting arrival of mixed martial artist Kimbo Slice on CBS.

Datum: 04.06.2008 07:00 • Größe: 15.1 MB

68) Slate: Is Google Draining or Retaining

Is Google Draining or Retaining: Reports of an exodus of talent from the company have been greatly exaggerated, Chris Thompson

Datum: 03.06.2008 05:55 • Größe: 3.3 MB

67) Slate: Meet Your New Personal Trainer

Meet Your New Personal Trainer: Can Wii Fit get your sorry, lazy ass in shape? By Seth Stevenson

Datum: 02.06.2008 01:16 • Größe: 3.7 MB

66) Slate: Sex and the Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Scott McClellan comes clean, Democratic delegates from Michigan and Florida come knocking, and Sex and the City comes to the big screen.

Datum: 30.05.2008 06:42 • Größe: 13.5 MB

65) Slate: Honey, I Ate the Rebate

Honey, I Ate the Rebate: You've already spent your tax windfall on gas and bread, by Daniel Gross

Datum: 29.05.2008 04:25 • Größe: 2.2 MB

64) Slate: All Work and No Play Still Might Not Get Jack Into Harvard

All Work and No Play Still Might Not Get Jack Into Harvard: High-school seniors are more stressed out than ever?just like the rest of us, by Anne Applebaum

Datum: 28.05.2008 02:34 • Größe: 4 MB

63) Slate: Disarming Our Demons

Disarming Our Demons: The self-fulfilling prophecy of election-stealing, by Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 27.05.2008 03:27 • Größe: 4 MB

62) Slate: The Consumption Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Vice President speculation begins, Hillary is demonized and is it the death of conservatives?

Datum: 23.05.2008 14:33 • Größe: 18.5 MB

61) Slate: My eBay Job

My eBay Job: Do 1.3 million people really earn their living from the auction site? By Daniel Gross

Datum: 22.05.2008 04:58 • Größe: 2.5 MB

60) Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Promiscuity Edition

Slate's Culture Gabfest with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the counter-evolutionary nature of monogamy, the aesthetically promiscuous, and recently departed, artist Robert Rauschenberg, and Barack Obama's affinity for the work o...

Datum: 21.05.2008 05:12 • Größe: 13.5 MB

59) Slate: Reverse Robin Hood

Reverse Robin Hood: Why is John McCain wrong on health care? Think credit cards, by Robert Gordon

Datum: 20.05.2008 04:50 • Größe: 3.9 MB

58) Slate: A Little Piece of Heaven

A Little Piece of Heaven: My five hours with the most amazing television in the universe, by Justin Peters

Datum: 19.05.2008 05:18 • Größe: 3.3 MB

57) Slate: The Scots-Irish Phone Call Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Politics and race, same sex marriage in California and problems in China

Datum: 16.05.2008 08:35 • Größe: 16.5 MB

56) Slate: High styles for low times

High styles for low times: How fashion and luxury firms will ride out a recession, by Leslie M. M. Blume

Datum: 15.05.2008 07:30 • Größe: 3.3 MB

55) Slate: The West Virginia Pasting

The West Virginia Pasting: Is Obama's lead durable enough to withstand Tuesday's rout? By John Dickerson

Datum: 14.05.2008 05:30 • Größe: 2.7 MB

54) Slate: A Drastic Remedy

A Drastic Remedy: The case for intervention in Burma, by Anne Applebaum

Datum: 13.05.2008 05:26 • Größe: 2.5 MB

53) Slate: Coming Soon, the Samsung Washington Monument

Coming Soon, the Samsung Washington Monument! How "naming rights" have become a huge American export,? by Daniel Gross

Datum: 12.05.2008 02:29 • Größe: 2.8 MB

52) Slate: The Green Shirt Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Is the fat lady now singing for Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Patriotism, and cyclone damage in Burma.

Datum: 09.05.2008 07:06 • Größe: 16.1 MB

51) Slate: Meatless Like Me

Meatless Like Me: I may be a vegetarian, but I still love the smell of bacon, by Taylor Clark

Datum: 08.05.2008 05:22 • Größe: 5.4 MB

50) Slate: The Culture Gabfest Summer Movie Bonanza

Slate's Culture Gabfest with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the rollout of the summer movie season, including the superhero movie Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr.'s nimble performance in it, and which of this summer's blockbusters look...

Datum: 07.05.2008 05:22 • Größe: 13.5 MB

49) Slate: The Army's Math Problem

The Army's Math Problem: We don't have any more soldiers to send to Afghanistan unless we take some out of Iraq, by Fred Kaplan

Datum: 06.05.2008 03:15 • Größe: 2.7 MB

48) Slate: It's Like Money, but With No Dead Presidents

It's Like Money, but With No Dead Presidents: Do "local currencies" really help the communities that use them? By Tim Harford

Datum: 05.05.2008 03:58 • Größe: 2.1 MB

47) Slate: The Hoarse Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Obama's pastor disaster, the gas tax holiday hoax, and will Miley Cyrus become the next Britney?

Datum: 02.05.2008 06:44 • Größe: 13.7 MB

46) Slate: The Agony of the Food Snob

Slate Magazine Podcast

Datum: 01.05.2008 01:07 • Größe: 3.3 MB

45) Slate: Bigger Than Elvis

Bigger Than Elvis: Why the haters are wrong about Mariah Carey, by Jody Rosen

Datum: 30.04.2008 01:49 • Größe: 4.7 MB

44) Slate: One Angry Man

One Angry Man: Should we worry about John McCain's temper? By Christopher Hitchens

Datum: 29.04.2008 01:54 • Größe: 3 MB

43) Slate: How Dumb Are We

How Dumb Are We? How long will women shoulder the blame for the pay gap? By Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 28.04.2008 01:37 • Größe: 4.3 MB

42) Slate: The Super-Hot Girlfriend Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Why the Pennsylvania primary has left Democrats reevaluating their infatuation with Clinton and Obama, how the three remaining candidates are addressing the world food shortage, and why all three should stop t...

Datum: 25.04.2008 06:31 • Größe: 13.6 MB

41) Slate: She's Got a Friend in Pennsylvania

She's Got a Friend in Pennsylvania: Clinton's victory gives her one last shot to wrest the nomination from Obama, by John Dickerson

Datum: 24.04.2008 04:36 • Größe: 2.7 MB

40) Slate: The Culture Gabfest and Personal Virtue

Slate's Culture Gabfest, with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. In this week's edition, our critics discuss the viability of personal virtue to solve global warming, the possible failure of personal virtue in the travel writing business and the utter failure of personal virtue inside ...

Datum: 23.04.2008 06:19 • Größe: 15.1 MB

39) Slate: Envirogeddon

Envirogeddon! Is it time to start wishing for the end of the world? By Rebecca Onion

Datum: 22.04.2008 07:10 • Größe: 4.4 MB

38) Slate: What Is "Income per Natural"

What Is "Income per Natural"? How a new way to count national income could change how we think about immigration and development, by Tim Harford

Datum: 21.04.2008 02:30 • Größe: 2.3 MB

37) Slate: The Bitter, Clingy Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. As we head into the Pennsylvania primary, the Gabfest team takes on the Democrats? cat fight, why John McCain?s sitting in the catbird seat, and why it was a good week for capital punishment in the Supreme Court.

Datum: 18.04.2008 06:42 • Größe: 13.9 MB

36) Slate's Audio Book Club: Beautiful Children, by Charles Bock

Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss the novel Beautiful Children, by Charles Bock. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Datum: 17.04.2008 04:20 • Größe: 15.7 MB

35) Slate: Not in My Back Yucca

Not in My Back Yucca: What are our alternatives for storing radioactive waste? By Brendan I. Koerner

Datum: 16.04.2008 05:24 • Größe: 3 MB

34) Slate: Olympic Flame Out

Olympic Flame Out: China learns the price of a few weeks of global attention, by Anne Applebaum

Datum: 15.04.2008 04:07 • Größe: 2.6 MB

33) Slate: The Exit Strategy Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week, Petraeus takes the stand, a political demotion and more polls on the campaign trail, and should we boycot the Olympics?

Datum: 14.04.2008 05:28 • Größe: 13.7 MB

32) Slate: Steal This Book! Please!

Steal This Book! Please! Why software and media companies should encourage piracy (sometimes), by Tim Harford

Datum: 14.04.2008 05:28 • Größe: 2.2 MB

31) Slate: McCain's outreach tour

McCain's outreach tour: Going where Republicans fear to tread, by John Dickerson

Datum: 10.04.2008 04:39 • Größe: 3 MB

30) Slate: The Cultural Gabfest, Misplaced Outrage Edition

The Slate Cultural Gabfest, with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. This week, our critics discuss Vogue magazine?s King Kong redux, Hillary?s millions, and the latest in nerd verite, the online sitcom The Guild.

Datum: 09.04.2008 08:09 • Größe: 14.1 MB

29) Slate: Stonewall Petraeus

Stonewall Petraeus: Testifying before the Senate, the general sticks to the script, by Fred Kaplan

Datum: 09.04.2008 05:20 • Größe: 3.5 MB

28) Slate: The New Blue Laws

The New Blue Laws: They're about giving workers a break, not forcing church attendance, by Paul L. Edenfield

Datum: 08.04.2008 04:57 • Größe: 3 MB

27) Slate: Countrywide Wants To Sell You a House

Countrywide Wants To Sell You a House: The foreclosure boom means they're the seller, the lender, and maybe even the appraiser. Would you buy a home that way? By Mark Gimein

Datum: 07.04.2008 04:40 • Größe: 2.9 MB

26) Slate: The Vice President Speculation Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and guest Will Saletan. This week, the Democratic battle rolls on, the speculation begins over a Republican running-mate, and a celebration of the life of Martin Luther King

Datum: 04.04.2008 07:01 • Größe: 12.9 MB

25) Slate: Why Fed Reform Won't Work

Why Fed Reform Won't Work: Yes, the financial regulation system needs overhaul, but the proposed plan is a Band-Aid for Wall Street's mortal wounds, by Nomi Prins

Datum: 01.04.2008 03:59 • Größe: 2.6 MB

24) Slate: Rich Men Behaving Badly

Rich Men Behaving Badly: Meet the super-rich, the dysfunctional class threatening American values, by Daniel Gross

Datum: 31.03.2008 03:26 • Größe: 2.9 MB

23) Slate: The Corkscrew Landing Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and Will Saletan. This week, the never-ending discussion on whether Hillary can win, faulty memory on the campaign trail, and it's the 10th anniversary of Viagra

Datum: 28.03.2008 04:03 • Größe: 13.7 MB

22) Slate: Hulu Hoopla

Hulu Hoopla: Is a new site the future of television? By Michael Agger

Datum: 27.03.2008 07:42 • Größe: 3.3 MB

21) Slate: The Cultural Gabfest, Schadenfreude Edition

The Slate Cultural Gabfest, with Stephen Metcalf, John Swansburg and Meghan O'Rourke (find links at www.slate.com/gabfest). Our critics discuss Obama?s big speech, Bear Stearns? big meltdown, plus the deconstruction of the university English department.

Datum: 26.03.2008 06:56 • Größe: 13.9 MB

20) Slate: Boycott Beijing

Boycott Beijing: The Olympics are the perfect place for a protest, by Anne Applebaum

Datum: 25.03.2008 04:09 • Größe: 2.7 MB

19) Slate: Doctors Without Orders

Doctors Without Orders: The mystery of patients who fail to follow prescriptions, by Jessica Wapner

Datum: 24.03.2008 04:26 • Größe: 3.3 MB

18) Slate: The Pregnant Pause Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week, it's the Obama speech, the 5th anniversaryof the Iraq War, and the Supreme Court discusses guns

Datum: 21.03.2008 04:13 • Größe: 13.5 MB

17) Slate: Spinach, Lettuce, and the Limits of Bioterrorism

Spinach, Lettuce, and the Limits of Bioterrorism: A comforting look back at the major E. coli outbreaks of 2006, by Carl Zimmer

Datum: 20.03.2008 03:08 • Größe: 3.7 MB

16) Slate: Tank vs Hybrid

Tank vs. Hybrid: Is it possible that a Hummer's better for the environment than a Prius is? By Brendan I. Koerner

Datum: 19.03.2008 04:19 • Größe: 3.5 MB

15) Slate: For Teeth and for Country

For Teeth and for Country: John Adams' misplaced celebration of America's dental achievements, by Kent Sepkowitz

Datum: 18.03.2008 05:04 • Größe: 3 MB

14) Slate: The Rise of American Incompetence

The Rise of American Incompetence: We used to be the world's most skillful entrepreneurs and managers. Now we're laughingstocks. What happened? By Daniel Gross

Datum: 17.03.2008 02:07 • Größe: 2.5 MB

13) Slate: The Eliot Spitzer Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week, Geraldine Ferraro puts her foot in her mouth, dreaming of the dream ticket, and Eliott Spitzer should do more jogging.

Datum: 14.03.2008 04:41 • Größe: 13.2 MB

12) Slate's Audio Book Club: All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren

Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Jacob Weisberg discuss the novel All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Datum: 13.03.2008 03:44 • Größe: 23.8 MB

11) Slate: The Cultural Gabfest and Eliot Mess

The Slate Cultural Gabfest, with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and John Swansburg. Our newest podcast feature returns just in time to take on the colossal fall from grace of New York governor Eliot Spitzer. Our critics also weigh in on famous fabulists, and a Web site so white, you?ll need SPF 100 ...

Datum: 12.03.2008 05:36 • Größe: 13.6 MB

10) Slate: Have People Stopped Clicking on Google Ads

Have People Stopped Clicking on Google Ads? Or did a Web-traffic firm get the numbers wrong? By Chris Wilson

Datum: 11.03.2008 03:30 • Größe: 3.1 MB

9) Slate: Me Fatigue

Me Fatigue: But enough about us, let's talk about the candidates, by Dahlia Lithwick

Datum: 10.03.2008 02:20 • Größe: 2.6 MB

8) Slate: A Bovine Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week, Can Hillary stage a comeback, a mysterious White House photo op and a fake book.

Datum: 07.03.2008 03:20 • Größe: 13.2 MB

7) Slate: Could a Coffee Maker Be Worth $11,000

Could a Coffee Maker Be Worth $11,000? How the Clover is changing the way we think about coffee, by Paul Adams

Datum: 06.03.2008 04:43 • Größe: 4.4 MB

6) Slate: Bugs Bunny vs. Daffy Duck

Bugs Bunny vs. Daffy Duck: Why voters always choose the wascally wabbit for president, by Jeff Greenfield

Datum: 05.03.2008 04:09 • Größe: 2.8 MB

5) Slate: Gone in 60 Seconds

Gone in 60 Seconds: How my blog started the avalanche that buried presidential aide Tim Goeglein, by Nancy Nall Derringer

Datum: 04.03.2008 03:53 • Größe: 3 MB

4) Slate: Tough Call

Tough Call: Will Clinton or Obama protect your children?

Datum: 03.03.2008 03:12 • Größe: 3.9 MB

3) Slate: The Hope Monger Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week, the momentum continues to grow in the democratic primary race; Obama and McCain trade barbs; and, is stagflation on its way?

Datum: 29.02.2008 04:39 • Größe: 12.1 MB

2) Slate: The Second Cultural Gabfest

The Slate Cultural Gabfest, with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. We're back for another outing with Slate's cultural critics. This week they train their sights on the Oscars aftermath, the trouble with mocking Obama, and why young starlets should choose their photo shoots more caref...

Datum: 28.02.2008 05:52 • Größe: 13.4 MB

1) Slate: Would You Like a Hair Sandwich

Would You Like a Hair Sandwich? The life and times of America's greatest hoaxer, by Joe Keohane

Datum: 27.02.2008 04:25 • Größe: 4 MB