How an adorable photo of Sully the service dog became a psychological trigger
Image of the Week: Americans shared joy at the idea of a faithful canine sticking by George H.W. Bush’s side—and outrage when the scene got taken apart
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Blaming the victim? Emily Yoffe’s sexual assault prevention advice
Protection shouldn’t be a dirty word
Science in Canada: Failure doesn’t come cheap
A prominent science blogger tears the NRC apart
Dear professors: don’t bring your kids to work
Prof. Pettigrew on the breastfeeding in class debate
When you fear the sound of your own voice
Armando Iannucci—writer of The Thick Of It, In The Loop and Veep— talks to Slate about the lives of politicians.
The recurring question that haunts pro-lifers
Libertyville Abortion Demonstration : still my favourite YouTube video of all time . No scripted comedy will ever make me laugh as...
Planet Mad Men
Mad Men has now officially replaced The Wire as the most footnoted and overanalyzed television show going. Not that there’s...
The meaning of Palin
Dahlia Lithwick writes the best account I’ve read yet of what Sarah Palin is all about. I especially like this fragment: "...while...
Intellectual dishonesty
Jacob Weisberg on why Barack Obama should put Smart People in his cabinet: But it makes sense for Obama to give greater weight to...
Journalistic ethics is only sort of an oxymoron
As a general rule, media ethics debates work best in journalism schools (where they can safely and entirely be discussed in...