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Oct. 31, 2009The Slatest Evening Edition - Slate Magazine
You Won't Believe What Vice President Biden Said This Week
A Witch's Lament: Do You Know How Hard It Is To Organize My Coven for Halloween?
You Should Be Able To Use Your Laptop While Piloting a Plane or Driving a Car
Saving Face: Erica's Late-Night Texting Flirtation
Meet the World's Most Obnoxious Wine Critic
Kaus: I Just Realized I Don't Really Like President Obama
The Week's Best Editorial Cartoons
Is That Organic Halloween Candy Any Good?
Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009
- The Slatest: Weekend EditionThe feds clear out the childrens' Tamiflu stockpile; The French are actually pretty good soldiers; The Nobel committee tries to explain itself. | Saturday, 6:02 AM ET
- The Boys Club GabfestListen to Slate's review of the week in politics.Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotzgabfest | Friday, 7:36 PM ET
- Hellish CoptersWhy are choppers always crashing?Christopher Beam | explainer | Friday, 5:36 PM ET
- How To Charge Your Laptop
Four essential tips for extending the battery life of your computer, cell phone, and every other gadget.
Farhad Manjoo | technology | Friday, 5:31 PM ET- Saving Face
Chapter 20: What Erica finds in the basement closet.
Dahlia Lithwick | fiction | Friday, 5:24 PM ET- Barack Obama's Facebook Feed
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fox News, and Joe Biden's Halloween costume.
Christopher Beam and Chris Wilson | politics | Friday, 3:40 PM ET- Reviews of: This Is It, Gentlemen Broncos, and The House of the Devil
A daily video from Slate V.
slate v | Friday, 2:34 PM ET- Public Option, RIP?
The Congressional Budget Office explains the perils of compromise and the limits of its own interest in health costs.
Timothy Noah | prescriptions | Friday, 2:30 PM ET- This Week's Bidenisms
Collecting the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
Jeremy Stahl | Bidenisms | Friday, 1:59 PM ET- The Evil of Banality
Troubling new revelations about Arendt and Heidegger.
Ron Rosenbaum | the spectator | Friday, 12:37 PM ET
- posted by Samantha Henig on October 30, 2009Do Women Really Ask for Raises Less Often Than Men?
A guest post from DoubleX intern Danny Townsend : In the New York Times last week, Joanne Lipman declared that women's progress has stalled because " we've focused primarily on numbers at the expense of attitudes. " She tells one story with a precise tally: "In my time as an editor,"
an inescapable conflict that is at odds with Post rules.
You Won't Believe What Vice President Biden Said This Week
A Witch's Lament: Do You Know How Hard It Is To Organize My Coven for Halloween?
You Should Be Able To Use Your Laptop While Piloting a Plane or Driving a Car
Saving Face: Erica's Late-Night Texting Flirtation
Meet the World's Most Obnoxious Wine Critic
Kaus: I Just Realized I Don't Really Like President Obama