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I think my husband of 30 years is gay.
Get "Dear Prudence" delivered to your inbox each week; click here to sign up. Please send your questions for publication to prudence@slate.com. (Questions may be edited.)[more ...]... Read more »
Obama tries to convince American public that health care reform is in their best interest.
The Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal's world-wide newsbox lead with President Obama's prime-time news conference that was almost entirely devoted to health care… Read more »
Health care reform and the resurrection of Neo.
"You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland and I… Read more »
For LeBron James, getting dunked on was bad. Trying to suppress the tape was worse.
There's a video on YouTube of the world's greatest basketball player getting humiliated at his own basketball camp. He takes the defeat with dignity, explaining that "in your life, in… Read more »
A Henry Louis Gates Jr. Explainer roundup.
Prosecutors dropped all charges against Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Tuesday. The prominent Harvard professor had been charged with disorderly conduct after breaking into his own home in Cambridge, Mass… Read more »
Do people take out payday loans because they're desperate—or because they don't understand the terms?
There's been a lot of finger-pointing lately about who is to blame for the untenable financial circumstances of many American families. Among the usual suspects—Wall Street quants, fly-by-night mortgage brokers… Read more »
Should we blame overdiagnosis for rising health costs?
Healthy people, goes the popular doctors' joke, are simply those haven't gone through enough medical testing. Excessive diagnostic evaluations with fancy body scans or blood tests will always find something… Read more »
What's the best way to help make the world's water supply safer?
Do you have a real-life do-gooding dilemma? Please send it to ask.my.goodness@gmail.com, and Patty and Sandy will try to answer it.[more ...]... Read more »
Listen to the Mountain
A daily video from Slate V.[more ...]... Read more »
The history and future of airport design.
The history and future of airport design.[more ...]... Read more »
