Slate: The Undercover Economist

A Losing Proposition

<p>Strange as it may seem in the wake of the <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/prop-8-ruling-crowd-celebrates-outside-sf-courthouse.html">street parties</a> c...

Chipotle Is Apple

<p>Hunting for business success stories in a recession is a difficult (<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2011/12/visa_mastercard_t_j_maxx_the_top_stocks_of_2011_.htm...

Mobile Phones Will Not Save the Poorest of the Poor

<p><strong><em>For more on cellphone use around the world, see the Slate/New America Foundation map, &quot;<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week...

Which Countries Have the Most Mobile Phones?

<p>Mobile-phone subscriptions now outnumber the fixed-line variety by nearly 2-to-1 in the United States. Nine in 10 Americans have a cell phone. Globally speaking, that's nothing—a handful...

The Other Academic Freedom Movement

<p>In the summer of 1991, Paul Ginsparg, a researcher at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory, set up an email system for about 200 string theorists to exchange papers they had written. The Worl...

Syria’s First Family

The Ties That Blind

<p>“You should sell her,” Clyde said when his mother came home with a baby sister. That’s the kind of thing jealous big brothers often say when they feel displaced; the comment becomes ...

No Hetero

<p>You quondam liberal-artists out there—veterans of lit-crit and queer theory, men and womyn formerly fluent in what Said said and all that Lacan cant—may yet remember that we live our l...

My Funny-Looking Valentine

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How Many Kids Are Sexually Abused by Their Teachers?

<p>Los Angeles police are investigating a teacher aide at Miramonte Elementary School who allegedly <a href="http://bostonherald.com/news/national/west/view/20120208letters_from_la_teacher...