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Slate V: Reviews of: Twilight, The Blind Side, and Planet 51

<img src="http://brightcove.vo.llnwd.net/d8/unsecured/media/78144477/78144477_51379162001_SV09112001-SJ-thumb.jpg?pubId=78144477"/>In this week's Summary Judgment, Mark Jordan Legan sums up w...

Sen. Blanche Lincoln's Web site can't make up its mind about the public option.

"Health care reform must build upon what works and improve inefficiencies.  Individuals should be able to choose from a range of quality health insurance plans.  Options should include private pl...

The Slatest: Morning Edition

Debt will get more expensive soon; Microsoft wants to pay to keep news out of Google; four Americans die in Afghanistan; man thought to be in coma for 23 years knew what was going on.[more ...]

Gail Collins's When Everything Changed.

Do you have a daughter who thinks feminists are dowdy man-haters who don't shave their legs? A single friend who blames the women's movement for her lack of a husband or children—or a married o...

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What is on the other side of Siberia? The Jewish Autonomous Region.

BIROBIDZHAN, Russia—Never have I heard so many snide comments about an upcoming trip. "Don't bother coming back," said a co-worker, laughing nervously. Birobidzhan has a way of making people laug...

Murdoch's war on Google.

A summary of what's in the major publications.[more ...]

How to amend, and not amend, the Senate health reform bill.

Health care reform limped to the Senate floor on a party-line vote, 60-39, after Democratic Sens. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, and Ben Nelson of Nebraska gave their relu...

Judge David Hamilton and the fight over God's secular title.

Pop quiz: Which of the following names represents a nonsectarian, universal deity? Allah, Dios, Gott, Dieu, Elohim, Gud, or Jesus?[more ...] Jesus - Christianity - Religio...

Made in China—and sold there, too.

These are grim times for American executives. The public is angry, and consumers are holding on to every nickel. It's hard to escape the sense that the economic future may be less comfortable than ...