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Slate: NASA must do more to prepare for catastrophic asteroids
What should be NASA's most important task — keeping the Earth, and America, safe from asteroid and comet impact — is barely mentioned in its latest strategic plan, released earlier this week.

February 21, 2013 1 Photo
When Marlon Brando lost his little black book
Marlon Brando dropped this battered address book on the stage of New York's Barrymore Theatre while appearing in "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1949.

February 21, 2013 1 Photo
Slate: An app as sweet as Godiva
Everything about the online world encourages sharing. But what about the things you would rather not share with everyone in your social network, such as the cheesy pet name you call your boyfriend or the startlingly high number of romantic comedies your wife forced you to watch on Netflix last month? There is an app for that.

February 15, 2013 1 Photo
Why collecting DNA from people who are arrested won't solve more crimes
More than one-half of the 50 states and the federal government authorize compulsory collection of DNA from people who have been arrested. But the Supreme Court has never held that if police have probable cause to arrest, they can also search a suspect for evidence of past or future crimes.

February 12, 2013 1 Photo
Slate: The case for torture
Did "enhanced interrogation techniques" help us find Osama Bin Laden and destroy al Qaida? Were they torture? Were they wrong? This week, three former CIA officials grappled with those questions in a forum at the American Enterprise Institute.

February 1, 2013 1 Photo
Slate: How Tina Fey changed TV
As the final episode of "30 Rock" approaches and America prepares to bid its harried, comedy-star-herding heroine a last blerg-bye, Liz Lemon is already being celebrated by the media as one of the more memorable female characters in the history of television.

January 30, 2013 1 Photo
Slate's Explainer: Would women get drafted?
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced last week that women would be allowed to serve in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of jobs to female soldiers. Readers are wondering: Now that women can officially take to the battlefield alongside men, do they have to register for the Selective Service?

January 29, 2013
Slate: The giant squid stalker
The enigmatic giant squid can grow to 35 feet or longer, and its eye is as big as your head. But it lives about 1,000 feet below the surface and deeper, and it had only been glimpsed a few times at the surface and photographed alive once.

January 28, 2013 1 Photo
Slate's Explainer: Can states exile people?
A Washington, D.C., judge ordered a man to stay out of the District of Columbia as a condition of his release from jail this week. Rives Miller Grogan was arrested for climbing a tree near the Capitol as part of a protest during President Obama's inauguration. Can you be banished from a state?

January 28, 2013
Slate: Is the neurodiversity movement misrepresenting autism?
Much of what we know about autism has changed since my son Jonah was diagnosed in 2001, but the metaphors we use to conceptualize it have remained largely the same.

January 18, 2013 1 Photo
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