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John Dickerson is Slate's chief political correspondent. Previously, he worked for Time magazine in New York and Washington, finishing his stint as a White House correspondent. He is the author of On Her Trail, a biography of his late mother, the television newscaster Nancy Dickerson.
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Fort Hood, Texas, hosts tens of thousands of men who are trained to fight for their country. But none of them stopped Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as he blew away 13 of their colleagues Thursday afternoon. It was a civilian police officer, Sgt. Kimberly Munley,
Slate.com Has a doctor ever owed you—or offered you—an apology?
The financial and personal ramifications of a doctor apologizing to a patient. - By Rahul Parikh - S
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When you're a doctor, you sometimes have to come to terms with making a mistake: giving a patient the wrong diagnosis or the wrong treatment, causing an injury, or perhaps something worse.
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Whether it was billing the event as a " Super Bowl of Freedom" or challenging conservatives to "scare" members of Congress, it worked. Rep. Michele Bachmann got thousands of protesters to flood the lawn in front of the Capitol building Thursday afternoon,
On Denialism and the role of science in America. (1) - By Chris Mooney and Michael Specter - Slate M
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First, let me say it has been a pleasure to read Denialism, a book I've wanted to dig into ever since you came to speak about it to our Knight Science Journalism Fellows seminar at MIT. It's heartening ...
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What's the lesson of the 2009 New York Yankees? With the Bronx Bombers taking an early 7-1 lead in Game 6, we had more time than usual to bat around the clichés of sports championships to see which ones might fit. Had the Yankees redeemed the long sufferin
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Next week the Supreme Court will hear arguments, in Sullivan v. Florida, about whether sentencing a 13-year-old boy to prison without the possibility of parole violates the cruel-and–unusual-punishment clause of the Constitution. Joe Harris Sullivan is one
Despite the one-child policy, millions of Chinese citizens don't know how to have sex without gettin
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BEIJING—The first time Hu Jing tried to have sex with her college boyfriend, there was a technical difficulty. "We knew we had to use a condom," she said. "But we didn't know how."