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Why the highest-paid doctors are the most vulnerable to automation.

The Pap smear is the most effective cancer-screening test ever developed. When it was introduced in the United States in the 1940s, about 26,000 women died every of year of cervical cancer.…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1125 words)

Five exceptional stories about bizarrely close brothers and sisters.

Every weekend, Longform.org shares a collection of great stories from its archive with Slate. For a daily selection of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform.org or follow
AUTHOR:Max Linsky
PUBLISHED: Aug. 6, 2011
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1134 words)

Six profiles spanning 34 years in the life of our favorite media villain.

Who would have thought that the man who started with a single Australian newspaper in 1953 would end up being hit with a pie while appearing before British Parliament in 2011? A look back at a career that has had an unparalleled influence on the media.
SOURCE:Slate
PUBLISHED: July 23, 2011
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1110 words)

The Decade's Must-Read Journalism About the Hunt for Osama bin Laden

From the time he slipped from our grasp in Tora Bora to the obituary of "The Most Wanted Face of Terrorism," The Daily Beast picks the best longform journalism about Osama bin…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (470 words)
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What it means to have all music instantly available.

Is there any song now that can't be found online?Lester Bangs, the late, great early-rock critic, once said he dreamed of having a basement with every album ever released in it. That's a fantasy…
AUTHOR:Bill Wyman
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2011
LENGTH: 3 minutes (885 words)
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