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The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.

CNN posted an article: "Republicans win in New Jersey and Virginia." David Axelrod Please. This was an isolated election based on local issues. John Boehner Please. This was an isolated election based on local issues. Chris Christie posted a note on ...

From CHRISTOPHER BEAM, Slate,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Sarah Palin,  Facebook Inc.,  U.S. Republican Party,  David Axelrod

What's the best way for the Twilight vampires to drink blood?

New Moon, the second installment of the Twilight series, hits theaters today. It features a family of teenage vampires who drink animal blood and who look down on those vampires "weak" enough to prey on humans. The film raises several questions about ...

From CHRISTOPHER BEAM, Slate,  20 Nov 2009

When have we not been in the midst of a vampire craze?

Yet another vampire film opens this Friday: Twilight: New Moon, the second installment of the popular series. Is New Moon simply part of a recent vampire boom, along with True Blood and countless others movies, TV shows, and books? Not quite, say ...

From CHRISTOPHER BEAM AND CHRIS WILSON, Slate,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Anne Rice,  Stephen King,  Chris Wilson,  Werner Herzog,  Bram Stoker

Why vampire movies always break all the vampire rules.

Robert Pattison and Kristen Stewart return to the big screen in Twilight: New Moon this Friday. The first installment shied away from vampire myths and offered a modern take on the subject. Last year, Christopher Beam pointed out that Twilight and ...

From CHRISTOPHER BEAM, Slate,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Kristen Stewart,  Wesley Snipes,  Will Smith,  Bram Stoker

How does the federal government know how much money it's spending improperly?

The federal government made $98 billion in improper payments this fiscal year, according to an announcement Tuesday by the White House Office of Management and Budget. That's a 37.5 percent increase from the $72 billion improperly spent in 2008. How ...

From CHRISTOPHER BEAM, Slate,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  John Smith

Slate's unauthorized index of Sarah Palin's autobiography, Going Rogue.

When Sarah Palin's 413-page autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, hit stands Tuesday, readers discovered the governor's most mavericky move yet—that the book lacks an index. So Slate has compiled its own. Just print out this index, paste it ...

From CHRISTOPHER BEAM, Slate,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  John McCain,  Livingston (actor),  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  U.S. Democratic Party

Can a prisoner request anything for his last meal?

John Allen Muhammad, the "Beltway sniper" who went on a two-week shooting spree in the Washington, D.C., area in 2003, is scheduled for execution in Greensville, Va., Tuesday night. In death row tradition, Muhammad requested a special last meal, but he ...

From CHRISTOPHER BEAM, Slate,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Allen Muhammad,  Department of Corrections,  Karla Faye Tucker,  John Wayne Gacy,  Timothy McVeigh

Health care reformers' million-dollar thank-you card to moderate Democrats.

Lobbying—in Washington, it's often called "issue advocacy"—is a game of carrots and sticks: Support our issue and we'll make life good for you. Oppose it and we'll make it hell. Sometimes groups take a moment to just pause and say, "Thank you." But ...

From CHRISTOPHER BEAM, Slate,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: MoveOn.org,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Dina Titus,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama

Can you carry a concealed weapon on military bases? And other Fort Hood questions answered.

Do psychiatrists go crazy at higher rates than the general population? Yes, but so do doctors in general. Studies have shown that the suicide rate among male doctors is 40 percent higher than among men overall and that female doctors take their own ...

From CHRISTOPHER BEAM, Slate,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Baylor College of Medicine,  University of Texas

Michele Bachmann invites tea partiers to Washington for another swig.

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 ...

From CHRISTOPHER BEAM, Slate,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Barack Obama,  Michele Bachmann,  Sean Hannity,  Tom Price

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