Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online news and culture magazine created by Microsoft in 1996 as part of MSN. On December 21, 2004, it was bought by The Washington Post.

Editorial stance

Slate's focus and editorial slant is politically liberal, as seen in choice of columnists, choice of topics, position on topics, and featured cartoon: Doonesbury. During the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign, Slate staff and contributors made a poll among themselves, and a significant majority supported Democratic challenger John Kerry http://slate.msn.com/id/2108714.

Related Topics:
Liberal - Doonesbury - John Kerry

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A more fine-grained analysis puts Slate slightly to the left of The New Republic, but still to the right of Salon.com or The Nation. It includes many voices of the Clintonian / Democratic Leadership Council / neo-liberal point of view. These include two of its bloggers: Mickey Kaus, whose favorite subjects include welfare reform and the potential for a future candidate from either party to reap major political gains by taking a law-and-order stance on immigration issues; and Bruce Reed, who was President Clinton's domestic policy adviser, and is current president of the Democratic Leadership Council. Jack Shafer, one of its top editors, has stated that he has voted for the Libertarian Party candidate for president in every election since he became eligible to vote. (One unusual feature of the magazine is that it very openly states its staff's biases, going so far as to publish the presidential votes of individual staff members and writers.) Slate frequently publishes columns that advocate a libertarian view of economics.

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The New Republic - Salon.com - The Nation - Mickey Kaus - Bruce Reed - President Clinton - Democratic Leadership Council - Libertarian Party

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On Iraq, Slate has taken a "liberal hawk" perspective. This viewpoint is embodied in the frequent contributions of Christopher Hitchens, William Saletan, Michael Kinsley and others. Timothy Noah is the only Slate staffer who opposed the US invasion, and even he was persuaded to abandon his relatively dovish position by Colin Powell, as he documented in Chatterbox Goes to War.

Related Topics:
Christopher Hitchens - William Saletan - Michael Kinsley - Timothy Noah - Colin Powell

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