GOP Presidential candidate and former US Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman was put on the defensive recently by a Slate article questioning Huntsman's one skill the majority of Americans have generally taken for granted -- his fluency in Chinese.   more ›

So it seems that Daniel Gross of Slate has finally acknowledged that you can find a chocolate bar in China… well, sort of. The title of his piece is “Chinese Chocolate Mystery Solved!” and the entire intro implies that Gross had been looking for his elusive sweet thing (a, he specified this time, “Hershey’s bar or Chinese equivalent”) in backwoods places, instead of say… Wal-Mart. Only, oh wait, he kind of mentioned that there was a Wal-Mart where he was located. more ›

Daniel Gross of Slate has been over here reporting on the controversial Three Gorges Dam project. And while we can't say anything too bad about his coverage of that - which, while it reads more like a disgruntled travel piece than actual hardhitting journalism, is generally close enough to what little facts we know about the dam that it makes it impossible for us to nitpick - we were surprised by one of his pronouncements: more ›

Ah, the innocence and beauty of young love: our cold, rational hearts are always warmed a bit when we see couples walking around in the throes of their first fling. Relationships are a curious time for new lovers: trying to feel each other out, learning to love and be loved, and of course, actually learning how to make love. more ›

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