Today in Slate: Why Is America in Decline? Plus, the Book That Is 119 Years Overdue

Today: November 21, 2011 The Supercommittee Failed. Hooray! How the absence of a deal may cut the deficit more than a deal would have. By Matthew Yglesias READ FULL STORY | More Business This Book Is 119 Years Overdue The wondrous database that reveals what Americans checked out of the library a century ago. By John Plotz READ FULL STORY | More Arts Occupy the Net! Our Internet is a paradise for consumers but a hell for citizens. By Evgeny  Morozov READ FULL STORY | More Technology Weigel: How the Bush Tax Cuts Doomed the Supercommittee Why America Is in Decline: It's Not Our Economy. It's Our Political System. Saletan: 12 Ways GOP Candidates Would Like the U.S. To Become a Christian Government I Watched All Four Twilight Movies in a Theater Full of Teenagers. OMG. Advertisement Hitchens: Conservatives' Nonsensical Beliefs in America's God-Given Dominance Atlas Stretched: Why Is Lululemon Putting Ayn Rand Slogans on Its Shopping Bags? John Waters on Occupy Wall Street and Why He Became a Capitalist Five Amazing Stories About the Film Industry, From Loony Directors to Phenomenal Flops News & Politics The Death Penalty Case That Has Even Scalia Griping About Incompetent Lawyers. Grandma's Benefits Imperil Junior's Future: Watch tonight's Slate/Intelligence Squared U.S. debate live. Technology This Is the New iPhone? Seriously? Farhad Manjoo Chats with Slate Readers about the iPhone 4S Business There Is Only One Way To End the Global Recession: Spend More Money. Lots of It. Americans Haven't Been This Depressed About the Economy for Ages and Ages Arts American Horror Story: Can Freaky Sex and Sadistic Violence Be Fun for the Whole Family? Edgar Guest, Marianne Moore, and the Place Where Pop Meets Modernism Life Can We Prevent Another Amanda Knox Case? Dear Prudence: My Friend Won't Tell Her One-Night Stand She Got Pregnant Health & Science How Do You Turn Off a Particle Accelerator? Just Pull the Plug? Does Evil Exist? Neuroscientists Say No. Sports The NFL Player's Existential Dilemma The Red Sox's Spectacular Collapse Will Make Their Fans More Annoying, Not Less Double X Is My Mentor Hitting on Me? Do Women Still Fret About the Number of People They've Had Sex With? Podcasts Digital Manners: Is comment thread redundancy OK? Hang Up and Listen: Will the NHL Ban Fighting and Shots to the Head? Video Dear Prudence: I Married a Peeping Tom? A weekly Dear Prudence video. (VIDEO)

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