Emily Yoffe will chat about the job and take audience questions at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue on Wednesday, September 11 at 7 p.m.

Seriously, just give it up already, Snyder.

TNR editor Franklin Foer said, “This is hardly a great moral issue of our time, but it’s not a terribly complicated one. It’s an offensive name. Period.”

Early this morning, Slate’s David Plotz published an impassioned, articulate, and particularly inspired article about why Slate will no longer refer to the team by their given name.

Don’t believe the trash-talking. Grapefruits are great, and they make for excellent cocktails.

Slate music writer Jonah Weiner has been getting a tremendous amount of ribbing on the internet for his latest counter-intuitive pop rock piece, “Creed is Good: Scott Stapp’s nu-grunge foursome was seriously underrated.” Weiner penned a similar defense of Limp Bizkit earlier this year, in fitting with his publication’s overall reputation for being contrary just for the sake of it. For us, all of this is really just an excuse to link back to…

Hundreds of devotees of the Slate podcast “Political Gabfest” watched a live taping at the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue on Monday. Not that it’s a surprise that an event in D.C. was well attended this week, but the folks over at Slate had to be pretty thrilled at the turnout for their first ever live recording of one of its podcasts. More than 650 people braved the crowds in the District to get…

David Nakamura caught Slate XX Factor blogger Melinda Henneberger making a lame, nearly inscrutable joke at the expense of D.C. CFO Natwar Gandhi. The context, of all things, is the John Edwards affair scandal. Apparently Rielle Hunter made some comment to a reporter once that she thought Edwards has the potential to be a “transformational leader” on par with Martin Luther King and that other Gandhi. So Henneberger drops in a dreadful joke her husband…

Not very many media outlets have really mastered the art of producing web video, but Slate’s team of online video producers tend to stand out from the pack (see their Larry Craig arrest report reenactment for further evidence). Via Matthew Yglesias, we get this truly funny report on the stupidest bike lines in America (and elsewhere in the world). Slate ended up giving the top honors to a 20-ft. stretch of bike lane they…