Alison, Slate is an online magazine with articles on current events, analysis, and essays. It's kind of eclectic and discusses everything from news to books to movies to technology and health issues and whatever is going on, or should be going on, or shouldn't be going on, and why or why not, in someone's opinion. <lol> What's nice about these magazines being e-mailed is that you then can store them on the computer. Of course, this is also true if you get them from Bookshare, but then you have to go fetch them yourself. I like to save interesting articles for future reading or research. Kellie