in a distant galaxy far, far from here, when there were paragraphs detailed in this column from various magazines and the links to them. Granted you may have to join a website for the magazine and this was a minor inconvenience. At least I could then read the article and responsed to them here, which I also did.

What gives and why can Slate provide those links the same as they didin the past? Some of these blurbs are worthless without the links. Neologisms perhaps???

By my count there are 14 articles mentioned with links to 6 of them, but your point is well taken.

What I would like to see is the old format brought back, but with the addition of the current bold text labels in the body of each paragraph alerting the reader to various points of interest and/or things to avoid. If none of the articles in a given magazine fit into one of the oh-so-cute categories, then that magazine's section wouldn't get any labels (but would still exist, unlike what we have now).

That would be the best of both worlds, wouldn't it?

haulin:

A potpourri of articles with relevant points to what is current in the nation and world today. What is presently featured now, do not qualify as snippets at this point.

They need to revise "In Other Magazines," as it has lost its purpose.