Slate is a politics and culture magazine, not a newspaper, that features essays and columns often expressing the opinions of mostly well-known regular writers.  Hitchens is one of Slate's better-known writers and is most famous for his work in Vanity Fair magazine.<p>Usually when someone reads a Hitchens article, they know what to expect.  He definitely has a bias.  He is a hawk, a bit of a neo-con, and an infamous hater of the Clintons.  He is also known for his zealous atheism (heh) and enormous ego.  I don't often agree with Hitchens, but I generally enjoy his work and appreciate his surly intellectualism and penchant for turning over rocks to reveal the dirt.  His pieces are usually opinionated but factual.