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The Trumpcare Tracker McConnell’s Latest Tactic: Policy Concessions to Sway Conservatives, Money to Buy Off Moderates
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“As “nothing burgers” go, this one looks like a whopper.” Is Donald Trump Jr. Guilty of Treason?

“Tethering highly regulated health care plans to wholly unregulated plans could be like tethering a hot-air balloon to Jell-O.” It All Comes Down to Ted Cruz

“The book is nothing if not an allegory about the way we slipped and fell into a relationship with technology, increasingly bound to devices that sometimes seem to limit us, even as they furnish once unimaginable luxuries.” Is Our Relationship With the iPhone Just Another Loveless Marriage?

Dahlia
Lithwick

Jim
Newell

Jacob
Brogan

News & Politics

The Angle

July 13 2017 5:53 PM The Angle: Wasted Sasse Edition Slate’s daily newsletter on dieting and placebos, our low wages problem, and Ben Sasse’s lost potential. Rebecca Onion

The Wasted Mind of Sen. Ben Sasse

Trump Doesn’t Deserve Praise for Letting the Afghan Girls’ Robotics Team Into the U.S.

Is Emmanuel Macron the Future or Just Old Ideas in a Sleek New Package?

Christopher Wray, the “Trump Tax,” and Poor Fredo Corleone

Donald Trump Jr.’s Free Speech Defense Is As Bogus As It Sounds

When Will Ben Sasse, Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan Abandon Donald Trump?

Is It Ever Appropriate to Put an Abuse Victim in Jail to Compel Her to Testify?

Business

Moneybox

July 13 2017 5:22 PM The Senate’s New Health Care Bill Is a Win for Ted Cruz—and Almost Nobody Else Jordan Weissmann

Visa Boldly Ushers in the Cashless Future (Where Everyone Uses Visa)

Why Can’t Americans Get a Raise?

Qatar Enlists a New Ally in Its Diplomatic Crisis: 4,000 Cows

Trump Is Already Driving Up the Cost of Health Insurance for Millions of Americans

Urban America Is Driving More. Rural America Is Driving Less. What Gives?

How Tom Holland Went Undercover at a Bronx High School to Prepare for Spider-Man: Homecoming

Central Bankers Think Their Job Is Done Fixing the Global Economy. Why Are They Still Letting Greece Suffer?

Life

Dear Prudence

July 13 2017 6:00 AM Don’t Thank Me I’m a military officer, and I’m tired of being showered with gratitude by strangers. Mallory Ortberg

The Lonely, Heroic Work of a Gay Libyan Refugee in America

Help! I’m a Hunter, and She’s a Vegan. Should We Have Kids?

Help! I’m Involved With a Married Couple. Everything Was Great Until They Got Pregnant.

Liberals Have Turned Trump Into a Gay Villain Because Our Worst Villains Must Be Gay

The Silliest Advice in That Asinine New York Times Op-Ed Promoting Democratic “Centrism”

Help! I Love to Travel—but I Hate Constantly Getting Hit on by Jerks.

Help! Our Neighbors Help With Our Grandkids but Think Halloween Is Devil-Worshipping.

Double X

The XX Factor

July 14 2017 10:57 AM Andy Murray’s Breezy, No-Nonsense Feminism: a History Grace Ballenger

Last Summer, the Red Cross Pulled Its Racist Swimming Posters. It’s Still Fixing the Damage.

Macron Reportedly Gave His Wife’s Butt a Love Tap While Touring With the Trumps, and God Bless It

Steve King Wants Planned Parenthood Funds to Pay for a Border Wall. How Much Wall Could Those Funds Buy?

Dov Charney’s New Clothing Line Is Like American Apparel, But Profoundly Unflattering

It Is Not Sexist for a Headline to Describe an Unfamous Woman as “[Name of Famous Man]’s Wife”

Betsy DeVos Plans to Consult Men’s Rights Trolls About Campus Sexual Assault

What Makes a Male Celebrity’s Face “Punchable”?

Slate Plus

Culture Gabfest

July 13 2017 1:13 PM What Makes a Song a Smash Hit? The Culture Gabfest chats with the host of Hit Parade, a new podcast about our favorite pop songs. Stephen Metcalf, Chris Molanphy, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner

What’s It Like to Be a Hair Care Entrepreneur? A Working Podcast Transcript.

Critics Called Blow Out a Trashy Horror Movie. In Fact, It’s a Deeply Personal Study of Obsession.

Help! I Bought My Boyfriend a Bidet, and Now He Won’t Buy Any Toilet Paper.

What Does It Mean to Be a Muslim American? It’s Complicated.

Arts

Brow Beat

July 14 2017 10:26 AM Beyoncé’s Twins Rumi and Sir Make Their Instagram Debut Marissa Martinelli

Watch Baby Driver’s Fabulous, Most Groovy Opening Scene

Is Tony Stark the Real Villain in Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Variety's Embarassing Girls Trip Review Proves Not All Critics Should Write About Black Movies

Carrie Fisher Received a Well-Deserved Posthumous Emmy Nomination

The 2017 Emmy Nominations Favored Buzz and Political Relevance Over Quality, for Better and for Worse

Here Are Your 2017 Emmy Nominees, With Saturday Night Live and Westworld Leading the Pack

John Oliver and Stephen Colbert Wonder When Collusion With a Foreign Power Became a Partisan Issue

Technology

Future Tense

July 14 2017 8:58 AM What Happens When an A.I. Program Tries to Write Poetry? Grace Ballenger

How an Outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo Was Contained

A Font Is at the Heart of Pakistan’s Prime Minister’s Legal Troubles

A Ukrainian Cyberattack Shows How Dangerous Software Backdoors Can Be

How Major Websites Are Marking Today’s Net Neutrality Protest

Future Tense Newsletter: Trump’s Idea for a U.S.-Russia Cybersecurity Unit Is Unbearably Dumb

“Publicly Available” Data Can Still Pose a Major Risk to Privacy

Health & Science

Medical Examiner

July 14 2017 7:35 AM Could a Tuberculosis Outbreak Happen Here? We’re creating a series of conditions that make it more likely. Daniel Marchalik

We Know Ways to Teach Kids With Autism. Most Schools Just Don’t Use Them.

An Iceberg the Size of Delaware Is Now Floating in the Ocean, but It’s OK.

Snortable Cocoa Powder Is Apparently a Thing, and Chuck Schumer Is Worried

Why Do We Use Blood Extracted From Cow Fetuses to Make Fake Meat?

New York Magazine’s Climate Change Horror Story Isn’t Too Scary. It’s Not Scary Enough.

Congress’ Current Health Care Debate Ignores America’s Biggest Health Care Problem

Sports

Sports Nut

June 30 2017 6:05 PM No Shelter From the Woj Bombs Adrian Wojnarowski gets more scoops than any other NBA reporter. He’ll make the ESPN hype machine even more terrifyingly powerful. Nick Greene

Headbands at Half Mast: LeBron James Shaved His Head

Bear With Kevin Durant, He’s Still Learning How to Celebrate an NBA Championship

The Warriors Flash-Fried the NBA, and They’re Just Getting Started

How Filthy Is the Trash Talk Between the Cavs and Warriors?

When Should Warriors Fans Start Getting Nervous?

Kevin Love Has His Own Logo, and There Is a Tree Involved