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Leader of the PAC [07 Jan 2015|12:01am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/01/jeb_bush_announces_his_leadership_pac_the_former_florida_governor_promises.html

Jeb Bush is playing offense by playing catch-up. He announced Tuesday that he’s formed a leadership PAC called Right to Rise, which, if you're a person considering a presidential run, is as compulsory as releasing a weightless biography. A leadership PAC allows you to raise money, hire staff, commission polls, and prepare the infrastructure necessary to start an official campaign. That’s why all the candidates who have been preparing to run in 2016— Sen. Marco Rubio, Gov. Rick Perry, Sen. Rand Paul, and Sen. Ted Cruz—created PACs long ago. 
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The Right to Remain Uncivil [07 Jan 2015|12:14am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist/2015/01/the_gist_orlando_patterson_on_race_and_hua_hsu_on_civility.html

Listen to Episode 168 of Slate’s The Gist:
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Disrupting Dentistry [07 Jan 2015|04:50am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2015/01/dental_care_for_poor_children_sarrell_makes_medicaid_and_chip_work.html

One of the most shameful gaps in the American health care system involves the country’s poorest children. They can’t get basic dental treatment. It’s not that they don’t have insurance—many of them do. The problem is that dentists won’t treat them.
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Work at Slate [07 Jan 2015|10:00am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/slate_fare/2008/04/a_job_for_you_at_slate.html

For information on applying for paid internships, click here.
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Hidden in the Trees [07 Jan 2015|01:31pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2015/01/longest_insect_in_world_new_species_of_walking_stick_in_vietnam_nearly_record.html

Coming in at more than a foot long, a new species of phasmid is incredibly large for an insect, but it’s almost impossible to spot by design.
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A White Man’s Democrat [07 Jan 2015|01:45pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/01/jim_webb_wants_to_be_a_white_man_s_democrat_the_former_virginia_senator.html

It’s not an attack or an exaggeration to call former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb a white man’s Democrat. It’s him, in almost his own words. “I think this is where Democrats screw up, you know?” said Webb in an interview with Matt Bai of Yahoo News. “I think that they have kind of unwittingly used this group, white working males, as a whipping post for a lot of their policies. And then when they react, they say they’re being racist.”
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The 2014 Movie Club [07 Jan 2015|03:02pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_movie_club/features/2014/the_movie_club_2014/boyhood_and_the_best_movies_of_2014_why_i_call_the_movie_goyhood.html

The Movie Club is a weeklong conversation about the year in film. Read all the entries here.
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The Giant Inanity Machine [07 Jan 2015|03:41pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/books/2015/01/mark_leibovich_s_collection_of_profiles_citizens_of_the_green_room_reviewed.html

Mark Leibovich profiles are like flaming Dr Pepper shots. They’re great—way better than you might have expected, in fact—but you still shouldn’t go through five of them back to back. Too many in a row, and you’re guaranteed despair.
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Cartoon Debate [07 Jan 2015|04:00pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2006/02/cartoon_debate.html

On Wednesday, gunmen attacked the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12. The magazine was known for printing images of the prophet Mohammed, including the 2005 cartoons that originally ran in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, leading to widespread violence. In February 2006, Christopher Hitchens addressed that controversy in his inimitable way. His article is reprinted below:
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The 2014 Movie Club [07 Jan 2015|05:25pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_movie_club/features/2014/the_movie_club_2014/best_comedies_of_2014_top_five_a_million_ways_to_die_in_the_west_and_more.html

The Movie Club is a weeklong conversation about the year in film. Read all the entries here.
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Beer-Fueled Blowhard [07 Jan 2015|05:44pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/video/dear_prudence/2015/01/dear_prudence_video_beer_fueled_blowhard.html

In this week’s video, Prudie counsels a man whose husband turns into a name-dropping nightmare when he drinks.
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The Culture Gabfest “The Brio of the Buoy” Edition [07 Jan 2015|06:40pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/culturegabfest/2015/01/slate_s_culture_gabfest_on_mr_turner_lee_daniels_new_show_empire_and_d_angelo.html

Listen to Culture Gabfest No. 329 with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner with the audio player below.
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The Fellowship of the Messed-Up Mouth [07 Jan 2015|06:45pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/01/dental_care_for_poor_children_june_thomas_and_her_editor_discuss_her_fresca.html

This story is part of a special Slate Plus feature package on “Disrupting Dentistry.” Be sure to check out the other Slate Plus exclusives related to this story, including a full audio version of the piece and an inside look at June Thomas’ longtime interest in dentistry.
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Let Them Eat Cake [07 Jan 2015|06:57pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/01/jennifer_aniston_in_cake_how_cinelou_turned_a_bad_movie_into_a_likely_oscar.html

The Oscars are a spectacle of such hollow pageantry that they make politics look like a meritocracy, and yet it’s nevertheless both flabbergasting and vaguely sinister that Cake—a smarmy and self-satisfied drama starring Jennifer Aniston as a woman suffering from chronic pain—has become the Cinderella story of this year’s awards season. Cake is so unappetizing that Cinelou Films (the upstart production company responsible for its financing) had to grow its own distribution arm in order to ensure the film’s release, effectively buying its own product. And yet, after three months in which the movie didn’t chart on a single critic’s top-10 list and remained hidden from public scrutiny following its Toronto International Film Festival debut, Jennifer Aniston’s unvarnished lead performance has received SAG and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. How on Earth did one of the very worst films of 2014 become a near–shoo-in for an Oscar nod?
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Photos From France Following the Attack on Charlie Hebdo [07 Jan 2015|07:22pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/photography/2015/01/charlie_hebdo_heightened_security_and_parisians_gather_in_solidarity_for.html

On Wednesday, masked gunmen attacked the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The magazine is no stranger to controversy—their covers have inspired protests and hackings, and in 2011 the offices were firebombed by a Molotov cocktail. While the gunmen are still at large, French President Francois Hollande has beefed up security, and Parisians gathered at Place de la République to remember those who were killed. 
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Don’t Trust the FBI Yet [07 Jan 2015|07:31pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/01/sony_hacks_and_north_korea_why_the_cyber_attack_is_as_mysterious_as_ever.html

The Sony Pictures hack—whodunit? Everyone is certain it was either North Korea or not North Korea. Even as the United States imposes new sanctions on North Korea for allegedly hacking Sony Pictures, stealing 100 terabytes of data, and obliterating the movie studio’s internal systems (as I discussed in a previous piece), there remain serious questions as to who exactly was responsible.
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Why Am I So Obsessed With Dentistry? [07 Jan 2015|07:45pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/01/medicaid_dentist_june_thomas_on_her_interest_in_dentistry.html

This story is part of a special Slate Plus feature package on June Thomas’ long-form reported story "Disrupting Dentistry.” Be sure to check out the other Slate Plus exclusives related to this story, including a behind-the-scenes conversation between writer June Thomas and editor Laura Helmuth and a full audio version of the piece.
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Slate Voice: “Disrupting Dentistry” [07 Jan 2015|08:15pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/01/dental_care_for_poor_children_june_thomas_reads_her_story_disrupting_dentistry.html

This story is part of a special Slate Plus feature package on June Thomas’ long-form reported story “Disrupting Dentistry.” Be sure to check out the other Slate Plus exclusives related to this story, including a behind-the-scenes conversation between writer June Thomas and editor Laura Helmuth and an inside look at Thomas’ longtime interest in dentistry.
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Europe’s Brutal Truth [07 Jan 2015|08:22pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/01/europe_s_confused_debate_about_islam_and_terrorism_europeans_are_both_too.html

Wednesday morning, two assailants armed with Kalashnikovs forced their way into the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine, and murdered 12 people—many of them writers, editors, and cartoonists. It was as pure an attack on freedom of speech as can be imagined. Though the identity of the terrorists is as yet unknown, they likely meant to exact vengeance for the fact that Charlie Hebdo had published a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed in 2011.
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The 2014 Movie Club [07 Jan 2015|08:51pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_movie_club/features/2014/the_movie_club_2014/movies_in_2014_what_was_birdman_even_about.html

The Movie Club is a weeklong conversation about the year in film. Read all the entries here.
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Dear Prudence Live Chat [07 Jan 2015|10:07pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence/2015/01/dear_prudence_live_chat_for_jan_12_2015.html

Need help getting along with partners, relatives, co-workers, and people in general? Ask Dear Prudence! Emily Yoffe takes your questions on manners, morals, and more. Please keep your questions succinct (recommended max. length is around 150 words). Submit yours ahead of time below:
 
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The 2014 Movie Club [07 Jan 2015|11:19pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_movie_club/features/2014/the_movie_club_2014/movies_of_2014_tom_cruise_needs_to_remind_the_world_he_can_really_act.html

The Movie Club is a weeklong conversation about the year in film. Read all the entries here.
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Disgracing Islam [07 Jan 2015|11:22pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/01/the_charlie_hebdo_terrorists_didn_t_avenge_islam_they_became_the_caricature.html

Charlie Hebdo made fun of Islam. It poked fun at all religions, and it loved to ridicule extremists, but it didn’t shrink from antagonizing Muslims. In 2006, it reprinted Danish cartoons that mocked the prophet Mohammed. In 2011, it published a “Sharia” edition in which “guest editor” Mohammed promised “100 lashes if you don’t die of laughter.” A year later, the magazine depicted the prophet naked. On Wednesday morning, its Twitter account wished a happy, healthy new year to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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A Poet Goes to MerCon [07 Jan 2015|11:33pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist/2015/01/the_gist_matthea_harvey_on_poetry_and_colin_clarke_on_international_terrorism.html

Listen to Episode 169 of Slate’s The Gist:  
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