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Dylan’s 14-Month Miracle [21 May 2015|02:27am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist/2015/05/the_gist_david_kinney_on_bob_dylan_and_how_david_letterman_influenced_mike.html

Listen to Episode 261 of Slate’s The Gist:
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How Police Learn When to Shoot [21 May 2015|06:43am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/05/police_shootings_the_grim_videos_cops_watch_of_their_colleagues_being_killed.html

In recent months, videos in which police officers are seen using lethal force against civilians have become disturbingly common. It’s a grim new canon of violence: Walter Scott shot in the back in South Carolina; Eric Garner struggling to breathe on the streets of Staten Island; Tamir Rice losing his life over a toy gun in Cleveland; Kajieme Powell crumpling to the ground in St. Louis. The videos have become reference points in the national debate over policing, and a catalyst for a political movement to reform police tactics and training. They have undoubtedly changed the way large swaths of Americans view law enforcement.
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Faith Healing Kills Children [21 May 2015|06:53am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2015/05/religious_exemptions_from_medical_care_faith_healing_kills_children.html

As preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough are reappearing in the United States, many anti-vaxxers are re-evaluating their opposition to immunization, and others are questioning nonmedical exemptions from vaccine requirements. The California state Senate, for instance, just overruled a long-standing law that permitted parents with religious and philosophical reservations to send their children to public and private schools without their shots.
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The Inadvertent Spy [21 May 2015|10:00am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence/2015/05/dear_prudence_i_can_hear_my_boss_gossip_through_the_office_wall.html

Get Dear Prudence delivered to your inbox each week; click here to sign up. Please send your questions for publication to prudence@slate.com. (Questions may be edited.)
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I AM GOOD MOTHER [21 May 2015|02:15pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/05/i_loved_breastfeeding_my_first_child_i_couldn_t_wait_to_wean_the_second.html

Breast-feeding mothers looking to troubleshoot the weaning process will find no shortage of advice on parenting websites, which warn of everything from babies’ decreased appetites and sleep changes to the plague known as “fish-fussiness.” Those same resources will plunge into the “enormous sadness” that some weaning mothers feel, but few delve into what troubled me most when I was weaning my second child: What if the predominant emotion is impatience and relief? Because I really wanted to stop nursing my daughter, much more and much earlier than I’d wanted to wean my son, and I felt awful about it. Why did I mourn the loss of a sacred experience the first time around, only to feel over it and done four years later?
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Why Professors Should Never Have Affairs With Their Students [21 May 2015|02:25pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/roiphe/2015/05/why_professors_should_never_have_affairs_with_their_students_what_could.html

I’ve recently been feeling exhausted by the number of male professors I know who’ve had, or tried to have, affairs with their students. I am not the kind of person who always sees women as victims. I don’t generally subscribe to overarching feminist interpretations of intimate life. But as a professor myself, I believe very strongly in the absolute right of a student to have the professors muddling around in her work take a fixed and circumscribed role.
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Mom and Dad Are Fighting: The Attacking Molly Weasley Edition [21 May 2015|02:49pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/mom_and_dad_are_fighting/2015/05/mom_and_dad_are_fighting_choosing_to_become_a_single_mom_and_talking_about.html

Listen to Mom and Dad Are Fighting by clicking the arrow on the audio player below:
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Laugh It Off? [21 May 2015|03:14pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/05/rip_trolling_how_the_internet_has_transformed_dark_humor.html

In 2012, 25-year-old James Holmes opened fire during a screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. Twelve people were killed, and dozens more were injured. In the weeks that followed, participants around the Internet made light of the shootings by creating and sharing memes, cruel Photoshops, and myriad off-color jokes, as Kate Miltner has chronicled. Similar things happened in the wake of the the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, Hurricane Sandy, Robin Williams’ suicide, the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash, and the Baltimore protests. Each case inspired what folklorists describe as “disaster humor”: comedic (and often highly transgressive) responses to mass-mediated tragedy.
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The Time Prudie Got Faked Out [21 May 2015|03:37pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence/2015/05/dear_prudence_behind_the_scenes_how_prudie_decides_which_letters_to_answer.html

Being an advice columnist can be tricky. How do you decide which letters to answer? And how do you detect when a letter is actually a fake? Emily Yoffe of Slate’s Dear Prudence reveals all in this video.
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Slate Isn’t Too Liberal. But… [21 May 2015|05:45pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/slate_plus/slate_fare/2014/09/is_slate_magazine_too_liberal_or_conservative_what_members_said_about_the.html

In celebration of Slate Plus’ first anniversary, we’re republishing a selection of pieces from the past year, including this article, which was originally published on Sept. 29, 2014.

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Parenting Triumph: Mom Is Going to the Circus! [21 May 2015|06:08pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/triumphs_and_fails/2015/05/triumph_and_fails_parenting_work_balance_kids_pool_party_lost_shoes_children.html

Remember the time you overcame your hatred of crafts to make the perfect costume for your kindergartener’s school event? Remember the time the Tooth Fairy fell asleep and forgot to visit? What about the day when your kids agitated for a social cause they strongly believed in? What about the first time your 7-year-old dropped an F-bomb?
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Mad Men Zinger of the Week: “Person to Person” [21 May 2015|06:18pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/tv_club/2015/05/mad_men_best_lines_slate_s_tv_club_writers_pick_their_favorite_zingers_of_2.html

In any given episode of Mad Men, the only thing more likely to come out of a character’s mouth than the trailing smoke of a Lucky Strike cigarette is a witty one-liner.
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What We Like Right Now [21 May 2015|06:34pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/plus_roundups/2015/05/what_we_like_right_now_a_recommendations_roundup_from_slate_writers_and_2.html

Curious about what we’re digging? What We Like Right Now is a curated recommendations list from Slate editors and writers, just for Slate Plus members.
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Strikethrough (Fatality) [21 May 2015|07:38pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/05/neal_horsley_of_nuremberg_files_died_true_threats_case_reconsidered_by_supreme.html

Neal Horsley died last month at the age of 70. You may not recognize his name, but chances are you’ve heard of how he terrorized abortion providers and made them fear for their lives. His tactics, still in effect today, continue to threaten abortion providers across the country.
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The Big River [21 May 2015|07:40pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2015/05/satyajit_ray_s_apu_trilogy_restoration_and_re_release_of_pather_panchali.html

To live without seeing the films of the Indian director Satyajit Ray, said Akira Kurosawa in 1975, “means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.” Though Ray was 11 years his junior, Kurosawa spoke of him that day in Moscow as a master. “I can never forget the excitement in my mind after seeing it,” he recalled of Ray’s debut Pather Panchali, 20 years after that film’s success at Cannes helped to usher in a new era of cinematic globalism—one that would eventually make it possible for a Japanese filmmaker to praise an Indian one in a speech being translated for a Russian audience. “It is the kind of cinema that flows with the serenity and nobility of a big river.”
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Why Soy Is Everywhere [21 May 2015|08:43pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/05/soy_in_foods_tofu_tvp_mcdonald_s_chocolate_baby_food_protein_bars.html

Soy, light of my life, temptation of my taste buds. My sin, my soul. You put the bite in my chik’n nuggets, the creaminess in my soy lattes, the chew in my tofu scramble that all but convinces me that I’m eating something that came out of a chicken. You make it possible for me to enjoy burgers, sausage, chorizo, hot dogs, and chili on a near-daily basis. Thanks to you, not once have I felt left out while my friends chowed down on cow flesh. You are the chameleon of foods, the ultimate imitator, the snack of all trades. For vegetarians like me, you are a culinary miracle.
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The Man Who Would Be King [21 May 2015|09:02pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/05/the_king_of_north_sudan_jeremiah_heaton_says_he_founded_his_own_country.html

Last summer, the Internet was briefly captivated by the story of a Virginia farmer who traveled to an uninhabited patch of desert known as Bir Tawil in northeast Africa to plant a flag and proclaim the new “Kingdom of North Sudan,” with himself as king and his daughter, Emily, as princess.
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Aiding Repression [21 May 2015|09:12pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/05/ethiopia_s_election_is_an_opportunity_for_reform_why_won_t_the_obama_administration.html

In July 2012, an Ethiopian court charged the prominent journalist Eskinder Nega with conspiring to commit terrorist acts. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison under a broad and ill-defined law. His crime? Writing about the Arab Spring and calling for peaceful protests.
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Why Are So Many Republicans With No Chance Running for President? [21 May 2015|10:51pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/05/the_gop_primary_is_crowded_why_are_so_many_republicans_with_no_chance_running.html

No one will blame you if you can’t keep track of the Republican presidential field. It’s huge. If you count declared candidates, prospectives, and announced aspirants, you have 18 people from across the Republican ideological spectrum: Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rick Santorum, Gov. Chris Christie, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Gov. John Kasich, Gov. Rick Snyder, Gov. Scott Walker, Jeb Bush, Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, George Pataki, Rick Perry, Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. The field is so large that news networks have put limits on who can join the debates. Fox News, for example, will invite only candidates who placed in the top 10 of an average of national polls. Likewise, CNN will hold two debates: one for top-tier candidates, and one for the bottom tier. (One possible effect of this? Underdog candidates will pull every stunt they can to get onstage.)
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What Fuels the Rocket Man? [21 May 2015|11:17pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/05/elon_musk_biography_review_how_did_a_sci_fi_nut_with_a_hero_complex_becoming.html

When people compare Elon Musk to Steve Jobs, they mean it as a compliment. Musk is not yet a household name, whereas Jobs is the most iconic entrepreneur of his generation.
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The Present Tense (and Other Storytelling Secrets) [21 May 2015|11:22pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist/2015/05/the_gist_storytelling_champ_matthew_dicks_helps_a_dad_prepare_the_tale_of.html

Listen to Episode 262 of Slate’s The Gist:
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Brad Bird Is Not Superhuman [21 May 2015|11:29pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2015/05/brad_bird_and_george_clooney_disney_movie_tomorrowland_reviewed.html

Brad Bird is an odd bird. An animating prodigy who directed his first short film at 13 and began working with a mentor at Disney a year later, he’s best known as a director of smart, visually innovative animated films, with a list of now-classic titles to his name—The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille. In addition to winning Oscars for both The Incredibles and Ratatouille, Bird also holds the record for winning more Annies (the annual award for achievement in animation) than any other single person, including one for his indelible voicing of the diminutive fashion guru Edna Mode in The Incredibles. Bird transitioned to live-action filmmaking with great success in Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol, whose jaw-dropping, skyscraper-scaling action sequences and inventive use of the IMAX format helped make it the highest-grossing and best-reviewed film of that franchise.
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