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Play the Slate News Quiz [21 Aug 2015|06:15am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_slate_quiz/2015/08/the_slate_quiz_with_quizmaster_ken_jennings_play_the_news_quiz_for_aug_21.html

Welcome back to Slate’s weekly news quiz. I’m your host, 74-time Jeopardy! winner Ken Jennings.
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Corrections [21 Aug 2015|08:01am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/corrections/2015/08/slate_s_mistakes_for_the_week_of_aug_17.html

In an Aug. 20 The Eye, 99% Invisible misidentified Texas homeowner Rick Yoes as Frank Yoes.
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Corrections [21 Aug 2015|08:01am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/corrections/2015/08/slate_s_mistakes_for_the_week_of_aug_17.html

In an Aug. 20 The Bills, Helaine Olen misidentified the Older Women’s League as the Older Woman’s League.
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Boardwalk Bites [21 Aug 2015|08:44am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/travel_explainer/2015/08/saltwater_taffy_and_fudge_how_did_they_become_beach_town_treats.html

Saltwater taffy and fudge are practically synonymous with the beach and summer vacations—in almost any resort town, you can count on a local purveyor to feature one or both of the sticky confections. But how did these chewy treats become so closely associated with summer destinations?
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A One-Star Human Being [21 Aug 2015|01:36pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/08/lion_killing_dentist_walter_palmer_s_yelp_page_and_the_business_of_internet.html

“You are a worthless piece of meat Palmer,” wrote O P. of Santa Clarita to Minnesota’s least popular dentist Walter Palmer. “I hope someone hunts you with an arrow, leaves you in pain for 40 hours. And then finishes you off with a gun.”
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The Amabots and Amholes Edition [21 Aug 2015|02:03pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gabfest/2015/08/political_gabfest_on_donald_trump_s_immigration_reform_plan_democratic_candidate.html

Become a fan of the Political Gabfest on Facebook. We post to the Facebook page throughout the week, so keep the conversation going by joining us there. Or follow us @SlateGabfest! The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
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The Great Fight for Voting Rights [21 Aug 2015|02:18pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/live_at_politics/2015/08/ari_berman_discusses_his_new_book_give_us_the_ballot.html

Listen to Ari Berman discuss his new book, Give Us the Ballot, and take questions from the audience. Recorded Aug. 12, 2015.
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Pigging Out [21 Aug 2015|03:04pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2015/08/red_river_hog_birthday_celebration_cincinnati_zoo_pig_devours_his_birthday.html

Maybe it’s lingering guilt over the (delicious) roasted pig head at my own birthday dinner, but the above video makes me very happy. In it, the Cincinnati Zoo’s resident red river hog gets a very special birthday treat: a smorgasbord of fruit-centric delicacies fit for an aging pig.
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St. Louis Police Try a Strange Old Tactic [21 Aug 2015|03:31pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/08/mansur_ball_bey_death_st_louis_police_use_strange_new_tactic_of_baton_banging.html

St. Louis erupted in protests on Wednesday night after the shooting death of 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey at the hands of police officers, who said he pointed a gun at them before they fired their service weapons. The protests, which reportedly escalated when people started throwing rocks and bottles at officers, led the St. Louis Police Department to respond with a regrettably familiar show of military-style force, complete with armored vehicles, riot gear, tear gas, and smoke canisters.
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Treacherous Element [21 Aug 2015|03:35pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/08/lead_poisoning_a_history_of_lead_in_pipes_makeup_cups_wine_paint_and_gasoline.html

In a criminal lineup of the world’s metals, lead would be the dull, inoffensive-looking suspect. Next to the quicksilver fluidity of mercury, it is gray, solid, and dense. Judged against rigid iron, it melts and bends easily. Compared with the homicidal efficiency of white arsenic, it takes spoonfuls of black lead powder to off a victim—who would definitely notice the sweet taste.
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Yes Means Yes: The Musical! [21 Aug 2015|03:55pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/inside_higher_ed/2015/08/sexual_consent_in_college_schools_like_the_university_of_indiana_are_using.html

This post originally appeared on Inside Higher Ed.
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Chinese Chukkers [21 Aug 2015|04:47pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roads/2015/08/polo_in_china_at_a_club_in_tianjin_the_1_percent_see_the_sport_of_kings.html

Each Friday, Roads & Kingdoms and Slate publish a new dispatch from around the globe. For more foreign correspondence mixed with food, war, travel, and photography, visit their online magazine or follow @roadskingdoms on Twitter.
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What Happened at Slate This Week? [21 Aug 2015|06:50pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/slate_plus/2015/08/slate_s_weekly_roundup_laura_helmuth_on_her_week_at_slate.html

Greetings, people of Slate!
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Wind Energy Is Having a Railroad Moment [21 Aug 2015|07:52pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2015/08/clean_line_energy_wind_transmission_lines_ambitious_wind_infrastructure.html

One of the raps on big renewable energy projects, such as solar plants and wind farms, is that they rely on federal subsidies and tax credits to get off the ground. That’s obvious. Here’s something less obvious: Taxpayers may have subsidized the boom in emissions-free energy, but that’s triggered a whole lot of unsubsidized private investment in turn. Someone has to pay to build the infrastructure that conveys the power from the empty places where it’s produced to the populated places where it’s consumed.
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Donald Trump, Voice of the Bottom-Feeders [21 Aug 2015|08:05pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/08/donald_trump_his_rise_demonstrates_the_alarming_success_of_internet_trolls.html

“It’s probably the same person, writing 16 different comments under 15 different names.” That’s how a friend’s son recently shrugged off a social media spat he’d been involved in at his university. There had been some nasty name-calling and a few violent threats, but he wasn’t bothered: He reckoned the anger, racism, and vitriol he had encountered on Twitter and Facebook weren’t “real.” They didn’t affect real politics, or real life. He isn’t alone in this assumption.
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The Facts of Lice [21 Aug 2015|08:33pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_kids/2015/08/lice_treatment_for_kids_don_t_panic_make_sure_it_s_actually_lice_and_choose.html

There are some people whom parents hope they never have to talk to, and the camp nurse is one of them. So when I answered the phone this week and she introduced herself, I began worrying and (silently) cursing.
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Not Just Anti-Hispanic [21 Aug 2015|09:39pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/08/donald_trump_immigration_and_asians_is_the_gop_dooming_itself_to_a_repeat.html

Most of the time, when we talk about immigration, we’re talking about Latin America. Donald Trump isn’t threatening to round up Irish immigrants in Boston who entered the country illegally or to build a wall between us and Canada; he’s threatening Latinos and tapping into an ugly strain of racist nativism. It’s why “anchor baby”—slang for the American-born children of unauthorized immigrants—is such a charged term. To many, it’s racial code for often brown-skinned, Spanish-speaking children.
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What We Like Right Now [21 Aug 2015|09:54pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/plus_roundups/2015/08/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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“A Profound, Glaring Injustice” [21 Aug 2015|11:40pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/08/cory_booker_interview_the_new_jersey_senator_on_how_to_end_mass_incarceration.html

Being in favor of criminal justice reform these days is fashionable in Washington. Politicians from the left and the right seem to agree that with 2.2 million people either in federal prison, state prison, or jail, the United States is keeping a shameful percentage of its population behind bars.
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