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New York Bagel Places Put Way Too Much Cream Cheese on Their Bagels [27 Aug 2015|09:37am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2015/08/why_do_bagel_places_serve_too_much_cream_cheese_the_economy_and_philosophy.html

There’s nothing quite like a good New York bagel with cream cheese. First, you bite through the crisp outer crust; then you move on to the chewy, bubbly crumb; and finally, of course, everything is overpowered by an enormous mouthful of cold white goop.
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The Frightening Power of the Home-Schooling Lobby [27 Aug 2015|10:00am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2015/08/home_school_legal_defense_association_how_a_home_schooling_group_fights.html

This story was reported through the nonprofit investigative news organization ProPublica. The Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University provided support for this project.
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How the Iran Deal Will Pass—and Why It Should [27 Aug 2015|05:24pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2015/08/iran_deal_congress_will_not_have_enough_votes_to_override_a_veto.html

It’s looking more and more like Benjamin Netanyahu committed a strategic blunder in so ferociously opposing the Iran nuclear deal and in rallying his American allies to spend all their resources on a campaign to kill the deal in Congress.
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Fight Plan [27 Aug 2015|06:08pm]

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

In 1931, the city fathers of Sunnyvale, California, came up with a unique plan to rescue their town from the doldrums of the Great Depression. They raised $480,000 to buy nearly 1,000 acres of farmland and then sold off the land to the U.S. government for $1. The deal was that Sunnyvale would then become the home for a new planned Navy fleet of “flying aircraft carriers,” massive helium-filled airships that would serve as bases in the air for propeller biplanes.
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My Bet With Sinéad O’Connor [27 Aug 2015|06:51pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2015/08/sinead_o_connor_called_me_and_bet_me_a_happy_meal_that_i_d_change_my_mind.html

When Sinéad O’Connor unloaded on Rolling Stone for putting Kim Kardashian on the cover last month, she was widely applauded. Here was an old-fashioned, says-what’s-on-her-mind rock star asserting her right to be outrageous. Good for her.
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My Bet With Sinéad O’Connor [27 Aug 2015|06:51pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2015/08/sinead_o_connor_called_me_and_bet_me_a_happy_meal_that_i_d_change_my_mind.html

When Sinéad O’Connor unloaded on Rolling Stone for putting Kim Kardashian on the cover last month, she was widely applauded. Here was an old-fashioned, says-what’s-on-her-mind rock star asserting her right to be outrageous. Good for her.
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Donald Trump Can Make a Difference [27 Aug 2015|07:51pm]

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

By now it is fairly clear that Donald Trump can get away with expressing views that would sink almost any other GOP candidate. While the other Republican presidential contenders had readied themselves for several rounds of more-conservative-than-thou—the usual contest in the GOP primary—Trump has blithely abandoned any number of conservative orthodoxies, and he doesn’t appear to have lost any supporters in the process. Indeed, he may well have gained a few. This week, pollster Frank Luntz conducted a focus group of current and former Trump supporters. For over two and a half hours, Luntz probed their reactions to Trump’s past support for abortion rights and stricter gun laws, among other heresies, and he found that none of them seemed to care.
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Mom and Dad Are Fighting: The Back to School Edition [27 Aug 2015|07:53pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/mom_and_dad_are_fighting/2015/08/mom_and_dad_are_fighting_back_to_school_season_from_a_teacher_s_perspective.html

Listen to Mom and Dad Are Fighting by clicking the arrow on the audio player below:
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The Hillary Doubters Are Wrong [27 Aug 2015|09:22pm]

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

When it comes to Hillary Clinton and her place in the presidential primary, the political media needs to start being able to hold two ideas in mind at once. The first, and most familiar to anyone who has followed this campaign, is that Clinton is vulnerable.
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Work at Slate [27 Aug 2015|09:33pm]

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

If you love Slate and are incredibly talented, maybe you should work for us. We just so happen to be hiring.
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The “March to Zero” Veers Off Course in Kansas [27 Aug 2015|10:44pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist/2015/08/the_gist_sam_brownback_s_kansas_tax_experiment_march_to_zero_with_chris.html

Listen to Episode 329 of Slate’s The Gist:
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