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Here are our favorite stories, podcasts, and videos from around the Web for the week of June 15.

• Slate design director Vivian Selbo likes ...
  “The Jelly Film” by Jenny van Sommers, Nowness presents
  “Jello, filmed while, um, dancing. I’d like this on a loop please.”

• Contributor Hanna Rosin likes ...
  “Why Are Candidates Campaigning on a First-Name Basis?” by David A. Graham, the Atlantic
  “Love this mononymy piece. Captures all our sins: unearned familiarity, assumed celebrity.”

• Chairman and editor-in-chief of The Slate Group Jacob Weisberg likes ...
  “Podcasting Blossoms, but in Slow Motion” by Farhad Manjoo, the New York Times
  “Podcasting's slow-motion boom. Smart take by Farhad Manjoo.”

• Associate editor Bryan Lowder likes ...
  “The Opposite of a Sympathy Card” by Dan Savage, the Stranger
  “This letter about family rejection after a partner’s death is infuriating and heartbreaking.”

• Staff writer Jamelle Bouie likes ...
  “This Is What the Dominican Republic Wants You to Think it Looks Like” by Collier Meyerson, Fusion
  “Reacting to its anti-Haitian cleansing campaign, this is what the Dominican Republic wants you to think of it.”

• Senior editor Dan Kois likes ...
  “The People’s Card Game” by Jason Boog, the Awl
  “This is a great story about euchre, the most populist of card games, and how hard it is to design an AI to play it.”