They had better hurry up: Nora Caplan-Bricker follows the story of T.M., a high school student in Georgia who reported a sexual assault and found herself punished for it. High schools, Caplan-Bricker writes, have by and large not yet evolved protocols to handle sexual assault cases.
Hillary goes young: Candidate Clinton has been pitching her message to millennials lately, Jim Newell writes. Her biggest problem is with authenticity: They just don’t trust her.
Thanks to the street: The bombings in New York and New Jersey this past weekend were foiled, in part, by scavengers—people who discovered suspicious materials while picking through the trash. Henry Grabar writes that Jane Jacobs, who pointed out the benefits of an alert and active citizen watch, would be proud.
20 years: Today in our series of stories on the events of the two decades since Slate was founded, Will Oremus lauds the Nokia 3210—the blocky, colorful handset that brought cellphones into the mainstream. (I do miss that satisfying physical keyboard.)
For fun: Brangelina is no more. Take solace in this lineup of our remaining power couples.
All is dust,
Rebecca
