The Angle

The Angle: Too Slick by Half Edition

Slate’s daily newsletter on late-term abortions, poll watching, and Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn.

People cast their ballots in a polling station during the presidential primary election on April 26 in Philadelphia.

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Watchers take note: Dahlia Lithwick and Raymond Vasvari investigate exactly what citizen “observers,” as commissioned by Donald Trump, can do while monitoring polls. They find that it varies state by state, and that showing up at a polling place with an openly carried gun may or may not be a protected action.

What it really is: Late-term abortions, physician Phoebe Day Danziger writes, are far more wrenching than Trump seems to be able to imagine.

Terrible choice: Giuliani vs. Trump, for president: Which would you rather? Henry Grabar and Jordan Weissmann hold their noses long enough to debate the matter.

All too clear: Dan Engber saw Ang Lee’s new movie Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (based on a great novel by Ben Fountain), which was shot at 120 frames per second. Does the choice of a high frame rate work for this movie, where it didn’t for Peter Jackson’s 2012 film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey? No, Engber reports; HFR is just really, really hard to watch.

For fun: Hillary’s Al Smith address.

A four, maybe a five,

Rebecca