The Angle

The Angle: Hush-Hush Edition

Slate’s daily newsletter on the Trump-themed Julius Caesar, internet cures, and the Senate’s big secret.

Health care? Sen. Rob Portman isn’t talking.

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Closed doors: Jim Newell and his fellow reporters can’t get the Republican senators shaping the draft of their new health care bill to say the first thing about what’s in there. And that’s a bad sign.

Let art be: Watching Delta pull its sponsorship of the Public Theater in the wake of the company’s Trump-themed production of Julius Caesar, Isaac Butler is in disbelief. Updating Shakespeare for the times is a long-standing tradition, and besides, this particular play is “hardly an endorsement of political violence.”

Tread carefully: Julie Rehmeyer is a skeptical person, but she was suffering so much from chronic fatigue syndrome that she decided to try a cure she heard about from internet randos. (And it worked.) Here’s some of her advice if you’re contemplating doing the same.

Oy: What happened to Katy Perry? Carl Wilson reviews her terrible new album, and wonders.

For fun: When the Warriors should commence to worry.

#DefendTheLand,

Rebecca