The Angle

The Angle: Both Sides Edition

Slate’s daily newsletter on true crime’s fancy turn, guns and free speech, and Trump’s new Charlottesville statement.

In Charlottesville.

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Inevitable: On Tuesday afternoon, President Trump circled back to his initial Charlottesville statement and doubled down. David Duke, for one, was pleased.

Silenced: Alt-righters who brought weapons to Charlottesville this past weekend proved a sad truth: When people have tons of guns—so many that the police find them threatening—the First Amendment rights of others will suffer. Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern explain.

Incited: Fox News posted a very scary video in January, advising viewers to “study the technique” of drivers mowing down protestors. Henry Grabar gives some context.

Gussied up: True crime is very fancy now, Laura Miller has noticed. Is all the literary writing helping the genre? Sometimes, and sometimes not.

For fun: Secret Louis C.K. project!

Soon,

Rebecca