The Angle

The Angle: Shady Stuff Edition

Slate’s daily newsletter on becoming an LLC, problematic Rudolph, and voting rights violations in Alabama.

Voters stand in a line that stretches out the door to vote at Beulah Baptist Church polling station in Montgomery, Alabama, on Tuesday.

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What went on: There were more than a few reports of citizens facing arbitrary rules, long lines, and other impediments to casting their votes in Alabama on Tuesday. Mark Joseph Stern thinks officials may have violated federal voting rights law.

What’s next: The FCC has officially voted to kill net neutrality. April Glaser sums up the legal battles that may come.

Incorporate: Under the Republican tax plan, people are going to rush to turn themselves into businesses, if they can at all swing it, Jordan Weissmann thinks.

The best: Willa Paskin lists her top-10 TV shows of the year. One takeaway: She really, really liked I Love Dick.

For fun: The Rudolph story is kind of … mean.

Muy problematico,

Rebecca