A Tipping Point for Elephants

Poachers have slaughtered 100,000 in just three years.

Forest elephants in the Mbeli River, Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Congo in 2007.

African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory by poachers at an alarming rate: more than 100,000 killed in just three years.

News & Politics

Politics

Jan. 27 2015 6:07 PM How the Koch Brothers Could Make, Break, or Reshape Republican Politics in 2016 Charles and David Koch are putting $900 million into the 2016 race. How they can make, break, or reshape Republican politics. Jamelle Bouie

Why Obama Took So Many High-Powered Officials to Cozy Up to the Saudi Royal Family

Bobby Jindal Pins His Presidential Hopes on a Prayer Revival. It Was a Bust.

Why Do Judges and Politicians Flip-Flop? A Survey.

Why de Blasio Was Right to Take On Criminal Justice Reform

How Wisconsin’s Scott Walker Won Over Iowa

Democrats Assumed They Could Embarrass the GOP With Climate Science. Democrats Were Wrong.

Business

Moneybox

Jan. 27 2015 6:30 PM The iPhone 6 Just Shattered Apple’s Own Sales Records Alison Griswold

Yahoo Just Found a Way Around Its Potentially Multibillion Dollar Tax Bill

Looking for a Reliable, High-Yield Investment? Install LED Light Bulbs. Really.

Obama Wants to Tax College Savings Accounts. He Should Make Them Work for the Middle Class Instead.

The Myth That Middle-Class Students Don’t Get Financial Aid

Chipotle’s Sofritas Promotion Was So Popular That a Bunch of Locations Sold Out

This Hacker Figured How to Hijack One of the Most Popular Drones

Life

Atlas Obscura

Jan. 27 2015 2:10 PM The Rusty, Creaking Cable Cars of Chiatura Ella Morton

As the Catholic Church’s Influence Wanes, Ireland Is Having a Gay Moment

This Prefab Cube Shrinks an Entire House Into One Tiny Structure

Help! Our Baby Won’t Sleep Through the Night, Making It Hard to Have Sex.

Meet Kevin Daniels, the Actor Behind One of TV’s Most Interesting Gay Characters

A Victorian Argument That Snow Is Holy, Illustrated by a Beautiful Catalog of Flakes

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, We Mustn’t Forget Nazism’s Gay Victims

Double X

The XX Factor

Jan. 27 2015 5:48 PM Watch the First Anti-Domestic Violence Super Bowl Commercial Amanda Hess

New Orleans Was Supposed to Get a New Planned Parenthood Clinic. Here's Why It's Still Not There.

How the Great Blizzard of 1888 Killed the Petticoat

Study on Women’s Painkiller Use Causes Concern Over Hypothetical Embryos, Not Actual Women

Republican Women Stopped the 20-Week Abortion Bill. That’s Not Standing Up for Reproductive Rights.

Ultra-Orthodox Women in Israel Are Treated Horribly. So They Started Their Own Party.

Boehner Applauded Equal Pay at Last Year’s State of the Union. Why Not This Year?

Slate Plus

Jurisprudence

Jan. 27 2015 11:18 AM Slate Voice: “American Liar” Listen to Mark Joseph Stern read his piece about Jesse Ventura’s defamation suit against Chris Kyle. Mark Joseph Stern

A Spoiler-Filled Podcast on Downton Abbey Episode 4

Jeremy Stahl on What Slate Stories Broke Facebook This Week

A Spoiler-Filled Podcast on American Horror Story: Freak Show Episode 13

What Should Slate Do in 2015? Tell Slate’s Editor in Chief.

Arts

Brow Beat

Jan. 27 2015 5:20 PM The All-Female Ghostbusters Cast Has Been Announced Chris Wade

Why Scientology Appeals to Aspiring Actors

In Season 3 of The Americans, the Clash Between Principles and Parenting Is More Violent Than Ever

The Real Reason People Keep Plagiarizing Tom Petty

Louis C.K.’s New Stand-Up Special Is Streaming Now. Here’s How to Watch It.

It Is 2015 and Some Crazy Blink-182 Drama Is Happening