Laura Hood

Laura Hood is the commissioning editor for digital economy coverage at the Conversation.

Future Tense

Oct. 7 2013 11:01 AMYou May Want to Password-Protect Your BodyLaura Hood

News & Politics

Politics

Jan. 27 2015 1:01 PM Bobby Jindal’s Presidential Rollout Is Off to a Terrible Start While other candidates went to Iowa, Jindal headlined an evangelical revival. Zack Kopplin

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.

Republican Presidential Hopefuls Are Trying to Unlock the Secret of Winning in Iowa

Did the Charlie Hebdo Murders Really Represent Something New?

Business

Moneybox

Jan. 27 2015 3:47 PM Don’t Tax College Savings Yet President Obama is right that 529 accounts benefit the wealthy. But they could become an important tool for the middle class. Justin King

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

Microsoft Is Selling More Phones Than Ever, but It Isn’t Nearly Enough

Greeks Are Voting for Radical Leftists and Nazis. Can You Blame Them?

Uber Will Cap Surge Pricing in East Coast Cities During the Worst of the Blizzard

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. 26 2015 4:29 PM What's Stopping New Orleans From Getting a Brand New Planned Parenthood Clinic Amanda Marcotte

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?

Obama Declares Child Care “a Must Have”

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 4:02 PM The Real Reason People Keep Plagiarizing Tom Petty Adam Ragusea

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

My Daughter Doesn’t Watch Movies. She Lives Them for Years at a Time.

The Difficult Process of Making Going Clear, the Powerful New Doc About Scientology

Everything That’s Happened Around Adnan Syed’s Case Since Serial Premiered: A Timeline