Max Linsky Max Linsky is a founding editor of Longform.org. News & Politics Politics March 1 2015 4:22 PM Capital Punishment The anti-death penalty crowd has a tough sell at CPAC. Betsy Woodruff #MuckReads: Air Marshals Behaving Badly and Other Investigative Reporting What Does the DHS Funding Fiasco Mean for John Boehner? Boris Nemtsov Was Brusque, Impatient, and Rejected Everything That Vladimir Putin Represents Netanyahu’s Speech in Congress Is a Revolting and Dangerous Gamble Scott Walker Didn’t Compare Unions to ISIS. He Just Said Something Foolish. The Next Big Climate Fight Will Be About How Much Meat You Eat Why It’s Hard for Republican Presidential Candidates to Speak Honestly About Income Inequality Business Business Insider Feb. 28 2015 10:00 AM Snapchat's Ambitious Plan to Become More Powerful Than TV Nicholas Carlson Venmo Issues Apology for Security Shortcomings Looks Like Uber Got Hacked Venmo’s Terrible Excuse for Not Telling You When Someone Steals Your Money Drugs and Prostitutes Are a Surprisingly Large Chunk of Italy’s Economy The Two Women Behind The Dress Definitively Reveal Its Color The Enormous Black-White Wealth Gap Is Getting Even Wider Barnes & Noble’s College Bookstores Are Becoming Their Own Business Life Quora March 1 2015 7:23 AM What Happens When You Copy or Scan a Mirror? Quora Contributor Why Facebook’s Quest for Gender Sensitivity Is Doomed This Bangkok Hotel Parking Lot Has an Impressive Fertility Shrine This Brilliant Beehive Delivers Honey on Tap Without Stressing Out the Bees A Tourist Map of Occupied Paris, Issued to German Soldiers During WWII The Surprising History of Cute How Does a Betta Fish Know When Food Is in Its Aquarium? What We Talk About When We Talk About Aaron Schock Double X Doublex Feb. 27 2015 4:15 PM The Hunting Ground The failures of a new documentary about rape on college campuses. Emily Yoffe Todd Akin Is Thinking About Running for Senate. Legitimately. This Drug for Binge-Eating Disorder May Be Shady. That Doesn’t Mean the Disease Isn't Real. Why Do Women Vote Republican? Women May Not Seek Help for Heart Attacks Because They Fear Being Seen as Hypochondriacs Kim Gordon on Kurt Cobain, Breast Milk, and Discovering Thurston Moore’s Affair Idaho Lawmaker Who Doesn’t Understand Female Anatomy Knows What’s Good for Women The Gender Wage Gap Is Especially Terrible in Hollywood Slate Plus Television March 2 2015 1:10 AM The Walking Dead Podcast Listen to an early release of Slate's recap of Episode 12, "Remember." Mike Vuolo and Chris Wade A Spoiler-Filled Podcast on Downton Abbey Episode 9 Josh Keating on His Favorite Reads From Slate This Week Slate’s Copy Desk Awards Its Redline of the Month Why Adults Shouldn’t Read YA (Audio) Arts Books March 1 2015 7:17 PM This Essay Was Due 25 Years Ago The role of shame in Tess of the D’Urbervilles, and the force of shame in my life. Elliott Holt Watch the Women of SNL Embrace Sara Bareilles and Say What They Want to Say Carly Rae Jepsen Achieves the Impossible, Makes a Song Catchier Than “Call Me Maybe” Watch Dakota Johnson Join ISIS in This Divisive SNL Sketch This New York City Neighborhood Was “Invisible” in the ’80s How George Lois, ’60s Ad Man and Art Director, May Be the Real-Life Don Draper Watch Kanye West Sing “Only One” in a Beam of Light on a Norwegian-Swedish Talk Show Technology Future Tense Feb. 27 2015 6:19 PM Google's Plan for a New Googleplex Could Not Be Googlier Will Oremus Post-Adware Disaster, Lenovo Is Trying to Clean Up Its Act When Tech Companies Betray Consumers, Why Don’t They Own Up to It? California Is Finally Getting Its Hyperloop. No, It Won’t Help Your Commute. How Your Fitness Tracker Could Increase Your Health Insurance Costs Someday Watch Inhofe Throw a Snowball on the Senate Floor to Disprove Global Warming How a Lack of Imagination in Technological Design Harms the Disabled Health & Science Bad Astronomy March 1 2015 7:30 AM Me vs Hank Green: SciShow Quiz Show Phil Plait Tickets to Space How Do You Get Baby Llamas? It’s Ridiculously Complicated. An Expert’s Lessons From the Dress: Why Don’t We All See the Same Thing? The Argon Glow of an Exploded Star Precision Medicine Needs Precision Questions—Especially About Sex Kepler-432b: A Doomed Planet Orbiting a Doomed Star Sports Sports Nut Feb. 26 2015 7:41 PM Game, Set, and (Fixed) Match Pro tennis has a match-fixing problem in its lower ranks. Ben Rothenberg What’s the Hardest Shot in Bowling? It’s Not the 7-10 Split. Has ASU Discovered the Holy Grail of Free-Throw Distraction? How John Wall Became the Most Entertaining Player in the NBA Dean Smith’s Political Approach to Being a Coach Is Missed Now More Than Ever Why Handball’s World Championship in Qatar Should Worry World Cup Fans Seattle Didn’t Throw Away the Super Bowl. The Patriots Won It.