Mike Doyle Mike Doyle is a graphic designer and Lego artist and the editor of Beautiful Lego. He lives in New Jersey. BooksOct. 11 2013 10:00 AMBeautiful LegoGorgeous artwork built brick by brick.Mike Doyle News & Politics View From Chicago Jan. 26 2015 2:55 PM Why Do Judges and Politicians Flip-Flop? To investigate, Cass Sunstein and I conducted a series of surveys. Eric Posner 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? The Kentucky Senator Who Beat Mitch McConnell at His Own Game Business Moneybox Jan. 26 2015 3:27 PM Greeks Are Voting for Radical Leftists and Nazis. Can You Blame Them? Jordan Weissmann Uber Will Cap Surge Pricing in East Coast Cities During the Worst of the Blizzard Facebook Launches “Facebook Lite” in Emerging Markets A Flight Attendant Explains How SkyMall Didn’t Make Its Money From Its Catalog Uber Study Finds Driving for Uber Is Great. Uber Study Is Flawed. Can This One Weird Trick Save Europe’s Economy? Delta Way Oversold Two Flights of People Heading to the Sundance Film Festival Life Culturebox Jan. 26 2015 4:29 PM Storm a-Brewin’—Let’s Hit Trader Joe’s! Americans get way too excited about stocking up before a storm. Daniel Engber Saks Relents, Reverses Its Claim That It Can Legally Discriminate Against Trans Employees Help! How Does an Introvert Teach Her Kid to Make Friends? Meet Your Next Reality Star: A Transgender Conservative Christian Drag Queen Father of Three The Three-Minute Breakfast That Satisfies Until Lunch No Justice, Liberal or Conservative, Should Be Recused From the Gay Marriage Cases These Whimsical 3-D Ceramics Look Like Cartoon Drawings of Everyday Objects 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 Tv Club Jan. 25 2015 10:00 PM The Downton Abbey Podcast, Episode 4 The “Boom Goes the Dynamite” edition. Seth Stevenson and June Thomas 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. A Spoiler-Filled Podcast on Downton Abbey Episode 3 Arts Brow Beat Jan. 26 2015 4:26 PM Emma Watson Will Star as Belle in Beauty and the Beast. Let’s Cast the Other Parts! L.V. Anderson Björk’s New Album Is As Startling (and Brilliant) As Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking Dope Star Shameik Moore on the Music He Loves to Jam To When Owners Give Up on Struggling Alt-Weeklies, Their Staffs Don’t Surrender So Easily Why Craig Zobel Cast Chiwetel Ejiofor as a Post-Apocalyptic Survivor in Z for Zachariah Action! Revolution! Killing! Oratory! Fantasy! Fornication! A Sleazy Marvel Alternative Emerges. This Is, Hands Down, the Best Moment From J.Lo’s Delightful Travesty The Boy Next Door Technology Future Tense Jan. 26 2015 5:27 PM The Simpsons Imagines How Elon Musk Could Save and Destroy the Future Lily Hay Newman The Messy Debate Over Liability and Cybersecurity My Grandmother’s House Is the Birthplace of Apple Computers Good News: Replicas of 16th-Century Sculptures Are Not Off-Limits for 3-D Printers Small Drone Shows Up on White House Lawn This Week’s East Coast Blizzard Could Be the Biggest on Record State Department Wants Frozen PSAs About Climate Change Health & Science Bad Astronomy Jan. 26 2015 7:00 AM Comet Close-Ups Reveal an Alien World Phil Plait The “Good Guy With a Gun” Is a Myth It Is Statistically Impossible for Mass Surveillance to Be an Effective Anti-Terrorism Tool Striking Sun Halo Display in Sweden Watch the Moon Get Squashed From Orbit Shop SkyMall for Science That Is Decades Ahead of Regular Science The Anti-Vaccine Movement Says Measles Isn’t Dangerous. 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