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  News & Politics
Photography
Jan. 30 2015 5:46 PM The Slatest Week in Pictures A pilgrimage in Nepal, elections in Athens, war in Syria, fashion in Paris, and trash heaps in China. Lisa Larson-Walker
How Public Apathy Has Helped Pave the Way for Criminal Justice Reform
Forget the Rich. It’s the Upper Middle Class That Is Ruining America.
Why Indiana’s Tough Medicaid Bargain May Be the Only Way to Insure the Poor
Everybody in Uganda Is Kung Fu Fighting
Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate staff writer? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
He Was a Poker Pro and YouTube Celebrity. Now He’s Leading Florida’s Republican Party.
  Business
Moneybox
Jan. 30 2015 7:07 PM See the Super Bowl Ads—Before the Super Bowl Alison Griswold
Investors Are Stuffing Their Faces With Greasy, Delicious Shake Shack Stock
Amazon Managed to Make Money. Everybody Is Shocked. (Seriously.)
Watch 48 Years of Classic Super Bowl Ads
“Financial Literacy” Is a Distraction From What We Really Need: Actual Consumer Protection
America’s Obsession With Healthy Food Is Driving Campbell’s Away From the Soup Business
The Best App for Gmail Is Made by ... Microsoft?
  Life
Outward
Jan. 30 2015 5:37 PM Jill Soloway Apologizes for Joking About Bruce Jenner on Facebook J. Bryan Lowder
The Long and Fascinating History of Quotation Marks
This Fairy-Tale Stone Home Is Real
Where Have All the English Majors Gone?
Change the Height of This Slick Standing Desk by Holding Out Your Hand
The Papers Late-19th-Century Chinese Immigrants Had to Carry To Prove Their Legal Status
Is It Kosher to “Drink the Kool-Aid”?
  Double X
The XX Factor
Jan. 30 2015 5:57 PM The Misguided Liberal Love for Megyn Kelly Amanda Marcotte
Money, Not Marital Status, Has the Most Impact on How Parents Raise Their Kids
UVA Sorority Sisters Banned From Frat Parties to Punish Them for Being Potential Rape Victims
The Ghostbusters Casting News Is Totally Exciting. The Reaction to the News Is Even Better.
Another Sign That Men’s Magazines Are Changing: Men’s Health Denounces “Pickup Artists”
When Career Expectations Are Just About Getting Enough Money to Eat
Watch the First Anti-Domestic Violence Super Bowl Commercial
  Slate Plus
Plus Roundups
Jan. 30 2015 11:44 AM What Happened at Slate This Week? Social media guru Lindsey Underwood highlights the most popular stories of the week, from the Patriots to Tom Petty. Lindsey Underwood
Slate Staff Pick the Best Songs From January
A Conversation With Patton Oswalt About Movies (Audio)
Every Episode From the First Half of Slate’s Season 5 Walking Dead Podcast 
Mark Joseph Stern Reads “American Liar,” His Piece on Chris Kyle’s Big Lie
  Arts
Brow Beat
Jan. 31 2015 11:47 AM Jessica Williams on the Role of Improvisation in Her New Film People, Places, Things Aisha Harris
Watch the Trailer for Game of Thrones Season 5, and Then Start Speculating Wildly 
Katy Perry Is the Singing, Dancing "Cool Girl," and She's a Perfect Fit for the Super Bowl Halftime Show
Jimmy Kimmel Found the Patriots’ “Locker Room Guy”
The Daily Show’s Jessica Williams on Playing a Black Woman Who Isn't a Stereotype
Us Weekly Ran a Surprisingly Respectful Cover Story About Bruce Jenner’s Gender Identity
John Oliver’s Letterman Appearance and the Clash Between the Old and New Guard of Late Night
  Technology
Future Tense
Jan. 30 2015 5:04 PM Would You Feel Safer Doing a Craigslist Transaction in a Police Station Lobby? Lily Hay Newman
Putin’s Daughter Starts Moscow Tech Incubator, Has Killer Dance Moves
Verizon Could Rein In Its Creepy User-Tracking System With This Simple Fix
The Super Bowl Is Going to Be a “No Drone Zone”
Watching the Super Bowl Is Easier Than Ever for Cord-Cutters
The Race to Invent the Perfect Electric Car Battery: A Future Tense Book Event
Is Snapchat Really Confusing, or Am I Just Old?
  Health & Science
Bad Astronomy
Jan. 31 2015 7:30 AM So, About That Huge Discovery Last Year About the Young Universe... Phil Plait
The Biology of a Half-Female, Half-Male Northern Cardinal, and Other Gynandromorphs
The Deflated-Football Circus Has Been Great for Science and Statistics
Why Did President Obama Talk to a Bunch of YouTubers? Because They’re the New Face of Media.
Crash Course Astronomy Episode 3: Cycles in the Sky
Psst, Buddy! Want to Buy a Red-Eared Slider?
Laser Rocket Aurora!
  Sports
Sports Nut
Jan. 30 2015 10:45 AM He Never Touches the Balls Tom Brady may be the handsome face of the Pats, but the team’s heart and soul belong to defensive tackle Vince Wilfork.  Jack Hamilton
New England’s Incredible Ball Security Is Not Impossible but Also Not Meaningless
What the Seahawks’ “Legion of Boom” Has in Common With the Last Patriots Championship Team
The Gayest and Straightest Super Bowl Halftime Shows: A Video Slide Show
How a Football Team Brought Me and My Father Together
A Message from a Pats Fan to All the Chafing, Crybaby Chumps Out There
The Patriots Became Nearly Fumble-Proof After a 2006 Rule Change Pushed by Tom Brady