NASA Photographs Massive Hole at the Sun’s North Pole (VIDEO)

By Slate Video Staff

Coronal holes are gaps in the sun's atmosphere where magnetic field lines fail to loop back down to the surface.

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 2:01 PM The Myth That Middle-Class Students Don’t Get Financial Aid Jordan Weissmann

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

Facebook Launches “Facebook Lite” in Emerging Markets

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 12:20 PM Alex Gibney and Lawrence Wright on the Challenges of Making a Doc About Scientology Forrest Wickman and Rob Naylor

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

Watch the First Trailer for Fantastic Four, Starring Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan

The Many Modern-Day Kings and Queens of Nigeria

Shameik Moore on the Significance of Dope in the Wake of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown

When Will Downton Abbey’s Miss Bunting Mind Her Manners? Two Slate Critics Dissect the Latest Episode.