Today in Slate: Is There an "Obama Effect" on Crime? Plus, Ron Rosenbaum on Steve Jobs

Today: October 7, 2011 Steve Jobs and Me He said my 1971 article inspired him. His iBook obsessed me. By Ron Rosenbaum READ FULL STORY | More Technology Is There an "Obama Effect" on Crime? A surprising new theory for the continuing crime decline among black Americans. By James Verini READ FULL STORY | More News and Politics Stop Following Me! I'm being stalked by a man on Twitter. And it's my dad. By Katherine Goldstein READ FULL STORY | More Life After 10 Years, U.S. War in Afghanistan "Halfway Done" The Supreme Court's Comedy Duo Brings Its Show to Congress Perfect Weekend: Andrew Haigh's Amazingly Good Gay Romantic Comedy Street Photographer Suggests There's No Such Thing as Unique Advertisement Could Acid Make You As Creative as Steve Jobs? Beware The Ides of March: George Clooney and Ryan Gosling stumble in this failed political thriller. Dear Prudence: My Wife Doesn't Want Sex, So I Visit Prostitutes. Should I Stop? News & Politics The Death Penalty Case That Has Even Scalia Griping About Incompetent Lawyers. Grandma's Benefits Imperil Junior's Future: Watch tonight's Slate/Intelligence Squared U.S. debate live. Technology This Is the New iPhone? Seriously? Farhad Manjoo Chats with Slate Readers about the iPhone 4S Business There Is Only One Way To End the Global Recession: Spend More Money. Lots of It. Americans Haven't Been This Depressed About the Economy for Ages and Ages Arts American Horror Story: Can Freaky Sex and Sadistic Violence Be Fun for the Whole Family? Edgar Guest, Marianne Moore, and the Place Where Pop Meets Modernism Life Can We Prevent Another Amanda Knox Case? Dear Prudence: My Friend Won't Tell Her One-Night Stand She Got Pregnant Health & Science How Do You Turn Off a Particle Accelerator? Just Pull the Plug? Does Evil Exist? Neuroscientists Say No. Sports The NFL Player's Existential Dilemma The Red Sox's Spectacular Collapse Will Make Their Fans More Annoying, Not Less Double X Is My Mentor Hitting on Me? Do Women Still Fret About the Number of People They've Had Sex With? Podcasts Digital Manners: Is comment thread redundancy OK? Hang Up and Listen: Will the NHL Ban Fighting and Shots to the Head? Video Dear Prudence: I Married a Peeping Tom? A weekly Dear Prudence video. (VIDEO)

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