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Trouble viewing this email? View these recent stories in your browser.   Wednesday, February 20, 2013 What you may have missed from The Slatest, your news companion. Blog | Josh Voorhees What We Learned (and What We Didn't) During Today's Pistorius Hearing Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at 10:15 AM EST   Blog | Matthew Yglesias Doug Holtz-Eakin and Avik Roy: Time for Republicans to Surrender on ObamaCare   Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at 10:45 AM EST   Blog | Matthew Yglesias John Boehner's 2011 PowerPoint Touting The Sequester Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at 9:21 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees Congress's Approval Rating Climbs, Now on Pace to Match Worst-Ever Year Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at 11:23 AM EST   Politics | David Weigel Who Needs the White House Press Corps? Tuesday, February 19, 2013, at 6:35 PM EST The Obama administration has made them irrelevant. Would we even miss them if they were gone?   Blog | Josh Voorhees Two Jobs That Sarah Palin Definitely Doesn't Have Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at 11:22 AM EST   Future Tense | Will Oremus Your Turn, Mac Users: Disable Java in Your Browser Right Now Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at 10:17 AM EST   Crime | Chris Kirk and Dan Kois How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown? Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at 12:00 AM EST Slate partners with @GunDeaths for an interactive, crowdsourced tally of the toll firearms have taken since Dec. 14.   Human Nature | William Saletan In Defense of Drones Tuesday, February 19, 2013, at 11:40 PM EST They're the worst form of war, except for all the others.   Politics | Sam Kleiner Why Wayne LaPierre Loves Hurricanes and Natural Disasters Tuesday, February 19, 2013, at 6:53 PM EST The NRA's CEO no longer says the U.S. government is coming to get you—it's that it can't protect you.   Blog | Matthew Yglesias Get Ready for OfficeDepotMax Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at 9:05 AM EST   Explainer | Forrest Wickman How Exactly Do You Arm Rebels? Tuesday, February 19, 2013, at 7:21 PM EST If we want to get weapons to the insurgents in Syria, we'd better be careful—and quiet.   Future Tense | Ryan Gallagher Proposed Ohio Law Would Officially Allow Snooping on Kids' Text Messages, Calls, and Emails Tuesday, February 19, 2013, at 4:42 PM EST   Blog | David Weigel "Our Goal of Advancing a Free and Prosperous America is Even More Difficult Than We Envisioned." Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at 9:36 AM EST   Bad Astronomy | Phil Plait Saturn Gets Kinky Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at 9:12 AM EST   Blog | Quora Contributor What Is Life Like After a Cochlear Implant for a Person Born Deaf? Tuesday, February 19, 2013, at 5:04 PM EST   Doublex | Amanda Schaffer The Mommy Worry Wars Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at 7:00 AM EST Anxiety doesn't make it harder to get pregnant or have a healthy baby.   BEST FEATURED STORIES Does Obama Hate the Press Even More Than George W. Bush Did? A Ban on Flan and Other Edicts From the Lame-Duck Pope Why the NRA Loves Hurricanes and Natural Disasters How Mac Users Can Rid Themselves of the World's Worst Plug-In, Java   Copyright 2013 The Slate Group | Privacy Policy The Slate Group | c/o E-mail Customer Care | 1350 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 410 | Washington, D.C. 20036 Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend