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Trouble viewing this email? View these recent stories in your browser.   Wednesday, March 13, 2013 Stories from Slate and The Slatest, your daily news companion. Blog | Josh Voorhees Team Obama Has Someone New to Thank for the "47 Percent" Tape: Bill Clinton Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at 10:06 AM EDT   Blog | David Weigel Rand Paul on Gay Marriage: If We "Make the Tax Code Neutral," We "Don't Have to Redefine What Marriage Is" Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at 10:05 AM EDT   Blog | Josh Voorhees North Korea Thinks All Americans Live in Tents and Feast Upon a Dwindling Bird Population Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at 11:25 AM EDT   Blog | Matthew Yglesias The Great Twinkie Shortage Will Be Over Soon Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at 10:41 AM EDT   Explainer | Forrest Wickman How Do Cardinals Choose Which Funny Hat to Wear? Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at 6:30 PM EDT Vatican Headwear 101.   Blog | David Weigel New Jersey: Where Pundits Go to Be Wrong Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at 9:05 AM EDT   Blog | Matthew Yglesias Retail Sales Rise In February Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at 8:54 AM EDT   Politics | John Dickerson Is Obama Setting a Trap for Republicans? Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at 6:45 PM EDT Nah, he's just trying to ensure his place in the history books. Like most days.   Blog | Matthew Yglesias California Pointing the Way to Online Education Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at 11:02 AM EDT   Human Nature | William Saletan The Chronic Ills of Nannya Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at 5:30 AM EDT What's the message of the New York soda-size ruling? Government can't control lifestyle diseases the way it controls infectious epidemics.   Bad Astronomy | Phil Plait The Earth Is Warming Faster Now Than It Has in 11,000 Years Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at 8:00 AM EDT   Blog | Rachael Larimore Is the White House Trying to Avoid Your Petition? Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at 10:30 AM EDT   Blog | Matthew Yglesias You Never Need To Balance The Budget Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at 9:10 AM EDT   Future Tense | Marvin Ammori Can the FTC Save Uber? Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at 12:15 PM EDT Taxi commissions are crushing disruptive transportation apps.   BEST FEATURED STORIES What Is the Answer to That Stupid Math Problem on Facebook? Why Are People Arguing About It? Help! I Slept With My Wife When She Was 16. I Was 32. Does That Make Me a Predator? How Do Cardinals Choose Which Funny Hat to Wear? Why Google Chose Kansas City as Home to the World's Fastest Internet Network   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