Pope Benedict's last day: What's next for the pope emeritus?

WORLD Pope Benedict's last day: What's next for the pope emeritus? By Peter Weber Benedict XVI helicopters off into the sunset Thursday evening. And then....? ENTERTAINMENT WATCH: What TV's most popular shows would look like without their visual effects By Scott Meslow From The Walking Dead to Grey's Anatomy, see how visual effects artists have made an impact on your favorite shows POLITICS Did the White House really threaten Bob Woodward? By Harold Maass The full email exchange paints a friendlier picture than the famed Watergate reporter first suggested Politics Silver linings: The new bipartisan embrace of the sequester By Peter Weber Or, how the Right and Left learned to stop worrying and love the fiscal bomb TECH Google exec calls smartphones 'emasculating': The fallout By Chris Gayomali "Is the future of connection just people walking around hunched up looking down, rubbing a featureless piece of glass?" FROM OUR PARTNERS AT POLITICAL WIRE GOP lawmaker says homosexuality is an addiction By TAEGAN GODDARD And unhealthy, to boot FROM OUR PARTNERS AT SLATE Why are American beers so weak? By Brian Palmer Because they're the next best thing to prohibition SEE ALL CARTOONS SLATE Mars may be hit by a comet in 2014 POLITICAL WIRE Why you shouldn't count Chris Christie out NEWSER Girls Gone Wild files for bankruptcy SALON The British drink even more than they thought NEW YORK MAGAZINE Is this a picture of Jennifer Lawrence smoking weed?       Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | privacy policy Copyright © 2013 The Week, All rights reserved.