Why the GOP must make peace with its failures, why Twitter is killing TweetDeck, and more

Politics Why the GOP must come to terms with George W. Bush's disastrous presidency By Samuel Goldman The party cannot chart a course to future victory until it makes peace with past failures Tech Why Twitter is killing TweetDeck By Chris Gayomali And what you should replace it with POLITICS Who paid prostitutes to lie about sex with Sen. Robert Menendez? By Peter Weber A Dominican woman swears she was bribed to read a damning script about a senator she never met. What gives? Language 7 bogus grammar 'errors' you don't need to worry about By Ben Yagoda You actually can start a sentence with a conjunction — and end it with a preposition U.S. America's 13 most bizarrely specific official state appetizers, toys, soils, and more By Lauren Hansen Rhode Island legislators want to make calamari the official state appetizer... which isn't so crazy when you learn Oklahoma has designated an official multi-course meal Tech How legally unlocked cell phones will — and won't — improve your life By Peter Weber You may not even know that jailbreaking your phone is now illegal. The White House wants to change that FROM OUR PARTNERS AT SLATE PHOTOS: The life and death of an iconic Detroit high school By Daphnee Denis One of the city's unofficial landmarks is remembered in a remarkable and moving photographic mash-up FROM OUR PARTNERS AT POLITICAL WIRE Chris Christie rips Washington By Taegan Goddard "I don't have the first damn idea of what they're doing down there" SEE ALL CARTOONS SLATE The day The Beatles made one of the worst business deals in music history POLITICAL WIRE The GOP seeks to prevent 'Todd Akin moments' NEWSER Life expectancy declining for many U.S. women SALON Ikea recalls chocolate cakes after fecal bacteria is detected NEW YORK MAGAZINE TSA to allow small knives, still no water       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.