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politics How close was Obama to the IRS scandal? By keith wagstaff A new report says Obama's top lawyer knew of the IRS scandal weeks before the president said he had learned about it in the news tech Why the Yahoo deal is great for Tumblr By chris gayomali Tumblr will still get to have fun, while leaving all that tricky business about profit and advertising for Yahoo to sort out world Will Hezbollah tip Syria's civil war to Assad? By peter weber The Lebanon-based Shiite militant group is getting very involved in the battle for a strategically valuable city in Homs province the compass The time's not right for Tesla By marc ambinder But soon it will be entertainment Mad Men recap: 'The Crash' By scott meslow Don Draper's latest drug trip takes him on a long, strange, and disheartening journey tech What is a quantum computer — and why does Google need one? By carmel lobello These almost unfathomably futuristic machines can run more calculations in an instant than there are atoms in the universe. From our partners at Political Wire Bachmann faces tough re-election fight By Taegan Goddard Between allegations of campaign finance violations and a lag in the polls, Bachmann faces an uphill battle in Minnesota FROM OUR PARTNERS AT SLATE Why don't more women freeze their eggs? By sarah elizabeth richards Only 1 out of 15 women who inquire about the procedure actually go through with it SEE ALL CARTOONS SLATE Suspect charged with hate crime in West Village POLITICAL WIRE A tale from the drug wars NEWSER Mount Everest has become a huge mess — literally and figuratively SALON A salon: Game of Thrones, season 3, episode 8 NEW YORK MAGAZINE Hannah's e-book editor will fight Ray on Girls season three       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.