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Trouble viewing this email? View these recent stories in your browser.   Monday, December 17, 2012 What you may have missed from The Slatest, your news companion. Blog | Daniel Politi Obama: We Will Have To Change Sunday, December 16, 2012, at 10:35 PM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees Pro-Gun Senator Says It's Time To Discuss Assault Weapon Ban Monday, December 17, 2012, at 10:28 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees As Expected, Tim Scott Will Be South Carolina's Next Senator Monday, December 17, 2012, at 10:08 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees The NRA's Post-Newtown Social Strategy: Silence Monday, December 17, 2012, at 11:08 AM EST   Blog | Will Oremus After a 1996 Mass Shooting, Australia Enacted Strict Gun Laws. It Hasn't Had a Similar Massacre Since. Sunday, December 16, 2012, at 10:00 PM EST   Bad Astronomy | Phil Plait Marco Rubio Backtracks a Bit on the Age of the Earth Monday, December 17, 2012, at 8:00 AM EST   Blog | Matthew Yglesias More Americans Are Getting Shot, But The Murder Rate Is Falling Thanks To Better Health Care Sunday, December 16, 2012, at 10:15 PM EST   Blog | Emily Willingham Autism, Empathy, and Violence: Asperger's Does Not Explain Connecticut Shooting Monday, December 17, 2012, at 12:28 AM EST   History | Beverly Gage Things Can Change Monday, December 17, 2012, at 9:48 AM EST A century ago, there were forms of brutal violence considered so thoroughly American that they could never be banished. Today, they no longer exist.   Blog | Matthew Yglesias John Boehner Wants To Call "Backsies" on the Past 18 Months Monday, December 17, 2012, at 8:26 AM EST   Blog | Matthew Yglesias An Ammunition Tax Wouldn't Stop Mass Murders, But Could Save Many Lives Monday, December 17, 2012, at 9:50 AM EST   Television | David Weigel 2012: The Year in TV Moments Monday, December 17, 2012, at 9:30 AM EST The GOP debate: Newt Gingrich blows up.   Blog | Amanda Marcotte National Review Writer Doubts the Power of the Bushmaster AR-15 Monday, December 17, 2012, at 10:39 AM EST   Blog | Matthew Yglesias The Fed's New Target Looks A Lot Like Its Old Target Monday, December 17, 2012, at 10:21 AM EST   BEST FEATURED STORIES Pro-Gun Senator Wants Congress To Consider Assault Rifle Ban An Idea That Could Stop Twitter From Spreading Misinformation During Crises Despite What You May Have Heard, Arab Men Today Want Equality for Women. Also, Condoms. Whatever Motivated Adam Lanza, It Wasn't Asperger's   Copyright 2012 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