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Susan Matthews

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  • Executive Editor, Slate
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As seen in: Slate, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Life, Bloomberg Businessweek, HuffPost, Yahoo News, CBS News, Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts, Scientific American, Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, Pocket and
Covers:  energy, obesity, the affordable care act, robots, biomedical research, netflix
executive editor @Slate. listen to season 7 of Slow Burn, on Roe v. Wade: slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn/s7/roe-v-wade

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I’m a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist. I write about health, the environment and technology. I also make data-driven graphics.

I just received my master’s degree in journalism from NYU. I started my journalism career as editor-in-chief of Dartmouth College’s daily paper, and later decided to focus on science journalism. I studied environmental science as an undergrad, and I believe that science issues will continue to demand more and more news attention.

I've written and worked on graphics…

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The Energy Fix: When Will The U.S. Reach Energy Independence? [Infographic]

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In hopes of encouraging a reduction in nuclear stockpiles, researchers have proposed a new method to verify n…

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Pharma fines increase, but the pain is not felt on Wall Street

Fines may be increasing, but our analysis shows they don't impact the bottom line.

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This Man Wants To Power The World With Tornadoes

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For Netflix, Original Shows Are Low-Risk

By producing shows such as House of Cards, Netflix is reducing its reliance on pricey content created by movi…

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Insurance challenges may lie ahead for New York labs hit by hurricane

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He’s the Supreme Court’s Anonymous “Nice Guy” Conservative. The Reality Is Way More Disturbing.

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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Long before Neil Gorsuch was a Supreme Court justice casting pivotal votes in society-quaking decisions on everything from voting rights to affirmative action to abortion, he was that friendly “debate you” dweeb everyone tried to avoid in the college dorm. You know that guy?
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How Neil Gorsuch—and Senate Republicans—Stole a SCOTUS Seat and Changed the Court Forever

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Sometimes I Wonder if the Way I Like to Dump People Makes Me a Psychopath Original

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Skip to the content An Internet-Driven Renaissance Relationships This is part of Breakup Week. We just can’t do this anymore. Everyone has their own baggage of roads not taken in their lives, from jobs to housing arrangements to what they should have majored in in college. But for most people, the biggest temptation is the ended relationships that make you think What if?—what if we’d never broken up, what if we’d tried harder, what if we’d ended up together after all? Mine have never been like that.
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