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What Next TBD: Can Smart Guns Save Lives?
Is a gun only you can shoot really safer than a regular firearm?
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Slate Money: Slate Money Criminals - Bernie Madoff
A look at the man behind one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in history.
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What Next TBD: Another Summer of COVID
COVID infections are up this summer - again. But it's hard to tell just how bad it is.
25 min
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Slate Money: America’s Credit Rating Went Down....
Let us explain the ways America is like Mark Zuckerberg asking for a loan.
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What Next TBD: Tesla's Big Lie
Elon Musk’s most recent scandal may upend the way we think of an electric future.
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The Waves: Hollywood is On Strike. Let’s Burn i...
Hollywood’s time of reckoning has been all talk. The ongoing strikes are proof of that.
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What Next: After the Strike
Winning a new contract was the end of the strike. The fight is still ongoing.
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What Next TBD: America’s Downtown Ghost Towns
What happens to those offices when employees don’t “return to work?”
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Slate Money: Will The UPS Union Deal Deliver?
What does the UPS union agreement mean for other shipping companies?
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What Next TBD: Washington vs. A.I.
The government's starting to focus on regulating A.I. But have they learned from previous efforts to keep an eye on the tech industry?
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What Next TBD: Why Tech Lays Women Off First
Rounds of layoffs have disproportionately affected women in tech—including those on maternity leave.
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Slate Money: Wal-Mart v. Amazon: The Battle for...
Why Amazon is actually bad at disrupting businesses, the state of the retail apocalypse, and Puerto Rico’s tax dodging crypto bros.
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What Next TBD: America’s $5 Trillion Grid Problem
The electric grid is the only thing making parts of America habitable this summer. It desperately needs a makeover.
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The Waves: Why Barbie Lives On
Barbie has been around for generations, as Greta Gerwig takes her to Hollywood, we look at what makes Barbie a legend.
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ICYMI: Take a Tour in the Shein Propaganda Factory
Controversy over (another) ill-fated influencer trip sparked off discussion around sustainability and hyper-consumption.
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Hear Me Out: The U.S. Sugar Program Isn’t A Swe...
Not for the free market, not for the food industry, and definitely not for the average consumer.
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What Next: How Hollywood Shot Itself in the Foot
The paltry wages of the streaming economy made these strikes inevitable.
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What Next TBD: America’s Killer Car Problem
U.S. infrastructure doesn't prioritize the lives of pedestrians. Why?
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ICYMI: Did Fancams Determine This Year’s Emmy N...
And what the simultaneous strikes mean for the awards.
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Slate Money: Trouble in the House of Mouse
Bob Iger, two worker strikes, and the challenges of streaming
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What Next TBD: Will UPS Workers Join "Hot Strik...
It's not just Hollywood—UPS workers may soon be striking too.
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What Next TBD: Is Your Son Watching Andrew Tate?
How one of the biggest misogynists on the internet infected the mindset of a generation of teenage boys.
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ICYMI: How Reddit Turned On Its Creator
The 48-hour protest that forced Redditors to re-examine their loyalty
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Slate Money: Can Threads Take Down Twitter?
Meta launched a new competitor to Twitter. Will it be the next big thing?
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What Next TBD: Threads vs. Twitter
If your rate limit has been exceeded one too many times, Mark Zuckerberg is here with an alternative.
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