Slate Conversations
A feed of the up close and the personal, drawn from Working and across the Slate podcast network. Let’s talk.
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A Word: Between the World and Us
Ta-Nehisi Coates blasts the lack of leadership on the Middle East.
42 min
327
Dear Prudence: I’m Queer and Here—Just Not to M...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by author and host of Savage Lovecast, Dan Savage.
28 min
328
Care & Feeding: Mom Guilt Is Real, but So Is He...
Slate’s parenting podcast on being the matriarch.
38 min
329
Well, Now: Overcoming a Complicated Pregnancy
Half of pregnancies will experience complications. Here’s how patients and their partners can best advocate for the proper care.
37 min
330
Hear Me Out: Punishing A Shooter’s Parents Miss...
Justice is a bigger picture.
36 min
331
How To!: Flirt With Confidence
Jeff Guenther on telling your crush how you really feel.
36 min
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Death, Sex & Money: Filling the Health Care Gap...
Nurse practitioners Teresa and Paula deliver life-saving care–and botox and fillers–to communities that keep getting left behind.
39 min
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Care & Feeding: Should a 6-Year-Old Go on Solo ...
Slate’s parenting podcast on making the trek.
19 min
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Working: Writer Anne Lamott’s Difficult Persona...
The Bird By Bird author discusses her new book about love, her proclivity for deeply honest memoir writing, and some of her go-to advice about writing and publishing.
49 min
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Dear Prudence: My Brother Is a Budding Alex Jon...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by writer, producer, and host Heben Nigatu.
30 min
336
Care & Feeding: Kid-Friendly Kitchen Adventures...
Slate’s parenting podcast on global flavors, sans jetlag.
38 min
337
Well, Now: How a Former Surgeon General Took on...
Even surgeon generals get sticker shock. Here are Jerome Adams’s suggestions for how to fight back.
40 min
338
How To!: Carvell Wallace on Another Word for Love
Courtney Martin talks with Carvell Wallace about writing, interviewing—and his new memoir.
32 min
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Hear Me Out: Student Protests Can Backfire (Badly)
It’s the law of unintended consequences.
41 min
340
Money Talks: How to Get Fit Like the 1%
Wall Street Journal fitness writer Jen Murphy shares tips for staying in shape while running the rat race.
31 min
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Care & Feeding: That Nagging Feeling That You’r...
Slate’s parenting podcast on baby races.
20 min
342
Working: Interviews That Get to the Point
Death, Sex & Money host Anna Sale shares her strategies for conducting interviews about things that really matter.
45 min
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Dear Prudence: My love language with friends is...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by NYT relationship and sex columnist Gina Cherelus
39 min
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Well, Now: Living and Loving With OCD (feat. Al...
And finding humor with it, too.
36 min
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How To!: Find Your People After a Mental Health...
Dr. Aleksandra Rayska on the stigma and self-doubt that can curtail new friendships.
36 min
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Death, Sex & Money: A Tarot Reader Explains Why...
North Carolina-based witch Rebecca Auman helps Anna through a rough patch. Then she explains why it’s so hard for some of us to make sense of our own inner voices.
39 min
347
Hear Me Out: Third Parties Are Saving Democracy
It’s just that their job isn’t winning (yet).
32 min
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Working: How Fact-Checking Can Improve Your Fic...
Novelist Julia Hannafin and ecologist Adam Rosenblatt talk about Julia’s new novel Cascade and its commitment to scientific accuracy.
45 min
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Dear Prudence: My Wife’s Bipolar Diagnosis Is C...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by author and mental health advocate Bassey Ikpi.
31 min
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Care & Feeding: Ask A Weed Mom
Slate’s parenting podcast on lighting up.
39 min