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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Olivia Nuzzi
New York’s Washington correspondent on how White House staffers really view Donald Trump.
25 min
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Zoë Heller
The novelist and essayist on criticizing Hillary Clinton and becoming friends with writers you savage.
27 min
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Lydia Polgreen
The HuffPost Editor-in-chief on the problems with media snark, and the challenge of covering Trump.
29 min
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Matthew Heineman
The director of ‘City of Ghosts’ on filming the heroes combating ISIS, and investigating drug cartels.
21 min
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Maggie Haberman
Maggie Haberman on covering Trump, The New York Times’ Clinton coverage, and why this White House leaks to the press.
31 min
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Ben Rhodes
The Obama foreign policy adviser on evaluating Obama’s eight years in office and understanding Trump’s pettiness.
59 min
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Raúl Grijalva
The Arizona Congressman on the coming battle for the soul of the Democratic Party.
24 min
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George Saunders
The author of ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ on summoning the ghost of past presidents, & writing about our current one.
33 min
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Delia Ephron
The best-selling humorist on writing comedy in the age of Trump, and why dating apps are ruining romance.
25 min
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Congressman Tom Cole
The Republican Congressman on life in Trump’s Washington and how Fox News has changed the Republican Party.
25 min
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Washington Post reporter Ashley Parker
The Washington Post political reporter on scheduling life around President Trump’s tweetstorms.
28 min
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Pankaj Mishra
The author of Age of Anger on why modern society is ill-equipped to handle populist rage.
43 min
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Jonathan Chait
The New York writer on how the Republican Party’s past explains the election of an American demagogue.
32 min
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Pamela Paul
The new Times book review editor on the future of criticism and what our books say about us.
29 min
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David Grann
The New Yorker’s David Grann on the future of longform journalism and reporting unsolved murders
32 min
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Ethan Sherwood Strauss
ESPN’s Ethan Sherwood Strauss on working the Warriors beat, Steph Curry, and “sticking to sports” in the age of Trump.
34 min
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Andrew Sullivan
New York Magazine writer Andrew Sullivan on the decay of conservatism and why he expected Trump’s victory.
49 min
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Elif Batuman
Isaac Chotiner speaks with author and New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman about what inspired her new novel The Idiot
30 min
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Chris Hayes
Isaac Chotiner speaks with Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes about his new book A Colony in a Nation.
41 min
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Senator Chuck Schumer
Senator Schumer finds himself in a political climate unlike anything he has witnessed in his 38 years in Washington.
18 min
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Coming Soon: I Have to Ask
Introducing Slate's newest podcast I Have to Ask with Isaac Chotiner
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