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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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
81
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
1 min