Well, Now: How Social Media Hurts Youth Mental ...
Minors are facing a mental health crisis, and data supports social media as a culprit. One city health commissioner is helping fight back in the courts.
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What Next TBD: The Dark Side of GoFundMe
Even when it succeeds, it’s evidence of a broken system.
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Slate Money: Biden Zaps Chinese EVs
The Money team discusses new China tariffs, Congress debating AI, and Melinda French Gates’ departure from her foundation.
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ICYMI: Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show Makes Rea...
The comedian’s latest project is simultaneously enthralling and utterly repellant.
46 min
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What Next TBD: Too Stonks Too Furious
Meme stocks are back—wait, they never really went away.
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ICYMI: Street Fights and Moissanite Rings: Redd...
Netflix’s hit reality show has spurred spinoffs, real estate celebrities and a community of more than 250,000 rabid fans
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What Next TBD: Would You Choose Your Child’s Sex?
Almost every country has banned the practice—but in the US, its growing.
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ICYMI: Never Post: Everyone is a Journalish
On today’s episode the second and final installment of our two part collaboration with Never Post.
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What Next TBD: Meet the Trump Campaign’s A.I. Guy
The artificial intelligence election is on.
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ICYMI: How Kate Middleton’s Disappearance Redef...
We break down one of 2024’s biggest internet stories and ask: what’s the recipe for a rare monocultural event?
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What Next TBD: Can California Save Journalism?
The Sunshine State considers making Google and Meta pony up—and making news outlets spend that revenue on their staff.
20 min
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ICYMI: How Challengers Took Over the Internet
It’s Zendaya’s world and we’re all just living in it
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What Next TBD: Bird Flu—It’s in Milk?
Scientists are observing, for the first time, the virus spreading cow-to-cow—is human-to-human next?
21 min
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ICYMI: The End of Foxtrot and Outdoor Voices
How the abrupt closure of two popular venture-backed brands will affect yuppie lunch culture and cult brand-ism
41 min
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What Next: Biden’s Climate Report Card
We're doing more than ever, and still not nearly enough.
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ICYMI: The “TikTok Voice” of Our Generation
Natalya Toryanski went viral for parodying a seemingly ubiquitous style of talking.
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What Next TBD: So ... Is TikTok Banned?
Or has the long journey to banning the short-video app just begun?
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ICYMI: Is Roblox Coming for TikTok?
The online gaming platform recently rolled out a $35 million fund for creators.
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What Next TBD: The Internet Archive Endangered
A non-profit site just digitized Aruba’s history. They could be sued out of existence.
19 min
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ICYMI: How a Chinese Glycine Manufacturer Took ...
Donghua Jinlong is enjoying an unprecedented amount of success.
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Slate Money: Tesla’s Toxic Relationship With Musk
The Money team discusses Musk’s $56 billion pay package, the troubles at NPR, and what inflation means for interest rates.
49 min
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What Next TBD: What’s Driving Tesla’s Layoffs?
The EV maker may be demonstrating why other car makers don’t do it this way.
19 min
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ICYMI: Ann Maddox on Scandoval, Reddit and Grief
How Tom Sandoval’s former personal assistant had to change her Reddit boundaries after Vanderpump Rules’ biggest scandal to date
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Money Talks: Felix Wins His Crypto Bet
An old bill comes due for tech investor Ben Horowitz, who discusses the future of crypto and blockchain with partner Chris Dixon.
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What Next TBD: Is America Ready for Legal Psych...
How the push for legal ‘shrooms can avoid the problems plaguing legal cannabis.