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Slate Money: Why America’s Internet Sucks
The Money team discusses America’s glitchy internet industry, YouTube’s colossal media empire, and why AI still can’t brush your teeth.
50 min
352
What Next TBD: Does Google Suck Now?
Wither our once-best search engine?
23 min
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ICYMI: What Next: TBD: Google’s Scam Obituary P...
An episode of What Next: TBD on what happens when your loved one’s death becomes clickbait
26 min
354
What Next: How the Government Botched Financial...
Congress, the Department of Education, and two presidential administrations, all trying to find who did this.
24 min
355
What Next TBD: America Needs More Power
How building our renewable energy future domestically is keeping old power plants running.
26 min
356
Slate Money: EVs Need a Charge-Up
The Money team discusses a slowing electric vehicle market, the news outlet that is also a hedge fund, and why wine sales went sour.
36 min
357
What Next TBD: Truth Social’s Rocky Week
Trump Media’s IPO may not be the blockbuster Trump was hoping for.
23 min
358
ICYMI: Rebecca Jennings on NYT Connections and ...
Vox’s senior correspondent explains why she only scrolls TikTok on her treadmill.
34 min
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Slate Money: How to Escape the Invisible Factory
Author Cal Newport explains how we ended up in Slack hell — and how to free ourselves.
36 min
360
What Next TBD: The Psychological Toll of Mars
We know how to get to space. But what happens to our minds when we’re there?
21 min
361
ICYMI: To Ban or Not to Ban TikTok
We break down the questions and concerns circling the overwhelmingly House-passed TikTok bill
46 min
362
What Next TBD: Can Boeing Pull Out of This Tail...
What needs to change at the company to restore public trust?
27 min
363
ICYMI: Is Nara Smith Actually a Tradwife?
The model-turned-influencer is turning the internet upside down.
39 min
364
What Next TBD: The Next Round of the Union Fight
Post-pandemic labor movements were losing momentum, but wins in the auto and film industries have put wind back in the sails.
17 min
365
Slate Money: Is Apple’s Monopoly Good for Us?
The Money squad discusses Apple’s new DOJ antitrust suit, Reddit’s massive IPO, and a bum deal for real estate agents.
49 min
366
ICYMI: Fybrefest, Fake Deaths and Acrylic vs. Wool
Internet culture reporter Morgan Sung takes us through the five messiest scandals of the online knitting and crocheting communities
35 min
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What Next TBD: Reddit’s IPO Gamble
Will the public upvote it?
24 min
368
ICYMI: Anatomy of a Vasectomy
Plus, why Gypsy Rose Blanchard exited social media and called it the “doorway to hell”
40 min
369
What Next TBD: When Private Equity Gets in to H...
What’s something expensive that people have no choice but to buy?
26 min
370
ICYMI: Reddit is the Real Host of “Love is Blind”
The sixth season of Netflix’s megahit reality tv dating series takes its best cues from Reddit.
40 min
371
Slate Money: Work is Mid 🤷♀️
The Money crew discusses America’s growing disinterest in work, the rise of Liquid Death water, and the fate of TikTok in Congress.
44 min
372
Amicus: Who Gets to Lie Online?
On Monday, the Supreme Court hears a case about the government’s ability to combat online misinformation about COVID and elections.
41 min
373
What Next TBD: Is TikTok Cooked This Time?
Why does this issue snap a dysfunctional Congress into bipartisan agreement?
22 min
374
ICYMI: An ICYMI Birthday Spectacular
We’re turning three!
37 min
375
Death, Sex & Money: Who's Driving Your Uber?
Rideshare drivers in the Bay Area tell stories about their lives and their work.
29 min