This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by author and journalist Jim Stewart to recap episode one, season four of HBO’s Succession.

Cost cutting, regulators, and Elon’s obsession with Twitter have cast doubt on Tesla’s promise of a fully autonomous vehicle.

How our bodies are perceived in society is a problem none of us can fix on our own.

Annalee Newitz discusses their short story “When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis.”

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the rescue of Credit Suisse.

After years of negotiations, and a testy hearing, the government seems set to ban it.

A look into the legalities of the human skeleton market.

Your mom hears you calling in distress, but it’s not really you.

Fans cannot get enough of his charm, or the way he says, “Baby girl.”

A monthly science fiction fix from Slate, Arizona State and New America.

Slate Money talks about the latest SVB fallout, the Credit Suisse drama, and the relationship between banks and government.

The pending economic catastrophe is about more than the pandemic, author Chris Miller explains in his new book, Chip War.

The easiest money is gone for the industry.

My sister is in desperate need of a surrogate, but I can’t help her.

There’s plenty of blame to go around—and Congress should get its share.

Would your personal profile benefit from an impersonal touch?

The reality TV story that refuses to leave our timelines.

Slate Money talks retail bank products, neobanks, and the Wells Fargo scandal.

What does Big Tech need to do to protect users in Post-Roe America?

You just have to know where to look.

Are diabetics competing with celebs for Ozempic?

A new video game set in the Harry Potter universe lays bare the mediocrity of Rowling’s world.

Slate Money talks child care in the CHIPS Act, ESG investing, and mortgages.

Why one virologist doesn’t find the Department of Energy’s assessment convincing.

But she never stays offline for long.