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The Slate Daily feed includes new episodes from more than 30 shows in the Slate Podcast Network. You'll get thought provoking analysis, storytelling, and commentary on everything from news and politics to arts, culture, technology, and entertainment. Discover new shows you never knew you were missing.

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What Next | Why You Can't Avoid Wicked
It's the way you're viewed, so it's very shrewd to be very very…weird?
25 min
2
8: Conversion | When We All Get to Heaven
“We just kept trying to find meaning, meaning, meaning.”
57 min
3
ICYMI | Why Are So Many Celebrities Joining Sub...
Charli xcx is the latest to spill her guts on the buzzy newsletter platform.
41 min
4
Culture Gabfest: Wicked Triple Feature Edition
On this week’s show, a discussion of three wildly different movies make for weird sisters: Wicked: For Good, Train Dreams, and Peter Hujar’s Day.
56 min
5
What Next | Could We Get Peace In Ukraine?
The Trump administration’s proposed plan is fairly vague—but it would result in a clear victor.
21 min
6
Slate Money | Money Talks: Chicken and a Cold D...
35 min
7
How To! | Learn to Love Your City
Melody Warnick on doubling down on your hometown.
26 min
8
Death, Sex & Money | “The Lord Is My Shepherd a...
In the 1960s, the Metropolitan Community Church was one of the first gay-positive churches. When AIDS hit, it became a refuge.
51 min
9
Hang Up | Apple’s Soccer Shakeup
Why the tech giant tore down its MLS streaming paywall.
79 min
10
What Next | How Planned Parenthood Got Defunded
Abortion bans may not be politically feasible—but cutting funding from the clinics gets you a lot of the way there.
29 min
11
Care & Feeding | Ending the Elf (On the Shelf)
37 min
12
What Next: TBD | The Surveillance Interstate
ICE is watching how and where you drive.
27 min
13
Slate Money | Good Riddance to Larry Summers
50 min
14
ICYMI | AI Is Changing How We Have Sex
Technology and porn are becoming disturbingly intertwined.
45 min
15
Amicus | The DOJ's Prosecutorial Malpractice Ke...
New developments in the Epstein and Comey sagas have revealed a lot about how justice can still break through the lawlessness of this moment.
56 min
16
What Next: TBD | Crypto Keeps Criming
Even with a crypto president, these guys can’t stop doing shady stuff.
21 min
17
Political Gabfest | DOJ is DOA
59 min
18
What Next | Who Killed the Penny? She Did.
Nickels, consider yourselves warned.
22 min
19
Care & Feeding | How To Navigate Strained Relat...
54 min
20
What Next | Sudan on the Brink
How an isolationist United States leaves more space for conflict, and less humanitarian aid.
26 min
21
7: Dress Rehearsals | When We All Get to Heaven
A church romance blossoms between a hula dancer and a lumbersexual.
46 min
22
ICYMI | The Two Internet Villains Staging a Com...
Why won’t Ned Fulmer and Colleen Ballinger get the hint?
45 min
23
Decoder Ring | How Protein Muscled Its Way to t...
Two hundred years of protein frenzy, from beef tea to whey powder.
40 min
24
Culture Gabfest: Glen Powell Does The Running M...
On this week’s show, the gang gets into The Running Man, the limited series Death by Lightning, and Rosalía’s new album LUX.
59 min
25
What Next | Have the Epstein Files Broken MAGA?
Wait—Trump didn’t just wriggle out of this one?!
27 min