Slate Daily Feed

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: TBD | Hot Measles Summer
Why the next few months are crucial for containing the outbreak.
23 min
377
Political Gabfest | Who Wants a Third Party, An...
Musk founds the “America Party” via social media post; the US erratically zags again on aid for Ukraine against Putin; and Trump’s latest plot twist in the tedious tariff saga.
65 min
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Care & Feeding | When Your Teen Thinks They're ...
38 min
379
What Next | Stage Managing Sex in Hollywood
The position has experienced a boom in the years after #MeToo—but have they really changed Hollywood?
27 min
380
What Next | Was the Flash Flooding in Texas Pre...
The world we’ve been building for isn’t the world we’ll be living in.
21 min
381
ICYMI | Encore: Is ChatGPT Your Therapist?
Dazed’s Laura Pitcher on the daily users of ChatGPT who confided in the chatbot as their friend, life organizer, and sometimes, therapist.
36 min
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Culture Gabfest: Sorry, Straight White Male Nov...
This week, the panel wrangle with the tricky to pin down yet compelling traumedy Sorry, Baby, the documentary Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print, and the life and death of the straight white male novelist (as eulogized in a recent New York Times piece).
56 min
383
Outward | Archiving the Spirit of Ballroom with...
Michael Roberson traces the spiritual, political, and public health roots of the ballroom scene
38 min
384
What Next | Is Trump Running the Fugitive Slave...
The lessons and warnings from a law that failed to avert the Civil War.
20 min
385
Slate Money | Money Talks: The Working Homeless...
42 min
386
How To! | Stop Giving 110%
Oliver Burkeman on making hard decisions about important things.
38 min
387
Death, Sex & Money | What Military Service Duri...
Storyteller Ray Christian, who joined the Army right after the Vietnam War, reflects on why he enlisted and why he didn’t leave for 20 years.
50 min
388
Hang Up | The LeBron and Giannis Loyalty Test
Will the NBA’s biggest stars stay or go?
70 min
389
What Next | The Spectacle of “Alligator Alcatra...
How the new immigration detention facility in Florida became a reality in just over a week.
23 min
390
Care & Feeding | Becoming a Parent Is a Process
Slate’s parenting podcast on the early years.
38 min
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What Next: TBD | How A.I. Lost (and Won) the Bi...
With a little help from country music.
24 min
392
Slate Money | Markets Will Be Markets
48 min
393
ICYMI | Not Even Lawsuits Can Stop AI
Two recent rulings spell bad news for creatives.
40 min
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What Next: TBD | Rerun: Death of the Weather Fo...
Climate and weather aren’t the same thing, but the Trump administration would have you understand neither one.
23 min
395
Political Gabfest | Is Trump’s Reckless Bill Un...
Senate passes massively irresponsible budget bill; last anti-Trump Republicans abandon Congress while Musk teases third party idea; and Paramount sells out journalists to settle with Trump.
66 min
396
Care & Feeding | Comebacks For “I’m Bored”
Slate’s parenting podcast on there being, as ever, nothing to do.
35 min
397
What Next | One Big Deeply Unpopular Bill
What this sweeping and expensive piece of legislation could cost you.
25 min
398
What Next | Is This the End of NPR and PBS?
The Trump administration’s plan to kill public broadcasting is going to hurt rural America most—will any Congressional Republicans step up?
26 min
399
Decoder Ring | The White Noise Boom
There’s more white noise available than any one person could possibly need. And yet, more keeps coming.
48 min
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ICYMI | The Most Famous Facelift on TikTok
What a woman’s viral trip to Guadalajara and Kylie Jenner’s boob job reveal say about the current state of plastic surgery discourse online.
29 min