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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Hit Parade | Singing Nuns and Green Tambourines...
The 1960s will always be associated with counterculture and the Summer of Love, but the decade’s pop charts were full of novelty, schlock and bubblegum.
54 min
127
Dear Prudence | I Want To Go No-Contact With My...
Guest Prudie Kristen Meinzer is joined by Ada Calhoun.
28 min
128
What Next: TBD | We Made a Memecoin
Because—how hard could it be?
27 min
129
Political Gabfest: Houthi PC Small Group
51 min
130
Care & Feeding | My Kid Won’t Pee Without A Towel
Slate’s parenting podcast on not feeling wet.
39 min
131
What Next | The Group Chat Heard ‘Round the World
Former GOP congressman and Air Force vet Adam Kinzinger shares just how bad this Signal leak was.
25 min
132
Decoder Ring | How Books About Things That Chan...
Whether it’s cod, kudzu, or nutmeg, authors love to claim their subjects shaped history. Did they really?
51 min
133
Culture Gabfest: Netflix’s Incel Tragedy Adoles...
This week, the hosts discuss Adolescence, Lady Gaga’s latest album MAYHEM, and Trump’s continued assault on public universities to remove DEI programs.
66 min
134
ICYMI | Are Influencers Too Normalized To Be Mo...
How a Swiss train put its foot down against an influencer-bashing Instagram account and what this says about our troubling self-surveillance culture.
25 min
135
What Next | What Happens To My Student Loans Now?
If your debt outlasts the Department of Education, alas, you’re not out of the woods yet.
24 min
136
How To! | Write Your Memoir
Patrick George of InsideEVs on finding your new ride.
42 min
137
Death, Sex & Money | A Middle-Aged Couple Made ...
The former head of a university and his wife discuss their adult film hobby and a scandal that upended their lives.
46 min
138
What Next | A Tea Party for the Democrats?
Bernie and AOC have crowds, but what’s their pitch?
23 min
139
Hang Up | Hot Dogs and Tommy Johns
We break down what we’re most (and least) excited about this MLB season.
61 min
140
Care & Feeding | My Daughter’s Dying To Be Popular
Slate’s parenting podcast on the right cohorts.
33 min
141
What Next | How Colleges Can Fight Back
Taking it from the quads to courts.
25 min
142
What Next TBD | Bezos 2.0
How the Amazon founder went from Trump critic to Trump donor
25 min
143
Slate Money | Who’s The Boss?
50 min
144
ICYMI | The Manosphere That Made Adolescence
Netflix’s new hit show tackles the dark side of the internet.
32 min
145
Amicus | The Rule of Law Took A Very Dark Turn ...
From rendition flights to El Salvador, to USAID workers left stranded in dangerous places, the courts are tackling Trump’s wildest lawless acts, but meeting with denial and defiance.
73 min
146
Dear Prudence | I Love My Sister But I Don’t Li...
Guest Prudie Kristen Meinzer is joined by Traci Thomas.
42 min
147
What Next TBD | Trump's War on Scientific Research
Cutting NIH grants–even temporarily–could have repercussions for years to come.
26 min
148
Political Gabfest | The “Constitutional Crisis ...
The government responds defiantly to court orders in showdown over mass deportation; what the data say about why Trump won in 2024; and slow-motion capitulation in a long call between Trump and Putin.
62 min
149
Care & Feeding | What Your Kid’s Skin Really Needs
Slate’s parenting podcast on popping “big pimple”.
48 min
150
What Next | Trump’s Animal-Spirit Economy
Trying to make sense of Trumponomics.
25 min