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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1
What Next | Where Sports Betting Got Us
Just when you think it’s all apps, the Mafia pops back into the picture.
26 min
2
Slate Money | Money Talks: How Our Tax Code Mak...
43 min
3
How To! | Stop Snoring
Andrew Zaleski on getting a better night's sleep, even if it requires a chin strap.
26 min
4
Death, Sex & Money | Her Boyfriend Was Killed i...
A Brooklyn woman explains how her partner’s death got distorted and politicized by online provocateurs.
50 min
5
Hang Up | The NBA’s Growing Gambling Affair
How legal prop betting may have set the table for the latest scandal affecting pro basketball.
55 min
6
Care & Feeding | My Kid is Saying 6-7…Can I Say...
41 min
7
What Next | Shutting Down and Finding Out
The government shutdown now enters its fourth week. Will Democrats finally play hard ball?
24 min
8
What Next: TBD | Did The Trump Administration C...
Anti-ICE posts and apps flourished online. The Trump administration had them taken down.
28 min
9
Slate Money | The Louvre Heist Affair
51 min
10
ICYMI | TwitchCon’s Sexual Harassment Problem
An incident at the 2025 convention has added new urgency to streamer safety.
47 min
11
Amicus | Demolition Man
The Department of Justice looks an awful lot like the East Wing of the White House these days… metaphorically speaking.
51 min
12
What Next: TBD | The AWS Outage is Only the Beg...
Why a mesh of cloud services and undersea cables make for a very delicate web.
28 min
13
Political Gabfest | Trump Literally Knocks Down...
54 min
14
What Next | Is the Peanut Allergy Dead?
Researchers reversed long-standing guidance about giving kids peanuts. It worked – a lot.
22 min
15
Care & Feeding | “It’s Not Easy!” Parenting Aft...
43 min
16
What Next | Why So Many Racist Group Chats?
From the chats to the policy proposals, no one’s hiding that the goal is a whiter America.
23 min
17
3: “A Church with AIDS” | When We All Get to He...
The gay church becomes the church with AIDS.
44 min
18
ICYMI | The Streamer and the Shock Collar
Conservative clout-chasers accuse Hasan Piker of animal abuse on livestream.
38 min
19
Decoder Ring | The Red String Board Conspiracy
46 min
20
Culture Gabfest: Guillermo del Toro Can Take Fr...
On this week’s show, the panel delves into the gothic world of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, the fate of dictionaries, and Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, a new podcast about the musical icon and activist.
67 min
21
What Next | The Trump Doctrine in Latin America
Why Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado made sure to thank the president.
29 min
22
How To! | Survive Getting Fired
Laura Brown and Kristina O’Neill on bouncing back after losing your job.
39 min
23
Death, Sex & Money | How a Former Polygamist “S...
Christine Brown Woolley, co-star of the TLC reality show Sister Wives, talks about the faith she grew up in—and raised her children in—and why she decided to break from it.
57 min
24
Hang Up | Nate Silver and the NFL's Year of Parity
The FiveThirtyEight and Silver Bulletin founder joins to discuss the unpredictability of professional football.
82 min
25
What Next | Are Democrats Already Fumbling a Win?
What weird state-wide races in Virginia tell us about 2026.
29 min