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For readers who are listeners, for listeners looking for something to read—this feed includes book discussions and conversations with authors from across the Slate Podcast network.
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Money Talks: How Did Trump Scam America? Lots o...
Authors Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig discuss how Trump faked it until he made it.
40 min
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Gabfest Reads: 10% Happier and Finding Happines...
On the 10th anniversary of Dan Harris’s book, 10% Happier, the author sits down with John Dickerson to talk about how to get through this stressful time.
43 min
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Amicus | How To Steal A Presidential Election
You asked, we answered. Can republicans use the law to subvert this year’s election? What can be done to stop that?
63 min
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Well, Now: Can Kids Be Healthy at Any Size?
Underweight and overweight kids are at higher risk for psychological harm. What’s the answer to proper nutrition in a world still full of weight stigma?
42 min
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Money Talks: We Could Run Out of Everything Again
Emily Peck speaks with Peter Goodman about the house of cards that ruined the global supply chain.
41 min
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Outward: What Arabic LGBTQ+ Slang Tells Us with...
June sits down with Marwan Kaboour, editor of The Queer Arab Glossary, the first published collection of Arabic LGBTQ+ slang
32 min
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Care & Feeding: Abby Wambach Is Parenting the W...
Slate’s parenting podcast on horseshoes, not circles.
37 min
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A Word: Latinos for Trump…for Real
Trump vilifies Latino immigrants, but wins over lots of Latino voters. Why?
32 min
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Well, Now: What It’s Really Like to Take Ozempic
In Magic Pill, journalist Johann Hari dives into the science and history of GLP-1 drugs for weight loss, all the while taking Ozempic himself.
49 min
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Outward: Surviving Hate and Finding Joy as a Tr...
Nico Lang traveled the country to talk to trans teenagers about the reality of their lives in red states and blue states.
40 min
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A Word: Tech’s Race Reckoning
Silicon Valley might drive progress in business, but it lags behind on race.
28 min
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Gabfest Reads: A Murder Mystery that Uncovers t...
Elizabeth Strout’s new book, Tell Me Everything returns to Crosby, Maine, and to beloved characters like Olive Kitteridge
20 min
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Well, Now: Who Cares for the Caregivers?
In ‘How Do You Feel?’ a psychiatrist tries to bring the humanity back into healthcare for caretakers and caregivers.
52 min
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Money Talks: Under the Spell of Someone Else’s ...
Author Rumaan Alam’s new novel Entitlement explores how proximity to the rich can transform us.
32 min
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Dear Prudence | Revisiting Advice from Ashley C...
The author of the bestselling memoir Somebody’s Daughter joins the Dear Prudence podcast to discuss what to do when your partner’s chronic lateness ruins a vacation.
41 min
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ICYMI: We May Have A New Bad Art Friend With Ha...
Why BookTok sleuths are accusing a debut novelist of crossing a line by “plagiarizing” her ex-best friend’s childhood.
51 min
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How To! | The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Di...
Amanda Ripley on preparing yourself and your community for the unthinkable.
38 min
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A Word: Prayer, Politics, and Power Shifts
Trump and Harris both want Black church support. Do they know how to find it?
39 min
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ICYMI: Allison Raskin on Leaving Buzzfeed and F...
The writer, podcaster, and co-host of Just Between Us takes us through her internet diaries.
36 min
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Death, Sex & Money: Life and Death Inside the P...
Crystal Hefner talks about her decade living with Hugh Hefner, how money worked in their made-for-TV marriage, and the complicated pain of losing him.
47 min
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How To!: No Family Is Perfect—A Guide to Embrac...
Dr. Lucy Blake on connecting with loved ones who couldn’t be more different
37 min
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Money Talks: How to Save a Doomed Economy
Economist Paul Collier discusses rebuilding regions and countries that have been left behind.
33 min
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Working: The Founder of a Life-Changing Writers...
Author and poet Judith Barrington talks about Flight of the Mind, a workshop she ran for 17 years.
36 min
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Slate Money: Nate Silver and the Secret World o...
Author and statistician Nate Silver joins the Money squad to discuss Silicon Valley psychology, AI doomsday, and the promise and peril of risking it all.
50 min
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Gabfest Reads: Where Does the American Jewish E...
Joshua Leifer’s new book, Tablets Shattered, is an empathic and lived-in discovery of Jewish history
53 min