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Amicus | Extra: The Federal Funding Freeze
Trump’s chaotic and illegal order to freeze agency funding usurps Congress’s power and sets up a dangerous game of constitutional chicken at SCOTUS.
38 min
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What Next | Who Will Mourn DEI?
An imperfect system for creating a fairer society became a boogeyman—and Trump’s attacks on it are turning government employees against each other.
26 min
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What Next | Trump’s Gift to Militias
For a brief moment, militias were pariahs to both parties. Then the GOP called J6ers “patriots.”
24 min
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Culture Gabfest: Chalamet Goes Electric
This week, the hosts discuss A Complete Unknown, On Call, and David Lynch’s legacy.
74 min
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What Next TBD | The A.I. Will See You Now
Doctors are increasingly using artificial intelligence to help with appointments. But do the risks outweigh the benefits?
20 min
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Slate Money | Trump’s TikTok Backtrack
Tiktok is back (for now), Trump has a memecoin, and everyone is digital shoplifting.
45 min
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Amicus | Trump’s Unconstitutional Rampage Again...
What’s a red flag, what’s a false alarm and what’s already a five alarm fire.
59 min
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What Next TBD | Department of Government Elon
To trim government, first you must add to government, apparently.
19 min
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Political Gabfest | This Time Trump Knows What ...
President Trump signs a flurry of executive orders; issues sweeping pardons for January 6 rioters; and enjoys a second inauguration chock full of symbolic elements.
68 min
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Care & Feeding | We’re Moving Abroad To Escape ...
Slate’s parenting podcast on getting out of dodge.
56 min
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What Next | How Closed Is the Border?
Trump’s executive orders will narrow the legal paths to America. So does that mean more illegal immigration?
23 min
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What Next | Can Trump Actually Do All That?
Sorting through how much of that was legal—and how little was legally binding.
25 min
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Outward | Meta’s New Rules: Embracing Homophobi...
WIRED writer Kate Knibbs breaks down the recent changes at Meta with Christina Cauterucci
28 min
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Hang Up | The Buckeyes Are Champs Again
How the Scarlet and Gray from Ohio State snapped a ten-year title drought.
71 min
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Slate Money | Money Talks: The Cost of Caring
Professor Harold Pollack joins Slate Money co-host Emily Peck to discuss the finances of long-term caregiving.
31 min
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How To! | Harness Your Citizen Superpowers
Eric Liu on turning fear into fuel for community-based action in the Trump era.
41 min
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What Next | Hello Trumpworld
New faces, names you remember—and those you tried to forget.
23 min
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Slate Money | Oligarchy in the USA
Biden warns of an American oligarchy, the FDA is suing John Deere, and Hindenburg shuts down.
48 min
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Amicus | The New Constitutional (dis)Order
The law as we have known it is fundamentally shifting. Just look at the TikTok ban, or the presumptive attorney general.
54 min
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TBD | Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta-Morphosis
Is this a pivot? Or was the Meta CEO always this way?
23 min
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Political Gabfest | Every Single Trump Pick Wil...
Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees go to the Senate; Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report goes public; and President Joe Biden bids farewell.
58 min
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What Next | What the Ceasefire Is and Isn’t
An end to the war? A win for Biden? For Trump? A map to peace?
22 min
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What Next | Does Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 Report Mat...
The Special Counsel says Trump would have been convicted if he wasn’t elected President.
26 min
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What Next | Can Trump End Birthright Citizenship?
As far as laws go, this one seems pretty settled. But it’s Trump we’re talking about here.
24 min
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What Next | Who’s to Blame for the LA Fires?
How a global problem looks on a regional scale.
24 min