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What Next | Legally Dead—And Pregnant
Adriana Smith is being kept on life support, at her family’s expense, until her fetus reaches 32 weeks.
25 min
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What Next | Does Gavin Newsom Have It All Figur...
Why the California governor seems to be engineering a big pivot to the center.
26 min
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What Next | What Would You Pay to Stay Alive?
A reporter investigates why his lifesaving medication costs nearly $1,000 a day.
25 min
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Slate Money | Money Talks: Is 'Your Friends & N...
38 min
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What Next: TBD | Crypto's Big Win
Even if you've never touched crypto, you could be burned by the GENIUS Act.
26 min
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Slate Money | Elon Backs Off
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Amicus | The Two Tracks of Justice
Why everything feels so bad right now, even if your life isn’t materially changing.
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What Next: TBD | Inside OpenAI's Empire
How the company convinced everyone that AGI is inevitable—and that they need to be the ones who control it.
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Political Gabfest | Big and Beautiful or Huge a...
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What Next | Can A “Morality Coalition” Succeed ...
He brought “Moral Mondays” to the Capitol—and getting arrested isn’t going to stop him.
22 min
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What Next | If Trump Guts FEMA, Are Tornado Vic...
It’s tempting to cut something that doesn’t seem essential…until it is.
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ICYMI: Pope Leo XIV is the Taylor Swift of Cath...
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What Next | Here’s How the GOP Cuts Medicaid
They’re getting the old “work requirements” argument down from the attic.
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Hang Up | What Went Wrong in Boston?
58 min
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What Next | Is Immigration Still Trump’s Strong...
Voters may be getting what they voted for, but not what they want.
25 min
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What Next: TBD | You’ve Been Deepfaked
How AI generated revenge porn is spreading across the internet.
24 min
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Slate Money | Did You Fill Yer Boots With Stocks?
41 min
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Amicus | SCOTUS Is About to Suffer Buyers Remor...
They decided to tackle the very messy question of nationwide injunctions instead of answering the easy, obviously unconstitutional issue.
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What Next: TBD | The Newarkification of Flying
Can we avoid an air travel future that is nasty, brutish, and severely delayed?
26 min
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Political Gabfest | Just a Modest $400 Million ...
67 min
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What Next | The Qatari Plane Is Just The Start
If you give a mouse a jumbo jet…
22 min
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What Next | Trump’s Middle East Diplomacy
Israel keeps getting surprised by the mercurial American president.
24 min
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ICYMI: Kayla Malec Deserves Online Justice, Too
21 min
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Slate Money | Money Talks: An Economist Shares ...
34 min
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What Next | David Hogg Wants Democratic Politic...
The call is coming from inside the party.
23 min