A Word: Hit After Hit: Rap in a Post Kendrick v...
The Compton lyricist humbled the Canadian rapper on the charts. Why, and what’s next?
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What Next TBD: The Dark Side of GoFundMe
Even when it succeeds, it’s evidence of a broken system.
28 min
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Political Gabfest: How Bad Was The Poll For Biden?
Joe Biden is losing the presidential-poll horserace in battleground states but is ready to rumble and debate Donald Trump who is silent inside the courtroom but talking through surrogates outside?
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Amicus: Alito’s Stars and Gripes
What the Justice’s upside down American flag tells us about SCOTUS’ declining legitimacy.
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Slate Money: Biden Zaps Chinese EVs
The Money team discusses new China tariffs, Congress debating AI, and Melinda French Gates’ departure from her foundation.
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Dear Prudence: When Missing Meds Leads to Racis...
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What Next TBD: Too Stonks Too Furious
Meme stocks are back—wait, they never really went away.
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What Next: Why Miss USA is Imploding
Miss USA’s resignation letter is vague. But the first letter of each sentence spells out “I am silenced.”
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What Next: Can Fox News Still Sway an Election?
The network couldn’t launch DeSantis, but its thumb can still tip the scales this fall.
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What Next: The Fight for Joe Manchin’s Seat
It takes a special kind of Democrat to win in West Virginia—but he thinks he can pull it off.
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Hear Me Out: Trump Isn’t a Bug. He's a Feature.
The founders weren’t exactly anti-authoritarian.
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What Next: MAGA Eating Itself Alive
When your knee-jerk contrarian movement chases everyone else from the room, who’s left to rebel against?
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A Word: Between the World and Us
Ta-Nehisi Coates blasts the lack of leadership on the Middle East.
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What Next TBD: Would You Choose Your Child’s Sex?
Almost every country has banned the practice—but in the US, its growing.
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Well, Now: Overcoming a Complicated Pregnancy
Half of pregnancies will experience complications. Here’s how patients and their partners can best advocate for the proper care.
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Slate Money: How Neoliberalism Scammed America
Author and legal scholar Mehrsa Baradaran joins the Money squad to discuss neoliberalism, sexism at the FDIC, and the teetering banking sector.
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Political Gabfest: Trump Wore Pajamas
Stormy Daniels’s courtroom thunder drowns out Donald Trump’s bluster; marijuana decriminalization is a hot topic; and must the media defend democracy?
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What Next TBD: Meet the Trump Campaign’s A.I. Guy
The artificial intelligence election is on.
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What Next: Stormy Daniels Takes the Stand
Is Trump’s best defense…a mistrial?
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What Next: Conservative Candid Camera in the Da...
On top of everything else, migrants now have to worry about being ambushed by Laura Loomer.
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Outward: Queering the Map with Lucas LaRochelle
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Hear Me Out: Punishing A Shooter’s Parents Miss...
Justice is a bigger picture.
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What Next: Hamas Agreed to a Ceasefire. Now What?
On Sunday, talks looked “dead.” Then on Monday, Hamas took the deal.
27 min
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What Next: Why Democrats Will Save Mike Johnson...
The bipartisan effort to ignore Marjorie Taylor Greene.