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Political Gabfest: Should Student Protesters Be...
Campus protests march on; Supreme Court tries “history and tradition”; and killing her dog bites Governor Kristi Noem.
53 min
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Slate Money: Will new DEA rules light up the we...
The Money crew discusses the DEA’s softer cannabis rules, Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao’s prison sentence, and why ravioli costs so damn much.
47 min
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What Next TBD: Bird Flu—It’s in Milk?
Scientists are observing, for the first time, the virus spreading cow-to-cow—is human-to-human next?
21 min
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What Next: Columbia Cracks Down
Every single thing about this is completely maddening. And none of it had to happen.”
24 min
30
What Next: Biden’s Climate Report Card
We're doing more than ever, and still not nearly enough.
20 min
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Hear Me Out: Student Protests Can Backfire (Badly)
It’s the law of unintended consequences.
41 min
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What Next: The Man Who Wrote the Trump Playbook...
Republicans these days are ceding popular elections but holding on to power. That strategy is older than you think.
23 min
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What Next: The Jewish Case for Protest
How views of Israel have changed—and how some Jewish Americans are grappling with the dissonance.
28 min
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A Word: True Life, True Crime
How journalist Tonya Mosley got to know her sister Anita decades after she died.
25 min
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What Next TBD: The Failures of ‘Organic’ Farming
Organic farms try to make their products better for people, but that doesn’t mean better animal welfare.
24 min
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Well, Now: Living and Loving With OCD (feat. Al...
And finding humor with it, too.
36 min
37
Slate Money: The Rich People Restaurant Crisis
Slate Money (party of three) discusses restaurant reservation resellers, the ban on non-compete clauses, and Biden’s crackdown on airline junk fees.
40 min
38
Amicus: Democracy Dies at SCOTUS
Justice Alito suggests it’s better for democracy to let Presidents commit crime with impunity. Cool.
54 min
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What Next TBD: So ... Is TikTok Banned?
Or has the long journey to banning the short-video app just begun?
19 min
40
What Next: How Trump Found His Lawyer
An ex-prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, Todd Blanche left one of the oldest Wall Street law firms to represent the former president.
24 min
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AMICUS PREVIEW: Abortion Gaslighting is Back at...
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern take you through the arguments in the emergency abortion care case and a look ahead to Trump’s immunity case.
7 min
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What Next: Columbia Calls the Cops
How student protests have intensified and spread.
26 min
43
Hear Me Out: Third Parties Are Saving Democracy
It’s just that their job isn’t winning (yet).
32 min
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What Next: Your Right to Protest? Not the Supre...
Looks like the highest court will let the wildly conservative Fifth Circuit judges violate the Constitution a bit, as a treat.
19 min
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What Next: What the WNBA Salary Debate Misses
Caitlin Clark’s $76,000 pay is shocking—but the story is bigger than her.
24 min
46
Well, Now: We Don’t Need to Cure Autism
“If your kid didn’t have autism anymore, they would be a different person. A person that doesn’t exist.”
37 min
47
A Word: Freaknik: Party in the Black
Remembering the freedom, fun and –sometimes– foolishness of 1990s Black spring break.
22 min
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What Next TBD: The Internet Archive Endangered
A non-profit site just digitized Aruba’s history. They could be sued out of existence.
19 min
49
Political Gabfest: Could You Be A Trump Juror?
Donald Trump faces his first criminal trial; the Supreme Court considers a charge related to another Trump case; and The Atlantic’s Mark Leibovich finds Gavin Newsom can’t help himself.
59 min
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Amicus: Twelve Jurors and One Angry Ex-President
What the first week of Trump’s hush money trial tells us about how the former President is handling his first criminal trial
35 min