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Slate Money | Good Riddance to Larry Summers
50 min
27
ICYMI | AI Is Changing How We Have Sex
Technology and porn are becoming disturbingly intertwined.
45 min
28
Amicus | The DOJ's Prosecutorial Malpractice Ke...
New developments in the Epstein and Comey sagas have revealed a lot about how justice can still break through the lawlessness of this moment.
56 min
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What Next: TBD | Crypto Keeps Criming
Even with a crypto president, these guys can’t stop doing shady stuff.
21 min
30
Political Gabfest | DOJ is DOA
59 min
31
What Next | Who Killed the Penny? She Did.
Nickels, consider yourselves warned.
22 min
32
Sudan on the Brink
How an isolationist United States leaves more space for conflict, and less humanitarian aid.
26 min
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What Next | Have the Epstein Files Broken MAGA?
Wait—Trump didn’t just wriggle out of this one?!
27 min
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What Next | The National Guard Is Asking Questions
The crackdown is still searching for a crisis.
24 min
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What Next: TBD | How Meta Profits Off Fraud
There’s a big financial incentive for Facebook and Instagram to tolerate scammers.
28 min
36
Slate Money | The Correct Opinion on 50-Year Mo...
44 min
37
Amicus | He Quit the Bench to Raise the Alarm
Amid unprecedented attacks on courts and judges, two champions for justice speak out.
75 min
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What Next: TBD | Data Centers on the Ballot
A.I. companies are leading the data-center boom. Voters seem less enthused.
21 min
39
Political Gabfest | Who Really Won the Shutdown?
Democrats cave to end government shutdown as public pain starts swamping healthcare message; affordability politics take center stage; and the Epstein scandal flares back to life with a vengeance despite the best efforts of the White House.
58 min
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What Next | Wikipedia Enters the Culture Wars
A user base with a commitment to the truth is what makes Wikipedia work—and what makes it a target.
22 min
41
What Next | No, Women Didn't Ruin the Workplace
“Are workplaces too girly?” and other questions asked bravely by the New York Times.
28 min
42
ICYMI | Who TF Is Grammy-Nominated Alex Warren?
Alex Warren was an OG TikTokker. Now he’s nominated for a Grammy.
40 min
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What Next | How To Lose a Government Shutdown
Senate Democrats are letting the GOP off the hook in exchange for a promise for a future vote and a resolution that lasts until January?
23 min
44
Slate Money | Money Talks: Beyond The Pink Tax
38 min
45
Hang Up | Mamdani and the Knicks
How New York’s favorite team influenced the recent mayoral race.
60 min
46
What Next | Is Special Ed Getting Left Behind?
Federal funding that helps schools educate all children has stalled in the government shutdown—and it may never come back.
24 min
47
What Next: TBD | Why Tesla Is Paying Elon a Tri...
Post-DOGE, Musk’s empire is looking a little shaky, if still extremely lucrative for the man himself.
27 min
48
Slate Money | Meta’s Instascam Ads
50 min
49
Amicus | When Tariffs Crashed Into SCOTUS
SCOTUS has let this president do pretty much anything. Are tariffs really where they draw the line?
61 min
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What Next: TBD | The Nick Fuentes Problem
What’s the difference between being a party with Nazis and being in a Nazi party?
21 min