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Slate Money | Money Talks: Philosophy of The Bu...
42 min
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What Next | Trump Sends in the Troops
In response to protests in Los Angeles, the President invoked a legal authority last used by L.B.J. to deploy the National Guard on domestic protesters.
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What Next: TBD | The Future of the Internet Hin...
You may be asking, “Who?”
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Slate Money | Let’s TACO ‘Bout It
43 min
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Amicus | There Is No Musk-Trump Feud Without Th...
The original sin of selling the US Justice system comes home to roost at the Supreme Court.
44 min
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What Next: TBD | Is Palantir Building a Data Bi...
Palantir is laying the groundwork for a central government data system - one that sounds an awful lot like a surveillance state.
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Political Gabfest | Republicans vs. the Big Bea...
63 min
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Amicus | Sneak Preview: Unanimous Opinions Out ...
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What Next | She Was Tortured. America Shut Her ...
One of the last avenues of protection at the southern border appears to have closed.
26 min
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What Next | Can Zionism Survive This War?
A self-described Zionist feels the path Israel is on isn’t leading to a safe, peaceful nation for Jews, which he once believed was the goal.
28 min
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What Next | George Floyd Square, Five Years Later
Searching for progress, in Minneapolis and America.
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Hang up | Finals Week
How the championship series for both the NBA and NHL have taken shape.
51 min
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What Next | Can the U.S. Learn from the U.K.'s ...
Even with a US trade deal in hand, British politics still feel lost in the woods, five years after leaving the EU.
24 min
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What Next: TBD | So Long, Elon
He came, he sawed, he conq—well, he left.
25 min
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Slate Money | Pay Offs & Lay Offs
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Amicus | This End Of Term At SCOTUS Is Unlike A...
The president-king the Roberts Court built now threatens SCOTUS’ own imperial project
68 min
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What Next: TBD | The Drone Wars
Russia and Ukraine are locked in an arms race that will change war forever.
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Political Gabfest | Why Destroy Harvard?
69 min
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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.
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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.
69 min