526
What Next TBD: The Dark Side of GoFundMe
Even when it succeeds, it’s evidence of a broken system.
28 min
527
Well, Now: Is Biohacking a Scam?
Or is it only for the rich?
45 min
528
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?
38 min
529
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?
57 min
530
Slate Money: Biden Zaps Chinese EVs
The Money team discusses new China tariffs, Congress debating AI, and Melinda French Gates’ departure from her foundation.
51 min
531
Amicus: Alito’s Stars and Gripes
What the Justice’s upside down American flag tells us about SCOTUS’ declining legitimacy.
57 min
532
Dear Prudence: When Missing Meds Leads to Racis...
27 min
533
What Next TBD: Too Stonks Too Furious
Meme stocks are back—wait, they never really went away.
21 min
534
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.”
25 min
535
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.
24 min
536
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.
22 min
537
Hear Me Out: Trump Isn’t a Bug. He's a Feature.
The founders weren’t exactly anti-authoritarian.
41 min
538
What Next: MAGA Eating Itself Alive
When your knee-jerk contrarian movement chases everyone else from the room, who’s left to rebel against?
23 min
539
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.
37 min
540
What Next TBD: Would You Choose Your Child’s Sex?
Almost every country has banned the practice—but in the US, its growing.
25 min
541
A Word: Between the World and Us
Ta-Nehisi Coates blasts the lack of leadership on the Middle East.
42 min
542
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.
54 min
543
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?
64 min
544
What Next TBD: Meet the Trump Campaign’s A.I. Guy
The artificial intelligence election is on.
17 min
545
What Next: Stormy Daniels Takes the Stand
Is Trump’s best defense…a mistrial?
24 min
546
Outward: Queering the Map with Lucas LaRochelle
24 min
547
What Next: Conservative Candid Camera in the Da...
On top of everything else, migrants now have to worry about being ambushed by Laura Loomer.
26 min
548
Hear Me Out: Punishing A Shooter’s Parents Miss...
Justice is a bigger picture.
36 min
549
What Next: Hamas Agreed to a Ceasefire. Now What?
On Sunday, talks looked “dead.” Then on Monday, Hamas took the deal.
27 min
550
What Next: Why Democrats Will Save Mike Johnson...
The bipartisan effort to ignore Marjorie Taylor Greene.
23 min