626
Amicus: Alito’s Stars and Gripes
What the Justice’s upside down American flag tells us about SCOTUS’ declining legitimacy.
57 min
627
What Next TBD: Too Stonks Too Furious
Meme stocks are back—wait, they never really went away.
21 min
628
Dear Prudence: When Missing Meds Leads to Racis...
27 min
629
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
630
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
631
Hear Me Out: Trump Isn’t a Bug. He's a Feature.
The founders weren’t exactly anti-authoritarian.
41 min
632
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
633
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
634
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
635
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
636
A Word: Between the World and Us
Ta-Nehisi Coates blasts the lack of leadership on the Middle East.
42 min
637
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
638
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
639
What Next TBD: Meet the Trump Campaign’s A.I. Guy
The artificial intelligence election is on.
17 min
640
What Next: Stormy Daniels Takes the Stand
Is Trump’s best defense…a mistrial?
24 min
641
Outward: Queering the Map with Lucas LaRochelle
24 min
642
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
643
What Next: Hamas Agreed to a Ceasefire. Now What?
On Sunday, talks looked “dead.” Then on Monday, Hamas took the deal.
27 min
644
Hear Me Out: Punishing A Shooter’s Parents Miss...
Justice is a bigger picture.
36 min
645
What Next: Why Democrats Will Save Mike Johnson...
The bipartisan effort to ignore Marjorie Taylor Greene.
23 min
646
What Next TBD: Can California Save Journalism?
The Sunshine State considers making Google and Meta pony up—and making news outlets spend that revenue on their staff.
20 min
647
Well, Now: How a Former Surgeon General Took on...
Even surgeon generals get sticker shock. Here are Jerome Adams’s suggestions for how to fight back.
40 min
648
A Word: Flint's Decade of Disappointment
The legacy of the Flint water crisis: disability, disinvestment, and despair.
26 min
649
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
650
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