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What Next: Mental Health Treatment—by Court Order
California has a new court system designed to help people who are struggling with psychotic disorders. Is it a step forward or a civil rights violation waiting to happen?
23 min
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Outward: PragerU’s Transphobic Twitter Takeover
Bryan, Jules, and Christina break down Prager University’s million dollar transphobic takeover ad campaign on X.
27 min
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What Next: The Cops Don’t Want You Listening In
The NYPD is spending $500 million on new radios—shutting out the “scannerheads” who break stories of police brutality.
23 min
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What Next: What Comes After the Ceasefire?
Hamas has freed a few dozen hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinians detained by Israel. But the specter of more fighting looms.
23 min
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What Next: The Race (Back) to the Moon
The world is competing to make the longest ice run ever.
21 min
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A Word: Quinta Brunson: Comedy’s Class Act
A second helping of Abbott Elementary’s top teacher.
22 min
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Slate Money: The Big Crazy at OpenAI
Slate Money talks drama at OpenAI, the Binance plea deal, and Argentina’s new president
48 min
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Political Gabfest: Is Polling Broken?
Issue polling is down; Sam Altman is out, then back in at OpenAI; and the Oslo Accords never got off the ground.
68 min
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What Next TBD: Where Scams Are Born
A corridor of shady casinos in remote parts of Asia are fueling a global “scamdemic.”
26 min
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What Next: How Israel-Hamas Has Divided Democrats
The constituency is fairly united on this, and so is the leadership—just on opposing sides.
22 min
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What Next TBD: Inside OpenAI's Implosion
Sam Altman is out—or is he?—oh yeah, he is. Wait or..?
28 min
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What Next: Moms for Liberty Tanked at the Polls...
Parental-Rights groups tend to burn brightly but briefly.
20 min
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What Next TBD: Bedbugs Are Back, Baby!
How do you feel about Thanksgiving travel now?
22 min
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The Waves: The Bravo Cinematic Universe
From Below Deck to Vanderpump Rules, the Andy Cohen led network has some explaining to do.
36 min
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The Waves | The Golden Bachelor Recap: Fantasy ...
But how sweet were they really?
37 min
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A Word: Rebirth of a Nation
Reconstruction was supposed to usher in a multi-racial democracy. What happened?
35 min
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Political Gabfest: You’ll Miss Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin leaves the U.S. Senate and might hit the No Labels presidential campaign trail; the Supreme Court gets a code of conduct; and collateral damage from the Israel-Hamas war includes Democratic politics.
55 min
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Slate Money: How Salt Built America
Author Ed Conway discusses the seemingly mundane materials that gave rise to civilizations
59 min
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Amicus: Is The Federalist Society Over?
What’s next for the conservative legal movement after its “dog catches car” moment.
43 min
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What Next TBD: How Deepfake Porn Infected a School
Once an image is on the internet, it’s out of your control—just ask the girls at Westfield High.
21 min
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What Next: What If Gaza Boils Over?
Could Israel vs. Hamas become a regional conflict?
20 min
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What Next: Trump’s Second Term
A senior national security official compared an experienced President Trump to the velociraptors learning to open doors in Jurassic Park.
20 min
673
Hear Me Out: It’s Time To Sunset Social Security
It’s a transfer of wealth, and not to the people who need it.
43 min
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What Next: How the Israel-Gaza War Rages in Ame...
A conversation over a broken discourse.
29 min
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What Next: The Rise of a Red State Democrat
Kentucky's Andy Beshear won reelection decisively. What can other Dems learn from his victory?
22 min