We're doing more than ever, and still not nearly enough.
20 min
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What Next: The Man Who Wrote the Trump Playbook...
Republicans these days are ceding popular elections but holding on to power. That strategy is older than you think.
23 min
703
Hear Me Out: Student Protests Can Backfire (Badly)
It’s the law of unintended consequences.
41 min
704
What Next: The Jewish Case for Protest
How views of Israel have changed—and how some Jewish Americans are grappling with the dissonance.
28 min
705
Well, Now: Living and Loving With OCD (feat. Al...
And finding humor with it, too.
36 min
706
What Next TBD: The Failures of ‘Organic’ Farming
Organic farms try to make their products better for people, but that doesn’t mean better animal welfare.
24 min
707
A Word: True Life, True Crime
How journalist Tonya Mosley got to know her sister Anita decades after she died.
25 min
708
Amicus: Democracy Dies at SCOTUS
Justice Alito suggests it’s better for democracy to let Presidents commit crime with impunity. Cool.
54 min
709
Slate Money: The Rich People Restaurant Crisis
Slate Money (party of three) discusses restaurant reservation resellers, the ban on non-compete clauses, and Biden’s crackdown on airline junk fees.
40 min
710
What Next TBD: So ... Is TikTok Banned?
Or has the long journey to banning the short-video app just begun?
19 min
711
What Next: How Trump Found His Lawyer
An ex-prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, Todd Blanche left one of the oldest Wall Street law firms to represent the former president.
24 min
712
AMICUS PREVIEW: Abortion Gaslighting is Back at...
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern take you through the arguments in the emergency abortion care case and a look ahead to Trump’s immunity case.
7 min
713
What Next: Columbia Calls the Cops
How student protests have intensified and spread.
26 min
714
What Next: Your Right to Protest? Not the Supre...
Looks like the highest court will let the wildly conservative Fifth Circuit judges violate the Constitution a bit, as a treat.
19 min
715
Hear Me Out: Third Parties Are Saving Democracy
It’s just that their job isn’t winning (yet).
32 min
716
What Next: What the WNBA Salary Debate Misses
Caitlin Clark’s $76,000 pay is shocking—but the story is bigger than her.
24 min
717
What Next TBD: The Internet Archive Endangered
A non-profit site just digitized Aruba’s history. They could be sued out of existence.
19 min
718
Well, Now: We Don’t Need to Cure Autism
“If your kid didn’t have autism anymore, they would be a different person. A person that doesn’t exist.”
37 min
719
A Word: Freaknik: Party in the Black
Remembering the freedom, fun and –sometimes– foolishness of 1990s Black spring break.
22 min
720
Political Gabfest: Could You Be A Trump Juror?
Donald Trump faces his first criminal trial; the Supreme Court considers a charge related to another Trump case; and The Atlantic’s Mark Leibovich finds Gavin Newsom can’t help himself.
59 min
721
Slate Money: Tesla’s Toxic Relationship With Musk
The Money team discusses Musk’s $56 billion pay package, the troubles at NPR, and what inflation means for interest rates.
49 min
722
Amicus: Twelve Jurors and One Angry Ex-President
What the first week of Trump’s hush money trial tells us about how the former President is handling his first criminal trial
35 min
723
What Next TBD: What’s Driving Tesla’s Layoffs?
The EV maker may be demonstrating why other car makers don’t do it this way.
19 min
724
What Next: Is It Too Late to Escape “Forever Ch...
The EPA has known PFAS are dangerous for a long time—why are they finally ratcheting up regulations now?
25 min
725
Outward: A History of the Gay Right with Neil J...
Bryan and Neil dive into the history of his new book Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right