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What Next | Are Democrats Already Fumbling a Win?
What weird state-wide races in Virginia tell us about 2026.
29 min
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What Next: TBD | Why Bands Are Leaving Spotify
Xiu Xiu explains their decision to leave the streaming platform following Daniel Ek's investments in defense tech.
17 min
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Slate Money | Credit Cockroaches
47 min
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Amicus | Voting Rights, But Mainly for White Pe...
Didn’t you hear? SCOTUS says racism’s over.
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What Next: TBD | Inside the MAGA Content Mill
How to make a city full of inflatable frog suits look like it needs the National Guard.
23 min
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Political Gabfest | Trump Ends the Gaza War
55 min
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What Next | He Wrote About Anti-Fascism—Then Fl...
How a book Mark Bray wrote in 2017 led to death threats and Bray relocating his family to Spain.
31 min
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What Next | Time for a Blue-State “Soft Secessi...
If the federal government is deadset on punishing states run by Democrats, what options do those states have?
22 min
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ICYMI | Stop Trying To Make A.I. Trendy
From vandalized subway ads to ChatGPT billboards, A.I. startups are flooding traditional marketing spaces and getting backlash for it.
38 min
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Hang Up | How the Ceasefire Keeps Israel in Eur...
Trump’s peace deal pressed pause on a move to expel the country from UEFA.
64 min
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What Next | Everything’s Coming Up Bari
Is Weiss perpetually on the rise, or is media coming down to her level?
25 min
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Slate Money | Money Talks: Don’t Forget The 192...
33 min
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What Next: TBD | A.I. for Cops
Silicon Valley wants your police department to use artificial intelligence. Do you?
24 min
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Slate Money | What Even Is Money?
54 min
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Amicus | Trump’s Insurrection Claims Could Lead...
Is the administration priming the American people to accept military intervention in the midterms?
52 min
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What Next: TBD | The People Suing ICE
21 min
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Political Gabfest | Portland is Not Actually Bu...
60 min
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What Next | The People Joining ICE
As much of the government faces layoffs, slashed funding, and a shutdown, ICE’s budget has been tripled, and they’re casting a wide net for new recruits.
23 min
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What Next | Inside the Portland “War Zone”
They blew up the Chicken Man in Portland last night…
26 min
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ICYMI | Taylor Swift Is Rewriting Her Internet ...
We break down the surprising reactions to Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl and what it says about her current relationship to the internet.
42 min
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What Next | Is the Gaza Deal Real?
Donald Trump’s premature announcement demonstrated just how much leverage he has over the situation.
26 min
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Hang Up | Everything Is Sports Betting
How prediction markets are turning everything from elections to football games into wagering opportunities.
61 min
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What Next | When You’re A Justice They Let You ...
Conversion therapy, racial redistricting, the president’s power to fire anyone he wants—are the conservatives lining ‘em up to knock ‘em down?
27 min
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What Next: TBD | Saudi Arabia Gets into EA’s Games
What state investment in the video game company means for the industry.
20 min
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Slate Money | Argentina First?
49 min