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Slate Money | The Coolest Thing in the World fo...
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What Next: TBD | Rebroadcast: Dupes!
Is your skincare/skirt/vacation island as good as the real thing?
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Political Gabfest | Is This the End of the Trum...
62 min
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What Next | Why You Can't Avoid Wicked
It's the way you're viewed, so it's very shrewd to be very very…weird?
25 min
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What Next | Could We Get Peace In Ukraine?
The Trump administration’s proposed plan is fairly vague—but it would result in a clear victor.
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Slate Money | Money Talks: Chicken and a Cold D...
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What Next | How Planned Parenthood Got Defunded
Abortion bans may not be politically feasible—but cutting funding from the clinics gets you a lot of the way there.
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What Next: TBD | The Surveillance Interstate
ICE is watching how and where you drive.
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Slate Money | Good Riddance to Larry Summers
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ICYMI | AI Is Changing How We Have Sex
Technology and porn are becoming disturbingly intertwined.
45 min
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Amicus | The DOJ's Prosecutorial Malpractice Ke...
New developments in the Epstein and Comey sagas have revealed a lot about how justice can still break through the lawlessness of this moment.
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What Next: TBD | Crypto Keeps Criming
Even with a crypto president, these guys can’t stop doing shady stuff.
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Political Gabfest | DOJ is DOA
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What Next | Who Killed the Penny? She Did.
Nickels, consider yourselves warned.
22 min
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Sudan on the Brink
How an isolationist United States leaves more space for conflict, and less humanitarian aid.
26 min
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What Next | Have the Epstein Files Broken MAGA?
Wait—Trump didn’t just wriggle out of this one?!
27 min
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What Next | The National Guard Is Asking Questions
The crackdown is still searching for a crisis.
24 min
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What Next: TBD | How Meta Profits Off Fraud
There’s a big financial incentive for Facebook and Instagram to tolerate scammers.
28 min
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Slate Money | The Correct Opinion on 50-Year Mo...
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Amicus | He Quit the Bench to Raise the Alarm
Amid unprecedented attacks on courts and judges, two champions for justice speak out.
75 min
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What Next: TBD | Data Centers on the Ballot
A.I. companies are leading the data-center boom. Voters seem less enthused.
21 min
72
Political Gabfest | Who Really Won the Shutdown?
Democrats cave to end government shutdown as public pain starts swamping healthcare message; affordability politics take center stage; and the Epstein scandal flares back to life with a vengeance despite the best efforts of the White House.
58 min
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What Next | Wikipedia Enters the Culture Wars
A user base with a commitment to the truth is what makes Wikipedia work—and what makes it a target.
22 min
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What Next | No, Women Didn't Ruin the Workplace
“Are workplaces too girly?” and other questions asked bravely by the New York Times.
28 min
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ICYMI | Who TF Is Grammy-Nominated Alex Warren?
Alex Warren was an OG TikTokker. Now he’s nominated for a Grammy.
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