851
What Next: The Navajo Fight for Water
As states struggle to divvy up the Colorado River, the federal government has another obligation to fulfill.
19 min
852
What Next: How the Next Pandemic Starts
If we keep encroaching on wild animals’ habitats, we’ll catch what they’re catching.
23 min
853
What Next: TBD | A Tipping Point for Digital Ti...
Why exactly are self-service checkouts asking us to pay more?
28 min
854
A Word: The Ballot, the Bullet, and the Truth
MLK’s condemnation of Malcolm X never happened. Why that matters now.
34 min
855
Amicus: E. Jean Carroll and the Lawyer Who Beat...
E. Jean Carroll and lawyer Roberta Kaplan tell Dahlia Lithwick how they won, and why they could be headed back to court.
50 min
856
Political Gabfest: What Is The Comstock Act?
John Durham’s report on the Russia-Trump FBI investigation; the Fifth Circuit argument in the abortion pill case and North Carolina’s 12-week abortion ban; and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis v. Disney
53 min
857
The Waves: Why Medical Mysteries Plague Women
Journalist Allison Behringer is digging into new medical mysteries on this season of Bodies.
28 min
858
Slate Money: The Debt Ceiling is Dumb
Slate Money talks the debt ceiling, AI regulation, and greedflation.
47 min
859
What Next TBD: Why Sports Are All in on Betting
The tech that turned sports gambling from an illegal vice to an inescapable cash cow.
24 min
860
What Next: North Carolina’s Rush to Restrict Ab...
Its time as a regional outlier in reproductive freedom ends with an overridden veto.
23 min
861
What Next: The Roots of Latino White Supremacy
When race cuts across ethnicity.
21 min
862
Hear Me Out: Workplace DEI Trainings Do More Ha...
If you really want to make your workplace more inclusive, stop with the virtue signaling and actually do the work.
29 min
863
What Next: How Erdogan Stays in Power
What the Turkish president’s history tells us about the upcoming run-off election.
22 min
864
What Next: Trump Is Back. Is the Media Ready?
Making the right choice when it comes to good TV vs. good journalism.
23 min
865
What Next TBD: Space After NASA
The passionate weirdos and hedge funds that want to boldly go where only governments have gone before.
30 min
866
A Word: Dungeons, Dragons, and Diversity
How “blerds” and other geeks of color are diversifying hobby games.
32 min
867
The Waves: What E. Jean Carroll Did For Women
She won her defamation case against Donald Trump. Will it have a lasting impact?
34 min
868
Amicus: The Supreme Court's Dangerous Return to...
The Supreme Court’s revanchism and scandals are cratering its legitimacy at the very moment it needs it most.
45 min
869
Political Gabfest: Donald Trump is Liable
Donald Trump is liable for sexual abuse and defamation and now owes E. Jean Carroll $5 million; Title 42 ends and now President Joe Biden must revise U.S. immigration policy; and the debt ceiling crisis is now imminent.
54 min
870
What Next TBD: Who’s Afraid of A.I.?
Real harm from A.I. doesn’t have to look like Skynet—it’s already happening.
29 min
871
What Next: Debt Ceiling Dinner Theater
Why does America have to keep having this fight?
21 min
872
What Next: The Border's New Normal
Can the Biden administration live up to the campaign’s rhetoric when Title 42 lifts?
23 min
873
What Next: Why Richard Glossip Has Escaped Exec...
Inside nearly a decade of delays, stays, and last meals.
24 min
874
What Next: Can DeSantis Beat Disney?
What may have started as bluster and rhetoric is now a matter for the courts.
24 min
875
What Next TBD: What's Going on at Meta?
Market instability, bad bets and low morale are putting Silicon Valley's poster child in uncharted territory. Can it claw its way back?
29 min