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926
What Next: Fox News Goes to Court
Can Dominion prove “actual malice”?
28 min
927
What Next: He Couldn’t Teach ‘Slavery Was Wrong...
More teachers are leaving their jobs as a wave of restrictive legislation targets educators across the country.
25 min
928
What Next TBD: Will Banning Social Media Help K...
What the science says about Utah’s social media ban for teens.
29 min
929
A Word: The Color of Money
How financial planning can help Black taxpayers close the racial wealth gap.
21 min
930
Slate Money: The China Problem
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers go over China’s expanding role in the international debt market.
49 min
931
Amicus: Anti-Abortion Lawyers Love this Zombie Law
The Comstock Act is a 19th century vice law some hope could criminalize abortion nationwide
31 min
932
The Waves: How to Survive in Hollywood
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star Caroline Aaron discusses her career as a character actress.
26 min
933
What Next TBD: How Gamers Leaked Classified Pen...
How highly classified documents from the Pentagon ended up in a small Discord server.
30 min
934
Political Gabfest: That Shoddy Abortion Pill Ru...
Federal judges limit the availability of mifepristone; the Republican Tennessee state legislature expels two Democratic representatives; and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has an ethics problem again.
50 min
935
What Next: Do Abortion Pills Actually Need FDA ...
A judge has revoked FDA approval of mifepristone. But the FDA could fight back - in more ways than one.
22 min
936
What Next: Narcan Over the Counter
How the emergency overdose treatment came to be—and came to be so necessary.
25 min
937
Hear Me Out: Don’t Celebrate the Trump Indictment
If you’re banking on a legal slam dunk and a president behind bars… we have some bad news.
32 min
938
What Next: Tennessee’s House Divided
Days of public protest, open shouting from the Rotunda, and expulsions that broke on color lines.
27 min
939
What Next: Clarence Thomas’s Friends in High Pl...
Who is Harlan Crow and why is he the justice’s vacation benefactor?
26 min
940
What Next TBD: Why Flying Is So Bad Now
A series of near misses, antiquated tech and a shortage of airline employees are exposing the cracks in our air travel system.
28 min
941
A Word: The Battle for Eatonville
Classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God immortalized Eatonville, Florida. Will the town survive?
24 min
942
Amicus: Tennessee-Style Power Grabs are Coming ...
The (racist) playbook when vote suppression and gerrymandering isn’t enough.
67 min
943
Slate Money: How to Win at Roulette
Slate Money hosts Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers talk about the podcasting economy and if the bubble has burst—or if it will soon.
41 min
944
Political Gabfest: No Mugshot For Donald Trump
Donald Trump is arraigned; Janet Protasiewicz wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, Brandon Johnson is elected Chicago mayor; and No Labels might play spoiler in the 2024 presidential race.
46 min
945
Political Gabfest: No Mugshot For Donald Trump
Donald Trump is arraigned; Janet Protasiewicz wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, Brandon Johnson is elected Chicago mayor; and No Labels might play spoiler in the 2024 presidential race.
46 min
946
The Waves: Make Movies Horny Again
Films like Magic Mike: The Last Dance are an exception to our current sexless movie norm.
31 min
947
What Next TBD: Wait, TikTok Has a Sister App?
While TikTok is in Washington’s crosshairs, Bytedance has been quietly pushing out Lemon8, a new social media app that promises to marry Instagram and Pinterest. Will it stick?
24 min
948
What Next: How Scared Should Trump Be?
No president has been indicted before, but Alvin Bragg isn’t in totally unprecedented legal territory.
23 min
949
What Next: Preventing Preventive Care
A federal judge has blocked a key provision of the ACA—who will step up to save it?
21 min
950
What Next: Wisconsin’s High-Stakes Supreme Cour...
How a down-ballot race could swing abortion rights, the House majority - even the 2024 presidential contest.
25 min