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926
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
927
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
928
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
929
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
31 min
930
What Next: Will Abortion in Florida and Arizona...
The ghost of Roe v. Wade haunts our voting booths.
24 min
931
What Next: What Israel Does Now
How to interpret Iran’s checked-swing retaliation.
22 min
932
Hear Me Out: Legalize Weed, But Not Like This
Smoke and mirrors.
34 min
933
Hang Up: The Meaning of O.J. Simpson
53 min
934
What Next: Trump In (Criminal) Court
What to expect when a former president facing jail time appears before a jury of his peers.
22 min
935
Well, Now: Most Skincare Products are BS. Here ...
It comes down to three things: a cleanser, a moisturizer, and sunscreen. The rest is extra.
35 min
936
A Word: Candace Owens: Back to Black?
What’s next for the conservative provocateur’s redemption tour on Black media.
39 min
937
What Next TBD: Is America Ready for Legal Psych...
How the push for legal ‘shrooms can avoid the problems plaguing legal cannabis.
23 min
938
Political Gabfest: Arizona Territory’s 1864 Abo...
Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban is back and Donald Trump is not for it; No Labels is done; and we question if presidential debates are over.
55 min
939
Amicus: The Jurisprudence of Bleeding Out
SCOTUS is about to decide whether being on the brink of death is the only way pregnant patients can qualify for emergency abortion care.
65 min
940
Slate Money: Why America’s Internet Sucks
The Money team discusses America’s glitchy internet industry, YouTube’s colossal media empire, and why AI still can’t brush your teeth.
50 min
941
What Next TBD: Does Google Suck Now?
Wither our once-best search engine?
23 min
942
What Next: The Judge Protecting Trump
Why the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case is going nowhere.
22 min
943
What Next; How the Government Botched Financial...
Congress, the Department of Education, and two presidential administrations, all trying to find who did this.
24 min
944
What Next: No Labels Is Out. But RFK Jr. Remains.
The spectre of a third-party spoiler still haunts the Democrats.
21 min
945
Hang Up: A Transcendent Women’s Tourney
66 min
946
What Next: How Young Is Too Young to Work?
Child labor laws are changing—in different directions, in different states.
22 min
947
What Next TBD: America Needs More Power
How building our renewable energy future domestically is keeping old power plants running.
26 min
948
Well, Now: Spring Cleaning Your Medicine Cabinet
When does ibuprofen actually expire? Can I keep extra antibiotics just in case? Do I really need to take turmeric supplements?
37 min
949
A Word: Criminal Injustice
“You don’t have to be doing something wrong for something wrong to happen to you.”
29 min
950
Amicus: When Gag Orders Become Campaign-Perform...
What to do when a presidential campaign folds in the characteristics of terrorism.
36 min