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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
84
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
86
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
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ICYMI | Saudi Arabia Is Coming For The Sims
A new EA Games deal has players worried about censorship of their beloved franchise.
37 min
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Amicus | This Will Be Trump’s Best Term at the ...
At the start of a “new” term that never really ended, a slew of cases could supercharge Trump’s American takeover.
59 min
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What Next: TBD | Who Owns TikTok Now?
25 min
93
Political Gabfest | Fat Generals
Hegseth and Trump strut in a theatrical flex over an audience of distinguished military leaders; the government shuts down as both sides dig in; and Russia wages unsettling hybrid warfare with drones over Europe.
62 min
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What Next | Actually the Government Shut Down M...
Time to find out if claiming you have total power over the government means that people blame you when it shuts down.
30 min
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What Next | The Department of War…From Within
A meeting with the top brass that didn’t even need to be an email.
26 min
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What Next | Trump’s Revenge Tour Is Here
How the president’s flimsy case against the former FBI director is going to make accountability that much harder in the future.
25 min
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Slate Money | Money Talks: How Basquiat's Art B...
58 min
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Hang Up | America's Trumpy Ryder Cup Flop
Kevin Van Valkenburg on the embarrassing, raucous, and painfully American display that was the Ryder Cup
66 min
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What Next | The Gaza Flotilla That’s Under Attack
Explosions have rocked the boats while they are still days away from Gaza’s shore.
25 min
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What Next: TBD | Trapped in a Tesla
Teslas are trapping passengers inside after crashes. Regulators are starting to notice.
24 min