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Political Gabfest | Why Destroy Harvard?
69 min
77
What Next | Legally Dead—And Pregnant
Adriana Smith is being kept on life support, at her family’s expense, until her fetus reaches 32 weeks.
25 min
78
What Next | Does Gavin Newsom Have It All Figur...
Why the California governor seems to be engineering a big pivot to the center.
26 min
79
What Next | What Would You Pay to Stay Alive?
A reporter investigates why his lifesaving medication costs nearly $1,000 a day.
25 min
80
Slate Money | Money Talks: Is 'Your Friends & N...
38 min
81
What Next: TBD | Crypto's Big Win
Even if you've never touched crypto, you could be burned by the GENIUS Act.
26 min
82
Slate Money | Elon Backs Off
50 min
83
Amicus | The Two Tracks of Justice
Why everything feels so bad right now, even if your life isn’t materially changing.
69 min
84
What Next: TBD | Inside OpenAI's Empire
How the company convinced everyone that AGI is inevitable—and that they need to be the ones who control it.
34 min
85
Political Gabfest | Big and Beautiful or Huge a...
62 min
86
What Next | Can A “Morality Coalition” Succeed ...
He brought “Moral Mondays” to the Capitol—and getting arrested isn’t going to stop him.
22 min
87
What Next | If Trump Guts FEMA, Are Tornado Vic...
It’s tempting to cut something that doesn’t seem essential…until it is.
26 min
88
ICYMI: Pope Leo XIV is the Taylor Swift of Cath...
32 min
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What Next | Here’s How the GOP Cuts Medicaid
They’re getting the old “work requirements” argument down from the attic.
24 min
90
Hang Up | What Went Wrong in Boston?
58 min
91
What Next | Is Immigration Still Trump’s Strong...
Voters may be getting what they voted for, but not what they want.
25 min
92
What Next: TBD | You’ve Been Deepfaked
How AI generated revenge porn is spreading across the internet.
24 min
93
Slate Money | Did You Fill Yer Boots With Stocks?
41 min
94
Amicus | SCOTUS Is About to Suffer Buyers Remor...
They decided to tackle the very messy question of nationwide injunctions instead of answering the easy, obviously unconstitutional issue.
56 min
95
What Next: TBD | The Newarkification of Flying
Can we avoid an air travel future that is nasty, brutish, and severely delayed?
26 min
96
Political Gabfest | Just a Modest $400 Million ...
67 min
97
What Next | The Qatari Plane Is Just The Start
If you give a mouse a jumbo jet…
22 min
98
What Next | Trump’s Middle East Diplomacy
Israel keeps getting surprised by the mercurial American president.
24 min
99
ICYMI: Kayla Malec Deserves Online Justice, Too
21 min
100
What Next | David Hogg Wants Democratic Politic...
The call is coming from inside the party.
23 min