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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
77
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.
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What Next: TBD | Who Owns TikTok Now?
25 min
84
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
86
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...
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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
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Slate Money | Three-Headed AI Unicorn
53 min
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ICYMI | Jimmy Kimmel & The Death Of Free Speech...
Reactions to Charlie Kirk’s death are being censored, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
48 min
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Amicus | “Color-Blind” Admissions Continue to H...
America looks very different two years after the end of affirmative action.
80 min
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What Next: TBD | How Trump Got Obsessed with A...
Thanks to RFK Jr., Trump can capitalize on an issue he’s cared about for decades.
28 min
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Political Gabfest | Tough It Out, Pregnant Ladies!
67 min
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What Next | Jimmy Kimmel Got His Job Back. She ...
Karen Attiah, an award-winning opinion journalist was fired from the Washington Post for social media posts about Charlie Kirk and America’s gun violence epidemic.
23 min
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What Next | A Surgeon in Gaza’s “End Game”
How a surgeon has seen the situation on the ground devolve for Palestinians.
29 min
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Culture Gabfest: Jimmy Kimmel Is Back—Sort Of— ...
On this week’s show, the panel takes up HBO’s Task, the indie birding doc Listers, and the cancelling and subsequent uncancelling of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
57 min
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What Next | Trump’s Attack on Visas
Foreign workers are choosing between a narrowing path to legal visas, risking deportation, or simply leaving Americans to pick their own produce.
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