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1001
A Word: School of Destruction
How one southern university’s history is a bitter lesson in race and power.
25 min
1002
What Next TBD: What Instacart’s IPO Means for Tech
After years of post-pandemic turmoil, Instacart managed to do something rare in the gig economy - turn a profit.
23 min
1003
Slate Money: AI Facial Recognition's Creepy Evo...
Facial recognition is coming for us all, and society probably isn’t ready for it.
52 min
1004
Amicus: SCOTUS Is Not Done With Guns and Abortion
The excesses of the 2021 term bleed into a new SCOTUS term with the possibility of gun rights for abusers post-Bruen, and the impossible tension between medicine and the law post-Dobbs.
71 min
1005
The Waves: Why Joe Jonas’s ‘Bad Mommy’ Story Fl...
The tabloids want you to think Sophie Turner is a neglectful mom as her divorce from Jonas goes public. The internet isn’t buying it.
27 min
1006
Political Gabfest: Who’s Winning The Autoworker...
UAW autoworkers are on strike against the Big Three; the dilemma of social media trust and safety continues to loom large; and parent diplomacy adds to teachers’ workload.
58 min
1007
What Next TBD: Did AirBnB Need to Go?
Short-term rentals are getting blamed for a lack of affordable housing. Is that fair?
21 min
1008
What Next: Tackling Homelessness and Addiction ...
Getting community support means addressing community needs.
29 min
1009
What Next: How Wisconsin is a “Laboratory for D...
State Republicans are trying to cling to power—no matter what the electorate says.
25 min
1010
Hear Me Out: Bring Back The Draft
It’s the best way to compensate for faltering recruitment.
33 min
1011
What Next: The UAW Enters the Ring
Why auto workers are walking off the job now.
24 min
1012
What Next: McCarthy’s Impeaching Biden to Keep ...
The speaker is forever at the whim of the Freedom Caucus.
20 min
1013
Slate Money | Criminals: TheraNOPE
Elizabeth Holmes went from optimistic founder, to convicted criminal.
38 min
1014
The Waves: Why Joe Jonas’s ‘Bad Mommy’ Story Fl...
The tabloids want you to think Sophie Turner is a neglectful mom as her divorce from Jonas goes public. The internet isn’t buying it.
27 min
1015
A Word: Wrong from the Beginning
Writer Michael Harriot says white-washing Black history is a desperate effort that’s bound to fail.
31 min
1016
Slate Money: Old School Union, New School Strike
The UAW is trying tactics it’s never used before.
35 min
1017
Amicus: The Supreme Court We Deserve?
Award-winning documentarian and lawyer Dawn Porter grapples with the Supreme Court’s path to this perilous moment in “Deadlocked”
52 min
1018
Political Gabfest: Impeach ‘Em All, Let God Sor...
Wisconsin Republicans want to impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz; Speaker Kevin McCarthy starts an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden; and Biden’s age might be high but Donald Trump’s poll numbers in battleground states are low.
55 min
1019
What Next TBD: Can Politicians Keep Kids Safe O...
At a time when lawmakers operate from wildly different standards of children’s “safety”, who can be trusted to regulate the internet?
27 min
1020
What Next TBD: Google Makes Its Case
The U.S. claims that Google monopolized search. Google claims that competition is just “a click away.”
29 min
1021
What Next: The Case Against Harm Reduction
A safe consumption site is at odds with area homeowners’ vision for the neighborhood.
28 min
1022
What Next: Fighting “Disaster Fatigue”
Natural disasters exact a mental toll—from the front lines of the recovery to those experiencing it second-hand.
20 min
1023
What Next: How DeSantis Turned New College into...
The conservative vision of education comes down on a Florida liberal arts school.
23 min
1024
What Next: Prison for the Proud Boys. Now What?
What do the harsh sentences for January 6th mean for right-wing extremism?
21 min
1025
What Next/This American Life: The Call
A journey into the opioid epidemic via an overdose hotline.
61 min