1026
What Next: Why the West Bank Is at a Boiling Point
Tension is rising in the region as one side’s leadership grew more extreme, and the other’s looked more feckless.
23 min
1027
What Next: The Mass Shooter Database
Perpetrators of these horrific crimes have a lot in common—including deep despair.
24 min
1028
What Next TBD: Contraband Tech Behind Bars
Why prisoners risk the consequences to have a cell phone.
28 min
1029
A Word: Surviving “Driving While Black”
The original “Green Book” was a literal life-saver for Black travelers.
26 min
1030
Amicus: The "Stop the Steal" Fight That Never E...
A State Supreme Court Justice reveals the long-term toll of calling out the Big Lie.
46 min
1031
Slate Money: Will A.I. Kill the Internet?
Slate Money talks A.I. search engines, oil profits, and Bed Bath & Beyond.
48 min
1032
The Waves: How ADHD Disorients Women
How One Self-Described ‘Lady Comic’ Lives as an adult with ADHD.
31 min
1033
What Next TBD: Why Ban TikTok?
If the U.S. wants to protect users, there are better options.
24 min
1034
Political Gabfest: Biden Gets Frisky
The raucous State of the Union; the balloon and U.S.-China relations; and missteps in treating menopause.
52 min
1035
What Next: How Florida’s School Censorship Spreads
This culture war didn't start with canceling AP African American Studies. It's not ending there, either.
25 min
1036
What Next: The Russian “Collaborators”
When Ukraine retakes territory, the social fabric needs to be rebuilt as much as the infrastructure.
26 min
1037
What Next: His Son Died in Uvalde. He’s Still F...
Brett Cross’s gun control advocacy has taken him to Austin and Washington.
27 min
1038
Mom & Dad: How Schools Failed the Reading Test
Emily Hanford, host of Sold a Story, explains why some schools aren’t teaching kids how to read.
31 min
1039
What Next: Georgia Takes on Trump
His phone call to Brad Raffensberger seems to be getting painstaking legal scrutiny.
27 min
1040
What Next TBD: Did a Twentysomething Con Americ...
How the start-up “Frank” went from a shiny new acquisition to “a huge mistake” for JP Morgan Chase.
29 min
1041
A Word: A Killing in Cop City
Manuel Teran lost his life fighting Atlanta’s “Cop City.” What happens now?
24 min
1042
Slate Money: The Drug that Debunks Free Will
Cathy O’Neill joins to talk about the NYSE, algorithms at the IRS, and a miracle weight loss drug.
51 min
1043
The Waves: Are “Cool Moms” A Menace?
Can you be a mom and not totally lose yourself along the way? Plus, a defense of Lean In.
34 min
1044
What Next TBD: How COVID Changes Our Immune Sys...
The data doesn't tell the whole story.
25 min
1045
Political Gabfest: Is Police Reform Possible?
The killing of Tyre Nichols; Alec MacGillis on violence interruption efforts; and the State of the Union.
55 min
1046
What Next: The Plot Against Pope Francis
The 86-year-old knows there are people in the Vatican working to undo everything he’s done once he’s dead—but he has succession ideas of his own.
24 min
1047
What Next: The Hysteria Over D.C.’s New Crime Bill
Updating the district’s motley 1901 criminal code patchwork isn’t the “reform” activists have called for—or tough-on-crime types fear.
24 min
1048
What Next: From Rodney King to Tyre Nichols
Despite three decades of attempts to reform the police, violence against Black people continues.
26 min
1049
What Next: Who Doesn’t Have Classified Documents?
When everything is secret, then nothing is secret.
25 min
1050
What Next TBD: Did A.I. Write This Headline?
No, but Silicon Valley thinks it can.
31 min