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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.
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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.
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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!
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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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What Next | How Big Media Obeys in Advance
When you’re an authoritarian, they do it to themselves.
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What Next: TBD | Is A.I. Taking Your Job?
For young workers, it might be time to worry.
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Slate Money | The Nerds' Last Stand at the Fed
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Amicus | Free Speech Is The Enemy of Free Speec...
The First Amendment is being hollowed out in the wake of the assassination of right-wing podcaster and organizer, Charlie Kirk. This law professor saw it coming.
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What Next: TBD | A Very Online Shooter
The memes that came before, and the memes that were made after.
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Political Gabfest | The Domestic Terrorist
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What Next | Trump’s Getting His Economy. Yikes.
The Fed cut rates, but it won’t be enough to save the economy from what this administration is doing.
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What Next | Can Kash Patel Survive This?
The Patel era is less about investigations and more about posting stuff Trump likes.
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What Next | Who’s Winning the War on Higher Edu...
The Trump administration has silenced professors, withheld more than two billion dollars in research funding, and forced administrators out.
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Slate Money | Money Talks: Battle of the AI Bots
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What Next: Hasan Piker Knew Charlie Kirk
The leftist streamer says that in the rush to mourn Kirk and condemn political violence, Kirk’s own words and politics are in danger of being whitewashed or ignored.
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What Next: TBD | Her Daughter Killed Herself. T...
Should A.I. have warned someone?
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ICYMI | Is #BodyPositivity Over?
Ozempic has turned social media from a safe space into a minefield.
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Slate Money | The Hyundai ICE Raid
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Amicus | Dear Justice Kavanaugh, “I’m American,...
Why Brett Kavanaugh’s unconstitutional freestyling on racial profiling just landed all of us in deep trouble.
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What Next: TBD | You Can't Escape the Charlie K...
Content moderation is dead, algorithms are designed to serve you horrific videos - is this the future of life online?
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Political Gabfest | Assassination of Charlie Kirk
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What Next | How the Supreme Court Legalized Rac...
According to the court, college admissions offices can’t consider race. ICE, however…
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What Next | Trump Blew Up 11 People. Is That Le...
The president takes the “because I say so” theory of authority into international waters.
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ICYMI | Does SNL Need Internet Comedians?
And do internet comedians need SNL?
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What Next | The Democrats Have Leverage. Will T...
Rep. Jamie Raskin and the Democrats are considering all of their options for stopping Trump’s authoritarian agenda.
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