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Amicus | The Call Is Coming From Inside The Court
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What Next: TBD | Hot Measles Summer
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Political Gabfest | Who Wants a Third Party, An...
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What Next | Stage Managing Sex in Hollywood
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What Next | Was the Flash Flooding in Texas Pre...
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The lessons and warnings from a law that failed to avert the Civil War.
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What Next | The Spectacle of “Alligator Alcatra...
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What Next: TBD | How A.I. Lost (and Won) the Bi...
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Slate Money | Markets Will Be Markets
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ICYMI | Not Even Lawsuits Can Stop AI
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What Next: TBD | Rerun: Death of the Weather Fo...
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Political Gabfest | Is Trump’s Reckless Bill Un...
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What Next | One Big Deeply Unpopular Bill
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What Next | Is This the End of NPR and PBS?
The Trump administration’s plan to kill public broadcasting is going to hurt rural America most—will any Congressional Republicans step up?
26 min
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Amicus | Our All-Star SCOTUS End-of-Term Breakf...
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What Next | We Need to Talk About the Supreme C...
The justices have grown increasingly impatient with each other—and anything standing in the way of Trump's agenda.
28 min
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What Next | Why Is ICE Masked Up?
What happens when government agents are impossible to identify?
27 min
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What Next: TBD | The FTC’s Merger Shakedown
The agency is trying to stop “censorship” on social platforms by keeping private companies from spending their ad dollars as they see fit.
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Slate Money | Megayacht Foam Parties Are In
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Amicus | “No Right Is Safe”
The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v CASA sent American democracy over a cliff.
49 min
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What Next: TBD | The Other Iran-Israel War
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