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What Next: The Ballad of Tucker Carlson
How Fox’s most popular host followed his audience - until he was fired.
21 min
1302
How To!: Face the A.I. Revolution
Kevin Roose on using A.I. chatbots intelligently.
37 min
1303
What Next: Beyond Stand Your Ground
How “self-defense” laws create a shoot-first mentality.
23 min
1304
What Next: Why Evan Gershkovich Went to Russia
His latest appeal was rejected. What happens now?
22 min
1305
A Word: Home is Where the Hurt Is
Many Black Americans believe spanking kids is rooted in African culture. It’s not.
24 min
1306
What Next TBD: "Crap Apps": Why Weather Apps Suck
Why our smartphone forecasts are so mercurial.
21 min
1307
Amicus; Justice Roberts’ Unfunny Stalking Jokes...
A cyber-stalking case highlights whose safety matters to SCOTUS when it comes to free speech
58 min
1308
Political Gabfest: Was Fox News Punished Enough?
Fox News pays Dominion Voting $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit; House Speaker Kevin McCarthy plays a political game of chicken with the debt ceiling; and detained American journalist Evan Gershkovich appears in a Russian court.
50 min
1309
Slate Money: Elon’s Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the biggest business, tech and finance stories of the week.
50 min
1310
What Next TBD: Will A.I. Close Off the Internet?
As A.I. companies are sucking up as much data as they can to train their systems, social platforms are starting to put their most valuable resource behind a paywall.
22 min
1311
What Next: So Fox News, What Did We Learn?
With an audience this big—and fiercely loyal—who needs the truth?
23 min
1312
What Next: Dianne Feinstein's Last Stand
Can the Democrats afford to let the California senator finish her term?
20 min
1313
What Next: Fox News Goes to Court
Can Dominion prove “actual malice”?
28 min
1314
What Next: He Couldn’t Teach ‘Slavery Was Wrong...
More teachers are leaving their jobs as a wave of restrictive legislation targets educators across the country.
25 min
1315
What Next TBD: Will Banning Social Media Help K...
What the science says about Utah’s social media ban for teens.
29 min
1316
A Word: The Color of Money
How financial planning can help Black taxpayers close the racial wealth gap.
21 min
1317
Slate Money: The China Problem
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers go over China’s expanding role in the international debt market.
49 min
1318
Amicus: Anti-Abortion Lawyers Love this Zombie Law
The Comstock Act is a 19th century vice law some hope could criminalize abortion nationwide
31 min
1319
The Waves: How to Survive in Hollywood
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star Caroline Aaron discusses her career as a character actress.
26 min
1320
What Next TBD: How Gamers Leaked Classified Pen...
How highly classified documents from the Pentagon ended up in a small Discord server.
30 min
1321
Political Gabfest: That Shoddy Abortion Pill Ru...
Federal judges limit the availability of mifepristone; the Republican Tennessee state legislature expels two Democratic representatives; and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has an ethics problem again.
50 min
1322
What Next: Do Abortion Pills Actually Need FDA ...
A judge has revoked FDA approval of mifepristone. But the FDA could fight back - in more ways than one.
22 min
1323
What Next: Narcan Over the Counter
How the emergency overdose treatment came to be—and came to be so necessary.
25 min
1324
Hear Me Out: Don’t Celebrate the Trump Indictment
If you’re banking on a legal slam dunk and a president behind bars… we have some bad news.
32 min
1325
What Next: Tennessee’s House Divided
Days of public protest, open shouting from the Rotunda, and expulsions that broke on color lines.
27 min