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What Next: Can Fox News Still Sway an Election?
The network couldn’t launch DeSantis, but its thumb can still tip the scales this fall.
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Hear Me Out: Trump Isn’t a Bug. He's a Feature.
The founders weren’t exactly anti-authoritarian.
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What Next: The Fight for Joe Manchin’s Seat
It takes a special kind of Democrat to win in West Virginia—but he thinks he can pull it off.
22 min
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What Next: MAGA Eating Itself Alive
When your knee-jerk contrarian movement chases everyone else from the room, who’s left to rebel against?
23 min
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A Word: Between the World and Us
Ta-Nehisi Coates blasts the lack of leadership on the Middle East.
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Well, Now: Overcoming a Complicated Pregnancy
Half of pregnancies will experience complications. Here’s how patients and their partners can best advocate for the proper care.
37 min
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What Next TBD: Would You Choose Your Child’s Sex?
Almost every country has banned the practice—but in the US, its growing.
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Political Gabfest: Trump Wore Pajamas
Stormy Daniels’s courtroom thunder drowns out Donald Trump’s bluster; marijuana decriminalization is a hot topic; and must the media defend democracy?
64 min
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Slate Money: How Neoliberalism Scammed America
Author and legal scholar Mehrsa Baradaran joins the Money squad to discuss neoliberalism, sexism at the FDIC, and the teetering banking sector.
54 min
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What Next TBD: Meet the Trump Campaign’s A.I. Guy
The artificial intelligence election is on.
17 min
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What Next: Stormy Daniels Takes the Stand
Is Trump’s best defense…a mistrial?
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Outward: Queering the Map with Lucas LaRochelle
24 min
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What Next: Conservative Candid Camera in the Da...
On top of everything else, migrants now have to worry about being ambushed by Laura Loomer.
26 min
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What Next: Hamas Agreed to a Ceasefire. Now What?
On Sunday, talks looked “dead.” Then on Monday, Hamas took the deal.
27 min
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Hear Me Out: Punishing A Shooter’s Parents Miss...
Justice is a bigger picture.
36 min
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What Next: Why Democrats Will Save Mike Johnson...
The bipartisan effort to ignore Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Well, Now: How a Former Surgeon General Took on...
Even surgeon generals get sticker shock. Here are Jerome Adams’s suggestions for how to fight back.
40 min
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A Word: Flint's Decade of Disappointment
The legacy of the Flint water crisis: disability, disinvestment, and despair.
26 min
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What Next TBD: Can California Save Journalism?
The Sunshine State considers making Google and Meta pony up—and making news outlets spend that revenue on their staff.
20 min
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Political Gabfest: Should Student Protesters Be...
Campus protests march on; Supreme Court tries “history and tradition”; and killing her dog bites Governor Kristi Noem.
53 min
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Slate Money: Will new DEA rules light up the we...
The Money crew discusses the DEA’s softer cannabis rules, Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao’s prison sentence, and why ravioli costs so damn much.
47 min
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What Next TBD: Bird Flu—It’s in Milk?
Scientists are observing, for the first time, the virus spreading cow-to-cow—is human-to-human next?
21 min
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What Next: Columbia Cracks Down
Every single thing about this is completely maddening. And none of it had to happen.”
24 min
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What Next: Biden’s Climate Report Card
We're doing more than ever, and still not nearly enough.
20 min
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What Next: The Man Who Wrote the Trump Playbook...
Republicans these days are ceding popular elections but holding on to power. That strategy is older than you think.
23 min