Amicus | Sneak Preview: What Trump’s First Big ...
While Justices Roberts and Barrett agree the administration should pay $2 billion it owes in foreign aid, four justices are apparently cool with a bit of contempt of court.
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What Next | The True Cost of Slashing the Gover...
How drastic federal funding cuts are already being felt in America and beyond.
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Slate Money | Money Talks: The American Myth of...
Adam Chandler joins to discuss his book 99% Perspiration, and examines long-standing myths around work in America.
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What Next | Why Trump Needs Congress
The president prepares to address the House and Senate with a government shutdown looming.
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Hang Up | Robo Calls: The Umps of the Future Ar...
How will the introduction of robot referees fundamentally affect football and baseball?
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What Next | Why Women Kill
One commonality among women incarcerated for homicide raises the question, what is self-defense—and who’s entitled to it?
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Culture Gabfest: The Oscars Go Streaming
This week, the hosts discuss I’m Still Here, Trump’s disruptions at the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kennedy Center, and an exclusive interview with Oscars CEO Bill Kramer.
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What Next TBD | Cracking the Egg Crisis
An eggsplanation.
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Slate Money | Trump Math & Techno-Fascism
Trump proposes a gold card, Musk resembles a techno-fascist, and black plastic spatulas are actually fine.
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Amicus | When the Lawyers are Lawless
We’re now a country where you don’t know if you’re being arrested or kidnapped (and that’s the point).
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What Next TBD | The DOGE Resistance
Lawsuits, protests and Elon Musk's Achilles Heel
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Political Gabfest | So Europe is Our Enemy Now?
The transatlantic alliance is over and mobster tactics reign; the House GOP budget resolution portends likely Medicaid cuts to fund tax breaks for the rich; and Trump makes aggressive moves against the press
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What Next | Will Gaza’s Ceasefire Last?
Is the next step a negotiation for Gaza’s future—or a return to war?
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What Next | The DOGE Backlash Begins
Even in deep-red districts, constituents were letting politicians know how they felt about DOGE’s cuts—and they were not happy.
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What Next | Barron Mania
Who is Trump’s youngest son? Turns out, he’s whatever you want him to be.
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Hang Up | A Reckoning for Luis Rubiales
Luis Rubiales’ trial and its broader impact on Spanish and European soccer.
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What Next | What If America Went on Strike?
It’s happened before. It's worked in other countries. And what else can we do?
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Culture Gabfest: Congratulations! You Finally G...
This week, the hosts discuss the return of Severance, the Oscar-nominated Palestinian film No Other Land, and Buzzfeed’s new social media platform BF Island.
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What Next TBD | $Trump
Crypto poured money into the campaign, now the first family is cashing in.
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Slate Money | The Consequences of Getting on Eu...
Trump alienates the EU, Intel may break-up, and Quince is dominating the dupe market.
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Amicus | Long Live The King?
Spotting the difference between “muscular unitary executive” and “monarchy” is getting tougher by the day.
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What Next TBD | Elon's Endgame
He's slashing the federal workforce. He's gutting programs he doesn't like. But at the end of the day, what does he want?
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Political Gabfest | The “Justice Department is ...
The bonfire of Justice Department resignations amid the corrupt bargain of Eric Adams; Musk and DOGE and the palantír of the IRS and Social Security; and how progressives broke the government.
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What Next | Why This Trump Nominee Has Union Su...
What kind of Secretary of Labor would Lori Chavez-DeRemer be?