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What Next | When Trump Ruins Your Marriage
How husbands’ votes for Donald Trump threw whole relationships into question.
23 min
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Culture Gabfest: Zero Day Makes Robert De Niro ...
This week, the hosts discuss Zero Day, remembering Gene Hackman, and how to engage with optimism during times of crisis.
63 min
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What Next TBD | Zuckerberg and the Post-Factche...
Does Meta know what they’ve done?
26 min
154
Slate Money | Eggistential Crisis
Donald Trump flip flops on tariffs, the economics of eggs raise a lot of questions, and there was lotto arbitrage in Texas.
47 min
155
Amicus | The Constitutional Truth At The Heart ...
Elon Musk cannot, as a legal matter, be simultaneously leading DOGE and also not leading DOGE.
58 min
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What Next: TBD | From 4Chan to Charlottesville ...
How the far-right internet conquered American politics.
27 min
157
Political Gabfest | Trump’s Display of Dominance
Trump addresses Congress and plays chicken with tariffs in a show of power; Trump and Vance betray Ukraine’s Zelensky to his face and align with Russia; and we all grapple with the ways Covid changed America.
60 min
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What Next | How Worried Are Ukrainians?
And where things stand after that meeting.
22 min
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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.
7 min
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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.
22 min
161
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.
34 min
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What Next | Why Trump Needs Congress
The president prepares to address the House and Senate with a government shutdown looming.
25 min
163
Hang Up | Robo Calls: The Umps of the Future Ar...
How will the introduction of robot referees fundamentally affect football and baseball?
65 min
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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?
30 min
165
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.
66 min
166
What Next TBD | Cracking the Egg Crisis
An eggsplanation.
18 min
167
Slate Money | Trump Math & Techno-Fascism
Trump proposes a gold card, Musk resembles a techno-fascist, and black plastic spatulas are actually fine.
46 min
168
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).
44 min
169
What Next TBD | The DOGE Resistance
Lawsuits, protests and Elon Musk's Achilles Heel
24 min
170
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
67 min
171
What Next | Will Gaza’s Ceasefire Last?
Is the next step a negotiation for Gaza’s future—or a return to war?
25 min
172
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.
24 min
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What Next | Barron Mania
Who is Trump’s youngest son? Turns out, he’s whatever you want him to be.
21 min
174
Hang Up | A Reckoning for Luis Rubiales
Luis Rubiales’ trial and its broader impact on Spanish and European soccer.
54 min
175
What Next | What If America Went on Strike?
It’s happened before. It's worked in other countries. And what else can we do?
22 min