They used to go to the moon. Now they rely on contractors.
28 min
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What Next | Why Are So Many Institutions Caving...
Jerome Powell can stay and fight, or take the road of less resistance and quit.
25 min
154
What Next | Trans and Shut Out in Trump’s America
Clinics for trans youth are closing, incorrect passports have been issued, and trans people are having to make emergency health care plans, even in blue states.
25 min
155
Hang Up | Chaos Inside the NFLPA
55 min
156
What Next | Why The Shelves Aren't Empty (Yet)
It doesn’t mean the economy’s doing all that great.
27 min
157
What Next: TBD | Dupes!
Is your skincare/skirt/vacation island as good as the real thing?
29 min
158
Slate Money | DORKs Are Cool Again
61 min
159
Amicus | When Unaccountable People Come for You...
These guys are behaving like they’ll never face consequences.
44 min
160
What Next: TBD | A Colbert Report
How Trump didn’t (and did) get Stephen Colbert cancelled.
21 min
161
Political Gabfest | Is John Roberts to Blame fo...
62 min
162
What Next | He Says Gaza Is a Genocide
Why an Israeli-American Holocaust scholar felt he had to speak up.
28 min
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What Next | How Dead Is the Department of Educa...
The federal agency can’t be abolished with the stroke of a pen. But it can be put on the austerity path to oblivion.
21 min
164
ICYMI | The Astronomer CEO Coldplay Cheating Sc...
We break down how an office affair, Chris Martin, and the internet created one of 2025’s best monocultural moments of the year.
40 min
165
What Next | On Epstein, Democrats Go Low
It’s time to get in the muck.
27 min
166
Slate Money | Money Talks: Contemplations on Co...
38 min
167
What Next | Getting Anti-Vaxxers To Roll Up The...
Those who won’t listen to health officials did listen to their neighbors and classmates.
27 min
168
What Next: TBD | When Bots Go Nazi
Grok’s antisemitic posting spree was a glimpse of an unregulated AI future.
25 min
169
Slate Money | Which Coke's For You?
47 min
170
Amicus | How To Build A Police State (With Th...
The Roberts Court seemed skeptical of Trump’s immigration tactics at first. What changed?
52 min
171
What Next: TBD | How The Epstein Files Blew Up ...
Live by the conspiracy, die by the conspiracy.
25 min
172
Political Gabfest | MAGA’s Epstein Obsession
70 min
173
What Next | Can Trump Bully Russia?
Elon Musk isn’t the only one to fall from Trump’s good graces.
22 min
174
What Next | Deported—To a Country You've Never ...
The Trump administration is using a group of immigrants with criminal convictions as a test case to erode basic rights for everyone.
24 min
175
ICYMI | “Gen-Z Stare” and the Log-In Epidemic
Why tech companies force us to log in, download apps, and give our data to access our own services.