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ICYMI | Why Online Whisper Networks Never Work
The Tea app betrayed the women it was supposed to keep safe.
40 min
152
Amicus | Don’t Give Up on the Law Just Yet
A new book profiles three heroic judges who might just restore your faith in the courts.
48 min
153
What Next: TBD | The Death of an Online Whisper...
Your safety? There isn’t an app for that.
25 min
154
Political Gabfest: Gaza is Starving
60 min
155
What Next | How Elon Musk Colonized NASA
They used to go to the moon. Now they rely on contractors.
28 min
156
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
157
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
158
Hang Up | Chaos Inside the NFLPA
55 min
159
What Next | Why The Shelves Aren't Empty (Yet)
It doesn’t mean the economy’s doing all that great.
27 min
160
What Next: TBD | Dupes!
Is your skincare/skirt/vacation island as good as the real thing?
29 min
161
Slate Money | DORKs Are Cool Again
61 min
162
Amicus | When Unaccountable People Come for You...
These guys are behaving like they’ll never face consequences.
44 min
163
What Next: TBD | A Colbert Report
How Trump didn’t (and did) get Stephen Colbert cancelled.
21 min
164
Political Gabfest | Is John Roberts to Blame fo...
62 min
165
What Next | He Says Gaza Is a Genocide
Why an Israeli-American Holocaust scholar felt he had to speak up.
28 min
166
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
167
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
168
What Next | On Epstein, Democrats Go Low
It’s time to get in the muck.
27 min
169
Slate Money | Money Talks: Contemplations on Co...
38 min
170
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
171
What Next: TBD | When Bots Go Nazi
Grok’s antisemitic posting spree was a glimpse of an unregulated AI future.
25 min
172
Slate Money | Which Coke's For You?
47 min
173
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
174
What Next: TBD | How The Epstein Files Blew Up ...
Live by the conspiracy, die by the conspiracy.
25 min
175
Political Gabfest | MAGA’s Epstein Obsession
70 min