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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.
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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.
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What Next | Behind the Democrats’ Losing Strategy
The opposition party needs to shake off the old campaign plans—and the strategists—of the 90s.
25 min
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What Next | Who Is Trump Promoting For Life?
The rush to stock the federal judiciary with MAGA loyalists.
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What Next: TBD | When A.I. is Sycophantic
Chatbots want to please - but it’s pushing some into dark places.
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Slate Money | One Big BS Bill
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Amicus | The Call Is Coming From Inside The Court
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is pulling back the curtain on a lot of mischief at SCOTUS, and one Democratic senator says the court’s right wing supermajority should be very worried about that.
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What Next: TBD | Hot Measles Summer
Why the next few months are crucial for containing the outbreak.
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Political Gabfest | Who Wants a Third Party, An...
Musk founds the “America Party” via social media post; the US erratically zags again on aid for Ukraine against Putin; and Trump’s latest plot twist in the tedious tariff saga.
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What Next | Stage Managing Sex in Hollywood
The position has experienced a boom in the years after #MeToo—but have they really changed Hollywood?
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What Next | Was the Flash Flooding in Texas Pre...
The world we’ve been building for isn’t the world we’ll be living in.
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What Next | Is Trump Running the Fugitive Slave...
The lessons and warnings from a law that failed to avert the Civil War.
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Slate Money | Money Talks: The Working Homeless...
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What Next | The Spectacle of “Alligator Alcatra...
How the new immigration detention facility in Florida became a reality in just over a week.
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What Next: TBD | How A.I. Lost (and Won) the Bi...
With a little help from country music.
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Slate Money | Markets Will Be Markets
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ICYMI | Not Even Lawsuits Can Stop AI
Two recent rulings spell bad news for creatives.
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What Next: TBD | Rerun: Death of the Weather Fo...
Climate and weather aren’t the same thing, but the Trump administration would have you understand neither one.
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Political Gabfest | Is Trump’s Reckless Bill Un...
Senate passes massively irresponsible budget bill; last anti-Trump Republicans abandon Congress while Musk teases third party idea; and Paramount sells out journalists to settle with Trump.
66 min
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What Next | One Big Deeply Unpopular Bill
What this sweeping and expensive piece of legislation could cost you.
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What Next | Is This the End of NPR and PBS?
The Trump administration’s plan to kill public broadcasting is going to hurt rural America most—will any Congressional Republicans step up?
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Amicus | Our All-Star SCOTUS End-of-Term Breakf...
Amicus’ brain trust of five top legal analysts are here to help you process what just happened at the Supreme Court.
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What Next | We Need to Talk About the Supreme C...
The justices have grown increasingly impatient with each other—and anything standing in the way of Trump's agenda.
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What Next | Why Is ICE Masked Up?
What happens when government agents are impossible to identify?
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What Next: TBD | The FTC’s Merger Shakedown
The agency is trying to stop “censorship” on social platforms by keeping private companies from spending their ad dollars as they see fit.
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