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What Next | Don’t Mess With Texas’s Election Maps
The Lone Star State’s attempt to tip the House of Representatives to the GOP could have nationwide repercussions.
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Slate Money | Money Talks: The Fabulous Wealth ...
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Hang Up | Trump vs. the IOC
International athletes keep getting caught up in Trump’s immigration policies. Could kicking out athletes draw the ire of the Olympic Committee – and imperil L.A. 2028?
52 min
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What Next | Was Democracy Voted Out?
Is America still a democracy? Was it ever?
22 min
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What Next: TBD | The A.I. Data Center Push That...
The Trump administration touted Stargate as a 500 billion dollar investment in American data centers. So far, it hasn't panned out.
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Slate Money | The Nespresso Tariffs
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ICYMI | Why Online Whisper Networks Never Work
The Tea app betrayed the women it was supposed to keep safe.
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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
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What Next: TBD | The Death of an Online Whisper...
Your safety? There isn’t an app for that.
25 min
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Political Gabfest: Gaza is Starving
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What Next | How Elon Musk Colonized NASA
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
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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.
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Hang Up | Chaos Inside the NFLPA
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What Next | Why The Shelves Aren't Empty (Yet)
It doesn’t mean the economy’s doing all that great.
27 min
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What Next: TBD | Dupes!
Is your skincare/skirt/vacation island as good as the real thing?
29 min
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Slate Money | DORKs Are Cool Again
61 min
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Amicus | When Unaccountable People Come for You...
These guys are behaving like they’ll never face consequences.
44 min
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What Next: TBD | A Colbert Report
How Trump didn’t (and did) get Stephen Colbert cancelled.
21 min
195
Political Gabfest | Is John Roberts to Blame fo...
62 min
196
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
198
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
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What Next | On Epstein, Democrats Go Low
It’s time to get in the muck.
27 min
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Slate Money | Money Talks: Contemplations on Co...
38 min