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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
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Political Gabfest | Is John Roberts to Blame fo...
62 min
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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
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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
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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
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What Next: TBD | When Bots Go Nazi
Grok’s antisemitic posting spree was a glimpse of an unregulated AI future.
25 min
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Slate Money | Which Coke's For You?
47 min
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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
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What Next: TBD | How The Epstein Files Blew Up ...
Live by the conspiracy, die by the conspiracy.
25 min
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Political Gabfest | MAGA’s Epstein Obsession
70 min
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What Next | Can Trump Bully Russia?
Elon Musk isn’t the only one to fall from Trump’s good graces.
22 min
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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.
24 min
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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.
46 min
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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.
24 min
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What Next: TBD | When A.I. is Sycophantic
Chatbots want to please - but it’s pushing some into dark places.
19 min
197
Slate Money | One Big BS Bill
52 min
198
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.
45 min
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What Next: TBD | Hot Measles Summer
Why the next few months are crucial for containing the outbreak.
23 min
200
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.
65 min