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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.
25 min
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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?
26 min
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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.
55 min
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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.
28 min
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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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Slate Money | Megayacht Foam Parties Are In
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Amicus | “No Right Is Safe”
The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v CASA sent American democracy over a cliff.
49 min
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What Next: TBD | The Other Iran-Israel War
Cyberattacks are much less explosive, but just as dangerous.
20 min
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Political Gabfest | Let’s Plunge, New York
63 min
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What Next | Zohran Mamdani’s Former Boss Weighs In
A new New York City has asserted itself.
27 min
188
ICYMI | TikTok May Win Battles, But YouTube Wil...
Behind the scenes at VidCon—and 20 years of YouTube.
41 min
189
What Next | The Lawsuit Scaring Protesters
What can demonstrators today learn from a financially disastrous outcome for one advocacy organization in the Standing Rock protests?
25 min
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Slate Money | Money Talks: Money is One Hell of...
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What Next: Trump Bombed Iran. Are We at War?
President Trump’s always talked about keeping America out of conflicts abroad. Six months into his second term, here we are.
26 min
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What Next: TBD | Airlines Are Selling Your Data...
And they don’t want you to know.
22 min
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ICYMI | Is Partiful Cancelled?
How Gen-Z’s favorite event invite app got into hot water and why there just isn’t a good online invitation option anymore.
33 min
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Amicus | The Many Compromises of Elena Kagan
A brilliant liberal justice is all of a sudden joining the conservatives on some questionable cases. What’s up?
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Slate Money: We Submit To The AI Overlords
50 min
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What Next: TBD | We Deport. You Laugh?
Why the White House is memeing its mass deportations.
26 min
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Political Gabfest | Massive Ordnance Penetrator
64 min
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ICYMI: The Content Creators Crashing the Diddy ...
And why they’re beating legacy media at their own game.
43 min
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What Next | Kristi Noem Understands the Assignment
How the DHS Secretary emerged as the face of Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.
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What Next | The War Netanyahu Always Wanted
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