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1
Hang Up | 2025: The Year in Sports
We look back at the biggest sports stories from each month of the past year.
71 min
2
Slate Money | Christmas Adjacent Inciting Incident
42 min
3
Amicus | The Forgotten Lawsuits Targeting Trump...
The Alien Enemies Act litigation may have fallen off the front pages, but it’s about to make headlines again.
58 min
4
What Next: TBD | Data Center Space Race
Elon is eyeing two birds with one IPO.
22 min
5
Political Gabfest | Susie Wiles is a Sane Enabler
51 min
6
What Next | Why Antisemitism Is Everywhere
Australia’s mass shooting is just the latest attack on Jews. Why is antisemitism rising? And who should be responsible for stopping it?
26 min
7
What Next | The Unaffordable Economy
With tariffs dragging us down, Fed governors are torn on what to do with interest rates.
28 min
8
What Next | Candace Owens at a Turning Point
The far-right can’t condone what she’s saying—but can’t look away either.
24 min
9
What Next | The Boot Camps Treating Kids’ Pain
Where does teaching pain tolerance end and further trauma begin?
27 min
10
Slate Money | Disney Gets Ahead of the Darth Va...
52 min
11
Amicus | One Amendment Explains It All
A decades-long conservative project to reject the reconstruction amendments is riding the coattails of Trump’s lawless chaos all the way to SCOTUS.
62 min
12
What Next: TBD | Ready for Chatbot Canvassers?
Democracy dies in Chatbots.
26 min
13
Political Gabfest | Civilizational Erasure
56 min
14
What Next | His Mom Got Deported. Then He Went ...
How Tony Vara used his popular TikTok account to document his family’s separation.
28 min
15
What Next | His Mom Got Deported. Then He Went ...
How Tony Vara used his popular TikTok account to document his family’s separation.
28 min
16
What Next: The Fight Over The Future of Movies
25 min
17
Money Talks: Don't Be Evil-ish
37 min
18
What Next: Healthcare Is Expensive. It’s About ...
26 min
19
Hang Up | FIFA's Trumpy World Cup Draw
How the international organization bent the knee to the American president.
68 min
20
What Next: It’s the Alt-Right’s GOP Now
21 min
21
What Next: TBD | ChatGOP?
How AI is splitting the MAGA coalition.
19 min
22
Slate Money | Netflix Wants To Have It All
50 min
23
ICYMI | Okay. Let’s Talk About "Everyone" Getti...
The Wicked: For Good press tour has prompted concern about celebrity bodies.
55 min
24
Amicus | SCOTUS Greenlights Trump, Gaslights Am...
The high court throws a district court under the bus, then puts a thumb on the scale for even more dark money in elections.
62 min
25
What Next: TBD | The AI & Crypto Czar’s Conflicts
David Sacks is making policy in Washington. And it benefits his firm.
22 min