Slate News

Daily news updates from across the Slate Podcast network.

News
News Commentary
Politics
1
What Next | Why Is ICE Masked Up?
What happens when government agents are impossible to identify?
27 min
2
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.
21 min
3
Slate Money | Megayacht Foam Parties Are In
43 min
4
Amicus | “No Right Is Safe”
The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v CASA sent American democracy over a cliff.
49 min
5
What Next: TBD | The Other Iran-Israel War
Cyberattacks are much less explosive, but just as dangerous.
20 min
6
Political Gabfest | Let’s Plunge, New York
63 min
7
What Next | Zohran Mamdani’s Former Boss Weighs In
A new New York City has asserted itself.
27 min
8
ICYMI | TikTok May Win Battles, But YouTube Wil...
Behind the scenes at VidCon—and 20 years of YouTube.
41 min
9
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
10
Slate Money | Money Talks: Money is One Hell of...
26 min
11
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
12
What Next: TBD | Airlines Are Selling Your Data...
And they don’t want you to know.
22 min
13
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
14
Slate Money: We Submit To The AI Overlords
50 min
15
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?
47 min
16
What Next: TBD | We Deport. You Laugh?
Why the White House is memeing its mass deportations.
26 min
17
Political Gabfest | Massive Ordnance Penetrator
64 min
18
ICYMI: The Content Creators Crashing the Diddy ...
And why they’re beating legacy media at their own game.
43 min
19
What Next | Kristi Noem Understands the Assignment
How the DHS Secretary emerged as the face of Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.
26 min
20
What Next | The War Netanyahu Always Wanted
27 min
21
What Next | Vaccine Skeptics Just Scored a Big Win
Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices found out they were fired via an article in the Wall Street Journal.
22 min
22
What Next: TBD | Summer Travel Tips To Not Get ...
A guide for digital safety.
24 min
23
Slate Money | Peak AI Frenzy
46 min
24
Amicus | Tanks On DC’s Streets And A US Senator...
Yup, seems pretty bad.
47 min
25
What Next: TBD | New DOGE, New Tricks
Elon may be gone, but Big Balls is staying on.
24 min