1
What Next | How Will We Feed Our Neighbors?
Why you should consider giving out mac n’ cheese along with candy this Halloween.
28 min
2
What Next | The Volunteers Taking on ICE
The Harbor Area Peace Patrol attempts to protect undocumented neighbors in southern California, one parking lot at a time.
24 min
3
What Next | Where Sports Betting Got Us
Just when you think it’s all apps, the Mafia pops back into the picture.
26 min
4
Slate Money | Money Talks: How Our Tax Code Mak...
43 min
5
Hang Up | The NBA’s Growing Gambling Affair
How legal prop betting may have set the table for the latest scandal affecting pro basketball.
55 min
6
What Next | Shutting Down and Finding Out
The government shutdown now enters its fourth week. Will Democrats finally play hard ball?
24 min
7
What Next: TBD | Did The Trump Administration C...
Anti-ICE posts and apps flourished online. The Trump administration had them taken down.
28 min
8
Slate Money | The Louvre Heist Affair
51 min
9
ICYMI | TwitchCon’s Sexual Harassment Problem
An incident at the 2025 convention has added new urgency to streamer safety.
47 min
10
Amicus | Demolition Man
The Department of Justice looks an awful lot like the East Wing of the White House these days… metaphorically speaking.
51 min
11
What Next: TBD | The AWS Outage is Only the Beg...
Why a mesh of cloud services and undersea cables make for a very delicate web.
28 min
12
Political Gabfest | Trump Literally Knocks Down...
54 min
13
What Next | Is the Peanut Allergy Dead?
Researchers reversed long-standing guidance about giving kids peanuts. It worked – a lot.
22 min
14
What Next | Why So Many Racist Group Chats?
From the chats to the policy proposals, no one’s hiding that the goal is a whiter America.
23 min
15
ICYMI | The Streamer and the Shock Collar
Conservative clout-chasers accuse Hasan Piker of animal abuse on livestream.
38 min
16
What Next | The Trump Doctrine in Latin America
Why Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado made sure to thank the president.
29 min
17
What Next | Are Democrats Already Fumbling a Win?
What weird state-wide races in Virginia tell us about 2026.
29 min
18
What Next: TBD | Why Bands Are Leaving Spotify
Xiu Xiu explains their decision to leave the streaming platform following Daniel Ek's investments in defense tech.
17 min
19
Slate Money | Credit Cockroaches
47 min
20
Amicus | Voting Rights, But Mainly for White Pe...
Didn’t you hear? SCOTUS says racism’s over.
50 min
21
What Next: TBD | Inside the MAGA Content Mill
How to make a city full of inflatable frog suits look like it needs the National Guard.
23 min
22
Political Gabfest | Trump Ends the Gaza War
55 min
23
What Next | He Wrote About Anti-Fascism—Then Fl...
How a book Mark Bray wrote in 2017 led to death threats and Bray relocating his family to Spain.
31 min
24
What Next | Time for a Blue-State “Soft Secessi...
If the federal government is deadset on punishing states run by Democrats, what options do those states have?
22 min
25
ICYMI | Stop Trying To Make A.I. Trendy
From vandalized subway ads to ChatGPT billboards, A.I. startups are flooding traditional marketing spaces and getting backlash for it.
38 min