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1
Slate Money | Good Riddance to Larry Summers
50 min
2
ICYMI | AI Is Changing How We Have Sex
Technology and porn are becoming disturbingly intertwined.
45 min
3
Amicus | The DOJ's Prosecutorial Malpractice Ke...
New developments in the Epstein and Comey sagas have revealed a lot about how justice can still break through the lawlessness of this moment.
56 min
4
What Next: TBD | Crypto Keeps Criming
Even with a crypto president, these guys can’t stop doing shady stuff.
21 min
5
Political Gabfest | DOJ is DOA
59 min
6
What Next | Who Killed the Penny? She Did.
Nickels, consider yourselves warned.
22 min
7
Sudan on the Brink
How an isolationist United States leaves more space for conflict, and less humanitarian aid.
26 min
8
What Next | Have the Epstein Files Broken MAGA?
Wait—Trump didn’t just wriggle out of this one?!
27 min
9
What Next | The National Guard Is Asking Questions
The crackdown is still searching for a crisis.
24 min
10
What Next: TBD | How Meta Profits Off Fraud
There’s a big financial incentive for Facebook and Instagram to tolerate scammers.
28 min
11
Slate Money | The Correct Opinion on 50-Year Mo...
44 min
12
Amicus | He Quit the Bench to Raise the Alarm
Amid unprecedented attacks on courts and judges, two champions for justice speak out.
75 min
13
What Next: TBD | Data Centers on the Ballot
A.I. companies are leading the data-center boom. Voters seem less enthused.
21 min
14
Political Gabfest | Who Really Won the Shutdown?
Democrats cave to end government shutdown as public pain starts swamping healthcare message; affordability politics take center stage; and the Epstein scandal flares back to life with a vengeance despite the best efforts of the White House.
58 min
15
What Next | Wikipedia Enters the Culture Wars
A user base with a commitment to the truth is what makes Wikipedia work—and what makes it a target.
22 min
16
What Next | No, Women Didn't Ruin the Workplace
“Are workplaces too girly?” and other questions asked bravely by the New York Times.
28 min
17
ICYMI | Who TF Is Grammy-Nominated Alex Warren?
Alex Warren was an OG TikTokker. Now he’s nominated for a Grammy.
40 min
18
What Next | How To Lose a Government Shutdown
Senate Democrats are letting the GOP off the hook in exchange for a promise for a future vote and a resolution that lasts until January?
23 min
19
Slate Money | Money Talks: Beyond The Pink Tax
38 min
20
Hang Up | Mamdani and the Knicks
How New York’s favorite team influenced the recent mayoral race.
60 min
21
What Next | Is Special Ed Getting Left Behind?
Federal funding that helps schools educate all children has stalled in the government shutdown—and it may never come back.
24 min
22
What Next: TBD | Why Tesla Is Paying Elon a Tri...
Post-DOGE, Musk’s empire is looking a little shaky, if still extremely lucrative for the man himself.
27 min
23
Slate Money | Meta’s Instascam Ads
50 min
24
Amicus | When Tariffs Crashed Into SCOTUS
SCOTUS has let this president do pretty much anything. Are tariffs really where they draw the line?
61 min
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What Next: TBD | The Nick Fuentes Problem
What’s the difference between being a party with Nazis and being in a Nazi party?
21 min