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1
What Next | Corporate America Retreats From Pride
It was always an awkward fit, but it’s still ominous to watch companies pull back support.
26 min
2
Slate Money | Money Talks: Philosophy of The Bu...
42 min
3
What Next | Trump Sends in the Troops
In response to protests in Los Angeles, the President invoked a legal authority last used by L.B.J. to deploy the National Guard on domestic protesters.
26 min
4
What Next: TBD | The Future of the Internet Hin...
You may be asking, “Who?”
25 min
5
Slate Money | Let’s TACO ‘Bout It
43 min
6
Amicus | There Is No Musk-Trump Feud Without Th...
The original sin of selling the US Justice system comes home to roost at the Supreme Court.
44 min
7
What Next: TBD | Is Palantir Building a Data Bi...
Palantir is laying the groundwork for a central government data system - one that sounds an awful lot like a surveillance state.
26 min
8
Political Gabfest | Republicans vs. the Big Bea...
63 min
9
Amicus | Sneak Preview: Unanimous Opinions Out ...
12 min
10
What Next | She Was Tortured. America Shut Her ...
One of the last avenues of protection at the southern border appears to have closed.
26 min
11
What Next | Can Zionism Survive This War?
A self-described Zionist feels the path Israel is on isn’t leading to a safe, peaceful nation for Jews, which he once believed was the goal.
28 min
12
What Next | George Floyd Square, Five Years Later
Searching for progress, in Minneapolis and America.
30 min
13
Hang up | Finals Week
How the championship series for both the NBA and NHL have taken shape.
51 min
14
What Next | Can the U.S. Learn from the U.K.'s ...
Even with a US trade deal in hand, British politics still feel lost in the woods, five years after leaving the EU.
24 min
15
What Next: TBD | So Long, Elon
He came, he sawed, he conq—well, he left.
25 min
16
Slate Money | Pay Offs & Lay Offs
45 min
17
Amicus | This End Of Term At SCOTUS Is Unlike A...
The president-king the Roberts Court built now threatens SCOTUS’ own imperial project
68 min
18
What Next: TBD | The Drone Wars
Russia and Ukraine are locked in an arms race that will change war forever.
22 min
19
Political Gabfest | Why Destroy Harvard?
69 min
20
What Next | Legally Dead—And Pregnant
Adriana Smith is being kept on life support, at her family’s expense, until her fetus reaches 32 weeks.
25 min
21
What Next | Does Gavin Newsom Have It All Figur...
Why the California governor seems to be engineering a big pivot to the center.
26 min
22
What Next | What Would You Pay to Stay Alive?
A reporter investigates why his lifesaving medication costs nearly $1,000 a day.
25 min
23
Slate Money | Money Talks: Is 'Your Friends & N...
38 min
24
What Next: TBD | Crypto's Big Win
Even if you've never touched crypto, you could be burned by the GENIUS Act.
26 min
25
Slate Money | Elon Backs Off
50 min