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Political Gabfest | Who Wants a Third Party, An...
Musk founds the “America Party” via social media post; the US erratically zags again on aid for Ukraine against Putin; and Trump’s latest plot twist in the tedious tariff saga.
65 min
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What Next | Stage Managing Sex in Hollywood
The position has experienced a boom in the years after #MeToo—but have they really changed Hollywood?
27 min
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What Next | Was the Flash Flooding in Texas Pre...
The world we’ve been building for isn’t the world we’ll be living in.
21 min
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What Next | Is Trump Running the Fugitive Slave...
The lessons and warnings from a law that failed to avert the Civil War.
20 min
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Slate Money | Money Talks: The Working Homeless...
42 min
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What Next | The Spectacle of “Alligator Alcatra...
How the new immigration detention facility in Florida became a reality in just over a week.
23 min
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What Next: TBD | How A.I. Lost (and Won) the Bi...
With a little help from country music.
24 min
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Slate Money | Markets Will Be Markets
48 min
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ICYMI | Not Even Lawsuits Can Stop AI
Two recent rulings spell bad news for creatives.
40 min
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What Next: TBD | Rerun: Death of the Weather Fo...
Climate and weather aren’t the same thing, but the Trump administration would have you understand neither one.
23 min
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Political Gabfest | Is Trump’s Reckless Bill Un...
Senate passes massively irresponsible budget bill; last anti-Trump Republicans abandon Congress while Musk teases third party idea; and Paramount sells out journalists to settle with Trump.
66 min
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What Next | One Big Deeply Unpopular Bill
What this sweeping and expensive piece of legislation could cost you.
25 min
13
What Next | Is This the End of NPR and PBS?
The Trump administration’s plan to kill public broadcasting is going to hurt rural America most—will any Congressional Republicans step up?
26 min
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Amicus | Our All-Star SCOTUS End-of-Term Breakf...
Amicus’ brain trust of five top legal analysts are here to help you process what just happened at the Supreme Court.
55 min
15
What Next | We Need to Talk About the Supreme C...
The justices have grown increasingly impatient with each other—and anything standing in the way of Trump's agenda.
28 min
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What Next | Why Is ICE Masked Up?
What happens when government agents are impossible to identify?
27 min
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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
18
Slate Money | Megayacht Foam Parties Are In
43 min
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Amicus | “No Right Is Safe”
The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v CASA sent American democracy over a cliff.
49 min
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What Next: TBD | The Other Iran-Israel War
Cyberattacks are much less explosive, but just as dangerous.
20 min
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Political Gabfest | Let’s Plunge, New York
63 min
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What Next | Zohran Mamdani’s Former Boss Weighs In
A new New York City has asserted itself.
27 min
23
ICYMI | TikTok May Win Battles, But YouTube Wil...
Behind the scenes at VidCon—and 20 years of YouTube.
41 min
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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
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Slate Money | Money Talks: Money is One Hell of...
26 min