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After the Trump administration launched a massive Immigrations and Customs Enforcement operation in Minnesota, protesters gathered to defend immigrant neighbors. Renee Nicole Good, a mother of a six year old, showed up with her wife and dog to film altercations between officers and community members. What happened next changed everything. Guest: Jon Collins, senior reporter on the Minnesota Public Radio News race, class and communities team. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to…
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Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - Is Trump’s Reckless Bill Unpopular?
This week, David Plotz and guest hosts Will Saletan and Catherine Rampell discuss what the Senate’s regressive budget bill will do to the health of America…
Slate NewsWhat Next - One Big Deeply Unpopular Bill
Trump wants his “One Big Beautiful Bill” passed by July 4. But the bill is so large and expensive—with deep tax cuts only partially offset by huge cuts to…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Our All-Star SCOTUS End-of-Term Breakfast Table
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern host the panel that’s guaranteed to help you understand what happened during the Supreme Court’s latest term – examining…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Is This the End of NPR and PBS?
The Trump administration’s plans to strip funding from PBS and NPR is the latest in a long line of Republican fights against public broadcasting. The House has…
Slate NewsWhat Next - We Need to Talk About the Supreme Court
Last week’s big Supreme Court decisions walked back rights for individuals and the powers of the lower courts—and in aggregate made it ever more difficult to…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Why Is ICE Masked Up?
ICE agents have begun concealing their identities in masks and plainclothes while making arrests. Experts—including a former ICE official—say that endangers…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The FTC’s Merger Shakedown
Under a normal administration, a merger between two large advertising firms might attract the government’s interest for anti-monopoly reasons. Under this one…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - “No Right Is Safe”
The cataclysmic opinions from SCOTUS on Friday certainly suggest that the courts can no longer save us. In fact, in Trump v. CASA., we learned that it’s…
Slate NewsSlate Money - Megayacht Foam Parties Are In
This week: Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary in the race for New York City mayor. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the alarmist…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Other Iran-Israel War
In addition to the three-dimensional war of bombs and missiles, Iran and Israel—and the US—are squaring off in a cyber battle. With everything from water…
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Political Gabfest - Let’s Plunge, New York
This week, Emily Bazelon and guest hosts Ruth Marcus and James Forman discuss Trump’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities with guest Steven Cook from the…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Zohran Mamdani’s Former Boss Weighs In
How Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani upset the better-connected, better-funded, better-known candidate in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary—and how he…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Even This Senator Had No Warning About Iran
When news broke that the United States had bombed Iran, members of Congress—the only people who can authorize war according to the Constitution—found out at…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Sneak Preview: The Supreme Court's Worst Move Since Trump Returned to Office
In this member-exclusive Opinionpalooza episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick and co-host Mark Joseph Stern discuss the Supreme Court's shadow docket decision in…
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Slate Money - Money Talks: Money is One Hell of A Drug
In this Money Talks: Felix Salmon is joined by author James Frey to discuss his new novel, Next to Heaven, set among America’s ultra-ultra-rich, the real life…
Slate NewsWhat Next - The Lawsuit Scaring Protesters
A jury recently found Greenpeace liable for more than $660 million in damages to the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline for its role in the Standing…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Trump Bombed Iran. Are We at War?
The Trump administration bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. While the Pentagon says these facilities are severely damaged, a diplomatic end to the conflict…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Airlines Are Selling Your Data to the Government
ARC, the data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, has been selling domestic flight data in the US to Customs and Border Protection. But in the…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Many Compromises of Elena Kagan
The Justices seem intent on packing their summer vacation bags and getting on their way. Earlier in the week, the court’s conservative supermajority upheld a…
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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | Alison Bechdel Explains Selling Out the Progressive Way
David Plotz talks with author Alison Bechdel about her new book, Spent. They discuss what’s memoir and what’s less than memoir in the comic novel, David’s own…
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Slate Money - Slate Money Submits To The AI Overlords
This week: We become cheerleaders for crypto regulation, AI, and…Cheerleaders. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the GENIUS act, the major…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Bonus: The All New Electric … Hummer?
Listen to What Next via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, Overcast, Google Play, or iHeart. America’s most machismo and gas-guzzling car, the Hummer…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - We Deport. You Laugh?
The Trump administration's anti-immigration campaign has become defined by distasteful memes that gleefully portray the mass deportations being carried out…
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Political Gabfest - Massive Ordnance Penetrator
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss whether the US should join Israel’s war on Iran, the tragic Minnesota assassinations and why…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Mighty Real Edition
As What Next celebrates Juneteenth, please enjoy this episode from our colleagues at Hit Parade. What Next will be back in your feed on Monday. Little…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Sneak Preview: SCOTUS Apparently Doesn’t Believe Trans People Exist
In this Slate Plus exclusive episode, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern analyse the Roberts Court's decision in Skrmetti, effectively bans gender-affirming…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Kristi Noem Understands the Assignment
As the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem has made herself the official face of the Trump administration’s military crackdowns on…
Slate NewsWhat Next - The War Netanyahu Always Wanted
On Friday, Israel launched massive strikes in Iran, targeting nuclear sites and killing top military leaders in the largest single-day attack on the country…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Vaccine Skeptics Just Scored a Big Win
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, accusing members of serving industry…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Summer Travel Tips To Not Get Detained
A guide to keeping your phone, and your digital life, safe when you’re crossing the border. Guest: Lily Hay Newman, senior writer for WIRED covering…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Tanks On DC’s Streets And A US Senator In Handcuffs
America feels very different this weekend. While the president’s planned military parade (that just happens to coincide with his birthday) will see tanks and…
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Slate Money - Peak AI Frenzy
This week: Warner Brothers and Discovery breakup again. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers examine the undoing of the three-year-old merger. Then…
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - New DOGE, New Tricks
Elon Musk has ridden off into the sunset acrimoniously (maybe), but the Department of Government Efficiency is just getting started. Will DOGE continue wildly…
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Political Gabfest - Very Heavy Force
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and guest host Juliette Kayyem discuss the ominous juxtaposition of Trump sending National Guard troops and Marines…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Trump’s Brittle Authoritarianism
Donald Trump is sending the troops to California, while also getting ready for a big birthday parade—for himself and the US Army—in DC. Does grasping for…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Will Israel Starve Gaza Into Submission?
In Gaza, two million people are at risk of starvation, as Israeli-controlled aid has been repeatedly interrupted and marked by violence towards aid workers and…
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Slate Money - Money Talks: Philosophy of The Budget
In this Money Talks: Felix Salmon is joined by Barry Lam, host of Slate’ philosophy podcast Hi-Phi Nation to help him explain how the GOP sees the budget…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Corporate America Retreats From Pride
After years of bigger floats and bigger rainbow-ified logos, corporate sponsorship for Pride Month celebrations is dropping off this year. But, given that…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Trump Sends in the Troops
When immigration raids began in the Los Angeles area last weekend, so did spontaneous protests. On Sunday, Trump federalized 2,000 California national…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Future of the Internet Hinges on Gail Slater
Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater inherited the government’s antitrust case against Google and is eager to follow it through—but likely not for the same…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - There Is No Musk-Trump Feud Without The Roberts Court
Money talks, and sometimes it speaks as law by fiat from the highest court in the land. In this episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick delves into the impact of…
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Slate Money - Let’s TACO ‘Bout It
This week: Prices are going up, but inflation data has become unreliable under Trump. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss how staffing cuts…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Main Character: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
Sean Diddy Combs’s trial in New York started about a month ago and was expected to take about two months, so here at the halfway mark, we check in with a Slate…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Is Palantir Building a Data Big Brother?
One of the goals of DOGE was to get rid of the “silos” that keep government agencies from sharing freely amongst themselves efficiently and instead organize…
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Political Gabfest - Republicans vs. the Big Beautiful Bill
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Elon Musk’s dramatic entrance into the fight between Republican factions over details of the…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Sneak Preview: Unanimous Opinions Out Front, Desperate Dealmaking Out Back
This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. The best way to support our work is by joining…
Slate NewsWhat Next - She Was Tortured. America Shut Her Out.
Since January, the Trump administration has suspended the right to claim asylum at the southern border. One narrower form of protection—for those who had been…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Can Zionism Survive This War?
After 20 months of war, with violence erupting far from the Middle East, where is the future of Zionism headed? Guest: Isaac Saul, Tangle executive editor and…
Slate NewsWhat Next - George Floyd Square, Five Years Later
Five years after George Floyd’s murder sparked nationwide protests, the legacy of that movement is still being written in Minneapolis and America writ…
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Slate Money - The Perfect Vacation Length
In this special episode of Slate Money, Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck discuss how long is too long for a vacation. They dig into how time…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Can the U.S. Learn from the U.K.'s Post-Brexit Mess?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: voter discontentment at the two major parties is creating an opening for a far-right populist with an…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - So Long, Elon
His time in Washington was brief, but we’ll be picking up the pieces for a long time. What Elon’s exit signals for the future of DOGE, and Musk’s political…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - This End Of Term At SCOTUS Is Unlike Any Other in History
The end (of the Supreme Court term) is nigh. This week, Amicus goes into June Opinionpalooza mode with some meta-analysis of what to look out for as the…
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Slate Money - Pay Offs & Lay Offs
This week: Felix Salmon left Axios. He, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the opaque language and politics around parting ways with an employer and the…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Drone Wars
The war between Ukraine and Russia is being fought increasingly via drone —and NATO and US military leadership is training troops for future conflicts that…
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Political Gabfest - Why Destroy Harvard?
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss this week’s Supreme Court decision that validates Trump’s firing of 2 officials without cause…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Legally Dead—And Pregnant
Adriana Smith was nine weeks pregnant when she was declared brain dead in February—far enough along that her fetus showed cardiac activity. The hospital then…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Does Gavin Newsom Have It All Figured Out?
Everyone assumes the reason Gavin Newsom has had right-wingers like Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon on his podcast is to burnish his credentials for an imminent…
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Slate Money - Money Talks: Is 'Your Friends & Neighbors' Aspirational?
In this Money Talks: Hillary Frey joins Emily Peck to discuss the kind of rich people that populate the Apple TV+ show Your Friends & Neighbors, Jon Hamm’s Don…
Slate NewsWhat Next - What Would You Pay to Stay Alive?
A Revlimid pill costs about 25 cents to make, and about a thousand dollars to buy—but it’s keeping him alive, so what choice does he have? Guest: David…