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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 NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Will the Supreme Court Step Into Trump’s Hush Money Conviction?
As a jury in Lower Manhattan responded with “guilty” to all 34 felony counts in former President and presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump’s…
Slate NewsSlate Money - Nobody’s Gonna Stop Nvidia
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by Alex Kantrowitz of the Big Technology podcast. They discuss why the Nvidia juggernaut…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Opinionpalooza: The Court of King Alito
Business as usual at the Supreme Court is the institutional response to the unusual business of Justice Samuel Alito’s letter writing about his flag-flying…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - He’s Suing Big Tech Over Uvalde
His law firm won a $73 million dollar settlement against Remington on behalf of nine Sandy Hook families. Now he’s filing a lawsuit against the gunmaker Daniel…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - SPECIAL: Trump Guilty on All 34 Counts
After six weeks of arguments and testimony and a little under 12 hours of deliberation, a Manhattan jury voted to convict former President Trump of 34 felony…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Amicus: Trump Guilty on All 34 Counts
In light of late-breaking news, we present this conversation from our colleagues at Amicus: After six weeks of arguments and testimony and a little under 12…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - Donald Trump is Convicted! Plus, Who is Winning The Senate?
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the U.S. Senate seats that might turn from blue to red in 2024; The Fall of Roe with The New…
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What Next - An “Apprentice” Producer’s Mea Culpa
How one producer—now freed from his 20-year non-disclosure agreement—regrets his role shaping Donald Trump’s image on The Apprentice. Guest: Bill Pruitt…
Slate NewsWhat Next - The View from Israel
What do Israelis think of the war in Gaza and how their leadership is conducting it? Guest: Tamar Harrel-Santis, student and combat reservist living in Ramat…
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Slate Money - Money Talks: Business is Bad for Lesbians
Lesbian businesses are great for the queer women’s community, but making them profitable is a different matter. For this Money Talks, Felix Salmon chats with…
Slate NewsWhat Next - The Death of Bidenomics
After inheriting a tricky, post-peak-pandemic economy, the Biden administration pulled off the double-feat of stalling inflation while also keeping…
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What Next - Slow Burn: A Hotbed of Homosexuality
While the What Next team observes the holiday, enjoy the first episode of Slow Burn's new season. In the 1970s, San Francisco became a welcoming home for tens…
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Why Hospitals Keep Getting Hacked
Last year saw a record number of healthcare hacks with more than 700 separate incidents. And with a subsidiary of United Healthcare forking over a $22 billion…
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Political Gabfest - John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Time Travel Via an Assortment of Journal Entries
In this week’s essay, John discusses Mothers’s Day, playing tennis with the Attorney General, medical scares, and more Notebook Entries: Notebook 19, page 16…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Opinionpalooza: A Bad June Rising At SCOTUS
As we stand poised at the threshold of June, we brace ourselves for the fire hose of opinions headed our way in the next four or so weeks. But why? Why –even…
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Slate Money - Endless Shrimp In This Economy!?
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by Kyla Scanlon, author of the new book In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI
When OpenAI showed a demo for the latest version of ChatGPT —the one that you can chat with, you know, with your voice—one of the voices sounded eerily…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Opinionpalooza: Justice Alito Flies the Flag for Racial Gerrymanders (Preview)
In this Opinionpalooza emergency bonus episode, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discuss Thursday’s decision in Alexander v. South Carolina NAACP…
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Political Gabfest - Justice Alito's Upside Down Flag
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s right-wing flag-flying; David Leonhardt’s take on A New…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Diddy’s Reckoning
Allegations about Sean “Diddy” Combs had been circulating, but it wasn’t until surveillance footage of the mogul assaulting his then-partner Cassie began…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - How Originalism Ate The Law: What We Can Do About It
In the third and final part of our How Originalism Ate the Law series, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern are joined by Justice Todd Eddins of the Hawaii…
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What Next - Does Netanyahu Have an Exit Strategy?
Seven months into the war in Gaza, both the international community and many Israelis are demanding to know what Benjamin Netanyahu’s “day after” plan is…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Is Killing a Protester Still a Crime?
Daniel Perry was sentenced to 25 years in prison for murdering Garrett Foster at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020, but Texas Governor Greg Abbott just…
Slate NewsWhat Next - What Are Presidential Debates For?
Though their influence on voters seems to be between negligible and nonexistent, presidential debates are still important. And even if their past performances…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Dark Side of GoFundMe
In theory, crowdfunding sites offer an opportunity for anyone to give to any cause, including, say, strangers facing huge medical bills. In practice…
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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Why Americans Care About Animals
Emily Bazelon talks with authors Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy, about their new book, Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About…
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Political Gabfest - John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Moving in New York Twenty Years After September 11th.
In this week’s essay, John discusses the differences between moving around New York in 1991 and 2021; remembering 9/11 twenty years later; and more. Notebook…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Alito’s Stars and Gripes
Justice Samuel Alito’s wife didn’t attend the January 6th 2021 “Stop the Steal” rally (unlike fellow SCOTUS spouse Ginni Thomas), but in January 2021, in a…
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Slate Money - Biden Zaps Chinese EVs
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the motivations and impacts of new tariffs plus the cultural forces behind China’s economic…
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Too Stonks Too Furious
The 2021 subreddit-coordinated effort to raise the price of Gamestop stock was, in some ways, a proof of concept: the little guy can get into the market and…
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Political Gabfest - How Bad Was The Poll For Biden?
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the latest New York Times presidential poll and the Maryland primary results; the…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Why Miss USA is Imploding
When Miss USA abdicated her throne, people noticed that the first letters of each sentence of her resignation letter spell out “I am silenced.” Shortly…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Can Fox News Still Sway an Election?
Hit with an $800 million lawsuit, missing Tucker Carlson and Rupert Murdoch, and facing competition from fanatical fringe-right media, Fox News might look to…
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Slate Money - Money Talks: Can Math Really Crack the Stock Market?
The “Fama–French model” is a Nobel laureate-designed tool for predicting the stock market. It guides hundreds of billions in investments. The problem? Its…
Slate NewsWhat Next - The Fight for Joe Manchin’s Seat
What would it take for the Democrats to hold Joe Manchin’s crucial Senate seat in West Virginia? Guest: Zach Shrewsbury, Democratic primary candidate for U.S…
Slate NewsWhat Next - MAGA Eating Itself Alive
They’re suspicious of the 2020 election results, their donors, and each other. Now, the MAGA wing of the Michigan GOP is in control—and has kneecapped the…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Would You Choose Your Child’s Sex?
The ability to choose the sex of your child through IVF is banned in most of the world. In America, however, parents can—and do—for a price. Guest: Emi…
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Political Gabfest - John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: The Sneaky Pitfalls of the To-Do List
In this week’s essay, John discusses the Pomodoro Routine (among other productivity routines), why he especially needs a meditation pillow, and how a…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - How Originalism Ate The Law: The Trap
Get your tickets for Amicus Live in Washington DC here. In the second part of our series on Amicus and at Slate.com, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern are…
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Slate Money - How Neoliberalism Scammed America
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by legal scholar Mehrsa Baradaran, author of The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Meet the Trump Campaign’s A.I. Guy
You might not know Brad Parscale by name, but you know his work: he was the digital campaign operative behind Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential victory. This…
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Political Gabfest - Trump Wore Pajamas
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Stormy Daniels’s testimony in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial; marijuana rescheduling…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Stormy Daniels Takes the Stand
Spare a thought for the judge in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial. Justice Juan Merchan has gone from holding the former president in contempt of court… to…
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What Next - Conservative Candid Camera in the Darién Gap
Crossing the Darién Gap, a 66-mile stretch of jungle in Panama, was hard enough before right-wing influencers began showing up with cameras, trying to bait…
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What Next - Hamas Agreed to a Ceasefire. Now What?
In a last minute twist, Hamas has agreed to a ceasefire with Israel. But targeted airstrikes are already underway in Rafah. With its infrastructure in…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Why Democrats Will Save Mike Johnson’s Job
Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling for Mike Johnson’s job—again. But unlike Kevin McCarthy before him, Johnson has support from a surprising place. Guest: Jim…
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Can California Save Journalism?
The California Journalism Preservation Act would make companies like Google and Meta pay publishers for the news content appearing in their feeds and search…
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Political Gabfest - John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Remembering Early 1990s New York
In this week’s essay, John discusses an onboarding memo for his assistant Laura, and recounts his early days living and working in New York City. Notebook…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - How Originalism Ate the Law: The Trick
Get your tickets for Amicus Live in Washington DC here. In this, the first part of a special series on Amicus and at Slate.com, we are lifting the lid on an…
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Slate Money - Will New DEA Rules Light Up the Weed Business?
This week: A new DEA designation for cannabis means high times for pot smokers, but what about the industry? Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Bird Flu—It’s in Milk?
Bird flu isn’t new, you may even remember past outbreaks. But showing up in milk? Is America ready if it leaps to spreading among humans? Guest: Katelyn…
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Political Gabfest - Should Student Protesters Be Arrested?
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the increasing and increasingly violent campus protests of Israel’s war in Gaza, Emily’s…
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What Next - Columbia Cracks Down
Professor Joe Howley has been working with student protesters for almost a year. When they occupied his building, he got texts from the kids—and nothing from…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Biden’s Climate Report Card
It’s not that we aren’t making progress slowing our carbon and greenhouse gas emissions; it’s just that we still may not be doing enough—fast enough—to avert…
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Slate Money - Money Talks: How to Get Fit Like the 1%
Too busy running the rat race to…run? Former Wall Street Journal fitness columnist Jen Murphy has some advice. She chats with host Emily Peck about making time…
Slate NewsWhat Next - The Man Who Wrote the Trump Playbook—30 Years Ago.
In the ‘90s, Pat Buchanan was a fringe figure among Republicans whose positions on immigration and demographic change in the United States were considered too…
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What Next - The Jewish Case for Protest
As some members of Congress call for crackdowns, how do college administrators ensure the safety of their entire student body – while also respecting its right…
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Failures of ‘Organic’ Farming
There are regulations regarding how farm animals are transported, how they’re auctioned, how they’re slaughtered—but when they’re living on the farm? That’s…
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Political Gabfest - John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: The Power of Four Numbers
In this week’s essay, John discusses the art of attention and how to develop the skill of slow-looking. Notebook Entries: Notebook 75, page 8. September 2021…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Democracy Dies at SCOTUS
Get your tickets for Amicus Live in Washington DC here. This past week (that lasted about a year) at the Supreme Court began badly and only went downhill from…