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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 NewsWhat Next - Should Democrats Compromise on Election Reform?
For the past year, Democrats have been touting the importance of passing two huge federal voting protections bills. If those plans can’t pass, should the party…
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What Next - Greg Abbott’s PR Play at the Border
Back in March, Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a couple hundred members of the Texas National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to counteract what he called…
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What Next - Chicago’s Public School Meltdown
Chicago Public Schools canceled classes for three consecutive days this year, following a vote by the teachers union to defy in-person teaching orders amid a…
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What Next - J.D. Vance’s Long Game
J.D. Vance became a sought-after cultural translator when he published Hillbilly Elegy. Now, he’s a rhetorical bomb-thrower running for the Republican…
Slate NewsSlate Money - Stacy’s Goodbye Cocktails
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about the split verdict in the trial of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, the short supply…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Aftermath of Elizabeth Holmes
Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty of defrauding investors this week in federal court. The former CEO, wunderkind, and blood mogul has been the subject of…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - Well, Obviously It’s Jan. 6
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss Jan. 6, with guest Jamelle Bouie and what to make of omicron's impact on schools, and the Theranos case…
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What Next - Rapid Test Blues
Back in March of 2020, a scientist working at MIT developed a rapid test for the novel coronavirus. It wasn’t quite as accurate as a PCR, but would have gone a…
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What Next - Is the Pandemic Getting Better... Or Worse?
It's easy to look at the latest pandemic-related disruptions and assume we're careening into another full-blown COVID crisis. But in many ways, we’re getting…
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What Next - The Coup Next Time
Months before the attack on the Capitol, Bart Gellman predicted that the 2020 election would usher in a make-or-break year for American democracy. He was…
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What Next - The Capitol Rioters, A Year Later
The Justice Department’s criminal investigation into the January 6th insurrection is unprecedented. More than 700 rioters face charges, and federal prosecutors…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - 2021 Was a Direct Response to 2020
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to reflect on the past year and…
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Slate Money - One Really Long Year
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael are joined by Joe Weisentahl of the Bloombergpodcast Odd Lots. They discuss this past very long…
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What Next - TBD | Best of 2021: It’s Time to Talk About U.F.O.s
This episode originally aired in July 2021 Last week, the U.S. government released a new report that attempts to categorize 144 verified sightings of…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Best of 2021: It’s Time to Talk About U.F.O.s
This episode originally aired in July 2021 Last week, the U.S. government released a new report that attempts to categorize 144 verified sightings of…
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What Next - Best of 2021 | When Your Town Burns Down
We’re re-running some of our favorite episodes from the past year. This episode originally aired in August 2021. Last week, the northern California mountain…
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Political Gabfest - Conundrums 2021
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz wrap up 2021 considering life’s many conundrums—with special guest Dwayne Betts! Questions this year include: if…
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What Next - Best of 2021 | Will the NFL Finally Support Gay Players?
We’re re-running some of our favorite episodes from the past year. This episode originally aired in June 2021. The Las Vegas Raiders’ defensive end, Carl…
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What Next - Best of 2021 | How Should We Remember Colin Powell?
We’re re-running some of our favorite episodes from the past year. This episode originally aired in October 2021. Colin Powell, known as a “trailblazer” and…
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What Next - Best of 2021 | God Doesn’t Want Me Vaccinated
We’re re-running some of our favorite episodes from the past year. This episode originally aired in September 2021. Who are the people seeking a religious…
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Slate Money - Hire Someone to Rob You
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk all about retirement with Teresa Ghilarducci, retirement expert and professor at the New…
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What Next - TBD | Best of 2021: Are We Getting COVID Testing All Wrong?
This episode originally aired in September. In the U.S., the PCR test is the gold standard for COVID testing. Common knowledge would have it that the test is…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Best of 2021: Are We Getting COVID Testing All Wrong?
This episode originally aired in September. In the U.S., the PCR test is the gold standard for COVID testing. Common knowledge would have it that the test is…
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What Next - Best of 2021 | When the Culture War Comes For Your Job
We’re re-running some of our favorite episodes from the past year. This episode originally aired in July 2021. Brittany Hogan worked in diversity and inclusion…
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Political Gabfest - Build Back Never
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss the future of the Democratic party's agenda, Omicron's spread across the United States and they're joined…
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What Next - Best of 2021 | One Woman’s Year Protecting George Floyd Square
We’re re-running some of our favorite episodes from the past year. This episode originally aired in May 2021. A year after the murder of George Floyd in…
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What Next - Best of 2021 | The Plight of the Delivery Worker
In the last few years, New York City’s delivery workers have become a key part of the food industry’s infrastructure, allowing restaurants to do business with…
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What Next - Joe Biden's Putin Problem
What does a massing of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border mean? And could this conflict be defused yet by diplomacy? Guest: Slate’s Fred Kaplan, author of…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Jan. 6: The Coup That Wasn’t, but Still Could Be
Almost a year later, are we seeing signs of some sort of accountability for the Jan. 6 insurrection? And why is that accountability so important and yet so…
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Slate Money - Ban the Bra!
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about the psychic weight of another COVID wave and what it means for the economy, the…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Carbon Capture Fantasy
Using experimental technology to pull gigatons of carbon out of the air and bury it deep beneath the Earth sounds like a bad sci-fi plot point. If things don’t…
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Political Gabfest - Build Back Later
Emily, John and David discuss January 6th revelations, Build Back Better and voting rights and they are joined by Slow Burn host Joel Anderson to talk about…
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What Next - What Mark Meadows Knew
After initially cooperating with the select committee investigating the events of January 6, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows reversed course…
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What Next - Why Didn’t Maryland Democrats Go For the Jugular?
Maryland Democrats had a shot at an 8-0 gerrymander this redistricting cycle. To the frustration of the national Democratic party, they stopped just shy of…
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What Next - Abrams vs. Kemp vs. Perdue
When Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced his intent to run for reelection, he knew he was facing down a rematch with voting rights activist and former state…
Slate NewsSlate Money - Succession: Mr. Darcy How Could You?!
Slate Money is obsessed with Succession, HBO's wonderful drama about the lives of the superrich Roy family. So, every Monday, we'll be discussing the previous…
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What Next - When Your Book Gets Banned By the School Board
Banning books in schools is on the rise. Around the country, parents are lobbying to banish from libraries and curriculums any work they deem to be “graphic”…
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Slate Money - Better Does Worse
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about Better.com’s CEO firing tons of employees via Zoom, DoorDash’s dark stores and increased…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Purported Right to Abortion
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Mark Joseph Stern for an emergency reading of the jurisprudential tea leaves in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decisions…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Who Online Justice Leaves Behind
The U.S. civil court system doesn’t get as much attention as the criminal courts, but it would be hard to overstate its importance. In 2018, for example, 47…
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Political Gabfest - Ghislaine
Emily and David are joined by guest host David Leonhardt to discuss the pandemic economy; a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics, and the Ghislaine Maxwell…
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What Next - The School Shooting Down the Street
Michigan state Senator Rosemary Bayer has been fighting for years to get safe storage laws on the books in her home state. In the wake of the shooting at…
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What Next - What Peng Shuai Started
When Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai accused a former Chinese Vice Premier of rape, what came next was darkly predictable: the athlete disappeared from public…
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What Next - House Democrats’ Long-Shot Plan to Dodge Disaster
All signs point to rough congressional elections next year. What are House Democrats doing to hold their majority? Guest: Rep. Sean Maloney (D-N.Y.), chair of…
Slate NewsSlate Money - Succession: Eat the Mozzarella!
Slate Money is obsessed with Succession, HBO's wonderful drama about the lives of the superrich Roy family. So, every Monday, we'll be discussing the previous…
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What Next - The 30-Year Plan to End Roe
After oral arguments last week, the Supreme Court looks ready to overturn Roe v. Wade. How did conservatives get to this moment when the majority of Americans…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Inside the Arguments in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Julie Rikelman, senior director of litigation at the Center for Reproductive Rights, who argued for reproductive rights and…
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Slate Money - The Side Gig
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about the problems facing Buzzfeed as it goes public, understanding the latest jobs report…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Did @jack Ruin Twitter?
On Monday, Jack Dorsey stepped down as CEO of Twitter. It’s not the first time he’s left the job. Is this really the end for the man who guided Twitter through…
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Political Gabfest - Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
Emily, John and David discuss the Supreme Court's consideration of Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization with guest Ross Douthat. The Political Gabfest…
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What Next - Why No One Told Chris Cuomo No
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was recently placed on indefinite leave by the network for his involvement in the damage control operations of his brother, former NY…
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What Next - Everything We (Don’t) Know About Omicron
In November, South Africa alerted the world to Omicron, a new strain of COVID-19. Then, as cases began to pop up worldwide, the World Health Organization…
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What Next - Are the Democrats Making Child Care Even Worse?
Child care has long been a “textbook example of a broken market,” as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said this fall. How have government efforts so thoroughly…
Slate NewsSlate Money - Succession: “Rubberneck the Train Wreck”
Slate Money is obsessed with Succession, HBO's wonderful drama about the lives of the superrich Roy family. So, every Monday, we'll be discussing the previous…
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What Next - RIP to the SAT
If you had to take the SAT for your college admissions process, you largely have the University of California System to thank for that. When the university…
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Slate Money - Fist Bumps for Zelda
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael are joined by Gene Park of The Washington Post for a very special all-gaming episode. They get into…
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What Next - TBD | Best of 2021: Inside the Subreddit That Blew Up GameStop
This episode originally aired in January 2021 The story of how GameStop went from the verge of a bankruptcy to a $15 billion market value isn’t an easy one to…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Best of 2021: Inside the Subreddit That Blew Up GameStop
This episode originally aired in January 2021 The story of how GameStop went from the verge of a bankruptcy to a $15 billion market value isn’t an easy one to…
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What Next - Whose Second Amendment Is It?
The Supreme Court is considering a case that may strike down New York state’s strict restrictions on carrying a gun in public. Some public defenders think that…
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Political Gabfest - Thanksgiving
Emily, John and David talk about whether President Biden ought to run in 2024, the Rittenhouse verdict and former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull joins the…