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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: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - A Vaccine Won’t Be the End
As of Sept. 24, there are 42 vaccines in clinical trials on humans. At least 92 others are being developed but have not yet gone to trial. For months, the…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Quiet Words That Remain
Marking the passing of a constitutional titan, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Columbia Law professor and former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - Not Even Cold in The Ground
Emily, John and David discuss the unseemly rush to replace Justice Ginsburg, the coming presidential debates, and 200,000 COVID-19 deaths. Here are some notes…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Could Lindsey Graham Really Lose?
As Lindsey Graham gears up to push the President Trump's nominee through to the Supreme Court, he’s fighting another battle back home in South Carolina -- for…
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What Next - Democrats Can Still Play Hardball
Senate Republicans are almost certainly going to fill Justice Ginsburg’s vacant Supreme Court seat ahead of the election. It may look like Democrats are backed…
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What Next - When Everything Around You Is Burning
Megan Brown’s family has worked their land in Northern California for 170 years. Fire was always a normal part of the ecosystem but Megan says, in recent…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - A Conversation about Conversations with RBG
This is a replay of a special bonus live episode from the National Constitution Center. Dahlia Lithwick in conversation with Jeffrey Rosen about his 2019 book…
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What Next - Remembering RBG
On Friday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away at the age of 87. Her work as a lawyer and a judge forever changed how women are viewed under United States…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - An Interview With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
In January, Dahlia Lithwick spoke to Ruth Bader Ginsburg about the women of Harvard Law School’s class of 1959. Slate Plus members heard the interview in…
Slate NewsSlate Money - Ban Facebook
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski discuss Snowflake’s crazy IPO, what’s wrong with Facebook, and the NVIDIA-Arm merger (which is more interesting…
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Political Gabfest - Special: SCOTUS After Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Emily Bazelon joins Mike Pesca, host of Slate's Gist, for a special episode on the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. After discussing Ginsburg’s history…
Slate NewsWhat Next - TBD | Did the Internet Doom a Pregnancy?
For pregnant women in the U.S., there are plenty of reasons to mistrust the medical establishment. Mortality rates are high compared to other western…
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Did the Internet Doom a Pregnancy?
For pregnant women in the U.S., there are plenty of reasons to mistrust the medical establishment. Mortality rates are high compared to other western…
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Political Gabfest - Giant Fires Everywhere
Emily, John, David and Jamelle discuss the impacts and threats of wildfires and the climate crisis, apocalyptic election talk, and the four of them envision a…
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What Next - Are Democrats Blowing It With Latino Voters?
Democratic operatives who specialize in Latino voter outreach are sounding the alarm: The Biden campaign assumes Latino support at its own peril. Guest: Chuck…
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What Next - Teaching Is Hell Right Now
Hybrid learning is a massive educational experiment playing out in schools across the country. No two classrooms are alike. We took a look at one teacher’s…
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What Next - What Ever Happened to More Stimulus?
This is what coronavirus purgatory looks like: Our present economic doldrums are brutal for service workers and tolerable for white-collar workers. Congress is…
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What Next - Another Whistleblower Comes Forward
A new whistleblower complaint alleges that the Trump administration is trying to manipulate national security agencies for political ends. With two months to…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Bill Barr’s American Carnage
What is Bill Barr doing, and why is he doing it? Donald Ayer, former U.S. attorney and principal deputy solicitor general in the Reagan administration and…
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Slate Money - Ironic Normcore Trifles
Ben Schott joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski to discuss Citigroup’s new CEO Jane Fraser (and everyone’s preoccupation with her gender), the…
Slate NewsWhat Next - TBD | The Great Climate Migration Begins
As the planet warms in the coming decades, many parts of the planet that millions now call home will become uninhabitable. At first, people in these areas will…
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Great Climate Migration Begins
As the planet warms in the coming decades, many parts of the planet that millions now call home will become uninhabitable. At first, people in these areas will…
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Political Gabfest - Rage
What Trump knew about the virus, DOJ’s move to end E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit, and Matthew Yglesias on One Billion Americans. Here are some notes and references…
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What Next - This Fire Season Is Different
The American West is undergoing one of the most extreme fire seasons on record. With megafires creating apocalyptic scenes across large swaths of California…
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What Next - Can We Trust the Polls This Time?
For months after Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, pundits labored over how the polls, and the reports surrounding them, had badly misjudged and mischaracterized…
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What Next - A Post Office Insider On What We're Getting Wrong
John Nolan worked at the United States Postal Service for a total of 24 years. He retired in 2005. The last couple of months have been a frustrating time for…
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Slate Money - Ecomagination
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski discuss the current U.S. labor market, the oddities of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and the sad state of GE…
Slate NewsWhat Next - TBD | The Limits of Filming Police Brutality
In the wake of the killing of Michael Brown in 2014, and the national protests that followed, many believed that video shared on social media, along with…
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Limits of Filming Police Brutality
In the wake of the killing of Michael Brown in 2014, and the national protests that followed, many believed that video shared on social media, along with…
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Political Gabfest - Who Should Get the Vaccine?
Emily, David and John discuss the politics of violence in the U.S. and are joined by bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel to talk about COVID vaccine distribution, and…
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What Next - Trump's Legal Troubles Are Just Getting Started
President Donald Trump’s business dealings have been shrouded in secrecy, but new legal scrutiny on the Trump Organization might turn up some answers about how…
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What Next - Will “Law and Order” Save Trump?
Nine weeks out from the presidential election, the Trump campaign is trying to make the election about “law and order.” Is that a winning strategy when the…
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What Next - A Democratic Mud-Fight in Massachusetts
The Democratic primary for a Massachusetts Senate seat is becoming a test of progressive bona fides and the strength of the Kennedy family name. So perhaps…
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What Next - Seven Days of Unrest in Kenosha
One week ago, a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times, paralyzing him from the waist down. In the immediate aftermath…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Dozens of Baby Bush v Gores
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Professor Samuel Bagenstos of the University of…
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Slate Money - Rolling Dice
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski discuss the Fed’s new monetary policy announcement, direct listings on the stock market, and all the ways to play…
Slate NewsWhat Next - TBD | QAnon Goes Mainstream
Not long ago, the QAnon conspiracy theory seemed to have lost momentum. Social media mentions had decreased. 8chan had gone offline. But since March, fueled by…
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - QAnon Goes Mainstream
Not long ago, the QAnon conspiracy theory seemed to have lost momentum. Social media mentions had decreased. 8chan had gone offline. But since March, fueled by…
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Political Gabfest - Pool Boy
The Republican convention, violence in Kenosha, and whether the Falwell and Conway families’ dramas matter. Here are some notes and references from this week’s…
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What Next - U.S. Foreign Policy Is Officially Incoherent
Last week, the Trump administration used shaky reasoning to pursue additional sanctions against Iran. The proposal was rejected by nearly the entire U.N…
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What Next - The Fight for Belarus
For the past two weeks, Belarus has been gripped by political protest. The country’s longtime authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, is courting…
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What Next - The U.S. Can Fix Its COVID Testing Failures
Getting tested for the coronavirus has never been as easy as it should be in the U.S. We’ve seen equipment shortages, long delays for test results, and even…
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What Next - Another Crackdown On the Border
The pandemic hasn’t stopped the flow of migrants to the U.S.-Mexico border. But it has prompted an emergency crackdown on asylum seekers, and critics of the…
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Slate Money - Finders Keepers
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski discuss the finances of the USPS, the fate of brick and mortar retail after the pandemic, and Citigroup’s $900…
Slate NewsWhat Next - TBD | What Went Wrong With Contact Tracing Apps
In the early days of the pandemic, countries around the world invested heavily in new technologies that would help track the movement of the virus. Now, six…
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - What Went Wrong With Contact Tracing Apps
In the early days of the pandemic, countries around the world invested heavily in new technologies that would help track the movement of the virus. Now, six…
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Political Gabfest - I Know a Predator When I See One
Emily, John and David discuss the Democrats’ virtual convention, the U.S. Postal Service, and the bipartisan Senate report exposing more Trump ties to Russia…
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What Next - Can NY Take Down the NRA?
New York Attorney General Letitia James surprised many when she announced plans to dissolve the National Rifle Association. James accused the gun lobby, which…
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What Next - The QAnon Candidate
Last week in Georgia’s 14th congressional district runoff, a Republican candidate who believes in the dangerous and baseless QAnon conspiracy theory came out…
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What Next - The Battle for Wisconsin's Dairy Farmers
Having the Democratic National Convention in Wisconsin was supposed to be a way for the Democrats to atone for 2016. Hillary Clinton was the first presidential…
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What Next - Wanted by China
One day last month, Samuel Chu woke up to the news that the Chinese government wanted him in jail. Chu doesn’t think he’s in danger -- he’s a U.S. citizen…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Behind the Scenes of "The Class of RBG"
In July, Slate published "The Class of RBG,” a print piece and two podcast episodes about the nine other women in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Harvard Law School…
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Slate Money - Y/N/FU
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski are joined by Edmund Lee of the New York Times to discuss Fortnite versus Apple, the reliability of statistics, and…
Slate NewsWhat Next - TBD | How Google Search Sold Out
In the early days of internet search engines, Google set itself apart by providing a simple service. A list of links, inviting you to explore the websites that…
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - How Google Search Sold Out
In the early days of internet search engines, Google set itself apart by providing a simple service. A list of links, inviting you to explore the websites that…
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Political Gabfest - Cheap, Mediocre Testing
David, John and Josie Duffy Rice discuss the Biden-Harris ticket, stimulus gridlock, and rapid, ubiquitous coronavirus testing-- with guest Dr. Michael Mina…
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What Next - Kamala: Historic, Safe, and Complicated
Kamala Harris is having an historic moment. What does it mean? Guest: Jason Johnson, political science professor at Morgan State University. Slate Plus members…
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What Next - Our Pandemic Learning Curve
The pandemic moves quickly. The scientific consensus changes slowly. Did we waste time waiting for data when we could have adopted low-cost safety measures?…
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What Next - Left Out of the Census
The U.S. Census Bureau has faced setback after setback. And, this year, who makes it into the official population count is going to be a lot more complicated…
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What Next - What’s Up With the Mail?
This year, the election runs through the Post Office. And we have reasons to be concerned. Guest: Jordan Weissmann, Slate’s senior business and economics…