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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 - How Extremists Capitalized on the Pandemic
As the coronavirus continues to leave people sick and out of work, alone and under stress, there’s one particular group of people taking special notice…
Slate NewsSlate Money - How is Boeing Okay?
This week Felix, Anna, and Emily discuss the process for reopening states, what’s going on with big business right now, and the gross domestic product that’s…
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What Next - Introducing: Code Switch
Today we're introducing you to one of our favorite podcasts, Code Switch! Hosted by Gene Demby and Shereen Marisol Meraji, Code Switch offers some of the best…
Slate NewsWhat Next - TBD | How the Crisis Could Embolden Big Tech
This week, the world’s largest tech companies posted their quarterly earnings. And—unlike most other companies in the world—things aren’t looking so bad. With…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - How the Crisis Could Embolden Big Tech
This week, the world’s largest tech companies posted their quarterly earnings. And—unlike most other companies in the world—things aren’t looking so bad. With…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - Come On, Man, I Heard You Liked Me
Emily, John and David discuss Tara Reade’s allegations against Joe Biden, the debate over reopening schools, and the three hosts are joined by astronaut Scott…
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What Next - The Basketball Coach Who Won’t Hire Men
This episode originally aired June 2019. Notre Dame basketball coach Muffet McGraw wasn’t planning on making a speech about feminism and gender equality. But…
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What Next - What Seattle Got Right
When the first known case of coronavirus in the United States was detected in a suburb of Seattle, the region quickly became the epicenter of the pandemic in…
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Slate Money - Slate Money: Food: Alternative Meat
In this Slate Money mini-series, Felix Salmon talks to guests about the economics of food. This week, Tad Friend joins to discuss the growing alternative meat…
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What Next - A Small Business Owner's Dilemma
Georgia has confirmed more than 24,000 cases of COVID-19 and tallied close to 1,000 deaths from the disease. However, Governor Brian Kemp is still allowing a…
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What Next - We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Stimulus
With 26 million Americans filing for unemployment in the last five weeks, it’s obvious that the economy is still broken. However, Congress hasn’t been sitting…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - States’ Rights
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Colorado State Attorney General Phil Weiser to talk about how states’ rights fit into the picture of America that’s emerging in…
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Slate Money - Why Are Republicans Being So Mean?
This week Felix, Anna, and Emily discuss the price of oil, the Paycheck Protection Program round two, and the results of their informal poll on stimulus…
Slate NewsWhat Next - TBD | Can We Really Make a Safe Vaccine in 18 Months?
There are over 60 vaccines for the coronavirus currently in development. Four of them are already being tested in humans. As researchers move at breakneck…
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Can We Really Make a Safe Vaccine in 18 Months?
There are over 60 vaccines for the coronavirus currently in development. Four of them are already being tested in humans. As researchers move at breakneck…
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Political Gabfest - Georgia Out of Its Mind
Emily, David and John discuss the pushback against COVID-19 restrictions, the success of female political leaders, and they're joined by Mark Bittman to talk…
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What Next - What Happened on the Cruise Ships
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, cruises were the poster-child of viral spread. For the world’s largest cruise company, Carnival Cruise Line, the…
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What Next - How Sioux Falls Became a Hot Spot
More than 700 cases of COVID-19 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota can be traced back to the city’s Smithfield pork packaging plant. Weeks before the coronavirus…
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Slate Money - Slate Money: Food: Sustainability
In this Slate Money mini-series, Felix Salmon talks to guests about the economics of food. Dan Barber of Blue Hill joins Felix to discuss how COVID-19 is…
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What Next - Democrats’ Plan to Win the Senate
No one thought 2020 was going to be a boring election year. Several key Senate seats are in play, presenting Democrats with a real shot at winning back the…
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What Next - What’s Happening in Florida’s Nursing Homes?
Ever since COVID-19 surfaced in Florida, local journalists began wondering how the virus was going to impact nursing home residents and employees. For weeks…
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Slate Money - Giant Money Gun
This week Felix, Anna, and Emily discuss the Paycheck Protection Program funds running out, Amazon’s current percentage of evil, and why companies would pay…
Slate NewsWhat Next - TBD | Can the U.S. Really Track the Coronavirus?
Before the U.S. can start opening back up, states will need to put systems in place for “contact tracing,” or meticulous tracking of the disease within…
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Can the U.S. Really Track the Coronavirus?
Before the U.S. can start opening back up, states will need to put systems in place for “contact tracing,” or meticulous tracking of the disease within…
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Political Gabfest - I Alone Can Open It
Trump claims “total authority”, Heather Boushey on fighting the recession, and Amanda Ripley on lessons from Katrina and other disasters. For this week’s Slate…
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What Next - What Will Summer Be Like?
The summer is going to be marked by the slow process of learning to live with coronavirus looming. The United States is going to have to rethink what “normal”…
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What Next - 20 Years of Failing to Prepare
Back in January, the Trump administration was caught flat footed in its response to the coronavirus pandemic. Politico’s Dan Diamond took a look back at the…
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Slate Money - Slate Money: Food: Reservations
In this Slate Money mini-series, Felix Salmon talks to guests about the economics of food. Remember going to restaurants? Marissa Conrad joins to talk about…
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What Next - Where’s My Check?
Washington is still struggling to put the U.S. economy on ice while we wait out the coronavirus. Maybe you’re expecting your government check this week. Maybe…
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What Next - What America's Biggest Nursing Union Wants
At hospitals throughout the country another fight is beginning to spill into the public eye. This one between hospital administrators and their workers who…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Why, Wisconsin?
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Marc Elias, chair of Perkins Coie’s Political Law Group, he represents the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Party…
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Slate Money - Too Big to Be Small
This week Felix, Anna, and Emily talk about Felix’s theory that this is a “Bayesian” crisis, the Fed’s newest lending program which includes businesses that…
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Political Gabfest - Relationships During a Pandemic
In this special episode of the Political Gabfest John, Emily and David are joined by therapist Esther Perel to discuss how the coronavirus is affecting…
Slate NewsWhat Next - TBD | The Limits of Coronavirus Predictions
As governments around the world try to predict the toll and duration of the coronavirus, they’re turning increasingly to a handful of forecasting models for…
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Limits of Coronavirus Predictions
As governments around the world try to predict the toll and duration of the coronavirus, they’re turning increasingly to a handful of forecasting models for…
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Political Gabfest - It’s Easy to Talk About Lysol
Emily, John and David discuss where efforts to curb virus transmission go from here with epidemiologist Amesh Adalja, Trump’s purge of investigators general…
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What Next - Seasick: How the Coronavirus Upended the Navy
The Navy prides itself on being ready for just about anything. Sailors are even trained to fight fires, if need be. But when the coronavirus started rapidly…
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What Next - Why COVID-19 Hits Black America Hardest
By now, Americans are getting used to the patterns of the coronavirus. It largely preys on the elderly and people with certain underlying health conditions…
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Slate Money - Slate Money: Food: Fast Food
In this Slate Money mini-series, Felix Salmon talks to guests about the economics of food. Marcia Chatelain, author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black…
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What Next - The Fight Over Wisconsin’s Election
Concerns over the coronavirus outbreak are colliding with partisan trench warfare in Wisconsin. Voters are stuck in the crosshairs. Guest: Mark Joseph Stern…
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What Next - Where Social Distancing Is Impossible
Rikers Island was not built to slow a pandemic. Buildings are decrepit, and the churn of guards and new inmates makes infectious diseases incredibly hard to…
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Slate Money - Banana Disruptions
Felix, Anna and Emily discuss the issue of small business loans in the stimulus bill, why the toilet paper shortage might not be overhyped and Trump’s oil…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Risking Your Life for $8.71
This week, workers at Amazon, Whole Foods, and Instacart have announced mass strikes across the country. Though demand for these services is high, pay and…
Slate NewsWhat Next - TBD | Risking Your Life for $8.71
This week, workers at Amazon, Whole Foods, and Instacart have announced mass strikes across the country. Though demand for these services is high, pay and…
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Political Gabfest - Maybe It Is Infrastructure Week
Emily, John and David discuss the security of U.S. elections, are joined by guest economics professor Jason Furman to help estimate by when we can anticipate a…
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What Next - Jerry Falwell Jr. vs. the Coronavirus
“Politically incorrect since 1971.” That’s the unofficial motto of Liberty University, an evangelical college located in Lynchburg, Virginia headed by Jerry…
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Slate Money - Slate Money: COVID-19: April 1, 2020
Every Wednesday, the Slate Money hosts discuss what’s going on right now amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, Emily, Anna, and Felix discuss the question of…
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What Next - Should You Be Wearing a Mask?
The CDC could soon be changing its guidelines on whether the American public should be wearing masks to combat the spread of COVID-19. What does the data say…
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Slate Money - Slate Money: Food: GMOs
In this Slate Money mini-series, Felix Salmon talks to guests about the economics of food. Michael Specter joins Felix to talk coronavirus, GMOs, industrial…
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What Next - “It’s Every Man for Himself”
As COVID-19 cases continue to mount across the country, many states are still preparing for the virus to hit their populations with full force. In Florida…
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What Next - What New York City Did Wrong
Just a few weeks ago, officials were saying the coronavirus outbreak posed a relatively low risk for people living in New York City. How did health experts and…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Protecting Democracy in a Pandemic
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Ian Bassin, former associated White House counsel from 2009-11 and co-founder of Protect Democracy for a look at the pain points…
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Slate Money - Big Business and Bailouts
This week, Felix, Emily, and Anna talk to Rich Lesser of Boston Consulting Group about how big businesses are coping right now and the relief bill that was…
Slate NewsWhat Next - TBD | Where Are All the Tests?
Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts and bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence. Sign up now to listen and support our work. The United…
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Where Are All the Tests?
Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts and bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence. Sign up now to listen and support our work. The United…
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Political Gabfest - Two Trillion Dollars
Emily, John and David are joined by epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves to discuss the latest pandemic debates and also by Civil War historian David Blight on what…
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What Next - When Your Doctor Gets COVID-19
What happens when the people on the frontlines get sick? An ER doctor shares her experience with coronavirus as doctor and patient. Guest: Dara Kass, Emergency…
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Slate Money - Slate Money: COVID-19: March 25, 2020
In this weekly, day-of update, the Slate Money hosts discuss what’s going on right now amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, Emily, Anna and Felix discuss the $2…
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What Next - Does 1918 Even Apply Here?
There’s plenty to be learned from past pandemics. They tend to follow a dramatic arc: denial, blame, and mass mobilization. So far, the coronavirus tracks with…
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Slate Money - Slate Money: Food: Technology
In this Slate Money mini-series, Felix Salmon talks to guests about the economics of food. Jordan Thaeler of WhatsBusy joins Slate Money Food to talk about the…