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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 - “You Have to Be Heard”
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus take a look at Vero, the new social network that has people fleeing Instagram and Facebook, how…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Success Theater Edition
Guns, GE, and Alibaba on this week's show with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, Jordan Weissmann, and special guest Rob Cox of Breakingviews. Hosted on Acast. See…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Enough Thoughts and Prayers” Edition
John Dickerson and David Plotz are joined by Annie Lowrey, of The Atlantic, to discuss the power of students organizing against gun violence, the Mueller…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - How Russian Trolls Went Local
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus dig into special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s recent indictment of 13 Russian nationals and 3…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - A Preview of a Union-Busting Case, and RBG’s Greatest Hits Tour
In this week’s episode, Professor Leah Litman joins Dahlia Lithwick to tune into Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments on #MeToo and due process. And for a…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Fertile Nigerian Blockchain Edition
Cryptocurrencies, fertility, and Nigerian corruption on this week's Slate Money with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, and Erin Griffith. Production by Daniel…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Let’s Just Ban Everything” Edition
Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are joined by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to discuss the Parkland, Florida shooting, job openings at the White House…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - “Like” Is Too Simple an Emotion
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus lamentthe anticlimactic end to Waymo and Uber’s court drama, explain why teens are pissed at…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Return to Volatility Edition
Volatility, Steve Cohen, and delivery apps on this week's episode with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, and Jordan Weissmann. Podcast production by Daniel…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “A Correction, Not a Crash” Edition
On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the value of the Nunes memo and accusations of White House aide…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - FISA and Fury
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about a new anti-tech lobbying group formed by ex-employees of Facebook and Google, the big…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Immigration: Whose Call Is It Anyway?
This week the high court is on its winter break, but the team here at Amicus wanted to talk about DACA, the travel ban, and issues around immigrants, refugees…
Slate NewsSlate Money - Generations Edition
Felix Salmon, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, political risk consultant Anna Szymanski, and author of Kids These Days Malcolm Harris discuss: Kids…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Hope Hicks’ Loose Lips Sinks Ships” Edition
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss criticism of the FBI by the White House and its allies, the State of the Union, and Hillary Clinton’s…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Through The Revolving Door Between Facebook and Democrats
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about about a clever effort to restore net neutrality in Montana and New York. They also…
Slate NewsSlate Money - Trump in Davos Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, political risk consultant Anna Szymanski, and chairman and editor in chief of the Slate…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “50,000 Texts” Edition
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the integrity of the FBI, the usefulness of government shutdowns and the value of survivor testimony…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Dudebros Everyday
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about Facebook’s fraught plan to rate the media and the cool yet creepy Amazon store that…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - “The Gross Spectacle of a Divided Defense”
We’re inside the chamber for the high-profile case involving a death row inmate from Louisiana who’s asking for a new trial after his lawyer told the jury his…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The You Guys PIK Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski discuss: The Blackrock letter Super PIK bonds…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “A House is Not a Hole” Edition
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss if Republicans and Democrats should keep the government open, Trump's opinions on immigration and what…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Problem With Facebook Is Facebook
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about the Senate’s stand on net neutrality and why Congress is set to renew a major piece of…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Down the IGWEL Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski discuss: Trump visiting Davos Huawei iPhone…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The "Very Stable Genius" Edition
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the future of the Dreamers, Trump’s fitness for office, and voting-related cases before SCOTUS. Join…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Live from CES: Our Dumb "Smart" Future
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus are at CES, the huge trade show put on by the Consumer Technology Association in Las Vegas. They…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Right Not to Vote
Sometimes the technical stuff is how you get to the crucial stuff. Next week, the Supreme Court will hear a case about Ohio’s voter purge, and the case rests…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Distinctly Nordic Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski discuss: Iceland legislating income equality…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Lost His Mind” Edition
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the buzz around Trump's relationship with Steve Bannon, partisanship within the Russia investigation…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Science Fiction by ABBA
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about a key detail in the new tax plan that could have a huge effect on gig workers in the…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Travel Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, political risk consultant Anna Szymanski, and CEO of Skift, Rafat Ali discuss: Airbnb and…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The "2017 Conundrums featuring They Might Be Giants" Edition
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson dig in, dissect and debate listener-generated conundrums with special performances from They Might Be Giants…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - #MeToo in the Courts
The cultural whirlwind of #MeToo has reached the judiciary, reluctantly bringing Dahlia Lithwick into the fray along with it. In a piece for Slate, she…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Call-In Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski answer your voicemails on topics like debt to…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Paul Ryan Has Died and Gone to Heaven” Edition
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the final tax bill, government agency leadership, and are joined by Linda Greenhouse to talk about her…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - What’s a Firefox?
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk with the executive director of Mozilla about how Firefox competes with Chrome and the biggest…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The May the Fox Be With You Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski discuss: Disney acquiring 21st Century Fox…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Devil and Mister Jones” Edition
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss Democrat Doug Jones’s win in Alabama, the current state of the tax bill and the transgressions of men in…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Beanie Babies for Geeks
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk a little about why everyone is freaking out about Bitcoin. And in the run up to Thursday’s…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Probing the Mueller Probe, and Inside the Chamber for Masterpiece Cakeshop
The Mueller investigation keeps keeping on as subtweets, speculation, and objections mount. Dahlia Lithwick speaks with Andrew Wright, a former associate…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Petro Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski are joined by co-head of global fixed income at…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The "Wedding Cake" Edition
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss why Roy Moore appears to be surviving while Al Franken and many other harassers are being pushed out of…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Ellen Pao Effect
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser talks with Ellen Pao about sexism in Silicon Valley and why the tech industry hasn’t experienced the same fallout…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Consumption Smoothing Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski are joined by author Rachel Schneider to…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Pass Through” Edition
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the momentum of the Republican tax plans, Project Veritas's attempted take-down of the Washington Post…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Antitrust Superstar
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss how bots messed up the net neutrality comment process and whether that gives advocates a…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Slow Burn: A Podcast About Watergate | Martha
Amicus presents a preview of Slow Burn, an eight-episode miniseries about Watergate. People called her crazy, and to be fair she must have seemed crazy. But…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - Slow Burn: A Podcast About Watergate | Martha
The Gabfest presents a preview of Slow Burn, an eight-episode miniseries about Watergate. People called her crazy, and to be fair she must have seemed crazy…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Why the Cakeshop Case is So Delicious
As the high court continues through its unprecedented session, Dahlia speaks with Adam Liptak who covers the Supreme Court for the New York Times and knows the…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Splendid Food Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski are joined by Teddy Goff of Black Tap, and…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Al Franken and Charlie Rose and Bill Clinton and Roy Moore and John Conyers Should All Resign” Edition
David Plotz, Zoe Chace of This American Life, and Chairman of The Slate Group, Jacob Weisberg discuss the state of the GOP tax bills, the case for resignation…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Hack Friday
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about changes to net neutrality that were announced this week. They also talk a little about…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Protection Money Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski discuss: The sale of Leonardo da Vinci’s…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “She Was Just 17, You Know What I Mean” Edition
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the downward spiral for Roy Moore, the tax plans of the House and Senate, and the latest with the Russia…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Leaving Zen on the Table
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss some recent tech news, like the head-scratching revelation that WikiLeaks actually sent…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Guns in America and the Travel Ban that Went Unnoticed
In the wake of another American mass shooting, Dahlia speaks with Adam Skaggs, Chief counsel at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence about the…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Well-Endowed Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political-risk consultant Anna Szymanski discuss: Corruption in Saudi Arabia Wilbur Ross…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The "One Year and One Day" Edition
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Tuesday’s victories for Democrats, Trump’s first year, and the role of technology companies in Russian…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - You Can’t Hardcode Community
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss the news that YouTube has been showing disturbing videos to kids and why this might be a…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Powell's Books Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski discuss: The Republican tax plan The opioid…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The "Cut, Cut, Cut" Edition
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the initial indictments from the Mueller investigation and the House’s tax cut bill. Civil War historian…