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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 NewsSlate Money - The Talking TED Talks Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and author of Weapons of Math Destruction Cathy…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - Gabfest EXTRA: The “AHCA Returns” Edition
Hosts David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon discuss the health care vote and what the results might mean for millions of Americans seeking coverage…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The "Deface the Nation" Edition
Hosts David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon discuss John's interview with President Trump, the public return of Hillary Clinton, and Bret Stephens now…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Myth of the Neutral Expert
The Supreme Court has slowed Arkansas’ unprecedented rush to execute eight men in 11 days, pending a decision in McWilliams v. Dunn. At issue in the case is…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Pointless Vanity Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, and Huffington Post senior reporter Emily Peck, discuss:Sheryl Sandberg’s new book on grief…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “One-Page Tax Plan” Edition
Host's David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the health and tax plans on the table as the 100 day mark approaches, Obama's Wall Street speech…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Pet Cause Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, discuss:The bizarre circumstances surrounding…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Bill Comes Due” Edition
John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon are joined by New Yorker staff writer Adam Davidson to discuss tension with North Korea, President Trump's executive order and…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Liquidity Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, discuss:South Africa’s credit rating downgrade…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Playground of Liberty
Newly sworn-in Justice Neil Gorsuch gets his first chance to make his mark on the Court at this week’s oral arguments for Trinity Lutheran v. Comer. The…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The "Red, Red Line" Edition
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and John Dickerson discuss U.S. foreign relations, Democratic hopes for 2018 and the United Airlines seat ejection. Join Slate Plus!…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The "You Say Beeta, I Say Beta" Edition
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, discuss:ProPublica’s report that minority…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Crossing Many Lines” Edition
Culture Gabfest host Dana Stevens swaps in for David Plotz, joined by Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson to discuss the end of the filibuster, White House…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - When Prosecutors Keep Mum
In 1985, eight men were convicted of the grisly murder of a Washington D.C. woman. After spending decades in prison, they learned from an article in the…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Pour Decisions Edition
In the follow-up to Slate Money’s much-beloved original wine episode, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and author…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Darkness at Nunes” Edition
Gabfest hosts discuss Devin Nunes and the investigation into Russian interference in the Presidential election, what follows failure of the new health care…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Gorsuch Grins, Says Nothing
This week, the Senate held four days of hearings on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the vacant seat on the Supreme Court. What did we learn about…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Thinx Twice Edition
Hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and Huffington Post senior reporter Emily Peck discuss:Thinx founder Miki Agrawal’s…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - Gabfest EXTRA 2- the Vanishing Health Care Bill
Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson give the latest on the vanishing House health care bill. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - Gabfest "EXTRA- the Health Care" Edition
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the health care vote (or non vote) suspense. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Playing Sofball with Neil” Edition
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. Presidential campaign, Neil Gorsuch's…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Why It’s Worth Opposing Gorsuch
After a successful blockade of President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, the GOP-led Senate will convene hearings this week on President Trump’s pick for the…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Scary White People Edition
Hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political analyst and emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, discuss: The future…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “When I'm 64” Edition
David Plotz and John Dickerson are joined by Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post to discuss Trumpcare, the President's proposed budget, and the new Muslim ban…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Soft Power Edition
Hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and Laurel Touby, founder of Mediabistro, discuss: The eccentric billionaire owner of…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Is This the Worst Bill in History” Edition
Hosts Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss the potential repeal and replacement of Obamacare, President Trump's accusation of wiretapping and…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Never Mind
On Monday, the Department of Justice announced an abrupt about-face on voting rights, essentially walking away from a lawsuit against a harsh voter-ID law in…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Hedge Funds Behaving Badly Edition
Hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and Sheelah Kolhatkar, New Yorker staff writer and author of Black Edge, discuss the…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Live from the Free and Independent Republic of California” Edition
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson, live from LA, discuss President Trump’s address to Congress, Jeff Sessions and California’s potential to secede…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Relatively Non-Evil Edition
On this week’s Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and Heather Long, CNNMoney’s senior markets and economy…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Deploy, Detain, Deport” Edition
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and John Dickerson discuss President Trump's immigration enforcement plans, the move to revoke bathroom rights for transgendered…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The "Freaks and Leaks" Edition
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and John Dickerson are joined by Julia Ioffe of The Atlantic to discuss the Russia scandal and ouster of Michael Flynn. They also…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - General Strike
In 2010, a Mexican teenager in Juarez was shot to death by a Border Patrol agent on the U.S. side of the border. In Hernandez v. Mesa, set for argument next…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Vanishing Edition
This week, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and Leigh Gallagher, author of the book, The Airbnb Story: How Three…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - "SEE YOU IN COURT"
A little more than a week after President Trump announced his ban on travel from a handful of majority-Muslim nations, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Creativity Edition
On Cathy’s final episode, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Nevertheless She Persisted” Edition
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the legal fight over the President Trump's immigration executive order, the confirmation battles of DeVos…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Cathy's Dream Edition
It's an all-Cathy episode today on Slate Money! Hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Will You Accept This Robe?
In an elaborately choreographed prime-time ceremony this week, President Trump tapped Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court seat that has been vacant for…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses … Ah, Screw It” Edition
John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz discuss President Trump's immigration order, his nominee to the Supreme Court and the approaches of Washington's…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Jump Ship Edition
Hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, discuss:America’s about-face…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Has it Really Only Been a Week?” Edition
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the actions President Trump has taken already in his first week, what projects may become priorities for…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Immunity in High Places
Can a group of wrongfully-detained noncitizens sue high-ranking Bush Administration officials for violating their rights in the days following 9/11? That’s the…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Xi Loves Me Edition
This week’s Slate Money comes to you from the World Economic Forum in Davos! Hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann are…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “I Think We're Going to be Okay” Edition
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the future of the Affordable Care Act, the challenges of covering glitter, Twitter and news from the…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Ballpoint Pen Edition
Today on Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Cloudy with 100 Percent Chance of Showers” Edition
Hosts David Plotz and Emily Bazelon are joined by Slate's chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie to discuss Donald Trump's press conference, the…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - And Then There Were Eight
In the lead-up to November’s presidential election, Donald Trump released a list of 21 potential Supreme Court nominees in what many saw as an effort to…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Pink Collar Edition
Today on Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “It Still Seems Pretty Swampy To Me” Edition
John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz discuss the new Congress and the botched effort to gut the House ethics office. And, in the first of three…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Craft Beer Edition (Live)
Today’s episode comes to you live from Brooklyn’s Union Hall! Hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The "2016 Conundrum" Edition
Hosts John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon tackle listener-generated conundrums - an annual Gabfest tradition, recorded live at the Brooklyn Bell…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Corruption in the White House
“[N]o person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Doomed Youth Edition
Today on Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “How Bad Could 2017 Be Anyway?” Edition
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson are joined by NPR's International Desk Editor William Dobson to discuss the attacks in Berlin and assassination…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Unhealthy Markets Edition
Today on Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Red Dawn” Edition
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the appointment of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of State and the possibility that…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Where We Draw the Line
On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in McCrory v. Harris and Bethune-Hill v. Virginia Board of Elections, two challenges to Republican gerrymandering…
Slate NewsSlate Money - The Up In The Air Edition
Today on Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann devote…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - The “Cling Tightly to One Tiny Piece of Good News” Edition
John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon attempt to crack the code on Donald Trump's cabinet selections, talk over the real dangers of fake news and…