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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 - It’s the Alt-Right’s GOP Now
Ten years ago, the alt-right’s talking points about immigration used to be too toxic to even post on the internet under your own name. So how did they turn…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - ChatGOP?
Donald Trump—or at least the tech guys who have his ear—is ready to clear the regulatory runway for A.I. but other Republicans aren’t too sure. Can he bring…
Slate NewsAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - SCOTUS Greenlights Trump, Gaslights America
While the Secretary of Defense pursues lawless boat strikes with a laser focus on maximum trolling, the Supreme Court is working to undermine voting rights…
Slate NewsSlate Money - Netflix Wants To Have It All
This week: Netflix has agreed to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck are joined by the New York Times’ Nicholas…
Slate NewsWhat Next - SchadenFriday Plus: Feelin’ Nuzzi
Olivia Nuzzi’s book, American Canto, is out. Somehow it discloses almost nothing and also way, way too much. Guest: Scaachi Koul, Slate senior writer. This…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The AI & Crypto Czar’s Conflicts
A tech mogul who made bank from Paypal with his Stanford buddies and has endeared himself to right-wing politicians and enriched himself the same way? No not…
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest - Kill Them All
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss why the killing of survivors in a US military strike on an alleged drug boat is so dangerous…
Slate NewsWhat Next - The Year of Vaccine Backsliding
Today, the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee will be meeting to vote on recommendations for childhood vaccinations. But under RFK Jr.’s leadership, this…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Pardon Me, Mr. President
Some presidents use their pardons for large groups of people. Some presidents use them for personal reasons. If you were to sum up Donald Trump’s use of the…
Slate NewsWhat Next - A Textbook Example of an Unlawful Order
Just after the Trump administration threw a fit over a video reminding the military that they have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders, the Washington Post…
Slate NewsWhat Next - What Kids Aren't Learning About US History
Conservatives have long complained that teaching American history with slavery and genocide and systemic oppression is just too negative, and the Trump…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - If You Give A.I. a Nuke
As the U.S. upgrades and updates its defense and military systems, the question isn’t whether A.I. will be integrated, but where, how much, and how much…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Three Faces Of Trumpism
By design – and also by dint of unbridled, undisciplined extremist exuberance – Donald Trump’s second stint in the White House is thus far a tricky thing to…
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Slate Money - The Coolest Thing in the World for an Econ Nerd
This week: Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee joins Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck for an in-depth discussion on what exactly the Fed does…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Rebroadcast: Dupes!
Note: This episode was originally published on July 27, 2025. There’s an entire economy devoted to seeing what products are trending—clothing, skin care, even…
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Political Gabfest - Is This the End of the Trump Era?
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss what happens when the government is untrustworthy as a strong pattern of DOJ lying under oath…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Decoder Ring | Cozy Autumn Mysteries
While the What Next team works their way from preparingfood to sleeping it off, enjoy this episode on fall’s flavorful favorites fromour friends at Decoder…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Why You Can't Avoid Wicked
With the release of Wicked: For Good, spectacle is back in theaters and back on the press circuit: Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are again “holding space”…
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Slate Money - Money Talks: Chicken and a Cold Drink
In this Money Talks: The Wall Street Journal’s Heather Haddon joins Emily Peck to unpack her recent reporting on the fast food industry, including the reason…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Could We Get Peace In Ukraine?
The Trump administration has announced a 28-point plan to end the war in Ukraine that involves ceding territory, giving up on joining NATO and reducing its…
Slate NewsWhat Next - How Planned Parenthood Got Defunded
Between the drastic budget cuts and provisions in the Big Beautiful Bill, the Trump administration has found a way to drain Planned Parenthood and other…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Surveillance Interstate
Tracking a license plate across the country has never been easier, which is good news if your car has been stolen, but in an era of ICE and Border Patrol…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The DOJ's Prosecutorial Malpractice Keeps Spilling Out in Court
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by former federal prosecutor Mimi Rocah, who brings her extensive experience trying and supervising federal criminal cases to a…
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Slate Money - Good Riddance to Larry Summers
This week: Larry Summers has stepped down from his public positions following the release of unsavory emails he exchanged with Jeffrey Epstein. Felix Salmon…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Bonus: SchadenFriday: Are You Fitter Than an ICE Applicant?
You can have enough ICE recruits or you can have standards for the shape that they’re in, but you can’t have both—this was just one lesson Donald Trump could…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Crypto Keeps Criming
Trump promised to stop the “persecution” of the cryptocurrency industry. He did call off the SEC investigations that began under Biden, and pardoned Binance…
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Political Gabfest - DOJ is DOA
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss a new oral history of President Trump’s Department of Justice, the complex transactional…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Who Killed the Penny? She Did.
People have been talking about how the penny is more trouble than it’s worth for 50 years—so why drop it now? And—other than having nothing to put in our…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Sudan on the Brink
Ongoing civil war in Sudan has left tens of thousands dead, with millions displaced. A country of great natural resources, regional foreign governments have…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Have the Epstein Files Broken MAGA?
You can’t really blame Donald Trump for thinking he could just handwave away the Epstein Files. But for the first time in what feels like forever, his base…
Slate NewsWhat Next - The National Guard Is Asking Questions
Trump can’t seem to decide if the National Guard is needed in American cities to stop violent crime, or to assist ICE deportations, or something else entirely…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - How Meta Profits Off Fraud
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta, doesn’t (just) have a scam problem—with 10 percent of its revenue coming from scam ads, and a third of all…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - He Quit the Bench to Raise the Alarm
Dahlia Lithwick welcomes retired federal judge Mark Wolf for his first ever podcast interview. The Reagan-appointed jurist made headlines last week with his…
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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
John Dickerson talks with journalist and author Andrew Ross Sorkin about his new book 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How It…
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Slate Money - The Correct Opinion on 50-Year Mortgages
This week: FHFA director Bill Pulte convinced Trump to back 50-year mortgages with some posterboard and a photo of FDR. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Data Centers on the Ballot
They don’t cut cleanly along party lines, but data centers, and where they get built, became an election issue in Virginia. With so many more data centers to…
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Political Gabfest - Who Really Won the Shutdown?
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss why Democrats caved to end the government shutdown and what comes next, the affordability…
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Slate Money - Money on the Mind: Can You Save for Retirement ... and Save Your Parents?
In a new, very special, Death, Sex and Money and Slate Money crossover, Felix Salmon and Anna Sale are once again joined by Felix’s financial advisor Adrianna…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Wikipedia Enters the Culture Wars
Why would Elon Musk attempt to replace Wikipedia—which is already quite futuristic, utopian and accurate—with a faulty, hallucinatory A.I.-powered…
Slate NewsWhat Next - No, Women Didn't Ruin the Workplace
It didn’t take long to go from Beyoncé holding for applause in front of the word “FEMINISM” to a headline in the New York Times asking “Did Women Ruin the…
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Slate Money - Money Talks: Beyond The Pink Tax
In this Money Talks: Elizabeth Spiers is joined by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, to discuss her book The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and…
Slate NewsWhat Next - How To Lose a Government Shutdown
It has been the longest government shutdown on record. Why did the Democrats choose this moment—right after elections proved how unpopular Donald Trump and his…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Is Special Ed Getting Left Behind?
Children with disabilities' place in public schools—though legally mandated—has often been tenuous at best. Now the Trump Administration is targeting the…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Why Tesla Is Paying Elon a Trillion Bucks
Tesla shareholders just approved a trillion dollar (with a t!) pay package for Elon Musk. Is it enough incentive to keep him around the company and away from…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - When Tariffs Crashed Into SCOTUS
The Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices have been treating the Trump administration with such extreme deference that we were honestly a little…
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Slate Money - Meta’s Instascam Ads
This week: Trump’s team has argued to the Supreme Court that his tariffs weren’t about raising revenue, despite his many previous claims to the contrary. Felix…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Bonus: SchadenFriday | Muslim, Millennial, Mr. Mayor Mamdani
Well well well. Looks like being a truculent, aging sex pest who clearly hates the constituency he aspires to rule only works in national elections. In New…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Nick Fuentes Problem
Nick Fuentes—an openly antisemitic, openly racist, openly sexist type who once was persona non grata in all but the unseemliest of online spaces—sat down with…
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Political Gabfest - Spectacular Night for Democrats
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss how Tuesday’s decisive election results give a legitimate boost to Democrats’ prospects as…
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Slate Money - Money on the Mind: Prepping for Retirement Without Losing Your Mind
In a new, very special, Death, Sex and Money and Slate Money crossover, Felix Salmon and Anna Sale dig into the stressful world of financial advice and…
Slate NewsWhat Next - Trump’s Tariffs Have a Constitution Problem
Trump’s tariffs went before the Supreme Court this week and even the extremely accommodating Roberts court was having trouble seeing how the president’s vast…
Slate NewsWhat Next - The Andrew Formerly Known as a Prince
How Virginia Giuffre’s accusations of a decade ago finally brought His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, Duke of York, down to simply Andrew. Guest: Imogen…
Slate NewsWhat Next - She Won the Election. The GOP Won’t Swear Her In.
She won a special election on Sept. 23 but still hasn’t been sworn into the House of Representatives—even though new members have been sworn in during…
Slate NewsWhat Next - The Redistricting Arms Race Is On
Fearing a Democratic-led House of Representatives, Donald Trump set off a state-redistricting arms race when he asked Texas to find him five more safe GOP…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Why Trump Keeps Pardoning Crypto Criminals
President Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the former CEO of Binance who had been convicted for violating anti-money laundering laws, after months of Zhao…
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Federal Judiciary Is Trapped
“The Chief Justice… is presiding over the end of the rule of law in America”. That quote did not come from host Dahlia Lithwick, but this week’s guest, former…
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Slate Money - A Second Gold Toilet!?
This week: OpenAI has moved away from being run as a non-profit. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck discuss the stated reasons behind the move and…
Slate NewsWhat Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Inside the Goonerverse
One legacy of the internet is the millions of subcultures that it helps flourish. Another is pornography—and lots of it. At a “gooner meet-up,” the two…
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Political Gabfest - Live from Chicago!
This week, live from Chicago to celebrate 20 years of the Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Trump vs. Chicago…
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Slate Money - Money on the Mind: To Have Kids or Not to Have Kids
In a new, very special, Death, Sex and Money and Slate Money crossover, Felix Salmon and Anna Sale dig into the difficult decision of whether or not to have…