Podcast Episodes

What Next: TBD | Trump Vs. Cancer Research

President Trump has proposed cutting $2.5 billion from the National Cancer Institute, which in addition to cuts to the National Institutes of Health and research universities almost makes you wonder:…

Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

Slate Money | ATM Scam Summer School

This week: We got more details on the ATM scam that swept New York City thanks to a teen summer job program and an infinite money glitch last month.  Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck di…

Published on 1 week, 2 days ago

Amicus | Punished For Their Pregnancies

Women were prosecuted for experiencing miscarriage or stillbirth even before the Supreme Court swept away the protections of Roe v. Wade. But these prosecutions have ramped up since, in both red and …

Published on 1 week, 2 days ago

What Next: TBD | The CDC Under Fire

Two weeks ago, a gunman fired over 500 bullets at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention building in Atlanta. Between the anti-public health rhetoric coming from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the …

Published on 1 week, 3 days ago

Political Gabfest | Is This Martial Law?

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Trump’s deepening takeover of Washington D.C. as National Guard troops from red states arrive, what if anything was accomplished in t…

Published on 1 week, 4 days ago

What Next | D.C’s Senator Knew This Would Happen

Donald Trump was able to take over the Metropolitan Police Department and send in National Guard troops and federal agents to patrol the streets due to Washington D.C.’s strange, not-a-state status. …

Published on 1 week, 4 days ago

What Next | Can Trump Kill Mail-In Ballots?

Donald Trump returned from his meeting with Vladimir Putin convinced that mail-in voting is how he was cheated from winning the 2020 election. Though he’s come to this conclusion without evidence, ho…

Published on 1 week, 5 days ago

What Next | Zelensky Brings a Posse to Washington

After visiting with Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, and European leaders, where does Donald Trump stand on the Ukraine-Russia war—and where does that leave Ukraine?

Guest:  Tim Mak, editor of the…

Published on 1 week, 6 days ago

Slate Money | Money Talks: Fixing A Broken Monetary System

In this Money Talks:  Elizabeth Spiers is joined by professors Matt Sekerke and Steve H. Hanke, coauthors of Making Money Work: How to Rewrite the Rules of Our Financial System. They’ll lay out how t…

Published on 1 week, 6 days ago

What Next | How Trump Brought Home a Murderer

Characteristic of this administration’s over-the-top but never-thought-out immigration enforcement, Trump traded more than 250 Venezuelans who had been deported to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT priso…

Published on 2 weeks ago