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What Next | Why Washington, D.C.
Jimmy Carter sent his daughter to its public schools; pictures of Obama still grace businesses’ walls; and now Trump has taken an interest in Washing…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
ICYMI | Kendra Fell In Love With Her Psychiatrist—Then She Met TikTok
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by senior supervising producer Daisy Rosario to talk about Kendra, the woman whose 25-part TikTok ser…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
What Next | South Park Understands the Assignment
After using a Trump-stand-in during his first administration, South Park has come back from hiatus as vulgar and confrontational as ever, with its ai…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
What Next | Gutting Our National Parks
From the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate Bridge, and places in between like Yellowstone and the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, the National P…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Money Travels: Does Travel Really Broaden the Mind?
In this special episode of Slate Money Travels, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss whether traveling can really “broaden your mind…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
What Next: TBD | Here Comes the A.I. Music Slop
It’s hard to make money in the music industry. But if you could flood every streamer with hundreds of “original” songs without having to, you know, w…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
ICYMI | Viral Debates: Crossing the Aisle or Clickbait?
On today’s episode, hosts Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by Slate staff writer Aymann Ismail to discuss the controversial YouTube channel, J…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The National Debt Question
This week: Planet Money’s Mary Childs wrote about why we should all care about the growing national debt right now. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, a…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Amicus | Who Gets Left Out of Originalism?
The official history of America’s founding is often told as a whites-only story, a heroic tale of wealthy white men forging a new nation—with no ment…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
What Happened After Meta Fired Its Fact-Checkers
In January, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was moving from employing professional fact-checkers to letting its users fact-check each other. If y…
10 months, 3 weeks ago