Podcast Episodes

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…

1 year, 2 months 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…

1 year, 2 months 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…

1 year, 2 months ago

Political Gabfest | Putting the BS in BLS

This week, Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and guest host Juliette Kayyem discuss the future integrity of US economic data after Trump fired the head of …

1 year, 2 months ago

What Next | Donald Trump Vs. Reality Itself

Donald Trump’s never been all that committed to the truth. But experts are warning that by firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and appo…

1 year, 2 months ago

What Next | A Rabbi’s Plea for Peace

More than a thousand rabbis and Jewish leaders have signed a letter calling for Israel to end “the use and threat of starvation as a weapon of war.” …

1 year, 2 months ago

What Next | Don’t Mess With Texas’s Election Maps

How Texas redrawing its election maps could set off a gerrymandering arms race across the country—a race the Republicans are likely to win. 

Guest:  …

1 year, 2 months ago

Slate Money | Money Talks: The Fabulous Wealth of Carrie Bradshaw

In this Money Talks: Slate’s own Cheyna Roth joins Emily Peck to break down how HBO’s Sex and the City revival And Just Like That…has taken the fanta…

1 year, 2 months ago

Hang Up | Trump vs. the IOC

Hosts Alex Kirshner, Ben Lindbergh, and Lindsay Gibbs talk to sportswriter Rodger Sherman about how the United States’ immigration maneuvering might …

1 year, 2 months ago

What Next | Was Democracy Voted Out?

Belief in democracy was, until quite recently, taken for granted in America. But what if democracy is less a static noun, and more of a dynamic ideal…

1 year, 2 months ago