Podcast Episodes

Amicus | The Call Is Coming From Inside The Court

In this episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick sits down with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse to dissect the most recent Supreme Court term and its implicatio…

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Opinionpalooza 2025

The Supreme Court wraps up a momentous term. Dahlia Lithwick, Mark Joseph Stern and guests break down the cases and the controversies, explaining wha…

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Hot Measles Summer

It’s a record-breaking year for America: we’ve now had the most reported cases of measles since the disease was declared “eradicated” in 2000. 

How d…

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Political Gabfest | Who Wants a Third Party, Anyway?

This week, David Plotz and guest hosts Mike Pesca and Susan Glasser discuss what to make of Elon Musk’s quixotic attempt to start a third political p…

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What Next | Stage Managing Sex in Hollywood

In the wake of #MeToo, Hollywood productions began hiring “intimacy coordinators,” people who work to ensure sex scenes are safe and comfortable for …

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What Next | Was the Flash Flooding in Texas Preventable?

After one of the deadliest floods in American history in central Texas, people are looking at cuts to the National Weather Service and FEMA’s absence…

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What Next | Is Trump Running the Fugitive Slave Act Playbook?

A federal force—often defying local governance—coming to take people away without due process has happened before. What lessons can be drawn from par…

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Slate Money | Money Talks: The Working Homeless in America

In this Money Talks: Elizabeth Spiers is joined by journalist Brian Goldstone to discuss his book There is No Place for Us on the rising homelessness…

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What Next | The Spectacle of “Alligator Alcatraz” Is the Point

Built in just eight days, Donald Trump and Kristi Noem toured “Alligator Alcatraz,” a migrant detention facility built on a disused airstrip in the F…

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What Next: TBD | How A.I. Lost (and Won) the Big Beautiful Debate

As the One Big Beautiful Bill bounced around Congress, one provision—the 10-year moratorium on states making laws to regulate artificial intelligence…

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