Podcast Episodes

Slate Money | Money Talks: Money is One Hell of A Drug

In this Money Talks: Felix Salmon is joined by author James Frey to discuss his new novel, Next to Heaven, set among America’s ultra-ultra-rich, the …

1 year, 3 months ago

Trump Bombed Iran. Are We at War?

The Trump administration bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. While the Pentagon says these facilities are severely damaged, a diplomatic end to the c…

1 year, 3 months ago

What Next: TBD | Airlines Are Selling Your Data to the Government

ARC, the data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, has been selling domestic flight data in the US to Customs and Border Protection. But in …

1 year, 3 months ago

Is Partiful Cancelled?

Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay start off with two sounds of the summer from a divisive Love Island USA contestant and a popstar “standing on business.”…

1 year, 3 months ago

Amicus | The Many Compromises of Elena Kagan

The Justices seem intent on packing their summer vacation bags and getting on their way. 

Earlier in the week, the court’s conservative supermajority…

1 year, 3 months ago

Slate Money: We Submit To The AI Overlords

This week: We become cheerleaders for crypto regulation, AI, and…Cheerleaders. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the GENIUS act, …

1 year, 3 months ago

Gabfest Reads | Alison Bechdel Explains Selling Out the Progressive Way

David Plotz talks with author Alison Bechdel about her new book, Spent. They discuss what’s memoir and what’s less than memoir in the comic novel, Da…

1 year, 3 months ago

Bonus: The All New Electric … Hummer?

Listen to What Next via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, Overcast, Google Play, or iHeart.

America’s most machismo and gas-guzzling car, the…

1 year, 3 months ago

What Next: TBD | We Deport. You Laugh?

The Trump administration's anti-immigration campaign has become defined by distasteful memes that gleefully portray the mass deportations being carri…

1 year, 3 months ago

Political Gabfest | Massive Ordnance Penetrator

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss whether the US should join Israel’s war on Iran, the tragic Minnesota assassination…

1 year, 3 months ago