Podcast Episodes

What Next: TBD | Did The Trump Administration Censor Speech?

For years, conservatives claimed that the Biden administration was pressuring tech companies to censor conservative speech with no solid evidence. 

5 months, 1 week ago

Slate Money | The Louvre Heist Affair

This week: A spectacular heist unfolded at the Louvre, with thieves stealing priceless jewels within 7 minutes in broad daylight.  Felix Salmon, Eliz…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

ICYMI | TwitchCon’s Sexual Harassment Problem

On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by writer and streamer Laura Kate Dale to talk about what happened to Emiru at this year’s TwitchCon.…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Amicus | Demolition Man

Bulldozers and bulwarks are the twin themes of this week’s show, as Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Joyce White Vance, a longtime federal prosecutor and…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Bonus: The Scariest Halloween Costume

The streets are full of ghouls, masked horrors, and terrifying make-up—also it will be Halloween soon. 

Guest: Luke Winkie, Slate staff writer.

This ep…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

What Next: TBD | The AWS Outage is Only the Beginning

This week’s AWS outage illustrates just how fragile and vulnerable our interconnected world really is—and how far we’ve fallen from the vision of a d…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Political Gabfest | Trump Literally Knocks Down the White House

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss how President Trump reacted to the No Kings protests by embracing his own “cult of …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

What Next | Is the Peanut Allergy Dead?

Thousands of children may be avoiding peanut allergies thanks to research indicating that early exposure to—rather than avoidance of—the legume is ke…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Care & Feeding | “It’s Not Easy!” Parenting After a Bad Fight.

On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen have a triple…fail. Lucy clapped back to her teen, Elizabeth said the thing to her kids…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

What Next | Why So Many Racist Group Chats?

Right after JD Vance was done dismissing concerns about racism in a group chat of GOP staffers and Young Republicans, POLITICO released messages from…

5 months, 2 weeks ago