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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…

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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…

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3: “A Church with AIDS” | When We All Get to Heaven

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In the late ‘80s, two MCC San Francisco ministers wrote an article called “We Are the Church Alive, the Church with AIDS.” We wanted to know how a ga…

8 months, 1 week ago

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ICYMI | The Streamer and the Shock Collar

On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Slate staff writer Luke Winkie to talk about Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who some viewers have ac…

8 months, 1 week ago

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Decoder Ring | The Red String Board Conspiracy

There’s a ubiquitous prop in just about every police procedural and conspiracy thriller: a cork board pinned with documents, newspaper clippings, and…

8 months, 1 week ago

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Slate Plus Preview: Jad Abumrad Inquires How We Make the Gabfest

This is a special preview of this week's Slate Plus episode. To get the full episode, another one like it every single week, and unlimited reading o…

8 months, 1 week ago

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Culture Gabfest: Guillermo del Toro Can Take Frankenstein Off His Bucket List Edition

On this week’s show, Dana, Steve, and Julia step into the gothic, visually rich world of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. It’s been years in the ma…

8 months, 1 week ago

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What Next | The Trump Doctrine in Latin America

The whole spectrum of Trump’s foreign policy is on display when it comes to South America: The US Navy is gathering off the coast of Venezuela, while…

8 months, 1 week ago

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How To! | Survive Getting Fired

If you recently lost your job—or think you might lose it soon—Laura Brown and Kristina O'Neill are here to help! On this episode of How To!, Carvell …

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Death, Sex & Money | How a Former Polygamist “Sister Wife” Learned to Love Monogamy

Christine Brown Woolley grew up in Utah with a dad and two moms, in a polygamist community called the Apostolic United Brethren. When she became an a…

8 months, 1 week ago

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