Podcast Episodes

Could DOGE Really Gut Social Security?

DOGE cuts have already hit Social Security, with offices closing and employees fired. With Elon Musk calling the program a “Ponzi scheme” and saying entitlements are “the big one to eliminate,” this …

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Will Student Protesters Be Deported?

The Trump administration’s approach to free speech, immigration, and due process all converge in a crackdown on Columbia University. 

Guest: Sarah Brown, news editor at the Chronicle for Higher Educat…

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Andrew Cuomo Wanted To Be President. He’ll Settle For Mayor.

Andrew Cuomo—the hard-headed former governor of New York state —became something of a national hero in 2020 with his no-nonsense press conferences. By 2021, he was mired in a sexual misconduct scanda…

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Til Trump Do Us Part

They were three Harris-supporting women, from across the country, all married to Trump-supporting men—and they were all contemplating divorce.

Guest: Scaachi Koul, Slate senior writer who wrote about …

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

TBD | Zuckerberg and the Post-Factcheck Era

After the election, Mark Zuckerberg announced that he was doing away with Facebook’s fact-checking apparatus in the US. With content creators getting paid based on reach, and content spreading wider …

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

TBD | From 4Chan to Charlottesville to DOGE

To understand the second Trump administration, you have to understand the internet culture that gave birth to it.

Guest: Elle Reeve, CNN correspondent who reported on the 2017 Unite the Right rally in…

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

How Worried Are Ukrainians?

Aware of Donald Trump’s reputation as a dealmaker, Ukrainians had some hope as he took office—maybe Trump could break the stalemate with Russia and find peace. Then that Oval Office meeting happened……

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

The True Cost of Slashing the Government

Republicans have been talking about cutting the size of the government down for decades. Now that the Trump administration is following through on those plans, the process is laying bare just how muc…

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Why Trump Needs Congress

Congressional Republicans are trying to extend Trump’s first-term tax cuts, appease GOP budget hawks and increase defense spending—all in a single budget. Can it be done?

Guest: Jim Newell, senior pol…

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Why Women Kill

A survey of people incarcerated in California found that 20 percent of women in for homicide had killed their abusive partners. How have self-defense laws failed women in abusive relationships—and ho…

Published on 9 months, 4 weeks ago