The Migrants Texas Sent to New York City

The Biden administration’s Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are both staffed with accomplished progressives who are proving more aggressive than their predecessors in either the Trum...

4 Joulu 202234min

Dating back to the Arab Spring, Twitter’s potential for real-time organizing has been a selling point. But trying to find information on China’s “Zero COVID” protests reveals just how vulnerable the n...

2 Joulu 202226min

For nearly three years, people in China have endured their government’s “Zero COVID” policies to prevent cases from overwhelming their hospital system. But after a fire in Urumqi broke out and videos ...

1 Joulu 202224min

With no clear path to advance and winter settling in, what would it take for Russia to negotiate an exit from Ukraine?Guest: Fred Kaplan. Slate’s war stories correspondentIf you enjoy this show, pleas...

30 Marras 202221min

With Yale and Harvard law schools withdrawing from U.S. News & World Report’s annual law school rankings, others have followed suit. With the rating system for all colleges taking criticism, being “ga...

29 Marras 202227min

Hakeem Jeffries appears set to take over as Nancy Pelosi steps down as the head of the House Democrats. As a member of the Progressive Caucus who has often sided against progressives with party leader...

28 Marras 202222min

The option to “buy now and pay later” over installments exploded over the past two years, thanks to people being flush with stimulus cash and shopping online during the pandemic. But is this new, unde...

27 Marras 202230min

When presale tickets for Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour effectively broke the internet last week, Ticketmaster emerged as the villain…again. The media behemoth has been reviled since the ‘90s, but it ha...

23 Marras 202229min