What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Crypto's Big Win
The crypto industry poured tons of money into the last election cycle. Is the GENIUS Act, which has bipartisan support, their big payoff?Guest: Hilary Allen, professor at American University’s Washing...
25 Touko 202526min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Two Tracks of Justice
This week’s episode attempts to understand the ways in which the law of Trump unfolds along two tracks at the same time. First, Mark Joseph Stern joins us to talk about the Supreme Court’s decision to...
24 Touko 20251h 9min
Slate Money - Elon Backs Off
This week: The bond vigilantes are being summoned by Trump’s take bill. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the contents of the controversial bill and how the bond markets are react...
24 Touko 202550min
What Next - Bonus: Main Character: The One Big Beautiful Bill
Trump’s “one big beautiful bill” cleared the House this week and heads off to the Senate where…actually let’s bring in an expert to explain what happens next.Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politica...
23 Touko 20255min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Inside OpenAI's Empire
OpenAI started as a non-profit dedicated to building safe A.I. Now, they’re obsessed with building artificial general intelligence by any means necessary - even if they don’t quite know what that is. ...
23 Touko 202534min
Political Gabfest - Big and Beautiful or Huge and Horrendous
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the huge House tax bill and its broad economic implications with Harvard economist Jason Furman, the DOJ’s selective investigation and...
22 Touko 20251h 2min
What Next - Can A “Morality Coalition” Succeed Against Trump?
Rev. Dr. Barber II is objecting to Republicans’ budget bill on the grounds of morality as much as politics—which is why he’s been praying, protesting, and getting arrested to stick up for those who wi...
22 Touko 202522min
What Next - If Trump Guts FEMA, Are Tornado Victims On Their Own?
One of the more surprising targets of Project 2025—and now, therefore, the Trump administration—is FEMA. How will proposed changes affect what FEMA can do, as hurricane season begins, and as a changin...
21 Touko 202526min
