Culture Gabfest - Capitalist Pigs
This week, Steve and Dana are joined by Slate editor and writer Dan Kois. First, the panel discusses the TV show White Lotus, airing on HBO. Then they talk about the Nicholas Cage movie Pig. Finally, ...
28 Heinä 20211h
ICYMI - The Latest Fad Diet Is Coming for Your Feeds
75 Hard, a new trend sweeping TikTok, is just another fad diet pretending to be a mental toughness challenge. On today’s episode, Madison and Rachelle revisit the world of diet culture to unpack exact...
28 Heinä 202125min
What Next - So... What Is COVID Now?
The delta variant is now the most-prevalent strain of COVID-19, causing a handful of so-called “breakthrough” infections in fully-vaccinated people. Unvaccinated people account for 97% of severe cases...
27 Heinä 202128min
Slate Money - Slate Money: Movies: Citizen Kane
Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies. Ben Smith, media columnist for The Ne...
27 Heinä 202144min
Decoder Ring - Tattoo Flash
Time does funny thing to everything, but especially to tattoos. Today, four stories about tattoos whose meanings have shifted with the passage of years, decades, or centuries: first, a look into an ar...
27 Heinä 202146min
Hang Up and Listen - The Potemkin Village Olympics Edition
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss the weirdness of the Tokyo Olympics being staged without spectators. They also assess the wobbly starts by the U.S. men’s basketball and women’s gy...
26 Heinä 20211h 24min
What Next - On the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires
The fires raging across the American West are like the climate crisis itself: Too big and too extreme to understand all at once. So today, we’re zooming in on some of the people fighting those fires: ...
26 Heinä 202131min
Slate Money - Expendable Men
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Stacy-Marie Ishmael discuss the billionaire space race we saw this week, Johnson & Johnson’s “Texas two-step” plan, and two big workplace issues -- expenses an...
24 Heinä 202139min
