Culture Gabfest - Revenge is a Dish Best Served French
This week Stephen, Dana, and Julia start by discussing Promising Young Woman, the revenge thriller starring Carey Mulligan and written and directed by Emerald Fennell. Then Slate culture writer Karen ...
27 Tammi 202157min
What Next - The Biden-McConnell Relationship
There’s a lot riding on the working relationship of President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. They are bonded by their service in the U.S. Senate, their ideological flexibility, ...
26 Tammi 202126min
Hang Up and Listen - Remembering Henry Aaron
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about the Packers’ mystifying field goal attempt and the Chiefs’ run for a second straight title. They also discuss the life and legacy of baseball le...
25 Tammi 20211h 12min
What Next - Did the Media Fail the Trump Years?
Back in 2015, Farai Chideya was a senior writer covering politics at FiveThirtyEight. Her time there was instructive in understanding how the media failed to take Trump’s presidential candidacy seriou...
25 Tammi 202120min
Slate Money - The Price You Pay for College
Ron Lieber of The New York Times joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski to talk about his book The Price You Pay for College on the economics of higher education, and how to work within the...
23 Tammi 202143min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Why the Vaccine Websites Suck
Most people thought developing the vaccine in record time would be the hard part. That, or shipping millions of doses at subzero temperatures to every corner of the country. But nobody--or, almost nob...
22 Tammi 202126min
What Next - TBD | Why the Vaccine Websites Suck
Most people thought developing the vaccine in record time would be the hard part. That, or shipping millions of doses at subzero temperatures to every corner of the country. But nobody--or, almost nob...
22 Tammi 202126min
Political Gabfest - End this Uncivil War
Emily, John and David discuss the unusual but uplifting inauguration, Joe Biden’s priorities, and the Trump aftermath.Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Joe Biden’s inauguration ...
21 Tammi 202152min
