What Next - Seven Days of Unrest in Kenosha
One week ago, a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times, paralyzing him from the waist down. In the immediate aftermath, citizens of Kenosha took to the streets i...
31 Elo 202020min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Dozens of Baby Bush v Gores
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Professor Samuel Bagenstos of the University of Michigan School of Law, to discuss the s...
29 Elo 20201h 2min
Slate Money - Rolling Dice
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski discuss the Fed’s new monetary policy announcement, direct listings on the stock market, and all the ways to play Felix’s hypothetical dice game. In the Sla...
29 Elo 202045min
What Next - TBD | QAnon Goes Mainstream
Not long ago, the QAnon conspiracy theory seemed to have lost momentum. Social media mentions had decreased. 8chan had gone offline. But since March, fueled by the pandemic and social media giants, th...
28 Elo 202016min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - QAnon Goes Mainstream
Not long ago, the QAnon conspiracy theory seemed to have lost momentum. Social media mentions had decreased. 8chan had gone offline. But since March, fueled by the pandemic and social media giants, th...
28 Elo 202016min
Political Gabfest - Pool Boy
The Republican convention, violence in Kenosha, and whether the Falwell and Conway families’ dramas matter.Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Thomas B. Edsall for the New York Ti...
27 Elo 20201h 8min
What Next - U.S. Foreign Policy Is Officially Incoherent
Last week, the Trump administration used shaky reasoning to pursue additional sanctions against Iran. The proposal was rejected by nearly the entire U.N. Security Council, including close allies like ...
27 Elo 202017min
What Next - The Fight for Belarus
For the past two weeks, Belarus has been gripped by political protest. The country’s longtime authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, is courting Russian intervention as a worried European Unio...
26 Elo 202017min
