What Next - TBD | What Is Elon Musk Thinking?
As the coronavirus shut down manufacturing across California in March and April, Elon Musk only wanted one thing: to start making cars again.So when local government officials in Alameda County got in...
22 Touko 202017min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - What Is Elon Musk Thinking?
As the coronavirus shut down manufacturing across California in March and April, Elon Musk only wanted one thing: to start making cars again.So when local government officials in Alameda County got in...
22 Touko 202017min
Political Gabfest - L-Shaped Recovery
Emily, John and David discuss the state of the pandemic; insider trading allegations in the Senate; and Trump’s firing of the watchdog investigating Mike Pompeo.For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segmen...
21 Touko 20201h 9min
What Next - A Summer Without Camp
In a normal year, the next couple of weeks would be when excited campers returned to summer camp. Now, because of the coronavirus, summer camps are having to make tough calls about how and if they’ll ...
21 Touko 202019min
What Next - On A Wild Goose Chase for Masks
The global scarcity of masks has shown us the federal government’s desperate side. Procurement rules have been loosened. Prices have soared. And a shadowy market has emerged where deals fall through a...
20 Touko 202025min
What Next - Can We Even Trust the Testing Data?
We closed down the country because we didn’t have enough COVID-19 tests. Now that testing capacity is improving, there’s another problem: figuring out what all this new data means, and who’s reporting...
19 Touko 202022min
What Next - How Much Trouble Is Senator Richard Burr In?
A lot happened in February for Senator Ricard Burr (R-NC). He told his constituents that the country was “ready to face the coronavirus.” He told a members-only club that they should expect school clo...
18 Touko 202020min
Slate Money - Seamless Is a Verb
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski talk about the possibility of a merger between Uber and Grubhub, the potential collapse of the child care industry, and they get to some of the ...
16 Touko 202039min
