Corporate America Retreats From Pride
After years of bigger floats and bigger rainbow-ified logos, corporate sponsorship for Pride Month celebrations is dropping off this year. But, given that Pride is the commemoration of an uprising aga...
10 Jun 202526min
Trump Sends in the Troops
When immigration raids began in the Los Angeles area last weekend, so did spontaneous protests. On Sunday, Trump federalized 2,000 California national guardsmen in response. While Trump stopped short ...
9 Jun 202526min
The Future of the Internet Hinges on Gail Slater
Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater inherited the government’s antitrust case against Google and is eager to follow it through—but likely not for the same reasons as her predecessors. Guest: Nancy...
8 Jun 202525min
Main Character: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
Sean Diddy Combs’s trial in New York started about a month ago and was expected to take about two months, so here at the halfway mark, we check in with a Slate correspondent who has been on the scene ...
6 Jun 20256min
Is Palantir Building a Data Big Brother?
One of the goals of DOGE was to get rid of the “silos” that keep government agencies from sharing freely amongst themselves efficiently and instead organize data using tools offered by companies like ...
6 Jun 202526min
She Was Tortured. America Shut Her Out.
Since January, the Trump administration has suspended the right to claim asylum at the southern border. One narrower form of protection—for those who had been tortured by their governments—was suppose...
5 Jun 202526min
Can Zionism Survive This War?
After 20 months of war, with violence erupting far from the Middle East, where is the future of Zionism headed?Guest: Isaac Saul, Tangle executive editor and author of “I think I’m leaving Zionism, o...
4 Jun 202528min
George Floyd Square, Five Years Later
Five years after George Floyd’s murder sparked nationwide protests, the legacy of that movement is still being written in Minneapolis and America writ large—even as some attempt to erase it.Guest: Ma...
3 Jun 202530min
