
Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | Alison Bechdel Explains Selling Out the Progressive Way
David Plotz talks with author Alison Bechdel about her new book, Spent. They discuss what’s memoir and what’s less than memoir in the comic novel, David’s own contribution to the book, and more. Tweet...
21 Jun 202527min

What Next - Bonus: The All New Electric … Hummer?
Listen to What Next via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, Overcast, Google Play, or iHeart.America’s most machismo and gas-guzzling car, the Hummer, has been relaunched as an electric vehicle...
20 Jun 20255min

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - We Deport. You Laugh?
The Trump administration's anti-immigration campaign has become defined by distasteful memes that gleefully portray the mass deportations being carried out across the country. It’s impossible to ignor...
20 Jun 202526min

Political Gabfest - Massive Ordnance Penetrator
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss whether the US should join Israel’s war on Iran, the tragic Minnesota assassinations and why US political violence is surging now, and...
19 Jun 20251h 4min

What Next - Mighty Real Edition
As What Next celebrates Juneteenth, please enjoy this episode from our colleagues at Hit Parade. What Next will be back in your feed on Monday.Little Richard was rock ‘n’ roll’s flamboyant architect...
19 Jun 202557min

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Sneak Preview: SCOTUS Apparently Doesn’t Believe Trans People Exist
In this Slate Plus exclusive episode, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern analyse the Roberts Court's decision in Skrmetti, effectively bans gender-affirming care for trans minors in more than 20 ...
18 Jun 202511min

What Next - Kristi Noem Understands the Assignment
As the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem has made herself the official face of the Trump administration’s military crackdowns on protesters in Los Angeles, raids in majority-Dem...
18 Jun 202526min

What Next - The War Netanyahu Always Wanted
On Friday, Israel launched massive strikes in Iran, targeting nuclear sites and killing top military leaders in the largest single-day attack on the country since the 1980s. Iran has retaliated, launc...
17 Jun 202527min






















