Political Gabfest - Now We Can Call It a Quagmire
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss why the war in Iran has flared back up despite the increasing likelihood of political consequences for Trump and his allies, the promi...
23 Jul 0s
What Next - Will Andrew Tate Finally Be Held Accountable?
Over the weekend, Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested in Florida after British prosecutors brought new charges of rape and sex-trafficking, which were added to charges from May 2025 and an on-going ...
23 Jul 0s
ICYMI - Coupled Up With The Internet
The app-ification of dating has made meeting people even more difficult. But no one ever talks about what comes after: when you are in a relationship with someone, and have brand new digital etiquette...
22 Jul 0s
What Next - The Best DOJ Money Can Buy
A federal judge paused the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. This may not have been a necessary step if the Department of Justice had taken its corporate enforcement mandate more serious...
22 Jul 0s
Slate Money - Money Talks: Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
In this Money Talks: Elizabeth Spiers talks to journalist Beth Gardiner about her expose of the plastic industry, Plastic Inc. They’ll get into the unsettling history behind the now ubiquitous materia...
21 Jul 0s
What Next - Trump’s White Whale
When Donald Trump seizes on an idea, he can riff on it nigh infinitely in any direction, which is why his fairly short and contained primetime speech on election security last week seemed so out of ch...
21 Jul 0s
Death, Sex & Money - The Sexy Soundtrack for the ‘New Black Middle Class’
In the mid-1970’s, a small college radio station created an evening program catering to a new socioeconomic group referred to as the “new Black middle class.” The show was called “The Quiet Storm” and...
21 Jul 0s
What Next - Venezuela, 51st State?
A month after a pair of devastating earthquakes and more than six months after the US absconded with their president, how are the people of Venezuela faring under—wait, who’s actually in charge?Guest:...
20 Jul 24min
