What Next - Kids Sports Are Now Adult Driven—And Incredibly Expensive
Youth sports have grown into a $40-billion dollar per year industry, where eager parents shell out for private coaches, off-season practice, and travel leagues, in the hopes of giving their child a co...
16 Feb 19min
What Next - Trump Can’t Ruin These Olympics
The Olympics are touted as a moment for the world to come together and celebrate sport and achievement and check their politics at the door—yeah right.Guest: Justin Peters, Slate correspondent curren...
15 Feb 24min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Concentration Camp Next Door
The machinery to enable Stephen Miller’s darkest deportation dreams is both tangible and legal. In this week’s show, Dahlia Lithwick explores the statutory and regulatory foundations of the Trump admi...
14 Feb 1h 19min
Slate Money - 100 More Years of Google
This week: Alphabet announced a rare 100-year bond issuance. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck, explain the calculation the tech giant is making here and how the market responded to the ...
14 Feb 41min
What Next - SchadenFriday: The Week MAGA Turned Cringe
There was a moment, when the tech CEOs and media moguls were lining up to kiss Trump’s ring, when it looked like almost all the demographic arrows were pointing right, where it looked like Trumpism wa...
13 Feb 5min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Senator Going After Data Centers
Data centers are a hot issue - tech companies say they need them, but communities don’t want to be anywhere near them. Senator Van Hollen stops by the show to share his plan to address the rising cost...
13 Feb 25min
Political Gabfest - LIVE from Washington, DC!
This week, live from Sixth & I in Washington DC to celebrate 20 years of the Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the contentious House Judiciary Committee hearing...
12 Feb 1h 9min
What Next - No Really, Abolish ICE
Democrats have a list of demands and reforms they want implemented before continuing to fund the Department of Homeland Security. But DHS doesn’t really need their approval to keep going.Guest: Garre...
12 Feb 29min
