Decoder Ring - The White Noise Boom
White noise has a very precise technical definition, but people use the term loosely, to describe all sorts of washes of sound—synthetic hums, or natural sounds like a rainstorm or crashing waves—that...
2 Jul 202548min
What Next - We Need to Talk About the Supreme Court
Last week’s big Supreme Court decisions walked back rights for individuals and the powers of the lower courts—and in aggregate made it ever more difficult to believe the court is anything other than a...
1 Jul 202528min
Death, Sex & Money - Baywatch Made Me World Famous. My Stalker Stole My Privacy.
Alexandra Paul always loved connecting with fans. She had many, from her breakout role in the 1983 horror film Christine to her years playing a lifeguard on Baywatch. In 2011, Paul's career was slowin...
1 Jul 202549min
Hang Up and Listen - The Caitlin Clark Dilemma
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Ben Lindbergh, and Lindsay Gibbs discuss Caitlin Clark’s injuries, controversies, and dramas that continue to spotlight the Fever and WNBA. They also get into the effects of major...
30 Jun 20251h 1min
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - What Counts as Screentime?
On this episode: Zak, Lucy and Elizabeth chat about screentime. We’ve got two great questions that are variations on the theme: are podcasts screentime? And you missing out on something if your little...
30 Jun 202534min
What Next - Why Is ICE Masked Up?
ICE agents have begun concealing their identities in masks and plainclothes while making arrests. Experts—including a former ICE official—say that endangers those agents, and violates the trust betwee...
30 Jun 202527min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The FTC’s Merger Shakedown
Under a normal administration, a merger between two large advertising firms might attract the government’s interest for anti-monopoly reasons. Under this one, the Federal Trade Commission is creating ...
29 Jun 202521min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - “No Right Is Safe”
The cataclysmic opinions from SCOTUS on Friday certainly suggest that the courts can no longer save us. In fact, in Trump v. CASA., we learned that it’s somehow not actually the job of the courts to s...
28 Jun 202549min
