Slate Money - McDonald's Fast Food Price War
Fast food prices are sky high, but chains will take losses to get you in the door. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the economics of a new value meal trend. Also: millennials are...
22 Jun 202447min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Amazon Wants Your Handprint
Amazon has installed digital palm readers at Whole Foods. The reader scans your palm, collecting biometric data, and links it to your credit card to pay for your groceries. What does exchanging vein m...
21 Jun 202419min
Political Gabfest - Presidential Debate Preview
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the 2024 presidential debates; a possible warning on social media and another ban of smartphones in schools; and the future and failur...
20 Jun 202458min
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Preventing the Summer Backslide
On this episode: Lucy, Zak, and Elizabeth help a member of the Slate Parenting Facebook group come up with ways to prevent a summer backslide – and keep school skills fresh over the break. We got some...
20 Jun 202439min
What Next - Homelessness Before the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is soon expected to decide Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case where a town’s efforts to remove unhoused people from its parks became “cruel and unusual,” according to lower courts.Guest:...
20 Jun 202429min
Culture Gabfest - Does Inside Out 2 Get Anxiety Right?
On this week’s episode, the hosts excavate the psyche and begin by exploring Inside Out 2, a sophisticated children’s movie that tackles the question on every kid’s mind: How does one go about craftin...
19 Jun 202459min
What Next - Slow Burn: Defend Our Children
Happy Juneteenth! What Next resumes regularly scheduled programming tomorrow, but for the holiday, check out this episode of Slow Burn Season 9: Gays Against Briggs.In 1977, John Briggs was a small-ti...
19 Jun 202449min
Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Slow Burn: A Hotbed of Homosexuality
While the Outward team makes the most of Pride Month, we have a special treat for you, the first episode of Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs. — In the 1970s, San Francisco became a welcoming home for te...
19 Jun 202447min
