Decoder Ring - Sex, Lies, and Hockey Pucks
30 years ago, the Stanley Cup playoffs ignited a rumor that has been messing with Jane Macdougall’s life ever since. In 1994, the Vancouver Canucks had made it all the way to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup...
19 Jun 202433min
ICYMI - Encore: Live, Laugh, LinkedIn
Today, we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes from October 2023 about LinkedIn.In this episode, Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim dive into the decades-long transformation of LinkedIn from a web...
19 Jun 202444min
Slow Burn - Gays Against Briggs | 5. Strange Bedfellows
As Election Day approached, the campaign to defeat Proposition 6 faced formidable odds. John Briggs’ fundraising juggernaut was churning out cash, and public opinion polls were solidly in his favor. T...
19 Jun 202450min
What Next - How IVF Became the GOP's Next Battle
Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, the Christian right seems to be setting its sights on banning in-vitro fertilization. But even though the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution agai...
18 Jun 202424min
Death, Sex & Money - Mark Duplass on Making Money, Mental Health and Midlife
Mark Duplass’s first big dream came true when he was 28: a movie he wrote and directed with his brother, Jay, got into The Sundance Film Festival. It was a major accomplishment, but Mark was miserable...
18 Jun 202450min
Hang Up and Listen - How Sports Became Grievance Games
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin talk to Slate contributing writer Alex Kirshner about Bryson DeChambeau’s win—and Rory McIlroy’s heartbreaking loss—at the U.S. Open. Then, Washington Post columnist Jerry...
17 Jun 20241h 7min
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - I Have Five Kids and Can’t Keep My Sh*t Together
On this episode: Zak, Lucy, and Elizabeth help a member of our Slate Parenting Facebook group who’s struggling to keep her head above water. There’s always another deadline, appointment, and thing to ...
17 Jun 202434min
What Next - What's Eating the Economy?
The American economy has gotten more consolidated and more reliant on algorithms—while also, according to most people, getting more expensive, slower, and worse. Is there some causality in this correl...
17 Jun 202419min
