ICYMI - Inside the Unsolved 2014 Attack on a Furry Convention
On today’s show, we’re joined by Nicky Woolf, the host Fur and Loathing, a new investigative podcast which attempts to solve the decade-old cold case of a chemical attack at the 2014 Midwest Furfest c...
8 Jun 202433min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Supreme Court’s Appeal to Heaven
Over the past 15 years, the journalist and author Katherine Stewart has been charting the rise of Christian Nationalism in the United States. On this week’s Amicus, Stewart joins Dahlia Lithwick and R...
8 Jun 202453min
Slate Money - Is the NY Times Just a Gaming Platform?
Even the Grey Lady struggles to profit from the news. This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by Semafor founder Ben Smith to discuss media profit models, the impact of Go...
8 Jun 202443min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Secret Semiconductor War
How well is the Biden administration coaxing semiconductor companies to build their chips in the United States? Compared to Taiwan, South Korea, Japan…or even mainland China, things are just okay.Gues...
7 Jun 202419min
Political Gabfest - Will Trump’s Conviction Help Biden?
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the fallout from Donald Trump’s felony conviction; the spin-up for Hunter Biden’s trial; and the upshot for college speech from campus...
6 Jun 202454min
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - My Daughter’s Friend Is Just So Loud
On this episode: Jamilah, Zak and Elizabeth help a listener who, for a few reasons, is at the end of her rope with a friend of her daughter’s. The friend is sweet… she’s just LOUD, to the point that t...
6 Jun 202427min
What Next - The Hollywood Strikes Are Over. No One's Back To Work.
After waiting for two strikes to resolve, film and television crews across Hollywood were hungry to return to work. But the work has been slow to come back. As a number of crew union contracts expire ...
6 Jun 202419min
Culture Gabfest - What Even Is Garfield?
On this week’s show, the hosts begin by asking the question: What even is Garfield? Jim Davis’ overfed, Monday-hating (even though he’s jobless) cultural figure first appeared in comic strips in the l...
5 Jun 20241h 4min
