Death, Sex & Money - The Night Magic Mushrooms and Jam Bands Helped Me Walk Again
Before going on a kite-skiing trip to the Chilean mountains, Jim Harris and his longtime girlfriend broke up. She wanted to settle down, and he wanted to keep adventuring. On that trip, Jim broke his ...
21 Mai 202445min
Hang Up and Listen - The Wolves Chomped the Champs
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss the Pacers’ and Timberwolves’ Game 7 wins in the NBA’s conference semifinals. Slate’s Alex Kirshner also joins to talk about Scottie Scheffler’s ar...
20 Mai 20241h 4min
What Next - What Are Presidential Debates For?
Though their influence on voters seems to be between negligible and nonexistent, presidential debates are still important. And even if their past performances were sometimes hard to watch, it’s good f...
20 Mai 202423min
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Should My Kid Stop Wandering Around Naked?
On this episode: Zak, Lucy and Elizabeth answer a question from our Slate Parenting Facebook group about a 7-year-old who’s at home being naked at home. It’s not really a problem right now, but with p...
20 Mai 202423min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Dark Side of GoFundMe
In theory, crowdfunding sites offer an opportunity for anyone to give to any cause, including, say, strangers facing huge medical bills. In practice, crowdfunding suffers from many of the same inequit...
19 Mai 202428min
Political Gabfest - John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Moving in New York Twenty Years After September 11th.
In this week’s essay, John discusses the differences between moving around New York in 1991 and 2021; remembering 9/11 twenty years later; and more. Notebook Entries:Notebook 75, page 12. September 2...
18 Mai 202440min
Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Why Americans Care About Animals
Emily Bazelon talks with authors Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy, about their new book, Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals. They discuss the evolution of anim...
18 Mai 202431min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Alito’s Stars and Gripes
Justice Samuel Alito’s wife didn’t attend the January 6th 2021 “Stop the Steal” rally (unlike fellow SCOTUS spouse Ginni Thomas), but in January 2021, in a leafy Alexandria, Virginia cul-de-sac, the N...
18 Mai 202457min
