Slate Money - The China Problem
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers go over China’s expanding role in the international debt market. They discuss a new problem with the American mortgage system, and dive into the wild wor...
15 Apr 202349min
ICYMI - Meet the Internet’s Princess
For the third installment of Internet Diaries, Rachelle is joined by 21-year-old cultural critic and internet essayist Rayne Fisher-Quann, who has amassed a devoted following on TikTok, Substack, Inst...
15 Apr 202340min
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - The British Are Charting Edition Part 1
Before 1964, British bands couldn’t get anywhere on the U.S. charts. Then suddenly, after a certain Fab Four broke, they were everywhere. By 1965, they had locked down our Top 10.In 1981, a new genera...
15 Apr 20231h 5min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - How Gamers Leaked Classified Pentagon Docs
Discord is a place to share a community online. Most often, it's for gaming. So why did classified intelligence from the Pentagon end up on a small server whose main interests seem to be video games, ...
14 Apr 202330min
Political Gabfest - That Shoddy Abortion Pill Ruling
This week, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon discuss the federal court rulings on the F.D.A.-approved abortion medication mifepristone, the expulsion of two Democratic representatives by the Republican-su...
13 Apr 202350min
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Busting "Gentle Parenting" Myths
On this episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Zak are joined by Natasha Nelson, who is known as Supernova Momma, to discuss positive parenting. Natasha explains what positive discipline actually entails, h...
13 Apr 202335min
What Next - Do Abortion Pills Actually Need FDA Approval?
Last week a federal judge in Texas refuted the FDA approval for mifepristone, a pill used for medication abortions, which would suspend that approval across the country.But some experts say - plenty o...
13 Apr 202322min
Slow Burn - Decoder Ring: The Curious Case of Columbo's Message to Romania Part 1
Not too long ago an old clip surfaced of Peter Falk on David Letterman, in which he told an intriguing tale about recording a special Cold War message for Romanian state television. The clip went vira...
12 Apr 202339min
