Slate Money - Billionaire Slap Fight
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about the deconglomeration of Johnson & Johnson and General Electric, the impact worker revenge has on inflation, and Elon Musk’s big T...
13 Nov 202155min
ICYMI - Taylor Swift Knows the Internet All Too Well
Taylor Swift just released her version of the 2012 album Red, but if you’d asked her fandom what was coming the answers would’ve included all sorts of red-string conspiracy theories. On today’s episod...
13 Nov 202127min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Kid-Vaccine Holdouts
A recent poll showed that about a third of parents of younger children would get their kids vaccinated, a third would not, and the final third said they wanted to wait and see how the vaccines worked....
12 Nov 202121min
Political Gabfest - Presidents Are Not Kings and Plaintiff Is Not President
John and David are joined by guest host Ruth Marcus to discuss Biden’s infrastructure win, Trump’s January 6 obstruction, and the Rittenhouse trial.Here are some notes and references from this week’s ...
11 Nov 202159min
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The “Screen Time Semantics” Edition
On this week’s episode: Zak, Elizabeth, and Greg Lavallee advise a listener whose rambunctious little one is on his third visit to the emergency room. How can our listener teach him that he can get hu...
11 Nov 202139min
What Next - The Astroworld Tragedy
Last Friday, a surging crowd killed at least eight people and left hundreds injured at Travis Scott’s music festival Astroworld in Houston. Public uproar over the needless deaths has placed responsibi...
11 Nov 202126min
Death, Sex & Money - “What I Live With”: The Aftermath of Fatal Accidents
In the U.S., nearly 200,000 people die every year from accidental injuries. But what happens when you cause one of those accidents—and you survive?We're looking for our next intern! Is it you? To find...
10 Nov 202133min
Slow Burn - The L.A. Riots | 2. No Justice
In March 1991, the video of the Rodney King beating was national news. The LAPD was under intense scrutiny and many white Americans were seeing a side of policing they’d never seen before.Just a few d...
10 Nov 202144min
