Decoder Ring - Tattoo Flash
Time does funny thing to everything, but especially to tattoos. Today, four stories about tattoos whose meanings have shifted with the passage of years, decades, or centuries: first, a look into an ar...
27 Jul 202146min
Hang Up and Listen - The Potemkin Village Olympics Edition
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss the weirdness of the Tokyo Olympics being staged without spectators. They also assess the wobbly starts by the U.S. men’s basketball and women’s gy...
26 Jul 20211h 24min
What Next - On the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires
The fires raging across the American West are like the climate crisis itself: Too big and too extreme to understand all at once. So today, we’re zooming in on some of the people fighting those fires: ...
26 Jul 202131min
Slate Money - Expendable Men
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Stacy-Marie Ishmael discuss the billionaire space race we saw this week, Johnson & Johnson’s “Texas two-step” plan, and two big workplace issues -- expenses an...
24 Jul 202139min
ICYMI - In the Heights Sparks Gender Euphoria on TikTok
How did a clip from In the Heights lead to a new TikTok face filter that has helped some of the app’s users express their gender identity? On today’s episode, Madison and Rachelle trace the timeline o...
24 Jul 202125min
Death, Sex & Money - When Grief Doesn't Move In Stages
Radiolab producer Rachael Cusick talks together with her grandmother about their shared loss, and about their experiences with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's five stages of grief.Listen to Rachael's Radiolab...
23 Jul 202132min
Hang Up and Listen - One Year: Mary Shane's Rookie Season
Slate's new podcast One Year and will introduce you to people and ideas that changed American history--one year at a time. The show is hosted by your Hang Up and Listen host Josh Levin. And our first ...
23 Jul 202149min
What Next - TBD | How Spyware Mercenaries Hack Your Phone
This week, Amnesty International and a French journalism nonprofit named Forbidden Stories revealed that technology from a spyware firm called NSO Group is being deployed on a massive scale. The spywa...
23 Jul 202127min
