What Next - Is Someone Brain-Zapping American Operatives?
The Havana Syndrome sounds like something straight out of a spy novel: microwaves are being directed towards U.S. embassies, causing hearing loss, headaches, and in some cases, permanent brain damage....
13 Okt 202119min
Culture Gabfest - Bad Art Friend, Where Are You?
This week, Steve and Dana are joined by author and co-host of Slate’s Working podcast, Isaac Butler. First, the panel reviews Sally Rooney’s most recent novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You?. Next, t...
13 Okt 202157min
ICYMI - The Disney Channel Star Who Mastered the YouTube Algorithm
As a child, Christy Carlson Romano starred in Disney Channel’s Even Stevens and voiced the character Kim Possible on the eponymous cartoon. Then she faded from the spotlight—until recently, when she r...
13 Okt 202125min
Hang Up and Listen - Jon Gruden’s Emails
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin talk with Slate’s Alex Kirshner about the racist, sexist, and homophobic emails written by now-former NFL head coach Jon Gruden. Writer Roberto José Andrade Franco joins t...
12 Okt 20211h 17min
What Next - When Airbnb Takes Over Your Neighborhood
Galveston is a small island off the south east coast of Texas. It’s become a hot spot for short term rentals through start-ups like Airbnb but what the city has gained in tourism dollars, they’ve lost...
12 Okt 202121min
Slate Money - Succession: Next Cove Please, Julius!
Slate Money is obsessed with Succession, HBO’s wonderful drama about the lives of the superrich Roy family. So, every Monday we’ll be discussing the previous night’s episode with spoiler-filled glee. ...
11 Okt 202138min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Trump Court and the Roberts Court
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Professor Lee Epstein, who studies judicial behavior using empirical legal research, to try to figure out what’s unprecedented partisanship and what’s clumsy PR from the j...
9 Okt 202146min
Slate Money - Trillions
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael are joined by Robin Wigglesworth to talk about his new book Trillions. They get into active investing, what’s going on with Tether, and the ...
9 Okt 202149min
