What Next - One Year: 1990: Mandrake the Magician
It’s a holiday weekend, so the What Next team is taking a little break from the news, and dropping you one of our favorite other Slate podcasts. This time around, we’re listening to One Year: 1990. We...
15 Jan 202447min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Is Your Car Tracking You?
Covered in cameras, full of microphones, and always eager to use location data, our vehicles are “smartphones on wheels”—and privacy nightmares.Guest: Kashmir Hill, technology and privacy reporter for...
14 Jan 202419min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Supreme Court Gave Itself Huge Extra Powers and It’s Becoming a Big Problem
There’s an ever-growing queue of cases concerning Donald Trump headed for the Supreme Court that threaten to further dent the legitimacy of an institution that has tumbled in the public’s estimation i...
13 Jan 20241h
Slate Money - Apple Maps is Finally Good
Last week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spears asked you to weigh in on your preferred map app: Reigning champ Google, or late bloomer Apple? This week, they reveal your answers and discuss...
13 Jan 202444min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Boeing’s Max Mess
Shortly after take off from Portland, OR, the plug exit on a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet blew out – causing an uncontrolled decompression of the plane. Now, accident investigators are hard at work, trying to...
12 Jan 202431min
Political Gabfest - Should Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Be Fired?
This week, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are joined by Jamelle Bouie of The New York Times to discuss the absence and silence of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, school absenteeism with Alec MacGill...
11 Jan 20241h 1min
What Next - 2024’s Primary Season is Already Chaos
Primaries competing with caucuses; states going rogue; and parties totally out of sync with each other — the 2024 primary season has everything. Guest: Ari Berman, voting-rights reporter for Mother Jo...
11 Jan 202422min
What Next - The NRA’s Wayne’s World Era is Over
Long-time CEO Wayne LaPierre is out and legal challenges and lawsuits are mounting—but does that mean the NRA is losing its influence over American politics? Guest: Dr. Matthew Lacombe, the Alexander ...
10 Jan 202420min
