What Next - Best of 2021 | The Plight of the Delivery Worker
In the last few years, New York City’s delivery workers have become a key part of the food industry’s infrastructure, allowing restaurants to do business with customers who are too stressed to leave t...
21 Des 202128min
What Next - Joe Biden's Putin Problem
What does a massing of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border mean? And could this conflict be defused yet by diplomacy?Guest: Slate’s Fred Kaplan, author of The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Se...
20 Des 202122min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Jan. 6: The Coup That Wasn’t, but Still Could Be
Almost a year later, are we seeing signs of some sort of accountability for the Jan. 6 insurrection? And why is that accountability so important and yet so hard to achieve? Dahlia Lithwick is joined b...
18 Des 202154min
Slate Money - Ban the Bra!
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about the psychic weight of another COVID wave and what it means for the economy, the environmental and employee problems with fast fas...
18 Des 202149min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Carbon Capture Fantasy
Using experimental technology to pull gigatons of carbon out of the air and bury it deep beneath the Earth sounds like a bad sci-fi plot point. If things don’t change soon, it also might be one of our...
17 Des 202123min
Political Gabfest - Build Back Later
Emily, John and David discuss January 6th revelations, Build Back Better and voting rights and they are joined by Slow Burn host Joel Anderson to talk about Season 6: The L.A. Riots.Give the gift of P...
16 Des 20211h 5min
What Next - What Mark Meadows Knew
After initially cooperating with the select committee investigating the events of January 6, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows reversed course, deciding instead to assert executive privil...
16 Des 202122min
What Next - Why Didn’t Maryland Democrats Go For the Jugular?
Maryland Democrats had a shot at an 8-0 gerrymander this redistricting cycle. To the frustration of the national Democratic party, they stopped just shy of that number. Should Maryland Democrats have ...
15 Des 202122min
