Slate Money - Four Lost Cities
Author and science journalist, Annalee Newitz joins Felix Salmon and Emily Peck to talk about their new book Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, electric vehicles and why the internet...
27 Feb 20211h 1min
What Next - TBD | Australia’s Kinda-Sorta Win Over Big Tech
Over the last year, the Australian government has been waging a quiet war against Facebook and Google. Through a new law, it plans to force the big tech companies to pay news outlets in exchange for l...
26 Feb 202119min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Australia’s Kinda-Sorta Win Over Big Tech
Over the last year, the Australian government has been waging a quiet war against Facebook and Google. Through a new law, it plans to force the big tech companies to pay news outlets in exchange for l...
26 Feb 202119min
Political Gabfest - Shocked, Shocked! By Her Tweets
Emily, John and David discuss the Tanden take down, Merrick Garland‘s DOJ, and how to stop police killings of Black people with guest Jason Johnson.Here are some notes and references from this week’s ...
25 Feb 20211h 8min
What Next - A Biden Pick in Trouble
After years of policy work in Washington, Neera Tanden is more than qualified to serve as Biden’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget. But her open scorn for conservatives and progressives...
25 Feb 202126min
What Next - The Marines’ Sexual Assault Problem
The U.S. military has long had a sexual assault problem. And the Marine Corps - the final service branch to gender-integrate - is no exception. Though multiple scandals have rocked the Marines, contin...
24 Feb 202125min
Slate Money - Slate Money: Movies: Michael Clayton
Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies. This week, Felix and Anna are joi...
23 Feb 202140min
What Next - Should Student Debt Be Canceled?
Democrats are divided over student debt forgiveness. President Joe Biden is trying to get $10,000-per-borrower canceled, while more progressive members of the party want $50,000 wiped out. So whom wou...
23 Feb 202124min
