What Next - A Republican With an Actual Climate Plan
Republicans used to lead the way on environmental legislation. Are they about to come back around on the urgency of climate change? Guest: Carlos Curbelo, former Republican congressman from Florida.S...
27 Jan 202125min
What Next - The Biden-McConnell Relationship
There’s a lot riding on the working relationship of President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. They are bonded by their service in the U.S. Senate, their ideological flexibility, ...
26 Jan 202126min
What Next - Did the Media Fail the Trump Years?
Back in 2015, Farai Chideya was a senior writer covering politics at FiveThirtyEight. Her time there was instructive in understanding how the media failed to take Trump’s presidential candidacy seriou...
25 Jan 202120min
Slate Money - The Price You Pay for College
Ron Lieber of The New York Times joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski to talk about his book The Price You Pay for College on the economics of higher education, and how to work within the...
23 Jan 202143min
What Next - TBD | Why the Vaccine Websites Suck
Most people thought developing the vaccine in record time would be the hard part. That, or shipping millions of doses at subzero temperatures to every corner of the country. But nobody--or, almost nob...
22 Jan 202126min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Why the Vaccine Websites Suck
Most people thought developing the vaccine in record time would be the hard part. That, or shipping millions of doses at subzero temperatures to every corner of the country. But nobody--or, almost nob...
22 Jan 202126min
Political Gabfest - End this Uncivil War
Emily, John and David discuss the unusual but uplifting inauguration, Joe Biden’s priorities, and the Trump aftermath.Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Joe Biden’s inauguration ...
21 Jan 202152min
What Next - What Biden Can Get Done
At his inauguration, President Joe Biden argued that “unity is the path forward.” But it’s still an open question whether he’ll be able to get anything done.Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics ...
21 Jan 202121min
