What Next - The U.S. Can Fix Its COVID Testing Failures
Getting tested for the coronavirus has never been as easy as it should be in the U.S. We’ve seen equipment shortages, long delays for test results, and even mixed messages about who should be getting ...
25 Aug 202016min
What Next - Another Crackdown On the Border
The pandemic hasn’t stopped the flow of migrants to the U.S.-Mexico border. But it has prompted an emergency crackdown on asylum seekers, and critics of the Trump administration say the policy is viol...
24 Aug 202016min
Slate Money - Finders Keepers
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski discuss the finances of the USPS, the fate of brick and mortar retail after the pandemic, and Citigroup’s $900 million payment to Revlon lenders...that the...
22 Aug 202044min
What Next - TBD | What Went Wrong With Contact Tracing Apps
In the early days of the pandemic, countries around the world invested heavily in new technologies that would help track the movement of the virus. Now, six months later, contact tracing apps are all ...
21 Aug 202019min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - What Went Wrong With Contact Tracing Apps
In the early days of the pandemic, countries around the world invested heavily in new technologies that would help track the movement of the virus. Now, six months later, contact tracing apps are all ...
21 Aug 202019min
Political Gabfest - I Know a Predator When I See One
Emily, John and David discuss the Democrats’ virtual convention, the U.S. Postal Service, and the bipartisan Senate report exposing more Trump ties to Russia.Here are some notes and references from th...
20 Aug 20201h 3min
What Next - Can NY Take Down the NRA?
New York Attorney General Letitia James surprised many when she announced plans to dissolve the National Rifle Association. James accused the gun lobby, which is headquartered in New York, of mismanag...
20 Aug 202018min
What Next - The QAnon Candidate
Last week in Georgia’s 14th congressional district runoff, a Republican candidate who believes in the dangerous and baseless QAnon conspiracy theory came out on top. Marjorie Taylor Greene is now a sh...
19 Aug 202020min
