What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Coronavirus Tests China's Surveillance State
Over the last month, as coronavirus spread across China, Xi Jinping’s vast surveillance and censorship infrastructure went into high gear. But with outrage growing over the death of a beloved doctor, ...
14 Feb 202015min
Political Gabfest - Bernie Burns It and Biden Bites It
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the Democrats after New Hampshire, Trump’s emboldened post-impeachment moves, and COVID-19.For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David,...
13 Feb 20201h 3min
What Next - The Trump Appointee on a Mission to Gut Medicaid
A few weeks back the Trump administration made an announcement. They rolled out a new health care policy called the Healthy Adult Opportunity. It’s a policy that would give states the option of reduci...
13 Feb 202023min
What Next - Inside The Base, a Secret Neo-Nazi Group
This past summer, while Ryan Thorpe was doing his day job as a reporter at the Winnipeg Free Press, some frightening posters started appearing around town. They were recruitment posters for a white na...
12 Feb 202025min
What Next - The Border Patrol’s After School Program
In border towns across the country, high school students are participating in an after school program run by the U.S. Border Patrol. When journalist Morley Musick first encountered the Border Patrol E...
11 Feb 202016min
What Next - Los Angeles Confronts Its Housing Crisis
Homelessness in Los Angeles isn’t a new problem. But it has become a bigger problem. And it’s gotten really easy to see. Guests: Theo Henderson, host of the We the Unhoused podcast. Emily Alpert Reyes...
10 Feb 202021min
Slate Money - Media Media
Edmund Lee, media journalist for The New York Times, joins the Slate Money hosts to discuss the demented rollercoaster that is Tesla stock, The New York Times’ surprising subscription numbers and the ...
8 Feb 202052min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Election Meltdown, Part 3
In the third part of this special five-part series of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by election law professor Rick Hasen to unpack the bag of dirty tricks that may be deployed in 2020’s election, ...
8 Feb 202054min
