Slate Money - Allbirds Aren’t Real
This week: Sneaker company Allbirds announced a pivot into A.I. infrastructure. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck explain why this absurd-sounding venture is actually a pretty clever piec...
18 Apr 46min
Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | The Unlikely Rise of Judy Blume
Emily Bazelon talks with journalist Mark Oppenheimer about his new bookJudy Blume: A Life. Oppenheimer, who spent years with Blume’s papers atYale and conducted extensive interviews with the author he...
18 Apr 40min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Everyone Is Lying to You For Money
Back in the depths of the pandemic, what was an actor to do? Ben McKenzie started looking into cryptocurrency—and his research yielded both a book and a new documentary. The works are both non-fiction...
17 Apr 34min
Political Gabfest - How Many Divisions Has the Pope?
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Trump's Hormuz blockade and his feud with the Pope, a new oral history chronicling stark shifts inside the Department of Homeland Secu...
16 Apr 1h 2min
What Next - You Come at the Pope, You Best Not Miss
In Pope Leo XIV, Donald Trump has finally run into someone he can’t silence, threaten, or sully. He’s not taking it gracefully. Guest: Christopher Hale, author of the “Letters from Leo” Substack, “a ...
16 Apr 27min
What Next - Does JD Vance Have the Juice?
In a single weekend, JD Vance managed to flunk out of peace talks with Iran and hitch the Trump wagon to Victor Orban’s star just in time for it to implode. Like Kamala Harris before him, the vice pre...
15 Apr 23min
Slate Money - Money Talks: Psychopathy and Success
In this Money Talks: Elizabeth Spiers is joined by psychologist Dr. Leanne ten Brinke whose new book, Poisonous People, explores the impact that people with psychopathic and related personality traits...
14 Apr 33min
What Next - What If the US and Iran Are Both Losing?
The U.S. and Iran began (and ended) negotiations under a shaky ceasefire, and are now at the stage where America is threatening to also blockade the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, Israel and Lebanon hav...
14 Apr 27min
