What Next - What the Pool’s Reflecting
Most people probably don’t think about the reflecting pool on the National Mall much, but Donald Trump sure does. His efforts to cosmetically raise it to his standards have been staggeringly expensive...
24 Juni 27min
Slate Money - Money Talks: The Art of Trade War
In this Money Talks: Emily Peck sits down with Soumaya Keynes and Chad P. Bown, co-authors of How to Win a Trade War, to discuss how recent conflicts have changed the rules of international trade and ...
23 Juni 36min
What Next - The Return of the Firing Squad
With lethal injection drugs getting harder and harder to procure, states are legalizing death by firing squad. It may seem like a return to a more barbaric time, but there’s reason to believe that exe...
23 Juni 30min
What Next - America Before 250
It has been 250 years and America still doesn’t know how to talk about the genocide of indigenous peoples that kicked the whole thing off.Guest: Rebecca Nagle, host of Pushkin’s First America podcast,...
22 Juni 24min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Guns, Weed, and the Forgotten Framers
The Supreme Court handed down a unanimous ruling this week in United States v. Hemani, holding that a marijuana user cannot be stripped of his Second Amendment right to own a firearm simply because he...
20 Juni 1h 2min
Slate Money - Investing in SpaceX’s Future on Mars
This week: We saw just how many people are willing to invest in Elon Musk. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck, look at what makes SpaceX’s massive IPO so strange and why investors are will...
20 Juni 49min
Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | Why America Is Spiritually Broken and How to Fix It
Emily Bazelon interviews Senator Chris Murphy about his new book Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America. Murphy argues that Trump is not the root cause of ...
20 Juni 1h 1min
What Next - Elon, Please Log Off
Everyone needs a hobby. Unfortunately, instead of, say, model trains, the world’s first trillionaire’s seems to unwind by boosting calls for anti-immigrant violence on his social media platform.Guest:...
19 Juni 3min
