Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Becoming Justice Gorsuch | 1. Man With a Plan
Our friends over at the Slate podcast Slow Burn are good at taking events that we think are settled history, then unlocking a new understanding of those stories through interviews, archives, and fresh...
15 Aug 39min
Slate Money - What the Shell?
This week: The Treasury Department announced it’s killing an anti-corruption measure that requires shell companies to identify their beneficiaries. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck expla...
15 Aug 44min
ICYMI - Are You Anti-Influencer, Or Anti-Women?
After a small business in Nantucket put a “no influencers” sign in their store, creators accused it of being sexist. The issue divided the internet, when really, both things can be true: Influencer cu...
15 Aug 39min
Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | Look What You Made Me Do
David Plotz interviews John Lanchester about his new novel Look What You Made Me Do, a darkly funny psychological thriller about two couples in modern-day London whose lives collide in a story of infi...
15 Aug 33min
What Next - Off the Record: Air Farce One
How much should we know about our politicians? This week we found out that even two of the most scrutinized people in America still have their secrets—be it how our president gets where he’s going, or...
14 Aug 5min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Are Flock Cameras Watching You?
In a world where everyone is carrying smartphones and setting up Ring cameras, you could be forgiven for thinking the war is over and the surveillance state won. But Flock cameras being denounced in t...
14 Aug 27min
Political Gabfest - Air Faux One
This week, Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and guest host Juliette Kayyem discuss the security calculations behind Trump’s plane switch operation; the White House’s attempts to circumvent Supreme Court ru...
13 Aug 58min
What Next - Trump Cares About Vaccines. Uh-Oh.
Why Donald Trump’s proudly announced executive order on childhood vaccines is a move in the wrong direction—and towards a less healthy, more measle-y America.Guest: Julie Rovner, chief Washington corr...
13 Aug 27min
