How Boeing Stranded Two Astronauts
It was supposed to be the triumphant rollout of Boeing’s new, reusable space taxi. Now NASA’s trying to find some other way to get two astronauts home.Guest: Joey Roulette, space reporter at Reuters.W...
13 Aug 202421min
AIPAC Vs. The Squad
A Republican-backed organization is spending millions to unseat progressive Democrats—and it’s succeeding.Guest: Alexander Sammon, Slate politics writer.Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to...
12 Aug 202420min
Tesla’s Out of Juice. But Are EVs?
The hype has slowed but electric vehicles aren’t going away—once the infrastructure is in place, they’ll go everywhere.Guests: Nitish Pahwa, associate writer for business and tech at Slate.Paula Gardn...
11 Aug 202423min
Google’s a Monopoly. What About The Rest?
Should the other Silicon Valley giants be worried following the Department of Justice’s decisive win against Google? Guest: Leah Nylen, antitrust reporter at BloombergWant more What Next TBD? Subscrib...
9 Aug 202420min
The Olympics Meet the Culture Wars
How Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting—two women boxers fighting in the gender category they were assigned at birth—became the targets of trans panic and subject to another round of “but is she woman enough...
8 Aug 202425min
Why It Had to Be Walz
How Minnesota Governor Tim Walz slipped past VP-favorite Josh Shapiro and joined Kamala Harris on the Democratic ticket.Guest: Guest: David Faris, associate professor of political science at Roosevelt...
7 Aug 202424min
How Trump Got Ice Cube
Once one of the most politically confrontational artists in music, Ice Cube has become a surprising asset to Donald Trump.Guest: Joel Anderson, staff writer for Slate and the host of Seasons 3, 6, and...
6 Aug 202425min
Project 2025 Isn't Dead, It's Born Again
The Trump campaign washed its hands of Project 2025. A second Trump term would almost certainly be guided by it.Guest: Sam Adler-Bell, host of the Know Your Enemy podcast.Want more What Next? Subscrib...
5 Aug 202422min
