Slate Money - The National Debt Question
This week: Planet Money’s Mary Childs wrote about why we should all care about the growing national debt right now. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck are joined by Mary to help them under...
9 Aug 202559min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - What Happened After Meta Fired Its Fact-Checkers
In January, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was moving from employing professional fact-checkers to letting its users fact-check each other. If you’ve heard that it’s going perfectly, then you, to...
8 Aug 202525min
Political Gabfest - Putting the BS in BLS
This week, Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and guest host Juliette Kayyem discuss the future integrity of US economic data after Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, what the mid-decade...
7 Aug 20251h 6min
What Next - Donald Trump Vs. Reality Itself
Donald Trump’s never been all that committed to the truth. But experts are warning that by firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and appointing loyalists across the judiciary, he’s taken h...
7 Aug 202523min
What Next - A Rabbi’s Plea for Peace
More than a thousand rabbis and Jewish leaders have signed a letter calling for Israel to end “the use and threat of starvation as a weapon of war.” This New York rabbi, who has felt a connection to I...
6 Aug 202527min
What Next - Don’t Mess With Texas’s Election Maps
How Texas redrawing its election maps could set off a gerrymandering arms race across the country—a race the Republicans are likely to win. Guest: Ari Berman is a voting rights correspondent at Mothe...
5 Aug 202524min
Slate Money - Money Talks: The Fabulous Wealth of Carrie Bradshaw
In this Money Talks: Slate’s own Cheyna Roth joins Emily Peck to break down how HBO’s Sex and the City revival And Just Like That…has taken the fantasy of being fabulous in New York City into a whole ...
5 Aug 202528min
What Next - Was Democracy Voted Out?
Belief in democracy was, until quite recently, taken for granted in America. But what if democracy is less a static noun, and more of a dynamic ideal we (could be) working towards?Guest: Osita Nwanev...
4 Aug 202522min
