Hang Up and Listen - Baseball’s $700 Million Man
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss Shohei Ohtani’s record-setting contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. They’re also joined by the Washington Post’s Ben Golliver to assess the NBA’s...
12 Dec 20231h 16min
What Next - War in Gaza; Violence in the West Bank
As war rages in Gaza, the Biden administration has begun imposing visa bans on people involved in violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where assaults by Israeli settlers against Palestinians ha...
11 Dec 202317min
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Why Is My Kid So Controlling During Playdates?
On this episode: a listener noticed that her six-year-old isn’t sharing well when his friends come over. He even told one friend to leave mid playdate. They’re wondering how to help her kid be a bette...
11 Dec 202320min
Slate Money - Slate Money Travel: Hotels That Don’t Rip You Off
This week, Pavia Rosati, founder of travel platform Fathom, chats with Felix Salmon and the hotel industry in the post-COVD era. They discuss why prices are so unpredictable, those exorbitant fees for...
11 Dec 202348min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Musk's War on Free Speech
Elon Musk is suing Media Matters for reporting that advertisers’ content was showing up right next to posts from newly reinstated Nazis on X, something X’s CEO said was impossible. Media Matters is ba...
10 Dec 202328min
Slate Money - The War on Self-Checkouts
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss their Christmas shopping strategies and whether it’s time for self-checkouts to check out. Also: What big airline mergers mean for tho...
9 Dec 202347min
ICYMI - The Internet’s Biggest Sports Moments of 2023
On today’s episode, Candice Lim is joined by journalists Bomani Jones and Tamerra Griffin to cover the biggest moments of sports that happened online this year. From basketball stateside to women’s so...
9 Dec 202338min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Billionaires Had a Bad Week at the Supreme Court
When Moore v United States landed on the Supreme Court docket, it threatened to take a big swing at any future wealth tax and maybe cut the legs out from under the government’s ability to collect a lo...
9 Dec 202345min
