Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Working Overtime: Balancing Parenthood With Creative Work
On this bonus episode from our friends at Slate's Working podcast: host Karen Han poses a listener’s question to co-host Isaac Butler about how to be a parent and how to remain a creative person. They...
26 Dec 202222min
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Decoder Ring: The New Age Hit Machine
Today, we’re excited to share an episode from Slate’s Decoder Ring that we think you’re going to love.For this episode, a story from Slate senior producer Evan Chung about how Yanni, John Tesh and a n...
26 Dec 202225min
ICYMI - Encore: All Hail the Liver King
Today, we’re revisiting our episode from March 9, 2022 on the Liver King, his philosophy, and his online presence.Brian Johnson, aka the Liver King, has amassed millions of followers with his bizarre ...
24 Dec 202236min
Slate Money - In Defense of Nepotism
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the proposed changes to retirement plans in Congress’s 2023 spending bill. They also talk about the current boom in cocaine production...
24 Dec 202247min
Slow Burn - Decoder Ring: How Preppy Became Streetwear
We bring you a special episode from the Articles of Interest podcast hosted by Avery Trufelman about the incredible reach and adaptability of preppy clothes. It’s a story about the great modernizer of...
23 Dec 202232min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - One Year - 1942: The Most Hated Man in America
At the beginning of World War II, the greatest threat to the American war effort wasn’t the Nazis or the Japanese—it was runaway inflation. The man in charge of stopping it was the country’s “price cz...
23 Dec 202243min
Political Gabfest - Inciting Insurrection
This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss the January 6th Committee’s findings and criminal referrals; the brewing water crisis in the West–with Washington Post reporter Josh P...
22 Dec 202252min
What Next - 2022 Retrospective | Dua Lipa’s Copyright Problem
This week we look back on some of our favorite stories from a year that had us asking—sometimes with excitement and sometimes with exasperation—"What Next”? This episode originally aired March 29. Aft...
22 Dec 202223min
