What Next - Meh-lania
Melania, the documentary about the First Lady, is a lot like its subject: extremely expensive and fundamentally inscrutable. Guest: Heather Schwedel, staff writer at Slate, author of “Unfortunately, I...
3 Feb 21min
Death, Sex & Money - The Women Who Made George Saunders A Wife Guy
Growing up, George Saunders was the eldest boy with younger sisters, in a family full of women who gave him praise and special treatment. That created the confidence that fueled his ambition to become...
3 Feb 59min
Slate Money - Money Talks: What Retirement Crisis?
In this Money Talks: Emily Peck is joined by Andrew Biggs, author of The Real Retirement Crisis, to talk about how the data contradicts the so-called "retirement crisis” in the US, what we misundersta...
3 Feb 46min
Hang Up and Listen - Winter Olympics Show-and-Tell
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh kick things off by picking their favorite (and the most horrifying) events to watch at the upcoming Winter Olympics.Then the panel digs into Bill ...
2 Feb 1h 16min
What Next - What ICE Doesn’t Want You to See
Congress is supposed to have a legal right to tour ICE detention centers and provide oversight on these facilities, where 32 people died in 2025. But this representative’s attempt to tour a facility i...
2 Feb 26min
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Going Through It? Adopt a Real Ritual.
When we think of rituals, we tend to think of face masks and wellness trends. But there are actually ways to use rituals to help heal grief and deal with stressful times. On this episode, Lucy Lopez, ...
2 Feb 47min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Why Dictators Take Out the Internet
The Iranian government cut off nearly all internet access on January 8 as part of a crackdown on protestors, an example of why authoritarians attempt internet blackouts—and why they don’t always work ...
1 Feb 27min
ICYMI - I Miss The Old TikTok
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by writer Laura Wheatman Hill. Her Slate piece, “We Should Just Let TikTok Die,” documents life under TikTok’s new ownership. Algorithm glitches and all...
31 Jan 36min
