What Next - When Your Book Gets Banned By the School Board
Banning books in schools is on the rise. Around the country, parents are lobbying to banish from libraries and curriculums any work they deem to be “graphic” or “offensive,” often sweeping up books ce...
13 Dec 202127min
ICYMI - The Toothpaste Mystery Taking Over TikTok
The ICYMI mailbag has started to get full so it’s time for another round of Read Receipts. On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison answer some listener questions about why people are emptying out tub...
11 Dec 202124min
Slate Money - Better Does Worse
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about Better.com’s CEO firing tons of employees via Zoom, DoorDash’s dark stores and increased hiring, and New York City Council passin...
11 Dec 202146min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Purported Right to Abortion
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Mark Joseph Stern for an emergency reading of the jurisprudential tea leaves in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decisions regarding Texas’ abortion ban, under SB8. Podcast...
10 Dec 202127min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Who Online Justice Leaves Behind
The U.S. civil court system doesn’t get as much attention as the criminal courts, but it would be hard to overstate its importance. In 2018, for example, 47 percent of respondents to a Pew survey said...
10 Dec 202115min
Political Gabfest - Ghislaine
Emily and David are joined by guest host David Leonhardt to discuss the pandemic economy; a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics, and the Ghislaine Maxwell trial.Here are some notes and references from ...
9 Dec 202154min
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The “Snoopy Phone” Edition
On this week’s episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Zak help a parent who has been monitoring their teenage daughter’s text messages. Have they crossed a line, or are they doing their due diligence to ens...
9 Dec 202133min
What Next - The School Shooting Down the Street
Michigan state Senator Rosemary Bayer has been fighting for years to get safe storage laws on the books in her home state. In the wake of the shooting at Oxford High School, a school that sits in her ...
9 Dec 202125min
