What Next - Why Republicans Compromised
After months of negotiation, an infrastructure bill is finally on its way to the Senate floor. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are touting their one big successful bipartisan move, but what’s act...
3 Aug 202124min
Slate Money - Slate Money: Movies: Glengarry Glen Ross
Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies. Mary Childs of Planet Money joins Fel...
3 Aug 202153min
Hang Up and Listen - The Simone Biles Speaks Up and Sits Out Edition
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss the latest in the saga of Simone Biles at the Tokyo Olympics. They also assess the U.S. women’s national soccer team’s semifinals loss to Canada an...
2 Aug 20211h 11min
Slow Burn - One Year: The Miracle Cure
Medical authorities said that Laetrile was dangerous quackery. It became a sensation anyway. Diana Green saw this drug made from apricot pits as her son Chad’s best chance to survive leukemia. Her sho...
2 Aug 202157min
What Next - Take This Job, Please!
Why aren’t people returning to jobs they lost during the pandemic? The answer is more complicated than generous unemployment checks. Guest: Bram Sable-Smith, investigative reporter at Wisconsin Watch....
2 Aug 202123min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - “Braided In”: The Second Amendment and Anti-Blackness.
Continuing Amicus’ summer season of deep dives into books, films, and ideas beyond the confines of the Supreme Court chamber, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by historian and chair of African American studi...
31 Juli 202152min
Slate Money - The Super App Dream
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, are joined by Cezary Podkul of ProPublica to talk about his in-depth article on unemployment insurance fraud, Robinhood’s IPO and ambitions of being a “super app,”...
31 Juli 202152min
ICYMI - Da F–k Is Up With DaBaby?
On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison call up an ex-Mormon listener, who provides some further insight into our previous investigation of the BYU Virginity Club and explains why she thinks it’s cle...
31 Juli 202121min
