Slate Money - Is Capital One’s Discover Deal Doomed?
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers come with 0% interest and no fees! They discuss what the proposed merger between Capital One and Discover would mean for the rest of us and why...
24 Feb 202438min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Coasts are Sinking
Studies have found that, in tiny increments, America’s East Coast is sinking into the ground thanks to climate change. Can a new approach to urban planning mitigate the effect?Guest: Matt Simon, senio...
23 Feb 202416min
Political Gabfest - Can Putin Be Stopped?
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the tragic death of Alexei Navalny and the fallout in the US; Donald Trump’s civil fraud case and consequences; and Alabama’s new stan...
22 Feb 202459min
What Next - The Basketball Phenom Shaking Up the NCAA
Iowa’s Caitlin Clark has scored more points than any other NCAA women’s basketball player in history, but her impact extends even further than her substantial range on the court.Guest: Hayley McGoldri...
22 Feb 202417min
What Next - Why a Hi-Tech Gun Safety Tool Isn’t Working
Shotspotter lost a huge contract and some face when Chicago opted out of its partnership with the gunfire-identification tech company. Why can’t new policing tech seem to break the old patterns and pr...
21 Feb 202420min
What Next - Who’s Left to Help Migrants?
The migrant crisis has come to Denver. With no federal help on the way and temperatures dropping well below freezing, a local church tries to pick up the slack. Guest: Keith Reeser, pastor at Denver F...
20 Feb 202422min
Slate Money - Money Talks: I Was a Billionaire’s Right Hand
Felix Salmon sits down with Carrie Sun, whose book Private Equity: A Memoir recalls her life as the right-hand woman of a billionaire hedge fund manager. Burnt out on corporate life, Carrie wanted a l...
20 Feb 202424min
What Next - Alexei Navalny Is Dead. Is His Movement Gone With Him?
Alexei Navalny died last week at age 47 in the prison where he was serving a 19-year sentence for extremism. With just one month left before a presidential election in which Putin is nearly guaranteed...
19 Feb 202420min
