What Next - Pilots' Hidden Mental Health Crisis
For pilots facing mental health problems of almost any kind, the cost of getting help might be too much to bear. After a crisis on an Alaska Airlines flight, the National Transportation Safety Board a...
12 Dec 202321min
What Next - War in Gaza; Violence in the West Bank
As war rages in Gaza, the Biden administration has begun imposing visa bans on people involved in violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where assaults by Israeli settlers against Palestinians ha...
11 Dec 202317min
Slate Money - Slate Money Travel: Hotels That Don’t Rip You Off
This week, Pavia Rosati, founder of travel platform Fathom, chats with Felix Salmon and the hotel industry in the post-COVD era. They discuss why prices are so unpredictable, those exorbitant fees for...
11 Dec 202348min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Musk's War on Free Speech
Elon Musk is suing Media Matters for reporting that advertisers’ content was showing up right next to posts from newly reinstated Nazis on X, something X’s CEO said was impossible. Media Matters is ba...
10 Dec 202328min
Slate Money - The War on Self-Checkouts
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss their Christmas shopping strategies and whether it’s time for self-checkouts to check out. Also: What big airline mergers mean for tho...
9 Dec 202347min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Billionaires Had a Bad Week at the Supreme Court
When Moore v United States landed on the Supreme Court docket, it threatened to take a big swing at any future wealth tax and maybe cut the legs out from under the government’s ability to collect a lo...
9 Dec 202345min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Spotify Unwrapped
Is Spotify’s 2023—ending with layoffs and cancelling critically acclaimed original podcasts—a sign of trouble at the streaming giant, or an adjustment to expectations that’s setting them up for a brig...
8 Dec 202324min
Political Gabfest - Should Liz Cheney Run?
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz gather around John’s dining room table to discuss Liz Cheney, her book, and how far she’ll go to stop Donald Trump; Chris Christie, his presid...
7 Dec 202353min
