What Next - One Year 1942: The Black-Japanese Axis
As we catch our breath over the holidays, enjoy this episode of Slate's One Year podcast. What Next returns next week.In 1942, federal officials targeted a group of Black Americans who were allegedly ...
29 Dec 202236min
What Next - One Year 1942: When Internment Came to Alaska
As we catch our breath over the holidays, enjoy this episode of Slate's One Year podcast. What Next returns next week.Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan launched another attack on the United States....
28 Dec 202238min
What Next - One Year 1942: The Info Wars of World War II
As we catch our breath over the holidays, enjoy this episode of Slate's One Year podcast. What Next returns next week.In March 1942, a new nightly radio show hit the American airwaves. The stated goal...
27 Dec 202244min
What Next - One Year 1942: The Year Everyone Got Married
As we catch our breath over the holidays, enjoy this episode of Slate's One Year podcast. What Next returns next week.There were 1.8 million weddings in 1942, the most that had ever been recorded in a...
26 Dec 202240min
Slate Money - In Defense of Nepotism
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the proposed changes to retirement plans in Congress’s 2023 spending bill. They also talk about the current boom in cocaine production...
24 Dec 202247min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - One Year - 1942: The Most Hated Man in America
At the beginning of World War II, the greatest threat to the American war effort wasn’t the Nazis or the Japanese—it was runaway inflation. The man in charge of stopping it was the country’s “price cz...
23 Dec 202243min
Political Gabfest - Inciting Insurrection
This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss the January 6th Committee’s findings and criminal referrals; the brewing water crisis in the West–with Washington Post reporter Josh P...
22 Dec 202252min
What Next - 2022 Retrospective | Dua Lipa’s Copyright Problem
This week we look back on some of our favorite stories from a year that had us asking—sometimes with excitement and sometimes with exasperation—"What Next”? This episode originally aired March 29. Aft...
22 Dec 202223min
