What Next - The Taliban vs. the Press
Afghan women and LGBTQ+ people immediately felt the impact of the Taliban’s return to power last year. But journalists trying to tell their stories could face intense and even violent backlash from th...
9 Aug 202226min
What Next - The New Era of Child Labor
With an ongoing labor shortage, companies turn to third-party labor brokers to fill jobs. But with little oversight and a surge of immigrants, the line between “ recruiter” and “ trafficker” gets blur...
8 Aug 202219min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Monkeypox Vaccine Monopoly
It makes intuitive sense for companies that develop a technology to hold its intellectual property rights. But in the case of vaccines and medical treatments, IP laws slow down manufacturing and distr...
7 Aug 202224min
Slate Money - Not For Sale…Yet
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the merging of HBOMax and Discovery+, a new study on the effect of abortion restrictions on women’s wages, and people paying to be on ...
6 Aug 202233min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Homes We Forgot to Build a Decade Ago
The US has been in a housing shortage for decades. Can it ever be fixed?Guest: Conor DoughertyHost: Emily Peck Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
5 Aug 202224min
Political Gabfest - Nothing’s The Matter With Kansas
This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and Heather McGhee discuss the primaries and Kansan voters’ defense of abortion; Alex Jones on trial; and Annie Lowrey’s story of surviving pregnancy in the Unit...
4 Aug 202245min
What Next - The Democrats’ MAGA Gambit
In the primaries of purple states like Michigan, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, Trump-backed, far-right candidates have been getting a boost from a surprising source: the Democrats. Calculating that it wi...
4 Aug 202222min
What Next - Is It Time to Free the “Merchant of Death”?
Known as the “Merchant of Death,” Viktor Bout illegally ferried weapons, diamonds, and even UN peacekeepers around the world. The man who wrote the book on Bout thinks it’s time to send him home, if i...
3 Aug 202219min
