What Next - Was the Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict Inevitable?
Last August, then-17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse and fatally shot two people and wounded another with a semi-automatic rifle during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse’s lawyers leaned heavily ...
23 Nov 202129min
What Next - Inflategate
How many times a day do you hear the word “inflation” now? Many items are getting more expensive, but what’s actually driving those price increases? And are we heading towards a repeat of the 1970s wa...
22 Nov 202123min
Slate Money - Succession: "Clown Town"
Slate Money is obsessed with Succession, HBO's wonderful drama about the lives of the superrich Roy family. So, every Monday, we'll be discussing the previous night's episode with spoiler-filled glee....
22 Nov 202154min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Everybody Wants to Be Scalia
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by leading environmental lawyer and Harvard professor Richard Lazarus , author of The Rule of Five: Climate History at the Supreme Court, to discuss cases currently flying un...
20 Nov 202157min
Slate Money - Arriving Today
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael are joined by author Christopher Mims to talk about his new book, Arriving Today, what’s really going on with the supply chain crisis, the l...
20 Nov 202154min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Space Junk! (And Space Wars?)
Over the weekend, Russia tested a new weapon—a type of missile that can fly into space and destroy a satellite in orbit. The test created thousands of pieces of debris, which will hurtle around the ...
19 Nov 202119min
Political Gabfest - No Joe Mojo
John, Emily and David discuss Biden’s approval numbers, authoritarianism on the rise, and they are joined by author Jay Caspian Kang to talk about his new book, The Loneliest Americans.Here are some n...
18 Nov 20211h 5min
What Next - Can Beto O’Rourke Fail Up?
Beto O’Rourke is running to replace Greg Abbott as governor of Texas. Though it’s his first time in this particular race, you’d be forgiven for thinking, “again?” Where does this habitually-losing smo...
18 Nov 202123min
