What Next - Trump on Trial — Again
After the insurrection at the nation's capitol on January 6th, the House of Representatives impeached Donald Trump for a second time. The only article charges him with high crimes and misdemeanors for...
9 Feb 202125min
What Next - Philly’s Vaccine Distribution Mess
The COVID-19 vaccine roll-out has been a mess across the country, but the failure has been particularly egregious in Philadelphia. The city entrusted a large part of its vaccine distribution to a star...
8 Feb 202126min
Slate Money - The Powerful and The Damned
Lionel Barber, former editor of the Financial Times, joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski to discuss his book The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times, the “devil's...
6 Feb 202147min
Political Gabfest - Jewish Space Laser
Emily, John and David discuss the stimulus bill, racial inequities in vaccine distribution, the return to in-person learning, and Majorie Taylor Greene’s GOP.Here are some notes and references from th...
5 Feb 20211h 8min
What Next - TBD | India Turns Off the Internet
Last week, in response to protests by farmers outside New Delhi, India, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi restricted access to the mobile web in areas where the protests were unfolding. T...
5 Feb 202117min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - India Turns Off the Internet
Last week, in response to protests by farmers outside New Delhi, India, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi restricted access to the mobile web in areas where the protests were unfolding. T...
5 Feb 202117min
What Next - A Sexist Recession
The pandemic has hit many of us in different ways. But women in particular find themselves at the intersection of multiple crises. Across the economy, jobs in female-dominated industries are disappear...
4 Feb 202123min
What Next - Where Are the Checks?
This week, Senate Republicans offered President Biden a stimulus deal one-third the size of the administration’s plan. With a compromise looking less likely, Democrats might have to resort to reconcil...
3 Feb 202124min
