Slate Money - The Lucky Strike Edition
On this week’s episode, Anna, Emily, and Felix discuss lower tax refunds, Finland’s income experiment, and labor’s current strengths.In the Slate Plus segment: the weird labor market in...baseball. Em...
16 Feb 201940min
What Next - A Cautionary Green New Deal Tale
The Green New Deal brought attention back to the idea of high-speed rail in America. This week California squandered it. What lessons should Americans be taking from the failed high-speed rail project...
15 Feb 201912min
Political Gabfest - The “All About the Benjamins” Edition
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the deal to avoid a second shutdown, Jeff Bezos claims of sextortion, and Ilhan Omar’s tweets about Israel. Topic ideas for next week? You can tw...
14 Feb 201952min
What Next - Has Anything Changed Since Parkland?
After the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, we saw a group of students speed through the stages of grief and go directly to action. One year later, have they made any lasting changes to the gun co...
14 Feb 201915min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Jeff Bezos’s Privacy Complexifier
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about the implications from last week’s bizarre, but also serious, showdown between Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and American Media INC, the owner of ...
13 Feb 201926min
What Next - The Democratic Divide Over Israel
President Donald Trump called on Rep. Ilhan Omar to resign after her anti-Semitic remarks this past weekend. She has since apologized, but the episode revealed a bigger problem that is bound to keep r...
13 Feb 201915min
What Next - When a Border Wall Isn’t Enough
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
12 Feb 201912min
What Next - How to Get Away With Highway Robbery
Reporters in South Carolina schlepped to all 46 courthouses in the state to document every civil asset forfeiture case in a three-year period. What they found was an impossibly flawed law that rewards...
11 Feb 201918min
