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Slate Money - The Private Equity Confidence Game

This week: The new book Money to Burn goes deep on private-equity behemoth Apollo Global Management and its billionaire cofounder and former CEO, Leon Black. Felix Salmon

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Capitulation Nation

Capitulation under Trump 2.0 has been devastating to the rule of law. To review a couple of lowlights: One of the nation’s leading lawyers, Brad Karp, cut a deal with Don

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - A.I-pocalypse Now?

After OpenAI agents hacked a rival company this summer, the word from Silicon Valley was “That’s it! They’re almost ready to kill us all!” But…are they? Really? Guest: P

Political Gabfest - Pretend I'm on the Ballot

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss why Republicans are holding an unusual midterm convention and what it says about the state of the race a

What Next - The 9/11 Panopticon

America didn’t start down the path to a president who is unaccountable to even the Constitution under Trump. He’s the culmination of a change that dates back to September

What Next - Did ICE Drive Him to His Death?

Thousands of immigrants who were in America legally were suddenly rendered unemployable and subject to deportation after the Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Ho

What Next - Dems Can Beat MAGA. Here’s How.

The stage is set for the president’s party to take a real shellacking in this year’s midterm elections—that is, if the Democrats can put together a compelling pitch. What

What Next - Question Everything: The Sunscreen Paradox

While the What Next team enjoys the holiday, hear this episode from our friends at Question Everything. Mary will be back in the feed with a new episode of What Next tomo

Slate Money - The $12.93 Billion Emoji Joke

This week: Nvidia joined Silicon Valley’s A.I. investment frenzy and bought Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck discuss what t

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - SCOTUS Rewrites the Rules for One Special Boy

It’s past time to say it. This Supreme Court is helping President Donald J. Trump evade accountability. Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the Berkeley School of Law, joins Dahli

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Meta Settled. Is it a "Reckoning?"

Does Meta’s $17 billion (give or take) settlement address people’s concerns about social media and its impact on teenagers… or is it already too late? Guest: Paresh Dave

Political Gabfest - What Is the Bond Market, Anyway?

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss how a narrow Supreme Court majority used aesthetic standing to greenlight Trump's ballroom construction,

What Next - ICE Allegedly Shot Someone. Texas Let Him Go

Extraditing someone who was arrested in one state for a crime committed in another state is an extremely routine process—or at least it was. But an ICE officer charged in

What Next - Is Scott Bessent in Over His Head?

Inflation is up, borrowing is up, debt is rising. If the bond market is offering a review of the new US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, it seems to be saying “This guy

What Next - The WNBA's Caught in the Culture Wars

The WNBA is enjoying its most profitable and popular season in league history. At the same time, it’s become another front in the culture war.  Guest: Matreyi Anantharam

Slate Money - Money Talks: The Dinosaur Economy

One-hundred-million-year-old bones are so hot right now. In this Money Talks, Felix Salmon is joined by Salomon Aaron, director of an antiquities gallery specializing in

What Next - Can I Still Vote By Mail?

Donald Trump, Supreme Court justices, states, and even the Post Office are all trading legal salvos over mail-in voting. Where does it stand now? And what’s Trump’s end g

Slate Money - Canadian Beef

This week: Meta settles with the U.S. states suing the company over teen safety concerns. Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by Scarlet Fu of the new Bloomberg Mo

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Becoming Justice Gorsuch | 3. A Lunch Room for Life

With Amicus on a brief summer break, we’re bringing you the final installment of Slow Burn’s latest season, Becoming Justice Gorsuch. Host Susan Matthews enlists Slate’s

What Next - Off-the-Record: Friends Don’t Let Friends Ruin Vacation

The idea of a big ol’ group of friends taking a vacation sounds so fun…in theory. In practice, though, the museum friends and the beach friends are forming opposing facti