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What Next | Everyone Saw ICE Kill Renee Good

Jan 08, 2026 31m

After the Trump administration launched a massive Immigrations and Customs Enforcement operation in Minnesota, protesters gathered to defend immigrant neighbors. Renee Nicole Good, a mother of a six…

What Next | The Scandal That Took Down Tim Walz

Jan 07, 2026 30m

How a mixture of real investigations, wild allegations, evidence of actual fraud, and the right-wing echo chamber ended Tim Walz’s governor campaign in Minnesota. Guest: Deena Winter, Minneapolis…

What Next | The Jan 6ers: Where Are They Now?

Jan 06, 2026 29m

The investigation into the 2021 attack on the Capitol was the largest in FBI history. Then Trump came back into office—and started undoing it.  Guest: Ryan Reilly, reporter covering the Justice…

Slate Money | Money Talks: Barbie’s Dirty Laundry

Jan 06, 2026 36m

In this Money Talks: Journalist and author Tarpley Hitt joins Emily Peck to discuss her new book Barbieland: The Unauthorized History which reveals the shady history behind the super-star doll.…

What Next | Don’t Call It a Regime Change

Jan 05, 2026 29m

The Trump administration has a handful of answers to the question “Why did the United States pluck Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela?”—it was for narcoterrorism, or payback, or just oil. They’re even…

What Next: TBD | Are We Over the Moon?

Jan 04, 2026 36m

The Trump administration wants NASA to land astronauts on the moon by 2027. They also want them to do it with their budget slashed, a leadership carousel and competing views that Mars is more…

Slate Money | Schrödinger’s Equities

Jan 03, 2026 52m

This week: 2025 ended on high for the US stock market but no one seems too pleased with its performance. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck, unpack the story of the US markets in 2025,…

ICYMI | Twitter Is Dead (Really, We Mean It)

Jan 03, 2026 51m

On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by The Atlantic staff writer and host of the Galaxy Brain podcast, Charlie Warzel. Charlie has been following the demise of Twitter, now called X,…

Amicus | The Fast Track To Autocracy

Jan 03, 2026 59m

In a special new year retrospective, Amicus host Dahlia Lithwick revisits an important episode from early 2025. Back at the beginning of February, Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurance S. Rockefeller…

What Next: TBD | 2025: Dystopian Tech of the Year

Jan 02, 2026 27m

Artificial intelligence boosters spent the year wedging the tech into our lives – whether we wanted it or not. But one new product brought A.I. from every app and website into the meatspace, forcing…

What Next | 2025: The Music of the Year

Jan 01, 2026 41m

2025 might not have been a great year —but the music sure was stellar. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your…

Political Gabfest | Greatest Hits

Jan 01, 2026 55m

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz revisit several favorite segments from Gabfests past to celebrate their 20th anniversary: the consequential and eye-opening “don’t call the…

What Next | 2025: The Advice of the Year

Dec 31, 2025 28m

With rising authoritarianism, terrifying speech crackdowns, and violence in the streets, this year we found ourselves turning to our friends over at How To for advice on  finding peace and excitement…

What Next | 2025: The Movie(s) of the Year

Dec 30, 2025 34m

If you were to sum up 2025 in a film, which would you pick? The question that nearly wrecked the brain of Slate’s chief movie critic. Guest: Dana Stevens, Slate’s movie critic. Dana’s ten best movies…

What Next | 2025: The Game of the Year

Dec 29, 2025 28m

Canada and the United States usually have a pretty good-natured sports rivalry—but from hockey to baseball, that was not the case in 2025.  Guest:  Alex Kirshner, contributing writer at Slate,…

Slate Money | 2025 Hot Takes

Dec 27, 2025 40m

This week: We’re celebrating a year full of hot takes! Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck, debate and rate the hottest takes they’ve heard this year — like Elon Musk’s claim that there…

ICYMI | Our Year of Brain Rot and Tech Dystopia

Dec 27, 2025 57m

On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by internet culture writer Kat Tenbarge to break down the most important internet moments of 2025. But not just any internet moments—specifically, the…

Amicus | What We Got Wrong About SCOTUS in 2025

Dec 27, 2025 1h 9m

Over the past calendar year, the Supreme Court’s center has shifted to the right and then more to the right, and the justices’ decisions have time and again facilitated Trump’s agenda. But the…

Slate Money | Money Talks: Altruism After USAID

Dec 23, 2025 35m

In this Money Talks: Planet Money’s Mary Childs joins Felix Salmon to share what she learned reporting on how private philanthropy is trying to cope with the influx of need now that USAID is gone.…

Hang Up | 2025: The Year in Sports

Dec 23, 2025 1h 14m

Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh look back on 2025, picking their top sports stories from each month—from the Luka trade and torpedo bats to a Trumpy Ryder Cup and OKC’s…

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