Graham Platner Calls Maine's Trans Athletes Debate a Billionaire-Funded Distraction
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Graham Platner Calls Maine's Trans Athletes Debate a Billionaire-Funded Distraction
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What threat does President Trump pose to the future of American elections? And what are the ways to push back? Join Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz for "The 'Live from Chicago!' Edition" episode for more. ⁠ ⁠ Watch the entire interview now on YouTube. 🔗 in bio. | Slate.com
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What threat does President Trump pose to the future of American elections? And what are the ways to push back? Join Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz for "The 'Live from Chicago!' Edition" episode for more. ⁠ ⁠ Watch the entire interview now on YouTube. 🔗 in bio. | Slate.com
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McDonald’s CEO Took a Tiny Bite of Their Burger. Now, the Burger CEOs Are Beefing.
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McDonald’s CEO Took a Tiny Bite of Their Burger. Now, the Burger CEOs Are Beefing.
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We Visited Trump’s Reflecting Pool. Algae Is the Least of Our Problems.
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We Visited Trump’s Reflecting Pool. Algae Is the Least of Our Problems.
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The scam du jour arrives via a text message, offering you a job. What happens when you accept?⁠ ⁠ Join What Next: TBD host Lizzie O'Leary as she speaks with Alex Sammon, Slate features writer, about his descent into the job text scam rabbit hole. ⁠ ⁠ What was actually on the other side of this obvious scam campaign? How could this possibly be working? What were they after? Who could be falling for such an entreaty, one that requires a substantial misunderstanding of online job postings, of the i
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The scam du jour arrives via a text message, offering you a job. What happens when you accept?⁠ ⁠ Join What Next: TBD host Lizzie O'Leary as she speaks with Alex Sammon, Slate features writer, about his descent into the job text scam rabbit hole. ⁠ ⁠ What was actually on the other side of this obvious scam campaign? How could this possibly be working? What were they after? Who could be falling for such an entreaty, one that requires a substantial misunderstanding of online job postings, of the i
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What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We’re all finding out.⁠ ⁠ Laura Jedeed is an anti-ICE journalist who was offered a job with the agency last year. She wrote about the experience for Slate, and earlier this week, testified before the Minnesota Senate about her reporting. You can read Jedeed’s piece: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html | Slate.com
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What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We’re all finding out.⁠ ⁠ Laura Jedeed is an anti-ICE journalist who was offered a job with the agency last year. She wrote about the experience for Slate, and earlier this week, testified before the Minnesota Senate about her reporting. You can read Jedeed’s piece: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html | Slate.com
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Our hosts at Care and Feeding answer a letter from Slate's parenting Facebook group: ⁠ ⁠ "Are there any middle ground children shows appropriate for an 8-year-old boy that are neither overly preachy, where every episode is a deep life lesson like Bluey—though I admit I haven’t watched it much—nor completely anti-intellectual with zero redeeming value? Looney Tunes, Tweety, Paw Patrol. He’s obviously outgrown Peppa Pig, which I initially found annoying, then oddly likable and eventually annoying
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Our hosts at Care and Feeding answer a letter from Slate's parenting Facebook group: ⁠ ⁠ "Are there any middle ground children shows appropriate for an 8-year-old boy that are neither overly preachy, where every episode is a deep life lesson like Bluey—though I admit I haven’t watched it much—nor completely anti-intellectual with zero redeeming value? Looney Tunes, Tweety, Paw Patrol. He’s obviously outgrown Peppa Pig, which I initially found annoying, then oddly likable and eventually annoying
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Netflix has agreed to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, and the Slate Money hosts Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck are joined by the New York Times’ Nicholas Kulish to discuss the ricochet effect of such a massive media merger on the film and television industries. ⁠ ⁠ Later in the episode: Michael and Susan Dell have announced a $6.25 billion donation to the so-called “Trump accounts” for children. Nick, who has been covering the story, helps the host unpack the motive behind this u
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CEOs Love To Say AI Is Inevitable. That Might Come Back to Bite Them.
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Trump has threatened “mass firings” if the government shuts down next week, and earlier this year, Democrats played ball. But now, one Democratic Senator explains why he’s approaching things differently.⁠ ⁠ "So, how are you trying to convince your Senate colleagues to stand firm here?" Mary Harris asks Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen on the latest episode of What Next. "What’s your elevator pitch to them for folks who really don’t want to cruise into a shutdown here?"⁠ ⁠ In this cli
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FHFA director Bill Pulte convinced Trump to back 50-year mortgages with some posterboard and a photo of FDR. Slate Money hosts Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck, discuss why Trump’s post about 50-year mortgages angered conservatives – officials and voters alike – and why they’re more of a hindrance than a solution to the housing crisis. ⁠ ⁠ Watch the entire episode now on YouTube. 🔗 in bio. | Slate.com
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Donald Trump was able to take over the Metropolitan Police Department and send in National Guard troops and federal agents to patrol the streets due to Washington D.C.’s strange, not-a-state status. ⁠ ⁠ One of the district’s (non-voting) Congressional representatives believes D.C. statehood could come in the backlash. Sen. Ankit Jain says, “we need to be willing to enforce red lines.’⁠ ⁠ Listen for more on What Next. 🔗 in bio. | Slate.com
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The government shutdown isn’t hitting everywhere equally—infrastructure projects that rely on federal funding have been halted exclusively in states that voted for Kamala Harris. Now, Trump’s shutdown theatrics have spawned a new way of thinking about what happens now. Some are calling it "soft secession."⁠ ⁠ So, do blue states have any recourse against a federal government that only functions to punish them? Join Mary Harris on What Next as she dives into this question with David Faris, associa
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Smart, snackable, and slightly unhinged, Pears is the perfect puzzle fix. And in keeping with Slate tradition, it speaks to both your SAT score and your group chat history. Test your skills at the 🔗 in bio.⁠ ⁠ (And happy Love Island USA Reunion Day to all who observe 😈) | Slate.com
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"This leads to a question that so many people submitted," David Plotz, one of the hosts of Political Gabfest, says before reading the question: "Considering your special guest, should Stephen Colbert run for president in 2028?" ⁠ ⁠ @stephenathome recently joined David and fellow hosts Emily Bazelon and @jdickerson for the Gabfest’s 20th anniversary “Conundrums” live show in New York City. ⁠ ⁠ He sang. He had lots of thoughts on everything from Trump and Taylor Swift to museum heists and what pas
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Once again, federal agents have shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis. Once again, the shooting is on video. And once again, the Trump Administration has closed ranks around the officers. But could the fallout from Alex Pretti’s death be different? And Minnesotans want to know – when will the feds finally leave?⁠ ⁠ Will Stancil, a lawyer and observer in Minneapolis, joins What Next host Mary Harris on the episode "Everyone Saw CBP Kill Alex Pretti."⁠ ⁠ 🔗 in bio to listen to the full e
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On this episode of Care and Feeding: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen dig into a listener letter that hits close to home for Elizabeth. A military mom wants to know how specific she should be with her kids about her spouse’s upcoming deployment. They commiserate, and offer suggestions for how to keep the absent spouse involved even while they are away.⁠ ⁠ But first, they share their latest triumphs and fails, where a day off for Lucy’s daughter goes haywire, Zak enjoys a peaceful mor
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After using a Trump-stand-in during his first administration, South Park has come back from hiatus as vulgar and confrontational as ever, with its aiming firmly fixed on MAGA. Contrary to government sources, the show’s enjoying a renewed cultural relevance in its 27th season. On a recent episode of What Next, guest host Rob Gunther is joined by David Mack, contributing writer to Slate, to discuss South Park in this Trump 2.0 era. Listen now. 🔗 in bio. | Slate.com
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In the new movie Sovereign, actor Nick Offerman plays an extremist who doesn’t believe in the legitimacy of the federal government. In real life, Nick comes from a small-town political family. His father is the mayor of Minooka, Illinois, and his uncle is on the village board. ⁠ ⁠ In this episode of @deathsexmoney, host @annasalepics talks with Nick about how he chooses roles, the ways in which he’s different from his family, his love of teaching woodworking (as well as his new book Little Woodc
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On this episode of @deathsexmoney, Evan Osnos guides us into the bizarre world of the “haves and the have-yachts.”⁠ ⁠ Evan is a staff writer at The New Yorker and is a co-host of The New Yorker’s podcast The Political Scene. He has spent nearly his whole life observing the habits, values, and norms of the wealthy elite, from his childhood in suburban Connecticut to the years he spent reporting on the mega-yachts and underground bunkers of the U.S.’s richest citizens.⁠ ⁠ He talks with Death, Sex
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This September when SNL announced its season 51 cast, Ego Nwodim made the cut. Then, just days later, she announced on social media that she was leaving the show. “The hardest part of a great party is knowing when to say goodnight,” she wrote.⁠ ⁠ In this episode of @deathsexmoney, hosted by @annasalepics, Nwodim talks about learning to trust her body when making big decisions, growing up in a family of workaholics, and her 3 AM post-show ritual of eating an entire cake while FaceTiming her best
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“Stephen Colbert is a world class satirist...did CBS think that he wasn’t gonna talk about it?”⁠ ⁠ This week, Colbert called out CBS for telling him “in no uncertain terms” that he couldn’t have Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico on the Late Show. On the latest episode of What Next, Lizzie O’Leary was joined by Oliver Darcy, journalist and author of the Status newsletter, to discuss the moment.⁠ ⁠ From the hundreds of Washington Post staffers fired, to Anderson Cooper leaving 60 Mi
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If you were walking around the Castro, San Francisco's gay neighborhood, on a Sunday evening in the 80s or 90s, you might hear a piano, a band, and a lot of singing. If you were curious and followed those sounds all the way to Eureka Street, you'd come across a church in the middle of this row of houses that was painted some blend of pink and purple.⁠ ⁠ The Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco was a different kind of church--one of the first gay-positive churches that was a "bright, sh
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A letter for our hosts at Care and Feeding starts off: ⁠ ⁠ "Our daughter is 11 years old. She loves Christmas. Always has. One of the things that has made Christmas time special has been the dreaded Elf on the Shelf, which is something that we were never aware of until about five years ago and ended up doing because she was hearing about it from all her friends at school. Anyone who does the Elf on the Shelf thing knows that starting on December 1st and going until Christmas, the elf gets into n
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