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Trump’s second term will be more lawless than the last
1 month, 1 week ago

Trump’s second term will be more lawless than the last

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Each week, Dahlia Lithwick welcomes you to the show by saying “Amicus is Slate’s podcast about the courts, the law and the Supreme Court.” Sometimes that list includes the rule of law, sometimes democracy. In the wake of the election, Amicus and Slate’s jurisprudence team have been wrangling some big questions around what we do and how we do it. …

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Newspapers: A Washington Post boycott won't hurt Jeff Bezos, but will it send a message to billionaires?
2 months, 1 week ago

Newspapers: A Washington Post boycott won't hurt Jeff Bezos, but will it send a message to billionaires?

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This week: Readers aren’t buying Jeff Bezos’ claim that killing the Washington Posts’ presidential endorsement wasn’t from his own business interests. Emily Peck, Elizabeth Spiers, and Anna Szymanski weigh in on how the move may or may not help Bezos and what the WaPo boycott can actually accomplish. In the Plus episode: The New York Times took a sympathetic look …

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Trump’s mass deportation promise is based on a dangerous law that is still on the books.
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump’s mass deportation promise is based on a dangerous law that is still on the books.

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It’s easy to dismiss nativist rhetoric as mere Trumpy “locker room talk.” But when it comes to immigration, deportation, and even detention, rhetoric about foreigners and violent invaders is actually a legal long game. Toward the end of the summer of 2023, Katherine Yon Ebright, counsel in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, noticed that right-wing anti-immigration groups …

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Economy: Xi Jinping’s stimulus package is too weak for China to be healthy
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Economy: Xi Jinping’s stimulus package is too weak for China to be healthy

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This week: Big trouble in not-so-little China as the second-largest economy tries to get out of its post-COVID funk. Emily Peck, Elizabeth Spiers, and Reuters’ Anna Szymanski discuss China’s new economic stimulus measures, which might be too-little, too late. They also discuss the secretive family behind Boar’s Head and a Sherwood piece about a mysterious $7 billion estate tax. Finally, …

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Business: Hurricanes Milton and Helene cost America big. In the age of climate change, is owning a home still an asset?
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Business: Hurricanes Milton and Helene cost America big. In the age of climate change, is owning a home still an asset?

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This week: Big storms are the new norm, and they’re costing America big time. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the economic toll and surging insurance coasts of climate change. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of the Slate Money show …

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Tradwives Show Us Feminism’s Failures
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Tradwives Show Us Feminism’s Failures

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On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: aprons off. Dr. C. Nicole Mason joins us to share her journey into the minds of tradwives… and her realization that they might have a point. If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: [email protected] Podcast production by Maura …

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‘Stereophonic’ on Broadway captures the sound of the ’70s.
8 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Stereophonic’ on Broadway captures the sound of the ’70s.

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Pop culture is full of fictional bands singing songs purpose-made to capture a moment, a sound. Instead it fulfills an assignment: it needs to be 1960s folk music, 1970s guitar rock, 80s hair metal, 90s gangsta rap, and on and on. In this episode, we’re going to use ‘Stereophonic,’ which just opened on Broadway, as a kind of case study …

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