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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 year old, showed up with her wife and dog to film altercations between officers and community members. What happened next changed everything. Guest: Jon Collins, senior reporter on the Minnesota Public Radio News race, class and communities team. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther.

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Yesterday · 42 min
Slate Money - Canadian Beef
Meta settles teen safety suit, the U.S.-Canada trade war escalates, and Scott Bessent messes around in the markets again.
Yesterday · 56 min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Becoming Justice Gorsuch | 3. A Lunch Room for Life
Dahlia and Mark sit down with Slow Burn to discuss how Gorsuch fits into the current court, where he’s going next, and why he never took his job on the cafeteria committee seriously.
Friday · 6 min
What Next - Off-the-Record: Friends Don’t Let Friends Ruin Vacation
You can’t please all the people all the time. So don’t bother trying.
Friday · 32 min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - A.I. Enshittifies Everything (Still)
Cory Doctorow on how the bubble bursts.
Thursday · 1 hr 6 min
Political Gabfest - Please Do Not Ruin the Post Office
The Supreme Court rules on Trump's mail-in voting order and leaves the door open to election chaos; Trump wages economic warfare on Canada and Iran; and safety debates heat up after autonomous A.I. agents behave unpredictably.
Thursday · 26 min
What Next - How to Lose Wars and Tank the Economy
From Iran to Canada, Trump’s foreign policy decisions certainly don’t embody an affordability agenda.
Wednesday · 26 min
What Next - The A.I. Populist
Rep. Greg Casar argues that Democrats need to figure out their A.I. messaging—fast.
Tuesday · 25 min
What Next - What Lindsay Clancy Truthers Are Missing
Postpartum psychosis isn’t widely understood, which is why, at least in part, this trial is so misunderstood.
Monday · 25 min
What Next - The Progressive Case for Midterms Optimism
The Dems might—at last—be in array.
August 22 · 54 min
Slate Money - P(doom) and Other AI Questions
Noah Brier gets us up to speed on the state of artificial intelligence right now; from the A.I. arms race with China to the probability that we are all doomed.
August 22 · 47 min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Becoming Justice Gorsuch | 2. The Stolen Seat
How Neil Gorsuch leapfrogged Merrick Garland to land a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
August 21 · 6 min
What Next - Off the Record: We Don’t Talk About Natalie
When you're talking about this printer, there is no black and white.
August 21 · 33 min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Can the Midterms Withstand Prediction Markets?
The popular "contract-trading platforms" have election workers worried about our electoral system - and their lives.
August 20 · 45 min
Political Gabfest - Listener Questions
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz answer listeners' questions of all kinds: the political, the personal, and everything in-between. Many thanks to all question contributors: Daniel, Karen, Kelly, Jason, Phoebe, Phil, Alex, Adrian, and Dale! For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David answer a few more listener questions, just to tide you over until after a quick break. In the latest Gabfest Reads, David Plotz talks with John Lanchester about his new novel, Look What You Made Me Do, a darkly funny psychological thriller about two couples in modern-day London whose lives collide in a story of infidelity, obsession, and revenge. The book explores the performance of niceness, class, intergenerational frictions and how technology makes vengeance not just possible but almost exceedingly easy in the modern age. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Nina Porzucki Research by Emily Ditto You can find the full Political Gabfest show pages here. Want more Political Gabfest? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Political Gabfest show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or visit slate.com/gabfestplus to get access wherever you listen. Find out more about David Plotz's monthly tours of Ft. DeRussy, the secret Civil War fort hidden in Rock Creek Park. Follow @SlateGabfest on X / https://twitter.com/SlateGabfest Slate Political Gabfest on Facebook / https://www.facebook.com/Gabfest/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 20 · 28 min
What Next - How Islamophobia Got Even Worse
The GOP is embracing Islamophobia; Democrats aren't stopping it.
August 19 · 31 min
What Next - Is Tech Dismantling Democracy?
Jill Lepore on how to fight back.
August 18 · 19 min
What Next - The Nightmare on the USS Lincoln
For all their bluster about “warfighters,” this administration seems to be failing the people actually fighting their war.
August 18 · 26 min
Slate Money - Money Talks: Do Childcare Subsidies Pay Off?
Yale researcher Martha Gimble explains The Budget Lab’s research into early childhood education and care policies.
August 17 · 31 min
What Next - They Stood Their Ground. Was It Murder?
How America’s self-defense laws have been applied to protect, but not bind, white gun owners.
August 15 · 33 min
Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | Look What You Made Me Do
David Plotz interviews John Lanchester about his new novel Look What You Made Me Do, a darkly funny psychological thriller about two couples in modern-day London whose lives collide in a story of infidelity, obsession, and revenge. The book explores the performance of niceness, class, intergenerational frictions and how technology makes vengeance not just possible but almost exceedingly easy in the modern age. The novel's real pleasure lies in its voice and humor, including a legendary dinner party scene where a character launches into a scathing riff on the ubiquity of Yotam Ottolenghi's cooking in contemporary British life. The result is simultaneously a thriller, a comedy, and a dark meditation on niceness in an age when everyone is watching everyone else. Tweet us your questions @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages could be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Nina Porzucki. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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