Political Gabfest - California Is an Embarrassment

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - IPO to the Moon

Is Elon Musk’s SpaceX leading humanity to Mars? Or is that just grandiose window-dressing for an A.I. company leading several other A.I. companies to IPOs?  Guest: Max Chafkin [https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ASsN7vM58E0/max-chafkin], reporter with Bloomberg Businessweek and cohost of the Everybody's Business [https://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/series/everybodys-business] podcast. Want more What Next TBD? 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 [http://slate.com/whatnextplus] to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Madeline Ducharme, Patrick Fort, Rob Gunther and Paige Osburn.  ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Political Gabfest - California Is an Embarrassment

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss whether this week's resumption of open hostilities in the Iran war has changed the likelihood of an imminent end to the conflict, what to do about how California's slow vote-counting emboldens Trump's cries of election foul, and the most hotly contested D.C. mayoral election in a generation with guest Mike Schaffer [https://x.com/michaelschaffer?lang=en] from City Cast DC [https://dc.citycast.fm/]. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss how the online shaming of one couple for their reproductive decision has deformed an already hard conversation about disability, quality of life, and what we owe each other. The hosts try to hold all of it at once as they consider this viral story that sits at the intersection of disability rights and reproductive autonomy.   In the latest Gabfest Reads [https://slate.com/podcasts/gabfestreads], John Dickerson talks with Bloomberg columnist Adrian Wooldridge about his new book The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1639369376/?tag=slatmaga-20]. In a moment when American democracy is under assault from authoritarian populists and dogmatic progressives, Wooldridge argues that liberalism itself offers the most resilient framework for pluralistic, self-correcting societies.   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 [https://slate.com/podcasts/political-gabfest].   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 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-gabfest/id158004641]and Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/2oXS9kkKiXdkkCYB3YfqYZ]. Or visit slate.com/gabfestplus [http://slate.com/gabfestplus] to get access wherever you listen.   Find out more about David Plotz's monthly tours of Ft. DeRussy, [http://secretfortdc.com/] the secret Civil War fort hidden in Rock Creek Park.     Follow @SlateGabfest on X / https://twitter.com/SlateGabfest [https://twitter.com/SlateGabfest] Slate Political Gabfest on Facebook / https://www.facebook.com/Gabfest/ [https://www.facebook.com/Gabfest/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Dealing With Cha-Cha-Changes

On this episode: Lucy Lopez [https://www.thelucylopez.com/], Elizabeth Newcamp [https://www.dutchdutchgoose.com/], and Zak Rosen [https://zakrosen.com/] are talking about transitions. The summer time not only means fun in the sun, it also means lots of changes - from kids going to summer camp for the first time to kids starting to get ready for college. The ‘Rents unpack how they’re coping and helping their kids work through these times. Later in the episode, show producer Cheyna Roth [https://cheynaroth.com/] joins to talk about her recent transition from mom of one to parent of two.  Don’t forget to subscribe to Best Mom Friends Forever [https://bestmomfriends.substack.com/]! Podcast production by Cheyna Roth and Rosemary Belson. Follow us on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@CareandFeeding]!  Join us on Facebook and email us at careandfeedingpod@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get to hang out with us on the Plus Playground every week for a whole additional grab-bag of content — and you’ll get an ad-free experience across the network. And you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus [https://slate.com/careplus] – or try it out on Apple Podcasts. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

What Next - Fight House Lawn

How Donald Trump rearranging the White House lawn to accommodate a UFC fight neatly mirrors the way the organization and its parent company have reshaped themselves around the president. Guest: Luke Thomas [https://www.youtube.com/lukethomas], MMA journalist and host of the Morning Kombat [https://www.youtube.com/@MorningKombat/featured] podcast.  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 [http://slate.com/whatnextplus] to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Madeline Ducharme, Patrick Fort, Rob Gunther and Paige Osburn. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Culture Gabfest - One Last Taylor Swift Throwdown Edition

As you may have heard in last week’s episode, the Culture Gabfest is hanging up its microphones after 18 years of cultural commentary. But before our final episode, we’ve still got much to discuss! On this special guest-packed show, Steve, Dana, and Nadira Goffe have the power! That is the power to get into it with VSFOP Jamelle Bouie about Masters of the Universe, the latest attempt by Mattel to launch their own cinematic universe. They assess the state of IP-driven superhero movies and whether this newest entry—starring Nicholas Galitzine, as the buff, loin cloth-wearing He-Man, and Jared Leto, as the slightly lascivious Skeletor—is more than brand management. Next, they turn to the wild, surreal revenge thriller Is God Is, written and directed by Aleshea Harris based on her stageplay. They talk about how this tale of twin sisters seeking vengeance fits into the growing pantheon of Black horror as well as the ancient canon of revenge tragedies. Finally, and for the final time, it’s time to talk about Taylor Swift. In the wake of her newest release, the song “I Knew It, I Knew You” for the Toy Story 5 soundtrack, the gang assembles one more time to take up the long-simmering Tay debate. Jody Rosen and Julia jump on the call/enter the Thunderdome for this, of course.  In a bonus episode for Slate Plus subscribers, the panel pours one out for the recently shuttered Hampshire College and reflects on the changing landscape of the liberal arts. Endorsements Dana: The interactive, Jazz-playing, transit-obsessed, single purpose website Train Jazz [https://www.trainjazz.com/]. (Hat tip once more to Rusty Foster's Today in Tabs [https://www.todayintabs.com/].) Nadira: The Black Film Archive [https://blackfilmarchive.com/] which showcases Black films made from 1898 to 1999 currently streaming. Also, the year 2016 in music [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_American_music].  Jody: For some Gabfest replacement therapy, watching academic lectures on YouTube such as the lectures of art historian John Walsh at Yale Art Galleries—including ones on Vincent Van Gogh [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16OHKFlSrA&list=PLqJmQZgy9f_d7fmz6wgcckukGgVC0P87s] and Dutch masters [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lr-shFTXRU&list=PLqJmQZgy9f_cqxAiJ76qDJA98xJkgagN1]— and cultural historian Eric Lott on Racial Masquerade in America [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvBnJ8jEPZE] and Philippe Petit's legendary tightrope walk between the Twin Towers [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqw4Ddfptms].  Julia: Patrick Radden Keefe's new book London Falling [https://bookshop.org/p/books/london-falling-a-mysterious-death-in-a-gilded-city-and-a-family-s-search-for-truth-patrick-radden-keefe/3ae558d23df98afa?ean=9780385548533&next=t] and the song "Come Tomorrow [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8mY4iWGEmU]" by Patti Scialfa. Steve: Following up on last week’s endorsement, Steve can confirm that Disgrace [https://bookshop.org/p/books/schande-professor-of-general-literature-j-m-coetzee/6286f7775f67e19c?ean=9780140296402&next=t] by J.M. Coetzee is, in fact, good. Also recommended: Offshore [https://bookshop.org/p/books/offshore-a-novel-penelope-fitzgerald/b41c8e8bac03dd6d?ean=9780544361515&next=t] by Penelope Fitzgerald.   -- Email us your thoughts at culturefest@slate.com [culturefest@slate.com].  Podcast production by Benjamin Frisch. Production assistance by Daniel Hirsch. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.