The Slate Podcasts from This week include Fear, Autocracy, Actors Spat, and Tech Bros
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Death, Sex & Money Hosted by Anna Sale
The topics that we frequently think about and need to be addressed are the focus of Anna Sale’s conversation
*NE WE PISODE*: My Ex-partner’s January signaled a “Chest-Clenching Fear” during the 6th hour of his commute
In 2023, Anna Sale and On The Media’s Micah Loewinger traveled to Montana to meet with Tasha Adams, The former wife of Stewart Rhodes, who established The Oath Keepers. Stewart was accused of involvement in the Capitol riots on January 6, and Tasha was anxiously waiting for his sentencing. She stated that she wanted him to remain locked up so that her children could legally cut off contact with him at the age of 18. ”
Tasha described their decades-long marriage, from their courtship in a ballroom dance class in Las Vegas, to abuse and isolation as Stewart became transfixed on politics and apocalyptic ideas. She and her six kids managed to escape in 2018. And shortly after the conversation, there was some good news for Tasha: her divorce was finalized, and Stewart got a long sentence — 18 years
Then Trump was re-elected, and on his first day in office he issued nearly 1,500 pardons and commuted the sentences of 14 of his supporters in connection with Jan. 6. Among them was Stewart. This week, they’re replaying the 2023 conversation with Tasha, as well as a portion of a follow-up conversation recorded with her right before Trump’s inauguration. ***********************************************
Amicus Hosted by Dahlia Lithwick
A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America
*NE WE PISODE*: Trump’s American Takeover
If you’re punchdrunk and disoriented this week, come on in. Donald JT rump’s second administration is materializing at frightening speed and recklessness and it is hard (and stressful) to keep up with it all. Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurance S. R ockefeller Professor of Sociology and International affairs at Princeton University, explains that the speed and viciousness of the legal orders in Trump 2.0 are evidence that America has switched over to the fast track for autocracy on January 20th, 2025. An expert in the law of autocracy, Scheppele has seen firsthand what happened to constitutional courts and the democratic norms that governed them in Russia and Hungary and she joins Dahlia Lithwick on Amicus this week to explain how Trump’s executive orders on everything from government funding to transgender people in the military reveal a familiar global playbook that has chillingly familiar endpoints
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ICYMI Hosted by Candice Lim And Kate Lindsay
Slate’s podcast about internet culture
*NE WE PISODE*: So You’ve Fallen For AS mear Campaign
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay, still recovering from Justin Baldoni’s leaked voice memo to Blake Lively, dive into the online war being waged between the two It Ends With Us Actors. They explore how this is the latest in what seems to be a social media-inspired playbook for PR teams to tear down women online, and ask how we can avoid falling into the same trap
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Slate Money Hosted by Felix Salmon Emily Peck , and Elizabeth Spiers
Sharp financial analysis and economic news
*NE WE PISODE*: Money Talks: Capitalism Extremists In the Trump 2.0 Era
In this Money Talks: Historian Quinn Slobodian’s 2023 book Crack-Up Capitalism : Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy explored the dark reality that many extremists seek a purely capitalist society free of democracy
Now, with the Silicon Valley elite playing such a large role in Trump’s second term, Quinn’s work is more relevant than ever. In this episode, Quinn joins Felix Salmon to discuss the relationship between radical tech billionaires and the Trump administration and its potential consequences for our democracy. *********************************************** What Next: TBD Hosted by Lizzie O’Leary
A twice-weekly podcast about tech, power, and the future. *NE WE PISODES*: The DeepSeek Panic & Is Elon Musk Unstoppable?
The DeepSeek Panic : The artificial intelligence industry was thrown for a loop when the Chinese start-up DeepSeek rolled out a more energy efficient, cheaper to produce, and open source product. Where did DeepSeek come from, and are Silicon Valley and Washington right to be panicking?
Is Elon Musk Unstoppable? : You can’t doubt the enthusiasm of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. You can question the legality of some of their early moves
