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Felix Salmon of Fusion , Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski discuss: The Blackrock letter Super PIK bonds The Gates Foundation paying off Nigeria’s debt to Japan In Slate Plus: The collapse of Carillion Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm . Email: slatemoney@slate.com Twitter: @felixsalmon , @Three_Guineas , @JHWeissmann Production...

We’re inside the chamber for the high-profile case involving a death row inmate from Louisiana who’s asking for a new trial after his lawyer told the jury his client was guilty, despite the client’s insistence that he was innocent. Jay Schweikert, a policy analyst with the Cato Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice and co-author of an amicus brief filed in this case, joins Dahlia Lithwick to sif...

Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss if Republicans and Democrats should keep the government open, Trump's opinions on immigration and what positive outcomes can result from public dissection of Grace's Aziz Ansari story.  Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/gabfestplus. Twitter: @S...

On this week’s If Then, Slate ’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about the Senate’s stand on net neutrality and why Congress is set to renew a major piece of internet government mass surveillance legislation. The hosts are joined by Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of Media Studies at University of Virginia, to talk about Facebook’s big news feed changes and what they might mean for the way we re...

Felix Salmon of Fusion , Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski discuss: Trump visiting Davos Huawei iPhone addiction In Slate Plus: Manhattans versus Old Fashioneds Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm . Email: slatemoney@slate.com Twitter: @felixsalmon , @Three_Guineas , @JHWeissmann Production by Daniel Schroeder Hosted on Acast. See...

Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the future of the Dreamers, Trump’s fitness for office, and voting-related cases before SCOTUS. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/gabfestplus. Twitter: @SlateGabfest Facebook: facebook.com/Gabfest Email: gabfest@slate.com Show notes at slate.co...

On this week’s If Then, Slate ’s April Glaser and Will Oremus are at CES, the huge trade show put on by the Consumer Technology Association in Las Vegas. They talk about all the weird, wonderful, and unnecessary gadgets and tech they seen so far the convention, like the laundry folding robots that might not be very good at folding laundry, bizarre tech for your pets, drones and self driving cars,...

Felix Salmon of Fusion , Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski discuss: Iceland legislating income equality Spotify going public The protests in Iran In Slate Plus: Spotify’s debt Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm . Email: slatemoney@slate.com Twitter: @felixsalmon , @Three_Guineas , @JHWeissmann Production by Daniel Schroeder Hosted...

Sometimes the technical stuff is how you get to the crucial stuff. Next week, the Supreme Court will hear a case about Ohio’s voter purge, and the case rests on some sticky statutory interpretation questions. Up to 1.2 million voters may have been purged from Ohio’s rolls after they sat out a couple of elections and in this episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick does a deep dive into the technicalitie...

Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the buzz around Trump's relationship with Steve Bannon, partisanship within the Russia investigation, and a new (real) study about fake news. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/gabfestplus. Twitter: @SlateGabfest Facebook: facebook.com/Gabfest E...

On this week’s If Then, Slate ’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about a key detail in the new tax plan that could have a huge effect on gig workers in the tech sector—and maybe even robots. They also discuss Apple’s “batterygate” iPhone situation, what happened, and what can we take from their unusual apology? The hosts are also joined by Slate’s Future Tense editor Torie Bosch to talk about th...

Felix Salmon of Fusion , Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, political risk consultant Anna Szymanski, and CEO of Skift, Rafat Ali discuss: Airbnb and overtourism Low-cost airlines The travel industry In Slate Plus: How businesses rely on tourism Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm . Email: slatemoney@slate.com Twitter: @felixsalmon , @Three_Guineas , @JHWeissmann Production by...

David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson dig in, dissect and debate listener-generated conundrums with special performances from They Might Be Giants. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/gabfestplus. Twitter: @SlateGabfest Facebook: facebook.com/Gabfest Email: gabfest@slate.com Show notes at sla...

Felix Salmon of Fusion , Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski answer your voicemails on topics like debt to GDP ratios, trade settlement periods, and the morals of financial reporting. In Slate Plus: The hosts answer one more listener question about yield curves. Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm . Email: slatemoney@slate.com Twitte...

The cultural whirlwind of #MeToo has reached the judiciary, reluctantly bringing Dahlia Lithwick into the fray along with it. In a piece for Slate , she detailed her firsthand experiences with Judge Alex Kozinski. Dahlia’s was one of many accounts that that have now surfaced. Heid Bond was one of the first women prepared to go on the record. A former clerk to Judge Kozinski, she now writes romance...

Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the final tax bill, government agency leadership, and are joined by Linda Greenhouse to talk about her new book about covering the Supreme Court. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/gabfestplus. Twitter: @SlateGabfest Facebook: facebook.com/Gabfe...

On this week’s If Then, Slate ’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk with the executive director of Mozilla about how Firefox competes with Chrome and the biggest threats to the Open Web. They break down the fallout from the FCC’s 3-2 vote to kill net neutrality and what it means for mega-mergers like Fox and Disney. And they speculate on the motivations behind Uber’s misdeeds, why Apple’s AirPods a...

Felix Salmon of Fusion , Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski discuss: Disney acquiring 21st Century Fox Apple buying Shazam Bitcoin futures In Slate Plus: More bitcoin discussion Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm . Email: slatemoney@slate.com Twitter: @felixsalmon , @Three_Guineas , @JHWeissmann Production by Daniel Schroeder Hoste...

David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss Democrat Doug Jones’s win in Alabama, the current state of the tax bill and the transgressions of men in the headlines. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/gabfestplus. Twitter: @SlateGabfest Facebook: facebook.com/Gabfest Email: gabfest@slate.com...

On this week’s If Then, Slate ’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk a little about why everyone is freaking out about Bitcoin. And in the run up to Thursday’s critical net neutrality decision from the FCC, the hosts speak with Columbia law professor Tim Wu - who actually coined the term net neutrality - about why it’s so crucial to save it, and what we might expect from legal challenges stemming fr...

Felix Salmon of Fusion , Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski are joined by co-head of global fixed income at Loomis Sayles, David Rolley, to discuss: The new tax plan Europe and Brexit Venezuela and state-backed cryptocurrency In Slate Plus: the merger between Aetna and CVS Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm . Email: slatemoney@slat...

The Mueller investigation keeps keeping on as subtweets, speculation, and objections mount. Dahlia Lithwick speaks with Andrew Wright, a former associate counsel to President Barack Obama about the latest developments. Plus a deep dive into the oral arguments in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case with Roberta Kaplan, who successfully argued Edie Windsor’s case against the Defense of Marriage Act in 201...

David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss why Roy Moore appears to be surviving while Al Franken and many other harassers are being pushed out of office, the wedding cake case currently before the Supreme Court, and what impact President Trump could have on peace in the Middle East. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a fre...

On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser talks with Ellen Pao about sexism in Silicon Valley and why the tech industry hasn’t experienced the same fallout over accusations of sexual harassment and assault as the media and entertainment business. Pao discusses what gives her hope for tech and describes what she’s witnessed as CEO and founder of Project Include, a nonprofit organization dedicate...

Felix Salmon of Fusion , Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski are joined by author Rachel Schneider to discuss: The Financial Diaries , by Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider Affirm and financing consumer purchases Amazon’s new second headquarters In Slate Plus: Cross-currency basis swaps If you’d like to leave us a voicemail for our December ca...