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Apr 30, 2019 • 50min
Surviving A Post-Mueller Report World
Virginia Heffernan talks to Elliot Williams, former deputy assistant attorney general and current principal at public affairs firm the Raben Group, about the Mueller Report, Barr, Rosenstein, obstructions of justice, and several meaningful pop culture references to Game of Thrones and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 25, 2019 • 33min
Understanding Conspiracy In Trump Times
Yascha Mounk talks to Nancy Rosenblum and Russ Muirhead, co-authors of “A Lot Of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy,” about how and why conspiracies form, what makes a “theory,” and what conspiracies give to people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 23, 2019 • 42min
Trump Dangers After the Mueller Report
Yascha Mounk talks to political activist and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov about their responses to the Mueller report, Trumpism, what the Democratic Party gets hung up on, Russia, and learning from Kasparov’s efforts to oppose Vladimir Putin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 19, 2019 • 51min
A Mueller Report Next-Day Debrief
On this first day after the release of the Mueller Report, Virginia Heffernan talks revelations and redactions with Jed Shugerman, Fordham Law professor and author of “The People’s Courts.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 18, 2019 • 1h 1min
The Mueller Report: the Executive Summaries
Don’t have time to read the whole Mueller report? Now there’s a podcast for that. Listen to Slate’s Gabriel Roth and June Thomas read the special counsel’s executive summaries in our free mini-audiobook.Podcast production by Benjamin Frisch and Merritt Jacob. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 18, 2019 • 9min
Finding Your Guts When The Spire Falls
Virginia Heffernan welcomes back Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate podcast Amicus, to talk Barr, Avenatti, Christine Blasey-Ford’s honor in TIME Magazine, and the strategies by which corrupt actors in the administration slip through our fingers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 15, 2019 • 19min
Special: Has Mexico's President Turned His Back on His Own People?
To understand what’s happening on the border, you have to look at the policies and leaders on both sides of it. So, how has Mexico, under its new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, changed its approach to refugees and migrants fleeing north? And how has the Mexican president changed, himself?León Krauze, co-host of Trumpcast, joins What Next, Slate's daily news podcast, to explain. Subscribe to What Next via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, Overcast, Google Play, or iHeart.Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 14, 2019 • 33min
Climate Change Meets The U.S. Border Crisis
León Krauze talks to the New Yorker’s Jonathan Blitzer about how climate change deepens the U.S. border crisis, stories of Central American migration, and the tremendous spiraling debt that is taken on to embark on this dangerous journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 10, 2019 • 46min
The Collusion Effect On Our Norms
Virginia Heffernan talks to Washington Post national correspondent Philip Bump about Kristjen Nielsen, interpreting news headlines, Alpha Bank and the dossier, the non-disputable points of Adam Schiff, the Mueller Report to come, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 5, 2019 • 50min
Behind Closed Doors At Kushner Inc.
Virginia Heffernan talks to Vicky Ward, author of “Kushner Inc.,” about Jared and Ivanka’s rise to power; the influence and history of family patriarch Charlie Kushner; and the Trump and Kushner worlds of real estate and crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
