Slate "Best Of The Week" Podcasts: Age Difference, U.S. Constitution, Words, & Caregiving

This week, Slate podcast episodes include a May-December romance, the assault on the U.S. Constitution, words of the year, and the crisis in long-term caregiving.

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Death, Sex & Money hosted by Anna Sale

Anna Sale explores the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation.


NEW EPISODE:

Babygirl Director Wants Women Not to Suppress Their Beast


Babygirl, the new erotic thriller starring Nicole Kidman, features an age-gap romance and a power imbalance. But according to the filmmaker Halina Reijn, it’s more about “what part of us is civilized…and what part of us is still driven by primal forces.” It’s also extremely entertaining, sexy, and dryly hilarious.


This week, Halina Reijn talks about why she wrote the movie, her decision to move away from a very successful and decades-long acting career, and her mission to get us all talking more openly about our sexual desires.

Amicus hosted by Dahlia Lithwick--A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America.

NEW EPISODE:
The New Constitutional (dis)Order

"Donald Trump became president again on Monday, and we’re on the brink of a massive change in how the law is interpreted. Pam Bondi’s confirmation hearing was one of a host of clues that we are in for a wild legal and constitutional ride." On this episode of Amicus, host Dahlia Lithwick is joined by constitutional scholar Professor Pamela Karlan to pick through what we learned this week about what the law is and what it is about to become –– from Jack Smith’s report, to the new (presumptive) Attorney General of the United States’ apparent ignorance of birthright citizenship and therefore the 14th amendment.
 
ICYMI hosted by Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay
Slate’s podcast about internet culture.

*NEW EPISODE*: Rawdogging, Brainrot, and Brat

Candice Lim and our new co-host Kate Lindsay are joined by ICYMI producer (and resident linguist) Alexandra Botti, who shares her experience attending the American Dialect Society’s words-of-the-year vote. Then, Candice and Kate break down 2024’s winners (the WOTYs), and predict what internet words we’ll be seeing in 2025. 

Slate Money hosted by Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers -- Sharp financial analysis and economic news.

*NEW EPISODE*: Money Talks: The Cost of Caring

In this Money Talks: When his intellectually disabled brother-in-law suddenly came under their care, Professor Harold Pollack and his wife found themselves in a financial crisis. This huge life shift prompted him to face down his own lack of financial planning and eventually help demystify the topic for others with his book, The Index Card.

In this episode, Harold joins Emily Peck, for whom this topic is also very personal, to discuss the often ignored financial realities of long term caregiving.

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