For those who may not know, Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States. It was created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. In 2004, it was purchased by The Washington Post Company (later renamed the Graham Holdings Company), and since 2008 has been managed by The Slate Group, an online publishing entity created by Graham Holdings. Slate is based in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C.
As you know, Ear Worthy focuses on independent podcasts. Slate, however, is a small podcast network (20+ podcasts) compared to iHeart, Wondery (Amazon / Audible), SiriusXM, and Spotify. Moreover, it has the nimbleness and mindset of an "indie." always punching above its weight class to score rhetorical points for its listeners. That -- and the fact that its podcasts are thoughtful, reflective, and insightful -- reveals the truth behind our coverage of Slate podcast episodes.
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Death, Sex & Money hosted by Anna Sale
*NEW EPISODE*: The “Chest-Clenching Fear” of My Ex-Husband’s Jan. 6 Commutation
In 2023, Anna Sale and On The Media’s Micah Loewinger traveled to Montana to talk to Tasha Adams, the ex-wife of Stewart Rhodes, who founded the far-right paramilitary group, the Oath Keepers. Stewart had been charged with seditious conspiracy for his participation in the January 6 Capitol riots, and Tasha was eagerly awaiting sentencing: “I need him to stay locked away, so my kids can legally cut contact with him when they’re 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.
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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*: Trump’s American Takeover
If you’re punchdrunk and disoriented this week, come on in. Donald J Trump’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. Rockefeller 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.
ICYMI hosted by Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay
Slate’s podcast about internet culture.
*NEW EPISODE*: So You’ve Fallen For A Smear 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.
*NEW EPISODE*: 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.
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What Next: TBD hosted by Lizzie O’Leary
A twice-weekly podcast about tech, power, and the future.
*NEW EPISODES*: 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 product that was more energy efficient, cheaper to produce, and open source. 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.
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