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What Next - Mexico’s Disappearing Women May 02, 2022

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The body of 18-year-old Debanhi Escobar was discovered in late April, inside a water tank in a motel on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico—weeks after she went missing. The identity of her killer is still unknown.

The case has prompted a national outcry over the Mexican government’s consistent failure to deliver justice for missing women. But femicide in Mexico isn’t new, and past protests haven’t yielded meaningful change. Will this time be any different?

Guest: Oscar Lopez, reporter for the New York Times based in Mexico City.

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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Fantasy of Internet for All May 01, 2022

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Can Starlink ever fulfill its promise of connecting the world, especially places left behind by traditional internet? Or will it be just another toy for the rich?

Guest: Meaghan Tobin, reporter at Rest of World

Host: Lizzie O'Leary

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Slate Money - Everything Is Market Manipulation Apr 30, 2022

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This week, Felix Salmon and Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers talk about what’s happening with Disney and the Reedy Creek improvement district, Elon Musk’s alignment with the far right, and the criminal charges filed against Archegos founder, Bill Hwang.

In the Plus segment: All about tipping.

Mentioned In the Show:

“Let’s Be Clear About What It’s Like to Be Harassed on Twitter” by Elizabeth Spiers

“Disney Strategy Is to Stay Silent to Soften Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Blow” by Robbie Whelan

“Elon Musk Might Break Twitter. Maybe That’s a Good Thing” by The Ezra Klein Show

Email: slatemoney@slate.com

Podcast production by Cheyna Roth

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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - What Elon Wants With Twitter Apr 29, 2022

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Twitter is the platform of choice for politicians, journalists, academics, and many other agenda-setters. Twitter influences conversations that take place in newsrooms and statehouses. What happens if the company’s placed in the hands of a pugnacious, provocative plutocrat like Elon Musk?

Guest: Will Oremus, tech reporter for the Washington Post

Host: Seth Stevenson

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Political Gabfest - So Much Free Speech! Apr 28, 2022

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Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, Title 42, and the current prayer in school debate.

Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:

Daphne Keller for The Center for Internet and Society: “What Does The DSA Say?”

John Dickerson for Slate: “Born Identity”

Here are this week’s chatters:

David: Ed Kilgore for New York Magazine: “Utah Democrats Endorse Independent Evan McMullin in Challenge to Mike Lee”; CityCast.fm/jobs

John: Reddit thread: “This is a 3200-year old attendance sheet found in Deir el-Medina, Egypt. Reasons for worker absence include ‘embalming brother’, ‘brewing beer’ and ‘bitten by scorpion’”; The British Museum: Ostracon

Emily: Ronald Brownstein for The Atlantic: “Why California Wants to Recall Its Most Progressive Prosecutors”; Vanessa Romo for NPR: “The LA Sheriff Now Says No Charges For The Reporter Who Wrote About A Cover-Up”

Listener chatter from J.T. Horn: Mary Pols for Downeast Magazine "Why Maine Owes Its Most Breathtaking Public Lands to One 1972 Newspaper Story"

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss John’s prescient 2011 piece about Trump’s birtherism.

Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)

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Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.

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What Next - L.A.’s Alarming Latino Mortality Rate Apr 28, 2022

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People may want to throw their masks in the trash, but in communities with the highest COVID-19 mortality rates, the pandemic is not over.

Guest: Dr. Don Garcia, medical director at Clínica Romero in Los Angeles.

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What Next - The Crisis in Special Education Apr 27, 2022

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Federal law guarantees that students with disabilities have access to special educators. But widespread teacher shortages mean that these students are often being taught by people without the mandated qualifications – or by no one at all.

Guest: Dylan Peers McCoy is an investigative reporter on WFYI’s education team.

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Slate Money - Slate Money Goes to the Movies: Office Space Apr 26, 2022

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Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies.

Cardiff Garcia, co-founder of Bazaar Audio, joins Felix and Emily to talk about the 1999 cult classic, Office Space. They get into how office life has changed since the movie’s premier, whether Peter would actually make a good manager, and poor, poor Milton.

Email: slatemoney@slate.com

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What Next - Florida’s Most Powerful Flack Apr 26, 2022

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How one spokesperson with an itchy Twitter-finger is sparking a moral panic.

Guest: Ben Mathis-Lilley, a senior writer at Slate.

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What Next - The Librarians Fighting Book Bans Apr 25, 2022

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Carolyn Foote was furious when Republican lawmakers in Texas singled out hundreds of books about race or sexuality for removal from school libraries. So she and a group of other librarians stepped into the fray to push back against what they see as harmful censorship.

Guest: Carolyn Foote, former librarian for schools outside Austin, Texas.

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