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What Next - TBD | How the World’s Great Vaccination Hope Crashed May 14, 2021

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The Serum Institute of India was supposed to supply vaccines not just to India, but to the entire Global South. Now, with cases surging, there aren’t nearly enough vaccines for India’s population, not to mention the many countries that are relying on it. How did such a successful institution come up so short? And what are the costs of that failure?

Guest: Samanth Subramanian, senior reporter at Quartz

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Lizzie O’Leary

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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - How the World’s Great Vaccination Hope Crashed May 14, 2021

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Guest: Samanth Subramanian, senior reporter at Quartz

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Political Gabfest - Million Dollar Jab May 13, 2021

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Emily, John and David discuss the post-pandemic economy; vaccine hoarding; and they're joined by Alex Stamos to talk about infrastructure, cybersecurity and the Colonial Pipeline hack.

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

David Leonhardt for the New York Times: “A Misleading C.D.C. Number”

Dana Goldstein for the New York Times: “President of Key Teachers’ Union Shares Plea: ‘Schools Must Be Open’ in Fall”

Brian Krebs for Krebs on Security: “A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang”

Here’s this week’s chatter:

John: Craig Welch for National Geographic: “Groundbreaking Effort Launched to Decode Whale Language”

Emily: A Good Mother by Lara Bazelon; America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton

David: B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites by John Plotz “

Listener chatter from Adam Schear: Walker Caplan for LitHub: “The Key to Dodging Cyber Censorship Rules Might Be . . . A Minecraft Library?”

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For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, John, and David each recount a decision that changed the trajectory of their lives (not marriage related).

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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.

Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.

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What Next - The Palestinian Perspective May 13, 2021

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This week’s violence across Israel and the occupied territories points to a new era in Israeli-Palestinian relations. Palestinian observers find themselves wondering: Is it a changing diplomatic paradigm, thanks to a growing movement to acknowledge the human rights of Palestinians and find lasting peace? Or is it something more frightening, more deafening -- is it the beginning of unbridled war?

Guests: Yousef Munayyer, a fellow at the Arab Center Washington, and Mariam Barghouti, a writer based in Ramallah.

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What Next - Why Liz Cheney Had to Go May 12, 2021

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Does the looming ouster of a devoted Trump critic from House GOP leadership mean the party remains in thrall to the former president? Or does it just mean that Republican political leaders don’t want to keep talking about him?

Guest: Eliana Johnson, Editor-in-chief at the Washington Free Beacon.

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What Next - Arizona’s Bonkers Recount May 11, 2021

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A complete recount of ballots from the 2020 election is underway in Maricopa County, where Arizona Senate Republicans still question the results of the general election. There’s no timeline or budget for the manual audit, and election experts say this effort is highly prone to errors.

Guest: Andrew Oxford, reporter for the Arizona Republic.

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Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Davis Land, Danielle Hewitt, Elena Schwartz, and Carmel Delshad.

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What Next - I Was a Teenager in a Syrian Prison May 10, 2021

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Omar Alshogre survived years of detainment in Syria when he was just a teenager. Now, he’s in the U.S. and is telling his story of survival so you don’t look away.

Guest: Omar Alshogre, a Georgetown Student and the Director of Detainee Affairs at the Syrian Emergency Task Force.

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Rudy and the Death of Truth May 08, 2021

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Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Preet Bharara, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, host of Stay Tuned with Preet, and author of Doing Justice. Bharara gives an insider’s view of Rudy Giuliani’s current plight, they also discuss this week’s ruling from a federal judge rebuking former attorney general Bill Barr.

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Podcast production by Sara Burningham.

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Slate Money - Having Children is Hard May 08, 2021

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Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about the disappointing jobs report and how it relates to falling birth rates, the Bill and Melinda Gates divorce news and Trump’s Facebook ban.

In the Plus segment: The Peloton treadmill recall.

Mentioned in the show:

“The Great Birth Rate Freak-Out” by Jill Filipovic

MIT Media Lab director resigns over financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein” by Felix Salmon for Axios

“How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein” by Ronan Farrow for The New Yorker

Email: slatemoney@slate.com

Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck, @s_m_i

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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Oversight Board to Facebook: Nice Try May 07, 2021

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The question of Donald Trump’s banned account--to keep it blocked, or reinstate it--is one of the toughest that Facebook has ever faced. But the social network had a plan: punt the decision to its newly minted Oversight Board, a semi-independent “Supreme Court” tasked with making hard decisions about what content stays up, and what comes down.

Did that plan just backfire?

Guest: Kate Klonick, professor at St. John’s University School of Law

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Lizzie O’Leary

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