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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - India Turns Off the Internet Feb 05, 2021

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Last week, in response to protests by farmers outside New Delhi, India, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi restricted access to the mobile web in areas where the protests were unfolding. The move is the latest in the Indian government’s long history of throttling internet access and censoring speech online.

Why is the Modi government increasingly shutting down the internet and stifling digital dissent? And what does the party’s history of internet shutdowns tell us about India’s future?

Guest:

Pranav Dixit, correspondent for Buzzfeed News

Host

Lizzie O’Leary

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What Next - TBD | India Turns Off the Internet Feb 05, 2021

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Why is the Modi government increasingly shutting down the internet and stifling digital dissent? And what does the party’s history of internet shutdowns tell us about India’s future?

Guest:

Pranav Dixit, correspondent for Buzzfeed News

Host

Lizzie O’Leary

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What Next - A Sexist Recession Feb 04, 2021

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The pandemic has hit many of us in different ways. But women in particular find themselves at the intersection of multiple crises. Across the economy, jobs in female-dominated industries are disappearing. Inside the home, moms are often shouldering the brunt of the extra childcare burden that comes with school closures.

How are women getting by right now? And will the setbacks they’re experiencing be permanent?

Guest: Jess Calarco, professor of sociology at Indiana University.

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What Next - Where Are the Checks? Feb 03, 2021

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This week, Senate Republicans offered President Biden a stimulus deal one-third the size of the administration’s plan. With a compromise looking less likely, Democrats might have to resort to reconciliation to get it passed - a process fraught with headaches.

Guest: Jordan Weissmann, Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent.

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What Next - The Marjorie Taylor Greene Problem Feb 02, 2021

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Dubbed “the QAnon candidate,” Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has her Republican colleagues doing some major handwringing. But does her presence on Capitol Hill actually represent a war within the GOP or more of a polite disagreement?

Guest: Greg Bluestein, political reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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What Next - Why is Everyone Mad at Gavin Newsom? Feb 01, 2021

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Thousands of people are signing a petition to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom. The Democrat was praised for his response to the coronavirus at the beginning of the pandemic, but he has started to lose his constituents’ trust. Now, it could take just one big endorsement to end his term.

Guest: Angela Hart, correspondent at California Healthline.

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Inside Impeachment Jan 30, 2021

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Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Daniel Goldman, who spearheaded the first round of impeachment hearings in the House in December 2019 as the senior adviser and director of investigations for the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. They examine what impeachment last time can teach us about impeachment this time, and why we’ve got to stop thinking like lawyers when it comes to the Senate trial.

In our Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia to discuss the attempted sub-coup at the Justice Department, the first Biden-era sightings of the long tail of Trump’s judicial appointments, and the conservative legal establishment’s choice to embrace Trumpists after Jan. 6.

Podcast production by Sara Burningham.

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Slate Money - What’s Going On With Game Stop? Jan 30, 2021

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You asked for it! Slate Money devotes the whole episode to explaining the crazy GameStop story that has taken over everything this week. Hope King (formerly of Cheddar, CNN, Business Insider) joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski to help untangle the situation.

In the Slate Plus segment: What does AMC have to do with all of this?

Email: slatemoney@slate.com

Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck

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What Next - TBD | Inside the Subreddit That Blew Up GameStop Jan 29, 2021

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The story of how GameStop went from the verge of a bankruptcy to a $15 billion market value isn’t an easy one to wrap your head around. But it helps to go back to the beginning; almost three years ago, in a subreddit called r/wallstreetbets.

Guests:

Brandon Kochkodin, reporter at Bloomberg

Host

Lizzie O’Leary

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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Inside the Subreddit That Blew Up GameStop Jan 29, 2021

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Guests:

Brandon Kochkodin, reporter at Bloomberg

Host

Lizzie O’Leary

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.