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What Next - Democrats, Take The Stimulus Deal Already Oct 14, 2020

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The White House, Senate Republicans and the House Democrats are all on completely separate pages about another coronavirus relief package. With the election just three weeks away, is now the best time to strike a deal? And what would it look like?

Guest: Jordan Weissmann, Slate senior economic and business correspondent.

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What Next - Kelly Loeffler Picked the Wrong Fight Oct 13, 2020

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Earlier this summer, Senator Kelly Loeffler leaned into a war of words with the WNBA. She may have underestimated her opponents.

Guest: Amira Rose Davis, assistant professor at Penn State and cohost of the Burn It All Down podcast.

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - What Progressives Got Wrong About the Judiciary Oct 10, 2020

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Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Robert Raben, a former senior Hill staffer, former assistant attorney general in Bill Clinton’s Department of Justice, and founder of the Raben Group, for some real talk about next week’s Senate confirmation hearings. Next, Brian Kalt, Michigan State University College of Law professor and author of Unable: The Law, Politics, and Limits of Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, joins Dahlia to clarify what’s really on the table as Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Jamie Raskin introduce a bill that would form a commission to rule on the president’s fitness for office.

In our Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern on what you may have missed from the the start of the Supreme Court’s new term, the signal to LGBTQ people from Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito this week, and the worrying federal court decision about voting in Wisconsin.

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Slate Money - China’s Gilded Age Oct 10, 2020

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Professor Yuen Yuen Ang joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski to discuss her book China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption and how it relates to China and the United States.

In the Slate Plus segment: China’s future.

Email: slatemoney@slate.com

Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck

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What Next - TBD | What Landlords Have on You Oct 09, 2020

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Over the last decade, born from the chaos of the 2008 financial crisis, automated tenant screening has grown into a billion-dollar industry. Now, nine out of 10 landlords rely on automated tenant-screening reports, scraped from eviction history, criminal background records, and terror watchlists, to decide if they can trust potential renters. The problem? Often, the reports contain major errors, mistaken identities, and criminal records that are supposed to be expunged. Can these reports really be trusted?

Guest: Lauren Kirchner, investigative reporter at The Markup

Original reporting with Matthew Goldstein, reporter at The New York Times

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Celeste Headlee

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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - What Landlords Have on You Oct 09, 2020

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Guest: Lauren Kirchner, investigative reporter at The Markup

Original reporting with Matthew Goldstein, reporter at The New York Times

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Political Gabfest - Spitting Into a Sheet of Plexiglass Oct 08, 2020

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Emily, John and David discuss the White House virus outbreak, vice-presidential debate, and Senate races

Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:

Emily: Matt Zapotosky for the Washington Post: “New Justice Dept. Election Fraud Guidance Could Allow Boosting Of Trump’s Exaggerated Claims, Legal Observers Say”; Jim Rutenberg for the New York Times Magazine: “The Attack on Voting”

John: Dave Philipps for the New York Times: “The Army Rolls Out a New Weapon: Strategic Napping”

David: 99% Invisible podcast; The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Designby Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt

Listener chatter from Kevin Collins @kevinkwc: colorized footage of an 1896 snowball fight in Lyon, France.

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For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, and John discuss whether White House staff and journalists should report for work at the White House during the outbreak.

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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.

Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.

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What Next - The Fight Over Voting Access in Texas Oct 08, 2020

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Who will be able to cast a vote in Texas? And will Texans be able to figure that out before election day -- or after?

Guest: Emma Platoff, justice and politics reporter for the Texas Tribune.

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What Next - How Much Is Mike Pence to Blame? Oct 07, 2020

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If Vice President Mike Pence does agree to show up at the debate on Wednesday in Salt Lake City, he’ll have plenty to answer for -- in particular, why the White House’s coronavirus task force wasn’t able to do more to fight the pandemic here in the U.S.

Guest: Dan Diamond, reporter for Politico and author of the Politico Pulse newsletter.

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What Next - Scandal and COVID Strike a Tight Senate Race Oct 06, 2020

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We have a sitting senator with a COVID-19 positive test. We have his opponent, admitting to an extramarital affair. And we have a surge in mail-in ballots, even as absentee rules change before voters’ eyes.

Guest: Michael Bitzer, professor of politics and history at Catawba College.

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