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What Next - How to Dodge a Presidential Pardon Mar 15, 2019

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This week, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to a total of 7½ years in prison. Here’s how his case is one of the best examples of a special counsel making sure that those who did wrong serve the time.

Guest: Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham Law.

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Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.

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Political Gabfest - The “Operation Varsity Blues” Edition Mar 14, 2019

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John Dickerson, and David Plotz, and guest host Josie Duffy Rice discuss Trump’s budget proposal, the college admissions scandal, and the changing debate over reparations for slavery.

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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.

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What Next - The Side Door Into College Mar 14, 2019

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The FBI submitted indictments this week into the largest college admissions scam they’ve ever prosecuted. Celebrities, millionaire parents, and college sports coaches are among the dozens charged in a scheme that sought to get wealthy kids through a “side-door” of college admissions. One that guaranteed them entry to top-tier universities.

The admissions system has always favored the wealthy. Can that be fixed?

Guests: Andy Thomason, editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education. And Julie Lythcott-Haims, former Stanford dean and author of How to Raise an Adult.

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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Your Social Media Photos Are Helping to Build the Surveillance State Mar 13, 2019

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On today’s show, April Glaser kicks things off by talking about Facebook’s long-overdue crackdown on anti-vaccination groups. The social media platform announced it will stop allowing advertisements that peddle misinformation about vaccines, and they’ll make anti-vaxxer groups and pages harder to find. What took them so long?

Then Will Oremus talks to Olivia Solon, Editor of Tech Investigations at NBC, about facial recognition technology, and how some companies are collecting online photos without getting explicit permission from photographers or subjects.

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What Next - Big Banks Say “No” to Private Prisons Mar 13, 2019

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If you made your way up to 1185 Park Ave. on the Upper East Side of New York, you’d find an apartment building that looks like a castle. It’s the apartment of Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase. Back in February protesters stood on the sidewalk and chanted up at him hoping to end JP Morgan Chase’s business with the private prison industry.

It worked.

Who are the protesters looking at next?

Guests: Tracy Jan, reporter at the Washington Post, and emoji activist Jennifer 8. Lee.

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Slate Money - Slate Money: Travel: Frequent Flyer Mar 12, 2019

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This week 'Slate Money: Travel' welcomes it’s most travelled guest to date: Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. Katherine talks about what it’s like to travel 200 days out of the year for work, her tips for making economy comfortable and all the reasons she fully nerds out about public transit.

Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon

Podcast production by Jessamine Molli

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What Next - Joe Biden's Laundered History Mar 12, 2019

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There's really never been a national political conversation about Joe Biden's record. Partly because much of the focus today is about the time he spent as Vice President under Barack Obama. If he decides to run, what other ugly skeletons will the public find?

Guest: Jamelle Bouie, New York Times Columnist

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What Next - Is Mark Zuckerberg Gaslighting You? Mar 11, 2019

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Facebook is reshuffling its priorities and making moves that could help it evade antitrust regulators. Will it affect users that much? No. Is it solving a problem users have been talking about? Not really. So what is Mark Zuckerberg’s latest blog post all about?

Guest: Will Oremus, Slate’s senior tech writer and co-host of the podcast If/Then.

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Slate Money - The This Should be Free Edition Mar 09, 2019

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On this week’s episode, Katherine Maher, Executive Director of Wikimedia, joins Emily, Felix, and Anna to discuss the information spectrum: from Wikipedia and academic journals to Zuckerberg’s pivot to privacy.

Medium: Elizabeth Warren: Here’s How We Can Break Up Big Tech

Nature: Huge US university cancels subscription with Elsevier

Facebook: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking

In the Slate Plus segment: the way Wikipedia is used by for-profit companies.

Email: slatemoney@slate.com

Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas,@EmilyRPeck, @krmaher

Podcast production by Max Jacobs.

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What Next - The Scandal Catching Up to Justin Trudeau Mar 08, 2019

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A scandal involving Justin Trudeau’s cabinet is putting Canada’s warts on display.

Guest: Jesse Brown, publisher of the Canadaland news site and podcast network.

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