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What Next - How Big Tech Is Bleeding American Journalism Jan 29, 2019

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More than 1,000 journalists lost their jobs last week. The reason is pretty simple: Big tech is beating digital media to the money. To save journalism, what rules should the public be fighting for?

Guest: Will Oremus, Slate’s Senior Technology Writer.

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What Next - The Gun Rights Case Headed to the Supreme Court Jan 28, 2019

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Why it matters that the Supreme Court is taking on a gun rights case now, after keeping its powder dry for years.

Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, who covers courts & the law for Slate.

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Podcast production by Mary Wilson and Jayson De Leon, with help from Danielle Hewitt.

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Slate Money - The Blah Blah Blahs Matter Edition Jan 26, 2019

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On this week’s episode, Anna, Emily, and Felix discuss AOC’s tax ideas at Davos, currency colonization, and Microsoft and housing.

Note to listeners: this episode was recorded in the late morning, a few hours before the government shutdown ended.

In the Slate Plus segment: a continuation of the discussion on millennial burnout and how technology plays a role.

[ul]CNBC: The Super Rich at Davos Are Scared of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Proposal to Hike Taxes on the WealthyNTK Network: Davos Panel Laughs at Ocasio-Cortez’s 70% Tax Rate ProposalThe Washington Post: Elizabeth Warren to Propose New ‘Wealth Tax’ on Very Rich Americans, Economist SaysThe New York Times: The African Currency at the Center of a European DisputeBBC: France Summons Italian Envoy Over Africa RemarksThe New York Times: Microsoft Cannot Fix Seattle’s Housing Crisis[/ul] Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas,@EmilyRPeck

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What Next - The Opposition Comes for Venezuela’s Maduro Jan 25, 2019

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How Venezuelans reached a breaking point, and how a team of savvy politicians orchestrated the break. No one expected the greatest threat of a proxy war to come out of South America -- right?

Guests: Ana Vanessa Herrero, reporter for the New York Times. Josh Keating, senior editor of foreign affairs for Slate.

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Political Gabfest - The “Great Blotch” Edition Jan 25, 2019

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Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the government shutdown, the 2020 Democratic presidential field, and Brexit doom with guest Tanya Gold.

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What Next - Congress Does Something Jan 24, 2019

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The Senate is readying a vote on two bills to fund the government. The measures aren’t expected to pass, but they might signal the beginning of the end of the shutdown.

Guest: Jim Newell, who covers Congress for Slate.

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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Juul Heist Jan 23, 2019

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On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss news news that the french government has fined Google close to $57 million for violating the new European privacy laws that went into effect in 2018. This comes as news that the Federal Trade Commision here in the US is considering levying a record-breaking fine against Facebook for violations to their users privacy following the Cambridge Analytica mess. Corporate fines may well be a theme this year following the great clean up after the 2016 election went awry

And then we’re going to talk about Juul, the multibillion dollar e-cigarette company that is dominating the new industry. It’s been quite the year for Juul. Their offices were raided by the FDA. They at least provisionally agreed to stop selling certain fruity flavors of tobacco clearly popular with kids. They accepted a $12.8 billion dollar investment from Altria, the tobacco company that owns Marlboro. And most recently, announced, the vaping brand launched a new $10 million national TV marketing campaign.

To help make sense of the company that controls an estimated 70% of the e-cigarette market we’ll be joined by Nitasha Tiku, a senior writer for Wired.

Don’t Close My Tabs:

April: Bloomberg: Corporate America Is Getting Ready to Monetize Climate Change

Will: The Huffington Post: Jack Dorsey Has No Clue What He Wants

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What Next - Kamala Harris & the Rise of Progressive Prosecutors Jan 23, 2019

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More and more reform-minded district attorneys are taking office as self-avowed progressive prosecutors. Why don’t some advocates think Kamala Harris deserves the label?

Guest: Lara Bazelon, associate professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, contributing writer for Slate, and author of the book Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction. Read her op-ed, “Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor,’” in the New York Times.

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What Next - The Women Fleeing Saudi Arabia Jan 22, 2019

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What Mohammed bin Salman’s rise to power has meant for women in Saudi Arabia.

Guest: Journalist Sarah Aziza. Read her latest reporting in the New Yorker.

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - We’re Back to Where Mueller Began: Counterintelligence Jan 19, 2019

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UPDATE: On the evening Friday January 18th, after production of this episode of Amicus had wrapped, special counsel spokesman Peter Carr issued the following statement: "BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate.” Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News says the publication stands by its reporting.

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Asha Rangappa, a former FBI special agent specializing in counterintelligence investigations and now a senior lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Together, they unpack the counterintelligence angle of the Mueller probe.

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Podcast production by Sara Burningham.

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