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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Roe v Kavanaugh Sep 15, 2018

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Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Professor Melissa Murray of NYU Law School, who gave blistering testimony at the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings last week. They talk Roe v Wade, when precedent counts and when it doesn’t, and what the likely confirmation of Kavanaugh to the Supreme Courts means for reproductive rights writ large. Plus, Dahlia Lithwick shares highlights from an on-stage conversation between her and Justice Elena Kagan this past week, where they covered division in the court and in the country, how Chief Justice Roberts steers the court through choppy waters, and civility.

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Political Gabfest - The “Trump Economy” Edition Sep 13, 2018

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Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss who deserves credit for the economy, the state of the midterm campaigns, and the Trump administration's attempt to indefinitely detain migrant children.

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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Special Report: Apple’s New (Old) Gizmos Sep 13, 2018

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We have a special bonus If Then! On Wednesday afternoon Apple held its big annual event full of new and expensive gadgets. We wanted to help you make sense of what happened, and what it means. Host Will Oremus is joined by journalist and Slate contributor Christina Bonnington, who covers emerging technology and consumer technology. They talk through new phones, new watches, and all the things Apple is taking away from their original products.

Stories discussed on the show:

Slate: Why Apple’s Not Giving Us Another Small iPhone Anytime Soon

Slate: Everything We Know About The Three New iPhones

Slate: Apple’s Devices Are Pulling Us Into Our Own Personal Clouds

Podcast production by Max Jacobs

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You can get updates about what’s coming up next by following us on Twitter @ifthenpod. You can follow Will @WillOremus and April @Aprilaser. If you have a question or comment, you can email us at ifthen@slate.com.

If Then is presented by Slate and Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, New America, and Slate. Future Tense explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and culture. To read more, follow us on Twitter and sign up for our weekly newsletter.

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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Google’s Real Biases Sep 12, 2018

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On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser discuss California’s landmark decision to eliminate cash bail for defendants in criminal cases--and the controversial algorithmic “risk assessment” system that will partially replace it. They also hash out a fresh debate over who gets to fact-check the news that appears in your Facebook feed following an outcry in media circles on Tuesday, after Facebook flagged a story in the liberal outlet ThinkProgress as “false”--all because the conservative Weekly Standard had taken issue with its headline.

The hosts are then joined by Professor Safiya Umoja Noble, author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. Lately, media coverage - and congressional hearings - have focused on potential anti-conservative bias among the big tech companies, but professor’s Noble’s work suggests we may actually have a much different problem.

17:50 - Interview with Safiya Umoja Noble36:36 - Don’t Close My Tabs

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Anatomy of an AI System by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler

The New Yorker: Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before it Breaks Democracy?

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Slate Money - The Kaep Caper Edition Sep 08, 2018

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Nike and Kaepernick, Les Moonves & Warner Bros, and Modi’s failed cash crackdownon this week's episode with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, and Emily Peck,

In the Slate Plus segment, Felix, Anna, and Emily discuss Amazon’s new valuation.

Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeckProduction by Max Jacobs.

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Political Gabfest - The "Unsung Hero" Edition Sep 06, 2018

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Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss anonymous dissent within the Trump administration, Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, and backlash against The New Yorker for inviting and un-inviting Steven Bannon to their Festival.

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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - How The Future Of Music Streaming Will Sound Sep 05, 2018

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On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser are joined once again by their Slate colleague Mark Joseph Stern to make sense of a what a Kavanaugh-court might mean for the internet going forward.

They are also joined by music and technology writer David Turner, who pens the weekly newsletter Penny Fractions, which is all about the economics and culture of music streaming. They’ll talk to him about how streaming works for artists and if there’s anything they can do to push back against the streaming giants like Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. And they’ll also talk about some of the surprising ways in which streaming is changing music itself.

13:24 - Interview with David Turner33:57 - Don’t Close My Tabs

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The New York Times: How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born

BuzzFeed News: How Duterte Used Facebook to Fuel the Philippine Drug War

The New Yorker: The Shaming of Geoffrey Owens and the Inability to See Actors as Laborers Too

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Slate Money - The High Stakes Negotiation Edition Sep 01, 2018

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New NAFTA negotiations, the state of legal weed, and a look at new labor proposals before the holiday on this week's episode with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, Emily Peck, and Jordan Weissmann.

In the Slate Plus segment, Felix, Anna, Emily, and Jordan discuss their favorite finance-related show on TV right now.

Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck, @JHWeissmann.Production by Max Jacobs.

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Back to School Protest Special Sep 01, 2018

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Student activism is back in America’s schools. Young people mobilizing around gun safety and social justice issues are heading back to school. We talk to Mary Beth Tinker, who took her fight for the right to protest at school all the way to the Supreme Court back in 1969. And we hear from noted First Amendment scholar Geoffrey R. Stone of the University of Chicago Law School, who tells us what rights students have to raise their voices—or wear t-shirt slogans—in schools today.

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Political Gabfest - The “Packing and Cracking” Edition Aug 30, 2018

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Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss lawyer Don McGahns’s departure from the White House team, North Carolina’s political gerrymandering and John McCain’s legacy.

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