25 Best Slate Podcasts Podcasts
A list of the most popular Slate Podcasts podcasts on Podyssey Podcasts.
25 Best Slate Podcasts Podcasts
1. Slow Burn
In the early 1970s, the future of abortion in America was far from settled. Roe v. Wade would change everything, though few knew it at the time. For the seventh season of Slate’s Slow Burn, host Susan Matthews explores the path to Roe—a time when mor...Show More
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27:28 | Nov 28th, 2017
6 RECOMMENDATIONS
People called her crazy, and to be fair she must have seemed crazy. But she was onto something. How Martha Mitchell, the celebrity wife of one of Nixon’s closest henchmen, tried to blow the whistle on...Show More
2. Decoder Ring
Decoder Ring is the show about cracking cultural mysteries. In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters.
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40:39 | Jul 13th, 2020
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The Karen, a white woman who surveys, inconveniences, and terrorizes, service workers and people of color is a relatively new term in the culture, but her character type has been with us for centuries...Show More
3. How To!
You’ve got questions. Together, we get answers. Each week on How To!, Amanda Ripley (bestselling author of High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, The Unthinkable, and The Smartest Kids in the World) takes on listeners’ toughest problem...Show More
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How To Ditch Your Distractions Once and For All
37:15 | Jul 27th, 2021
1 RECOMMENDATION
There’s one thing that all of Helena’s personal projects have in common: they remain unfinished. The family photo album is empty, as is her mom’s recipe book. And the lavender garden is still unplante...Show More
4. Spectacular Vernacular
Linguist Nicole Holliday and Wall Street Journal language columnist Ben Zimmer discuss the ways language is changing, talk to scholars and writers, and set and solve word puzzles.
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52:20 | Jun 23rd, 2020
1 RECOMMENDATION
The curious grammar of questions in languages around the world. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on Lexicon Valley each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our show. Twitter: @le...Show More
5. Hi-Phi Nation
Hi-Phi Nation is philosophy in story-form, integrating narrative journalism with big ideas. We look at stories from everyday life, law, science, popular culture, and strange corners of human experiences that raise thought-provoking questions about th...Show More
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54:04 | Apr 13th, 2019
2 RECOMMENDATIONS
Preschool kids get their first taste of democratic participation when they vote on their class name, and democratic private schools try to display the value of democracy by making kids vote on everyth...Show More
6. Political Gabfest
Voted “Favorite Political Podcast” by Apple Podcasts listeners. Stephen Colbert says "Everybody should listen to the Slate Political Gabfest." The Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz, is the kind of informal and irrevere...Show More
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The "Fox is in the White House" Edition
1:13:34 | Mar 7th, 2019
1 RECOMMENDATION
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the House of Representatives’ investigation of Trump, Amanda Ripley’s article about political prejudice in America, and the Fox News White House....Show More
7. Slate Money
A weekly roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of business and finance, hosted by Felix Salmon.
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42:42 | Aug 1st, 2020
4 RECOMMENDATIONS
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski are joined by Felix’s cousin Thomas Harding to discuss his book, Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World , on the unusual f...Show More
8. Slate News
Daily news updates from across the Slate Podcast network.
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Acting Ethically in The Fog of War
29:51 | Dec 15th, 2017
1 RECOMMENDATION
Virginia Heffernan talks to Walter Shaub about the Office of Government Ethics, principled governance, and what it's like to run a federal agency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...Show More
9. Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America.
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Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG Part One
38:31 | Jul 21st, 2020
2 RECOMMENDATIONS
Dahlia Lithwick goes back to where one of the most influential legal careers in US history began—Harvard Law School, September 1956—to find out what we can learn from the other women of the class of 1...Show More
10. Mom and Dad Are Fighting | Slate's parenting show
Jamilah Lemieux, Zak Rosen, and Elizabeth Newcamp share triumphs and fails and offer advice on parenting kids from toddler to teens.
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11. The Gist
For thirty minutes each day, Pesca challenges himself and his audience, in a responsibly provocative style, and gets beyond the rigidity and dogma. The Gist is surprising, reasonable, and willing to critique the left, the right, either party, or any ...Show More
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Republicans Explain Polarization
30:00 | Jul 16th, 2024
1 RECOMMENDATION
A run down of the major themes of Day One of the RNC, from gas prices to the many black Republicans who took the stage. Plus, JD Vance and DJ Trump are mirror images. Also, as the polarizing effect of...Show More
12. Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
John Dickerson of Slate’s Political Gabfest revisits a moment from the American carnival of politics. Hear about the grand speeches, emergency strategies, baby kissing, and backstabbing that make each presidential cycle so fascinating.
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Kennedy and Communism (Part 3)
40:05 | Jul 25th, 2018
1 RECOMMENDATION
This episode of Whistlestop travels back to June 1961, in the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy’s meeting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...Show More
13. Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia
What makes a song a smash? Talent? Luck? Timing? All that—and more. Chris Molanphy, pop-chart analyst and author of Slate’s “Why Is This Song No. 1?” series, tells tales from a half-century of chart history. Through storytelling, trivia and song snip...Show More
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1:28:20 | Jan 31st, 2020
2 RECOMMENDATIONS
Sped-up voices. Wacky instruments. Songs about cavemen, bathtubs, bikinis and mothers-in-law. From the very birth of rock-and-roll, novelty songs were essential elements of the hit parade. Right throu...Show More
14. Working
Hosts Isaac Butler, Karen Han, and June Thomas interview creative people about how they write, compose, paint, and more.
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Working With the Homeless: How Does a Tenants’ Rights Attorney Do His Job?
1:08:16 | Nov 3rd, 2019
2 RECOMMENDATIONS
Jordan Weissmann returns to host a new season all about the people who work with the homeless population in New York City. In this first episode, Jordan speaks to Mark Hess, a Supervising Attorney in ...Show More
15. Slate Culture
Get the Culture Gabfest and all of Slate's culture coverage here.
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Culture Gabfest: Live from Vancouver
1:14:28 | Nov 20th, 2019
1 RECOMMENDATION
Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and Stephen Metcalf are live in at the Granville Island Stage in Vancouver to discuss The Irishman, Schitt's Creek, and creepy ads that follow you around. In Slate Plus: Qu...Show More
16. Slate Technology
Technology coverage from across the Slate Podcast network
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32:01 | Oct 24th, 2018
3 RECOMMENDATIONS
In the Victorian era, plaster casts became a way to preserve important artifacts in 3-D. Now, virtual reality promises to preserve places and experiences. But who decides what gets preserved? And is t...Show More
17. One Year
The people and struggles that changed America—one year at a time. In each episode, host Josh Levin explores a story you may have forgotten, or one you’ve never heard of before. What were the moments that transformed politics, culture, science, religi...Show More
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1977: Mr. Marijuana and the Drug Czar
52:15 | Jul 15th, 2021
2 RECOMMENDATIONS
America’s top weed evangelist and the nation’s drug czar shared the same goal: to loosen up the country’s marijuana laws. In 1977, everything was trending their way—until a blowout Christmas party des...Show More
18. Slate Presents: One Year
The people and struggles that changed America—one year at a time. In each episode, host Josh Levin explores a story you may have forgotten, or one you’ve never heard of before. What were the moments that transformed politics, culture, science, religi...Show More
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Standoff | Ep. 3: The Wisdom of the Crowd
28:57 | Nov 21st, 2018
1 RECOMMENDATION
Host Ruth Graham describes what happens for the bulk of the 11-day siege on the Weaver family property. As the surviving Weavers stayed holed up inside their cabin, their story attracted droves of sup...Show More
19. What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future
Every Friday, Slate’s popular daily news podcast What Next brings you TBD, a clear-eyed look into the future. From fake news to fake meat, algorithms to augmented reality, Lizzie O’Leary is your guide to the tech industry and the world it’s creating ...Show More
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How the Gig Economy Won in California
22:56 | Nov 6th, 2020
2 RECOMMENDATIONS
Companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash have always argued that their workers are independent contractors, not employees. This distinction has been crucial in their rise from startups to multi-billion...Show More
20. What Next | Daily News and Analysis
The problem with the news right now? It’s everywhere. And each day, it can feel like we’re all just mindlessly scrolling. It’s why we created What Next. This short daily show is here to help you make sense of things. When the news feels overwhelming,...Show More
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TBD | How Clubhouse Cracked China’s Firewall
26:52 | Feb 12th, 2021
3 RECOMMENDATIONS
For most of the last year, Clubhouse—the audio-only social media app—has been dominated by conversations about business, branding, and Elon Musk. But as users picked up the app around the globe, somet...Show More
21. Slate Business
Get the latest from Slate Money and the entire Slate network's takes on the latest in the world of business and business news.
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A Tuna Tale | Starkist, Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea, and the Sinking of Seafood Empires
24:29 | Aug 14th, 2020
3 RECOMMENDATIONS
A few years ago, the Department of Justice started looking into business practices in the canned tuna industry. What unfolded was a price fixing story so dark and disruptive, it threatened to upend a ...Show More
22. Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Every week, Danny M. Lavery brings on a guest to answer questions from listeners before diving into conversation about relationships, dissatisfaction, drives, regrets, estrangement, embarrassment, self-assessments, and feelings from the monumental to...Show More
Most Recommended Episode
1:07:08 | Mar 21st, 2023
1 RECOMMENDATION
Danny Lavery welcomes comedian, actor, and host of the Beautiful/Anonymous podcast, Chris Gethard. Lavery and Gethard take on three letters. First, from a letter writer who is terrified about the unk...Show More
23. The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Each week a pair of writers and guests talk through one news story we can’t stop thinking about, and unpack what gender has to do with it.
Most Recommended Episode
The “Live From Sydney” Edition
1:02:11 | Mar 14th, 2019
1 RECOMMENDATION
This week on The Waves, Christina, June and Noreen join the All About Women Festival live at the Sydney Opera House. First they discuss the Rebel Wilson rom-com Isn’t It Romantic, then they are joined...Show More
24. Slate Daily Feed
The Slate Daily feed includes new episodes from more than 30 shows in the Slate Podcast Network. You'll get thought provoking analysis, storytelling, and commentary on everything from news and politics to arts, culture, technology, and entertainment....Show More
Most Recommended Episode
57:07 | Nov 22nd, 2023
2 RECOMMENDATIONS
Pizza Hut’s adventure in the Soviet Union was unlike any restaurant opening before or since. It involved a fleet of submarines, a very special pizza topped with tuna and salmon, and a casual dining sp...Show More
25. Slate's Spoiler Specials
On Slate's Spoiler Specials, Slate critics, such as Dana Stevens and Willa Paskin, discuss new movies and TV shows in spoiler-filled detail. We dissect twist endings, plot holes, and other secrets you won't read in reviews. WARNING: This podcast cont...Show More
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