Podcasts Archive

A Word … With Jason Johnson

Tough, smart, and surprising conversations about race in American politics and society.

Amicus

A legal podcast with Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick.

Audio Book Club

Dissecting today’s best books and authors.

The Authority: Exploring the Worlds of His Dark Materials

Inside Philip Pullman’s fantasy world.

Better Life Lab

Finding a better way to work.

Big Mood Little Mood

Advice, commentary, and conversation from Danny M. Lavery.

Care and Feeding

Parenting advice from Slate.

Culture Gabfest

Slate’s critics debate the week in culture, from highbrow to pop.

Dear Prudence

Slate’s advice podcast.

Death, Sex & Money

Anna Sale explores the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation.

Decoder Ring

Cracking cultural mysteries.

Employee of the Month

A talk show hosted by Catie Lazarus.

Flashback

Revisiting films from the past with a modern critical eye.

Future Tense Fiction

Today’s best science fiction, and what it reveals about tomorrow’s reality.

Hang Up and Listen

Conversation and analysis on the week in sports.

Hear Me Out

Slate’s discussion and debate podcast.

Hi-Phi Nation

A philosophy podcast that turns stories into ideas.

Hit Parade

What makes a song a smash? Talent? Luck? Timing? All that—and more.

How to Do It

Your wildest sex advice questions, now in your headphones.

How To!

You’ve got questions. Together, we get answers.

I Have to Ask

Deep conversations with Isaac Chotiner.

ICYMI

We’re online so you don’t have to be.

If Then

News on technology, Silicon Valley, politics, and tech policy.

Lexicon Valley

A podcast about language, from pet peeves to syntax.

Live at Politics and Prose

Readings and discussions featuring today’s best authors.

Man Up

Masculinity, race, and relationships in the modern world.

Mission: Interplanetary

Navel Gazing

A journey through the life—and notebooks—of journalist John Dickerson.

One Year: 1977

Slate’s new history podcast covers 1977: a year when gay rights hung in the balance, Roots dominated the airwaves, and Jesus appeared on a tortilla.

One Year: 1995

The new season of One Year covers 1995, a year when homegrown terrorists attacked Oklahoma City, America went online, and the Macarena took over nightclubs.

One Year: 1986

The third season of One Year covers 1986, a year when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, the mystery of Al Capone’s vaults got solved, and a sea lion named Herschel caused chaos in Seattle.

One Year: 1942

The fourth season of One Year covers 1942, a year when inflation threatened to sink America, disinformation was rampant, and a worker revolt changed music forever.

One Year: 1955

The new season of One Year covers 1955, a year when a team of 12-year-old Little Leaguers became civil rights pioneers, “weather girls” took the country by storm, and a conspiracy theory about communist brainwashing infected the nation’s politics.

One Year: 1990

The new season of One Year covers 1990, a year when a controversial art exhibit became a First Amendment battleground, a single dad with a secret identity took on Big Tobacco, and President George H.W. Bush spoke out against his most-hated enemy: broccoli.

Outward

Expanding the LGBTQ conversation.

Political Gabfest

Where sharp political analysis meets informal and irreverent discussion.

Represent

Aisha Harris dives deep into conversations with critics and filmmakers.

The Secret History of the Future

From Slate and the Economist.

Slate Academy: Fascism

Its rise, fall, and current relevance.

Reconstruction

With Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion

The History of American Slavery

With Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion

Slate Money

Sharp financial analysis and economic news.

Slow Burn: Watergate

What did it feel like to live through the scandal that brought down President Nixon?

Slow Burn: The Clinton Impeachment

A fresh reexamination of the scandals that nearly destroyed the 42nd president and forever changed the life of a former White House intern.

Slow Burn: Biggie and Tupac

How is it that two of the most famous performers in the world were murdered within a year of each other—and their killings were never solved?

Slow Burn: David Duke

America’s most famous white supremacist came within a runoff of controlling Louisiana. How did David Duke rise to power? And what did it take to stop him?

Slow Burn: The Road to the Iraq War

Eighteen months after 9/11, the United States invaded a country that had nothing to do with the attacks. Who’s to blame? And was there any way to stop it?