How online cultural controversies become vehicles for spreading hateful ideology.

AI company valuations become astronomical, McCormick and Unilever create a spice super-company, and the WNBA makes a landmark deal.

Bidding farewell to the worst Attorney General in history (so far).

It's fueling the A.I. bubble, it's coming to your retirement portfolio—and it's flashing a lot of warning signs right now.

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss yesterday's oral arguments in the monumentally important birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court, Trump's primetime attempt to convince Americans that both their wallets and the Iran war are just fine, and strategy versus vibes in key Senate races in Maine and Texas.For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss the launch of NASA's Artemis II mission to the Moon. They muse poetically about space exploration, ask what NASA has been doing all this time, and discuss the benefits to humanity of such expensive missions. In the latest Gabfest Reads, David Plotz talks with journalist Gabriel Sherman about his new book Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family—and the World. Sherman, who also wrote the bestselling biography of Fox News chief Roger Ailes, spent 15 years reporting on the Murdoch empire. In this book he turns his lens on the family itself — the rivalries, the wounds, and the secret Nevada courtroom battle that finally forced Rupert’s hand. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Nina Porzucki Research by Emily DittoYou can find the full Political Gabfest show pages here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The president overturned a 250-year precedent by attending, but the 14th amendment looks like it will remain.

An uncomfortable question, thanks to Love Overboard.

Trump’s executive order that would strip citizenship from untold millions of future Americans fell flat on its face at SCOTUS, and the president was there to see it.

On this week’s show, the high concept comedies of Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat and Riz Ahmed’s Bait as well as the return of Robyn with Sexistential.

Everyone wants to sound like they’ve had plastic surgery.

The Iran war has Europe looking at their climate policies as a place for economic relief.

With the men’s and women’s Final Four matchups set, there’s a lot of chalk and a few surprises.

Why Paul Krugman believes someone’s making a killing on the Iran war.

Bridget Armstrong explains how the iconic reality show exploited the promise of a career to make reality TV gold.

A listener we're calling Natalie received over a million dollars in one of the largest abuse settlements in American history.

The rise and fall of an A.I. video generator.

Blair Imani on explaining complicated concepts to kids.

Congresswoman Summer Lee has a plan

At what point are we no longer a democracy?

The MomTok star should never have been picked in the first place.