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The world is not flat, Google hasn’t yet mapped everything, and there are yet places in the world that don’t take your AmEx card. Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders is the immense catalog of the world’s curiosities, from the rainbow river of South America to the medical device museum in Minnesota. On The Gist, editors Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton of Atlas Obscura explain their taxonomy of awe-inspiring sights.

In the Spiel, the return of the Trump Anxiety Hotline.

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Upstanders, a new podcast from Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Hear stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to create positive change in their communities. Listen and subscribe to Upstanderson iTunes starting Sept. 7.  

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On this episode of Represent, Slate Culture Writer, Aisha Harris talks to writer/director Justin Tipping about his new movie, Kicks which tells the story of 15 year old Brandon, who goes on a dangerous mission through Oakland to retrieve his “fresh to death” pair of Air Jordans, after they were stolen.

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On this episode of Represent, Slate Culture Writer, Aisha Harris talks to writer/director Justin Tipping about his new movie, Kicks which tells the story of 15 year old Brandon, who goes on a dangerous mission through Oakland to retrieve his “fresh to death” pair of Air Jordans, after they were stolen. 

Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply.

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Facebook: Slate Represent
Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle

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Do you have great aspirations of being the best president the United States has ever known? On The Gist, journalist Robert Strauss says you’d be better off trying to learn from the mistakes of America’s duds. That’s why Strauss wrote Worst. President. Ever. about James Buchanan, who has the distinct dishonor of setting the national stage for the Civil War.

In the Spiel, Mike takes on the myth of the “perfect voter.”

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Jacob Weisberg talks to Clare Malone, FiveThirtyEight's senior political writer, about the upcoming debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

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Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss Donald Trump's

attempt to leave the birther conspiracy club, how the New York and

New Jersey bombs could impact the election and what a pardon for

Edward Snowden would represent for US national security.

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Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" (1963) and Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" (1964): In the first episode of our new Pop, Race, and the ’60s Slate Academy, Slate pop critic Jack Hamilton talks to Barry Shank, author of The Political Force of Musical Beauty, about two immensely famous protest songs. Where did Dylan get the melody for “Blowin’ in the Wind”? What makes “A Change Is Gonna Come” so beautiful? And why is Dylan perhaps the most written-about musician of his era while Cooke has been neglected?

The first episode of this Slate Academy is being made available as a special preview. To hear the rest of the series, sign up for Slate Plus at slate.com/popacademy.

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Hanna Rosin, June Thomas, and Noreen Malone discuss trigger warning on college campuses, race and representation on Double X, and why Judge Judy is so popular.

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This month at Slate, we're celebrating our 20th anniversary of being and living on the internet, by looking back over the last two decades at some of the events, big and small, that changed the way we look at the world, and examining what they mean to us now, and could mean to us going forward.

On this special, episode of Represent, Slate Culture Writer, Aisha Harris talks to writer-director Paul Haggis, of 2005’s Crash, one the most derided Best Picture Oscar winners, ever.

Check out what the critics had to say:

-Worst Movie Of The Decade by Ta-Nehisi Coates

-Crash and Fizzle by David Edelstein

Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply.

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This month at Slate, we're celebrating our 20th anniversary of being and living on the internet, by looking back over the last two decades at some of the events, big and small, that changed the way we look at the world, and examining what they mean to us now, and could mean to us going forward. 

On this special, episode of Represent, Slate Culture Writer, Aisha Harris talks to writer-director Paul Haggis, of 2005’s Crash, one the most derided Best Picture Oscar winners, ever.

Check out what the critics had to say:
-Worst Movie Of The Decade by Ta-Nehisi Coates
-Crash and Fizzle by David Edelstein

Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply.

Email: [email protected]
Facebook: Slate Represent
Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle

Production by Veralyn Williams