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This week, Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Anna Szymanski discuss the Robinhood app that’s gamifying the stock market, Quibi’s big failure, and the rising number of food insecure children in the US. 

In the Slate Plus segment: PPP shaming. 

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Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck

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Tens of thousands of people leave American cities every year. Normally, they’re replaced by new arrivals seeking jobs, education, and opportunity. But in a world transformed by the coronavirus, what happens if nobody arrives to replace them?

Guests:

Emily Badger, reporter at the New York Times

Natalie Moore, reporter at WBEZ

Amanda Kolson Hurley, editor at Bloomberg Businessweek

Host: Henry Grabar

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Tens of thousands of people leave American cities every year. Normally, they’re replaced by new arrivals seeking jobs, education, and opportunity. But in a world transformed by the coronavirus, what happens if nobody arrives to replace them?

Guests:

Emily Badger, reporter at the New York Times

Natalie Moore, reporter at WBEZ

Amanda Kolson Hurley, editor at Bloomberg Businessweek

Host: Henry Grabar

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Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of Berkeley Law, associate law professor Zephyr Teachout of Fordham University, and Slate’s own Mark Joseph Stern to rake over the end of the Supreme Court term, taking a close look at the Trump financial records cases, the ministerial exception cases, and a landmark decision about tribal lands in Oklahoma.  

Podcast production by Sara Burningham.

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Virginia Heffernan talks to writer Molly McKew, who covers Russian influence and info warfare, about the story of a Russian military intelligence unit offering Taliban-connected militants cash bounties to kill American service members in Afghanistan; denial of the story by the Trump administration; the concept of being at war Russia; and cancel culture. 

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Emily, John and David discuss Biden's understated presidential campaign, the new Supreme Court decisions, and Hamilton.

Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:

Jamelle Bouie for The New York Times: “Maybe This Isn’t Such a Good Time to Prosecute a Culture War”

David Weigel for The Washington Post: “The Trailer: Who's Afraid of Joe Biden?”

Michael W. McConnell for the New York Times: “On Religion, the Supreme Court Protects the Right to Be Different”

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy by Annette Gordon-Reed

The New York Times Magazine: “The 1619 Project”

Winds of Change podcast

Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:

Emily: Sea Wife by Amity Gaige; “426 Years: An Examination of 25 Wrongful Convictions

in Brooklyn, New York”

John: Jake Rossen for Mental Floss: “10 Examples of the Mandela Effect”; Chess.com: “What is Zugzwang?” 

David: Meghann Myers for Military Times: “Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Who Testified Against Trump, Announces Retirement From the Army”

Listener chatter from Emmy Rald @RaldEmmy: Phoebe Weston for The Guardian: “‘Landscape of Fear’: What a Mass of Rotting Reindeer Carcasses Taught Scientists”

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For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David and Emily discuss the shaming of wealthy companies that took Paycheck Protection Program loans.

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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.

Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.

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It is impossible to write a surprising book about Donald Trump, but you can’t fault people for trying. Mary Trump writes that her uncle lived an “institutionalized” life, but was plainly never loved by his parents. John Bolton writes that the president is incapable of grasping what’s best for the national interest. Both authors reach familiar conclusions with (somewhat juicy) new details. We’ll take it. 

Guest: Washington Post reporter Shane Harris.

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Local activists never expected the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to go bust. Now they’re asking each other: How did that victory happen? And can it be replicated?

Guest: Lyndsey Gilpin, founder and editor-in-chief of Southerly. 

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At the end of May, California’s oldest prison, San Quentin, had zero reported cases of COVID-19. Now, the facility has more than 1,300. Guards are falling ill. Some inmates are refusing tests, making it difficult to track the severity of the outbreak. One federal judge says the only way to save lives at this point is for the governor to approve a widespread release of inmates. 

Guest: Megan Cassidy, reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. 

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Republicans have begun embracing masks. It’s a welcome change -- but it’s also an economic indicator. 

Guest: Slate’s Jordan Weissmann. 

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