“Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company,” the announcement reads. “Ownership has changed, but the product you use every day has not.” It also said that it will keep its current team. Last.fm is a music website that can track what you listen to across platforms, apps and streaming services, including Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.
Drug Story is an independent documentary podcast from journalist Thomas Goetz that explores the hidden history of medicine one drug at a time. Each episode uses a single medication to examine the science, politics, culture, and human stories surrounding disease and treatment.
La Cotorrisa launched in 2019 and is hosted by two Mexican stand-up comedians. (They read funny anecdotes submitted by listeners, whom they call “cotorros”.) The final nominees include: Filmic Notion Podcast (Puerto Rico) - TV & Film by Gerardo E. Alemán Rivera; Historiografìa Mexicana (México) - History by Pedro César Beas; and Susurros Podcast (Costa Rica) - Fiction by Bobby Chavarría and Waldin Badilla.
In a bonus episode for Slate Plus subscribers, the gang gather over the topic of book clubs. Endorsements June: Get In: The Inside Story of Labor Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund, a detailed and readable analysis of Keir Starmer's unlikely rise to power.
“To have all these stories be told to me and sent to me for just a few weeks, kind of an outpouring was incredible. You know, your dad is one thing to you and then to all these other people he was something else. I think sport is really amazing in these moments, football was incredible and comforting. As a family we took a lot of comfort from that.”
A Christmas Carol-inspired cold open begins with Donald Trump napping until the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein appears. Epstein, played by Will Ferrell, speaks in a mocking, sinister tone while referencing Trump’s low approval ratings. The sketch shifts from audience laughter to audible reactions as it escalates into darker material. Epstein describes an afterlife that is “really hot” and claims to spend time with figures including Joseph Stalin and John Wayne Gacy.
“We're a network today,” he told me. “But our goal is to become the network, where people say 'I use Ionna for all of my travel.'” I wanted to have Cutler on to find out how that's going, especially in a historically rough era for the EV industry. (Despite the slowdown in sales from some of Ionna's backers, its plans haven't changed, he told me.)
Defendants' use of Church trademarks and copyrighted materials has caused and will continue to cause individuals to be confused and access Defendants' content mistakenly believing it comes from or is affiliated with or endorsed by the Church, the church claimed in their lawsuit.
Before becoming one of the best-known value investors in the world, Pabrai was running a business generating roughly $6 million in revenue. The company was successful on paper, but he was deeply unhappy. Pabrai eventually took an extensive personality assessment that included interviews with coworkers, family members, and people close to him. The conclusion was surprisingly simple.
In our final episode, it's time to talk about Neil Gorsuch and the future of SCOTUS. Host Susan Matthews enlists Slate's jurisprudence team-Amicus co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern-to discuss Gorsuch's key rulings to date, his unpredictability, and how this textualist will shape this court (and our country) for decades to come.
We're hosting Vulture Festival at Tribeca Festival, which will feature two days of our favorite actors, artists, and agents of chaos. Jason Bateman will start us off on June 13 with a live podcast recording of Good One, then cede the floor to two generations of Handmaid's Tale actresses: Elisabeth Moss will pass the torch to Chase Infiniti and Lucy Halliday, stars of Hulu's new spinoff, The Testaments.
Soccer is now America's third most popular sport, behind football and basketball, per a Q4 2024 research from Ampere Analysis cited by The Economist. A-Rod's sport trails, the same study shows. "I don't mean to be that guy coming onto your show, A-Rod, you icon," Bennett said, "and be the person to bring the news to you that baseball has been pushed to number four in the list, but I am that guy."
Jessica Morris stars as the presenter of Sarah Cares, a call-in radio show/podcast in which she solves listeners' emotional dilemmas, often in tough-love, no-nonsense fashion. On the verge of signing a big-time New York contract, her week goes awry when her studio falls victim to a bomb scare. Then on the following day her phone lines are blockaded by Edward, an aggrieved and apparently abusive husband; Sarah had previously told his wife to ditch him.
Acast was founded in 2014 and is the world's largest independent podcast company. A pioneer in the open podcast ecosystem, Acast's powerful podcast monetization marketplace delivers for creators and advertisers alike. Advertisers can efficiently target an engaged audience of listeners through dynamic ad insertion, while podcasters are given access to a range of monetization opportunities - including paid subscriptions through Acast+ - and the necessary tools to expand their listener base.
For heavy rare earths, China processes 99% of them. When Beijing tightened export controls, the timeline to industrial pain was measured in weeks, not quarters. “When China turned off the taps, within six weeks, American industry was struggling,” the guest said. That fragility is compounded by a stockpile that has been hollowed out.
The über-rich have enjoyed a remarkable degree of sway in Donald Trump's Washington-but they may now be facing a backlash. The Washington Roundtable traces the signs of invigorated "pitchfork politics," such as Zohran Mamdani's pied-à-terre tax in New York, a wealth tax on the ballot in California, and recent protests against the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's involvement in the Met Gala -and what these efforts reveal about the cultural and political limits of oligarchy.
