Slate Debates

About Slate Debates

A feed from the Slate podcast network featuring episodes with enlightening conversations, opposing views, and plenty of healthy disputes. You'll get a curated selection of episodes from programs like What Next, The Waves, and the Political Gabfest, with deep discussions that go beyond point-counterpoint and shed light on the issues that matter most.

Publisher

Slate Podcasts

Category

news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Feb 2012

Latest episode

3 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

88 of 398 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   3 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   ICYMI | Twitter Is Dead (Really, We Mean It)

   On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by The Atlantic staff writer and host of the Galaxy Brain podcast, Charlie Warzel. Charlie has been following the demise of Twitter, now called X, since Elon Musk took over in 2022. While many of Musk’s decisions have prompted people to declare the end of the app, the introduction of a new location feature undermines almost all of what was left of its relevance. Can we finally call it? Is this Twitter’s official time of death? This podcast is produced by Daisy Rosario, Vic Whitley-Berry, and Kate Lindsay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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   24 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   ICYMI | Encore: Jubilee Is Making Debating Worse

   On today’s encore episode, hosts Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by Slate staff writer Aymann Ismail to discuss the controversial YouTube channel, Jubilee. A video of political commentator Mehdi Hasan debating 20 far-right republicans has gone viral, but as Ismail argues in his piece for Slate, it also crossed a line. When political disagreement becomes content and extremism is rewarded with clicks, everybody loses. This podcast is produced by Daisy Rosario, Vic Whitley-Berry, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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   20 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   ICYMI | Side-Eyeing at H Mart

   On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by comedian and writer Youngmi Mayer to talk about a controversy that’s divided TikTok: How should Asian people feel about white people in Asian grocery stores? That’s the question creator Madeline Qi didn’t even mean to ask when she posted her now-viral video, which resulted in call-outs, doxxing, and, ultimately, a conversation too nuanced for TikTok. Youngmi’s attempts to make sense of the discourse on her Substack ended up going viral on Instagram, so she came on the show to share what people misunderstand about the controversy, and how her own experience being mixed white and Asian contributes to her perspective. This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay, with help from AC Valdez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Inside a recent episode

ICYMI | Twitter Is Dead (Really, We Mean It)

Published 3 Jan 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Very like, what are you eating for lunch? Very. Yeah. It's extremely San Francisco centric. Right. Like like not even San Francisco centric, but like the Soma neighborhood in San Francisco. Yes. Basically people who were involved in Twitter. Right. Yeah, exactly. And then, yes, you had these moments of, you know, water cooler, essentially, where there was – and it became very clear very quickly that it was an excellent, very fast way to get this, you know, connection to on-the-ground news, right? And it became very valuable to journalists that way just from seeing, like, okay, like, you know, there was a – whatever, a shooting or whatever, like some terrible – a flood – natural disaster, like I can sort of search this, see what is happening on the ground from people and use that as a starting point for my reporting or or bring it in or find someone to talk to about it. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

2,837 ratings

Spotify

3.8 / 5

48 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

63

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

76

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