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Hit Parade | Only Girl in the World Edition Part 2

Christina sits down with author Zein Murib to talk about his recent article for Slate ‘Why Are Trans People Such an Easy Political Target?’

Hit Parade | Only Girl in the World Edition Part 1

Singing Nuns and Green Tambourines Edition Part 2

Outward: Renaissance Trans Theologies and History with Colby Gordon

Gabfest Reads | The Day the Challenger Fell From the Sky

Hit Parade | Singing Nuns and Green Tambourines Edition Part 1

Culture Gabfest: Meghan Markle Sprinkles Potpourri on You

Culture Gabfest: Zero Day Makes Robert De Niro a Befuddled President

Outward | Slapping Leather: The Untamed History of the Gay Rodeo

Hit Parade | Material Girl in an Imperial World Edition Part 2

Culture Gabfest: The Oscars Go Streaming

Care & Feeding | Should We Skip Touring the White House?

Gabfest Reads | A Former Haitian President’s Grandson Lives the Modern Immigrant Experience

Hit Parade | Material Girl in an Imperial World Edition Part 1

Decoder Ring | The Scratch-Off Ticket’s Instant Win

Culture Gabfest: Noah Wyle Lures Us Into The Pitt

Hit Parade | The Freewheelin’ Edition Part 2

Decoder Ring | Jump, Jive and Fail: The ’90s Swing Craze

Gabfest Reads | Finding Connection in the Aftermath of History’s Horrors

Hit Parade | The Freewheelin’ Edition Part 1

Culture Gabfest: Babygirls and Nickel Boys

Hit Parade | The Bridge: Slate Music Club 2024

Hit Parade | I’d Like to Teach the World to Buy Edition Part 2

Gabfest Reads: The Life and Legacy of John Lewis

Decoder Ring | Mailbag: Fruit Snacks, Waterbeds, and Lobster Tanks

Hit Parade | I’d Like to Teach the World to Buy Edition Part 1

Outward: How Lesbian Artists Turned Renaissance Ruins Into Queer Spaces with Kate Thomas

Hit Parade | Say a Little Prayer Edition Part 2

Outward: What Southern LGBTQ History Can Teach Us

Hit Parade: Say a Little Prayer Edition Part 1

Culture Gabfest: Can Stolen Artifacts Return Time?‌

Hit Parade: With or Without U2 Edition Part 2

Slow Burn: The Rise of Fox News - Ep. 6: What Hath We Wrought?

Outward: The Amicus Brief for U.S. v. Skrmetti with co-author Jules Gill Peterson

Slow Burn: The Rise of Fox News - Ep. 5: Ludacris Has Been Fired

Slow Burn: The Rise of Fox News - Ep. 4: Beacon of Truth

Decoder Ring: Selling Out (Encore)

Well, Now: What It’s Really Like to Take Ozempic

Slow Burn: The Rise of Fox News - Ep. 3: The Other Guy’s Hamburger

Hit Parade: What’s 1984 Got to Do with It Edition Part 2

Slow Burn: The Rise of Fox News - Ep. 2: A Network for Normal People

Well, Now: The Truth About IUDs

Calling Dick Tracy! It’s Warren Beatty Again

Slow Burn: The Rise of Fox News - Ep. 1: We Report. You Can Suck It.

Hit Parade: What’s 1984 Got to Do with It Edition Part 1

Decoder Ring: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie… Will He Want a Welfare Check?

A Word: The Dark Side of the Force

Hit Parade: Building a Herstory Edition Part 2

ICYMI: The Internet History of Kamala Harris

Decoder Ring: Chuck E. Cheese Pizza War (Encore)

Outward: Collecting LGBT+ History with Corey Serrant

Gabfest Reads: Where Does the American Jewish Experience Go from Here?

Hit Parade: Building a Herstory Edition Part 1

Hit Parade: Song(s) of the Summer Edition Part 2

Gabfest Reads: Understanding the World Through Notebooks

Decoder Ring: The Secret Life of Lawn Ornaments

Hit Parade: Song(s) of the Summer Edition Part 1

Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep 7: Turn Around. Fight Back.

What Next TBD: Why Are IUDs Still a Mystery?

Hit Parade: I Wanna Rock with Q. Edition Part 2

Outward: A History of Lesbian Fashion with Eleanor Medhurst

Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep 6: The Murders at City Hall

Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep. 5: Strange Bedfellows

Hit Parade: I Wanna Rock with Q. Edition Part 1

Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep. 4: You Must Come Out

Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep. 3: Harvey Milk vs. the Machine

Hang Up: The WNBA’s Caitlin Clark Drama

John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: The Meaning Behind All This Navel Gazing

Hit Parade: Be My Baby-Baby-Baby Edition Part 2

Outward: The Trans History of the 1936 Olympics with Michael Waters

Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep. 2: Defend Our Children

John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Time Travel Via an Assortment of Journal Entries

Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep. 1: A Hotbed of Homosexuality

Outward: Behind the Scenes of ‘Gays Against Briggs’ with Christina Cauterucci

Hear Me Out: Colonialism Never Ended

John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Moving in New York Twenty Years After September 11th.

Gabfest Reads: Why Americans Care About Animals

Hit Paade: Be My Baby-Baby-Baby Edition Part 1

John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: The Sneaky Pitfalls of the To-Do List

Amicus: How Originalism Ate The Law: The Trap

A Word: Between the World and Us

Outward: Queering the Map with Lucas LaRochelle

John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Remembering Early 1990s New York

Amicus: How Originalism Ate the Law: The Trick

Outward: Mary & George's LGBTQ Historical Drama

Hear Me Out: Student Protests Can Backfire (Badly)

John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: The Power of Four Numbers

Hit Parade: We Want It That Way Edition Part 2

Hear Me Out: Third Parties Are Saving Democracy

John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Remembering George and Defending the Morning

Political Gabfest Reads: Can America Survive Its Relationships with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin?

Outward: A History of the Gay Right with Neil J. Young

Well, Now: We Don’t Need to Cure Autism

John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Sending our Son to College

Hit Parade: We Want It That Way Edition Part 1

Decoder Ring: Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?

Hit Parade: Gotcha Covered Edition Part 2

Decoder Ring: Andrew Wyeth's Secret Nudes

A Word: Love, Family, and Freedom’s Ultimate Price

Hit Parade: Gotcha Covered Edition Part 1

A Word: Black Country Renaissance

Decoder Ring: Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet

Hear Me Out: The House Should Elect The President

Decoder Ring: The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK"

Well, Now: Ending Racism in Healthcare

Hear Me Out: Un-Cancel Woodrow Wilson

Hear Me Out: The Constitution Can’t Save Us

A Word: True Crime in Black and White

What Next: How Trump Gets Kicked off the Ballot

What Next: Are Two States Still the Solution?

Hear Me Out: Feminism Is Dying (But It Can Be Saved)

A Word: Send In the Clowns?

What Next TBD: The Great British Library Hack

Outward: The Outing of Bubba Copeland

A Word: A Black Power Radical’s Rise and Fall

One Year: 1990 - The Angry Death of Kimberly Bergalis

Hear Me Out: The Holidays Are Tacky. Embrace It

One Year: 1990 - Art on Trial

Hear Me Out: Race Isn’t Real. The Census Should Reflect That.

One Year: 1990 - Bush vs. Broccoli

Hear Me Out: The Oppressed Still Have Moral Duties

One Year: 1990 - Mandrake the Magician

One Year: 1990 - Pizzastroika

What Next: Moms for Liberty Tanked at the Polls. This Guy Called It.

A Word: Rebirth of a Nation

Decoder Ring: The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery

Hear Me Out: It’s Time To Sunset Social Security

Decoder Ring: The Dating Manual Unlike Any Other

What Next: Can Hamas Actually Be Destroyed?

Decoder Ring: Mailbag - The Recorder, Limos, and “Baby on Board” Signs

Decoder Ring: When Art Pranksters Invaded Melrose Place

Decoder Ring: The Fast Decline of the Slow Dance

Hear Me Out: Teaching Civics Can’t Save Democracy

Hear Me Out: Columbus Day Is Worth Celebrating

One Year: 1955 - The Hiroshima Maidens

A Word: Black Grief, White Grievance

What Next: Can Marriage Fix America?

One Year: 1955 - The Cutter Incident

The Waves: The Afghan Women Left Behind - Gender And U.S. Immigration

What Next: Wait, China’s Taking Our Pandas Back?

Gabfest Reads: Zadie Smith Knows You're a Fraud

A Word: School of Destruction

One Year: 1955 - Siberia, USA

Hear Me Out: Bring Back The Draft

A Word: Wrong from the Beginning

One Year: 1955 - The Weather Girls

One Year: 1955 - The Crockett Craze

Hear Me Out: Overconfidence Is Killing The Supreme Court

One Year: 1955 - The Team Nobody Would Play

Amicus - Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas

One Year: 1955 Trailer

Decoder Ring: Think Catchphrases Are Dead? Eat My Shorts.

Hear Me Out: Affirmative Action Failed Poor Black Kids

What Next: Florida Public Schools' New Anti-Woke Partner

What Next: It’s Hot as Hell. Why Are Pools Closed?

Decoder Ring: The Quest for a Homemade Hovercraft

Decoder Ring: A Brief History of Making Out

Political Gabfest Reads: How the British Empire Twisted the Truth

A Word: Justice Delayed, Justice Denied?

The Waves: Why Barbie Lives On

Decoder Ring: What's Really Going On Inside a Mosh Pit?

Slow Burn: Season 8 Live Announcement & Bonus Conversation

A Word: Black Dolls Matter

Decoder Ring: The Great Parmesan Cheese Debate

Hear Me Out: Insurrection Is A Force For Good

Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas - Ep. 4: A National Disgrace

Hear Me Out: Descendants Of Slaves Don’t Need Reparations

How To!: Find the Gems in All Your Junk

Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas - Ep. 3: I’m Their Guy

Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas - Ep. 2: Smiling Faces

A Word: My Father, the Spy

Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas - Ep. 1: America’s Blackest Child

Hear Me Out: “Thank You For Your Service” Feels Cheap

A Word: Reckoning on Campus

Hear Me Out: Policing Can’t Be Reformed And Must Be Abolished

A Word: The Ballot, the Bullet, and the Truth

A Word: Dungeons, Dragons, and Diversity

Decoder Ring: Who Owns the Tooth Fairy?

A Word: Becoming “The Black Mozart”

What Next: Charles In Charge

Decoder Ring: Why You Can’t Find a Damn Parking Spot

What Next: America’s Rich History of Gun Control

Hear Me Out: The Iraq War Was a Necessary Evil

Decoder Ring: The Artist Who Was Both Loved and Disdained

Political Gabfest Reads: The Art of Writing Political Satire

Decoder Ring: The Curious Case of Columbo's Message to Romania Part 2

Hi-Phi Nation: Living in a Zoopolis

What Next: He Couldn’t Teach ‘Slavery Was Wrong.’ So He Quit.

Decoder Ring: The Curious Case of Columbo's Message to Romania Part 1

A Word: The Battle for Eatonville

Hear Me Out: Secession Could Be A Good Thing

A Word: When a Race War Threat Was Real

What Next: A Disability Rights Icon’s Long Legacy

What Next: Does Steven Spielberg Have an Oscars Curse?

The Waves: What Ballet’s Best Choreographer Destroyed

The Waves: The Inherent Fear in Being a Woman

A Word: Surviving “Driving While Black”

What Next: How Florida’s School Censorship Spreads

ICYMI: American Girl’s Addy Is More Than a Slave

Political Gabfest Reads: Two Horrifying Days in D.C.

A Word: Haiti: Fear of a Black Republic

Decoder Ring: The Mailbag Episode

Outward: How Can Queer People Keep Each Other Safe?

Decoder Ring: Encore: ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Got It Wrong

Political Gabfest Reads: Everything You Need to Know About Choosing a President

Decoder Ring: Cellino & Barnes, Injury Attorneys, 800-888-8888

Decoder Ring: How Preppy Became Streetwear

S7 Ep. 5: Creating a Winning Show

Decoder Ring: The New Age Hit Machine

One Year: 1942 - The Black-Japanese Axis

Decoder Ring: The Butt and the Bustle

Political Gabfest Reads: Rethinking J. Edgar Hoover

One Year: 1942 - When Internment Came to Alaska

Decoder Ring: The Truth About #TheDress

One Year - 1942: The Info Wars of World War II

One Year: 1942 - The Day the Music Stopped

A Word: Jim Crow’s Killers

One Year: 1942 - The Year Everyone Got Married

Decoder Ring: McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime Pt. 2

Decoder Ring: McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime Pt. 1

One Year: 1942 - The Most Hated Man in America

One Year - 1986: The Man From Fifth Avenue

One Year - 1986: The Miracle of Cokeville

One Year - 1986: Herschel vs. the Blubber Busters

One Year - 1986: A Boycott in Mississippi

9: How Did American Slavery End?

8: Runaway Railroad

7: To Do No Harm?

6: When Cotton Became King

5: What Happened When Slaves Rebelled

4: The Family Life of Enslaved People

3: The Hypocrisy of America’s Revolution

2: Inside the Slave Ship

1: The Terrible Transformation