America is home to 735 billionaires with a collective worth greater than $4.7 trillion, according to Forbes. There were just 424 billionaires in 2012, Forbes found, and only 243 a decade before that. The billionaires keep multiplying.
In this article, Willy Staley uses information from the first billionaire count — commissioned in 1981 by the entrepreneur M ... Show More
Today
What Went Wrong on the U.S.S. Lincoln?
For the past two weeks, family members of sailors have been raising alarms about the conditions aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, which has a crew of about 5,000 and has been at sea for almost nine months straight. Today, John Ismay, a New York Times reporter who covers the Pent ... Show More
28m 34s
Yesterday
Luigi Mangione’s High-Risk Legal Strategy
In the two years since a masked man shot and killed a health care executive, the national spotlight has turned to the primary suspect, Luigi Mangione. The overwhelming evidence has pointed to his guilt, and the question on most minds has been: What might the defense of one of the ... Show More
24m 56s
Aug 16
What Makes a Killer Thriller?
The New York Times Book Review recently released its list of the 50 best thrillers of the 21st century. To put it together, the team asked almost 300 authors and other experts to vote for the best heart-thumping, page-turning, white knuckle reads published since 2000. In this epi ... Show More
42m 29s
Aug 2023
Introducing... Good Bad Billionaire
<p>Coming Tuesday 29th August...</p><p>The podcast that finds out how the richest people on the planet made their billions, and then judges them for it. Are they good, bad, or just another billionaire?
Each episode BBC business editor Simon Jack and journalist and podcaster Zin ... Show More
2m 4s
Feb 2024
What Next - The American Oligarch Class
How did America end up back in a Gilded Age of incredible wealth disparity, and how did a new generation of oligarchs bend society to their vision? Guest: Tim Murphy, senior reporter for Mother Jones.If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus me ... Show More
23m 4s