Were Midterm Ads Always This Bad?
From the unhinged to the undeniably ugly. Turn on a TV just about anywhere in America and get ready to see some of the most unhinged political ads of your life. But with more money being spent on ad buys than ever before, it’s worth asking: do they make any difference? Guest: Molly Jong-Fast, host of the Fast Politics podcast. Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Madeline Thames-Ducharme and Patrick Fort. Paige Osburn is the senior supervising producer of What Next and What Next TBD. Mary Harris is the host and managing editor of What Next, Slate's daily news podcast. She has reported throughout the public radio system, for NPR, Marketplace, and WNYC.