Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raised the next generation together. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp.

Today on the show, Lucy and I sit down with Megan Francis. She's a parenting writer and the author of the new book,

The Last Parenting Book You'll Ever Read. It's all about embracing the teen years and your impending

empty nest.

And there's so, so much to talk about.

So we're going to go ahead and get going.

But first, a quick break.

During any given June, the Supreme Court issues decisions at a head spinning rate. That's why we call this month

opinion paloosa here at Slate. This year, a pile up of constitutional crises on the so-called

shadow docket means the justices are even busier than usual. And the outcomes could be even more

chaotic. I'm Dahlia Lithwick. And I'm Mark Joseph Stern. And we host Amica's Slate's podcast about the courts, the law, and the Supreme Court.

We're sharing new episodes every Saturday with deep analysis of the legal cases shaping American life.

And we're popping up with emergency episodes whenever the biggest decisions come down.

Find us by searching AMI, CUS, wherever you listen to podcasts.

Hello, Slate listeners.

I'm Felix Salmon.

I host Slate Money, the podcast about all things, business and

finance. We talked about the taco trade recently. That was the episode called Let's Talk About

It stands, of course, that Trump always chickens out, and my co-host, Elizabeth Spires, explained why she thinks this

acronym bothers him so much. You know, he's being called a coward, and he personally can't tolerate

that, because he's certainly gotten plenty of criticism, even during the first term, that he was

inconsistent in terms of what he would promise, what he would deliver, and how many times

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