What Next TBD: The Case Against CLEAR

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Going through airport security is a legal requirement. Is it fair for a private company to interject itself in that process—and cut to the front of the line? Guest: David Zipper, visiting Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, focused on mobility, cities and technology. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on
0:28.9	Prime Video.
0:35.7	When I got David's zipper on the line, there was one question I needed to ask.
0:41.1	Are you the kind of person who gets to the airport right on time, or you do the right thing and get there a little bit earlier so you have time to relax and settle in?
0:50.7	How does it go for you?
0:52.0	I do the right thing.
0:53.9	I have taken, God knows, many hundreds of flights in my life.
0:59.8	And I am proud to say I have never once missed one because I got to the airport too late.
1:05.4	I'm asking David this because the holiday travel season is closing in.
1:09.6	And security lines at the airport
1:11.0	will be horrendous, raising everyone's anxiety about missing flights.
1:15.5	And David thinks a lot about airport security lines.
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