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Slate: The "Is Anyone Too Fat to Be President?" Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, live from Cambridge, MA, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Obama's "red line," the modern surveillance state, and Christie's weight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 10, 20131h 14m

Slate: The "Whoops, Did I Really Just Hand the 2000 Election to Bush?" Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Gitmo gets a hunger strike, the FAA gets a furlough fix and Justice O'Connor gets regretful. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 3, 201339 min

Slate: The That Dime Bag Will Be $14.50 with Tax Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Debating Miranda, assessing Obama and taxing Mary Jane. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 26, 201349 min

Slate: The What a Horrible, Horrible Week Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Boston Marathon bombing and the media, plus the defeat of the background check gun bill. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 19, 201348 min

Slate: A Guy Named Plotz Makes Jokes About a Guy Named Weiner Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: A gun bill gains momentum, the Obama budget courts controversy and Anthony Weiner wants redemption. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 12, 201350 min

Slate: The Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor ... But Not on the Basketball Court Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and Will Saletan. This week: Immigration reform, abortion restrictions and crossing the line in coaching sports. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 5, 201344 min

Slate: The Everybody's Back Hurts Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Marriage equality, gun control and the disability epidemic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 29, 201355 min

Slate: The "Is That Stephen Colbert?" Edition

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Slate's Political Gabfest live from New York City, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and special guest Stephen Colbert. This week: Republican rebranding, the Steubenville rape case and leaning in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 22, 20131h 24m

Slate: The Gigantic, Delicious, Sugary Drink Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz. This week: Obama goes up the Hill, Michael Bloomberg's soda law is overturned, and the selection of a new pope raises the question: Can religion and modernity coexist? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 15, 201355 min

Slate: The Screw You, Let's Have Lunch Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and special guest Dave Weigel. This week: The Obama schmooze, the Paul filibuster and the Menendez prostitution scandal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 8, 201349 min

Slate: The I'm Working from Home Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The sequester gets real, SCOTUS weighs the Voting Rights Act and Slate employees work from home. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 1, 201353 min

Slate: The Sequestering Obama's Golf Game Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Austerity approaches, SCOTUS considers campaign contributions and the president putts in private. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 22, 201342 min

Slate: The Send Them to the Glue Factory Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Obama's SOTU, knowing when to retire (à la Pope Benedict XVI) and universal pre-k. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 15, 201347 min

Slate: The Drone On Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and special guest David Leonhardt, Washington bureau chief of The New York Times. This week: Obama's drone policy and his upcoming SOTU, plus Leonhardt's new eBook, Here's the Deal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 8, 201340 min

Slate: The Huddled Masses and David Plotz's Birthday Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and special guest William Dobson. This week: Immigration reform and the recent unrest in Egypt. Plus, Emily's NYT Magazine piece on compensating the victims of child pornography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 1, 201345 min

Slate: The Live in Washington, D.C. Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Obama's second inaugural, filibuster reform and social media policy in the workplace. Plus, a special audience Q&A. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 25, 20131h 12m

Slate: The Elitist and Hypocrite Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The likelihood of gun control, the suicide of Aaron Swartz and an inauguration preview. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 18, 201352 min

Slate: The One Trillion Dollars Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: An embattled Chuck Hagel, a debt ceiling coin and Obama's white men problem. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 11, 201352 min

Slate: The After the Fiscal Cliff, the Debt Ceiling Chasm Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and special guest David Weigel. This week: The fiscal cliff is averted, Congress is broken and gun owners get mapped. Plus, an interview with Slate's War Stories columnist Fred Kaplan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 4, 201359 min

Slate: The Conundrums Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Gabfesters tackle life's most vexing dilemmas, as submitted by listeners, in a special year-end episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 28, 201235 min

Slate: The Last Shot Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Confronting gun violence, teetering on the edge of the fiscal cliff and remembering Robert Bork. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 21, 201246 min

Slate: The Union Made Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Michigan's right-to-work law, marriage equality at the High Court and Zero Dark Thirty's depiction of torture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 14, 201243 min

Slate: The Doomsday Scenario Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Inching toward the fiscal cliff, Republican soul-searching and a debate over a horrifying photo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 7, 201244 min

Slate: The Going Nuclear Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The fiscal cliff, filibuster reform and outing bullies online. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 30, 201246 min

Slate: The Will You Sign My Pledge Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Norquist Pledge, Israel and Gaza and Spielberg's Lincoln. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 23, 201244 min

Slate: The All In Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and special guest Ta-Nahisi Coates. This week: The Petraeus Affair, the fiscal cliff and a challenge to the Voting Rights Act. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 16, 201251 min

Slate: The 72 Percent White Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: An election post mortem, marriage equality and an ounce of the kine bud in Colorado. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 9, 201257 min

Slate: The Chris Christie Is My Co-Pilot Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Sandy and the race, the race after Sandy and the Nate Silver backlash. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 2, 20121h 0m

Slate: The God Intended This Gabfest to Happen Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Ployz, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and special guest William Saletan. This week: The Campaign 2012 homestretch, the Republicans' continuing "rape" problem and the Castle Doctrine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 26, 201238 min

Slate: The Binders and Binders and Binders Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Town Hall Brawl: Did Obama successfully neutralize lingering questions about Libya and did Romney lose points among the many binders full of women? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 19, 201245 min

Slate: The Barcalounger Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and special guest Jacob Weisberg. This week: Biden/Ryan debate, Romney bounces back and SCOTUS revisits affirmative action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 12, 201237 min

Slate: The Live From Seattle Gabfest

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A special live show of Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and guest Dan Savage. This week: The debate, the election aftermath and the maternity leave that wasn't. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 5, 20121h 8m

Slate: The Media Is Skewing the Polls Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Has Romney imploded? Is the media gunning for Obama? Is the Senate up for grabs? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 28, 201241 min

Slate: The Moochers, Beggars and Parasites Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Romney fingers freeloaders, author Sasha Issenberg explains The Victory Lab and SCOTUS officiates gay marriage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 21, 201246 min

Slate: The Teeny Little Bounce Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: An embassy breach, a modest bounce and a union battle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 14, 201241 min

Slate: The Cool on the Outside, Burning for America on the Inside Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Democratic Convention, the speeches, and what it all means for the campaign Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 7, 201239 min

Slate: The Conventional Wisdom Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Romney/Ryan makes its case, fact-checkers are rebuffed and Charlotte looms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 31, 201235 min

Slate: The Legitimate/Forcible Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and special guest Hanna Rosin. This week: Romney's reboot, Akin's aftermath and the Ferguson-Krugman contretemps. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 24, 201235 min

Slate: The David Plotz Dream Come True Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and special guest Dave Weigel. This week: Republican VP pick Paul Ryan, Fareed Zakaria's sins of omission and progressive rock Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 17, 201257 min

Slate: The Ode to Nixon Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon and her special guests from Yale, Beverly Gage and Anthony Leiserowitz. This week: Mitt Romney’s tax plan, climate change in the U.S., and a New Yorker profile of Paul Ryan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 10, 201248 min

Slate: The Chick-fil-A Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and special guest Will Dobson, Slate’s Political Editor. This week: Mitt Romney’s European adventure, Ted Cruz from Texas and the Chick-fil-A controversy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 3, 201242 min

Slate: The Greatest Ad You’ll Ever See Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Aurora Colorado shooting aftermath, Republicans and Jews, and the Olympics Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 27, 201250 min

Slate: The Another Boring White Guy Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The latest from the Presidential race, the Republican Vice Presidential Sweepstakes, and Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 20, 201248 min

Slate: The All the People Who Are Happier Than You Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The latest from the Presidential race, Voter ID laws, and political happiness Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 13, 201259 min

Slate: The Lemon, Wet, Good Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and special guest David Weigel. This week: High Court leaks on health care, the hot summer, and political vacations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 6, 201251 min

Slate: The Emily Bazelon's Hometown Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon live from New Haven. This week: The Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act, as well as their decision on Arizona immigration, and finally why the presidential campaign has become so trivial Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 29, 20121h 21m

Slate: New Haven Live special response to ACA

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon live from New Haven. This podcast, recorded Wednesday night, contains the trio's discusson on how the Supreme Court would rule Thursday on the Affordable Care Act Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 29, 201224 min

Slate: The Post-Solstice, Dictator Will Crush You Now Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and special guest Will Dobson. This week: Mitt Romney and Mormonism, World Dictators, and the UVA scandal Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 22, 201253 min

Slate: The Flirt, Friend and Chat Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: the Obama campaign in chaos, cyberpredators, and summer reading for Obama and Romney Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 15, 201258 min

Slate: The Amateur Hour Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and special guest Jack Hitt. This week: Scott Walker’s thumping victory, what’s wrong with Bill Clinton, and the book, a Bunch of Amateurs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 8, 201255 min