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Slate: The 32 Weapons Gabfest

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Slate's John Dickerson, David Plotz, and special guest Emily Yoffe discuss a possible breakthrough in federal budget talks, the News of the World newspaper scandal in the U.K., and the near collapse of the DSK rape case. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 8, 201147 min

Slate: The Mucking About Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The debt ceiling debate, Michele Bachmann’s presidential candidacy, and the Supreme Court ruling on violent video games Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 1, 201150 min

Slate: The Blood and Treasure Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: President Obama’s Afghanistan troop decision, the Wal-Mart class-action suit, and one illegal immigrant’s story Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 24, 201153 min

Slate: The Fighting Against the System Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Republican presidential candidates debate, the War Powers Act fight, and free speech in America’s schools Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 17, 201145 min

Slate: The Pathetic Weiner Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The political future of Anthony Weiner, Republican presidential politics, and banning circumcision in California Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 10, 201145 min

Slate: The Tweeting your Staff Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The national economy, Mitt Romney enters the presidential race, and Anthony Weiner's tweets Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 3, 201146 min

Slate: The Crazy Ideological Jag Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Sarah Palin and the 2012 Republican presidential race, a victory for Democrats in New York, and the Supreme Court and California prisons Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 27, 201148 min

Slate: The Breakfast at Tiffany's Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: President Obama’s Middle East speech, the Republican presidential race heating up, and the sexual escapades of prominent men Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 20, 201147 min

Slate: The Miserly Scrooge Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Fallout over the death of Osama bin Laden, the debt ceiling fight, and whether Newt Gingrich will enter the presidential race Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 13, 201142 min

Slate: The Justice and Revenge Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The death of Osama bin Laden, whether the photo of a dead bin Laden should be released to the public, and how his death affects the debate over torture Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 6, 201152 min

Slate: The Big Day Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The President’s birth certificate, the Administration’s security shake-up, and no defense for the Defense of Marriage Act Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 29, 201146 min

Slate: The Something Really Angry Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Michael Newman, and David Weigel. This week: The Donald Trump presidential bid, the debt ceiling fight, and the controversy over 3 Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 22, 201154 min

Slate: The Crazy Negotiating Posture Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The growing budget debate, long-term fiscal concerns, and bloggers take on the Huffington Post Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 15, 201147 min

Dancing on the Debt Ceiling

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How Republicans are framing the debate about the debt ceiling and Democrats are playing along. By David Weigel. Read by Andy Bowers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 15, 20118 min

Slate: The Purdue Live Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Live from Purdue University, they discuss the federal budget showdown, the 2012 presidential campaign, and college admissions practices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 8, 201155 min

Slate: Purdue Live Gabfest Questions

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The question and answer session from the Slate Political Gabfest recorded live on April 7th, 2011 at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 8, 201128 min

Slate: The Yearning to be Free Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: American intervention in Libya, the Supreme Court’s look at Wal-Mart, and academic intimidation in the Midwest Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 1, 201148 min

Slate: The Grit and Gristle Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The U.S. and allied intervention in Libya, the 2012 GOP race gets underway (really), and South Dakota makes abortion even more difficult. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 25, 201146 min

Slate: Bachmann Overdrive

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Michele Bachmann for president? Among Republicans, she's more popular than you think. By David Weigel. Narrated by Andy Bowers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 25, 20117 min

Slate: The Particularly Terrifying Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The nuclear situation in Japan, Private Manning’s treatment in prison, and the 2012 Republican presidential campaign Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 16, 201146 min

Slate: The P.T. Barnum Hucksterism Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Wisconsin union uproar, Congressional hearings on the U.S. Muslim community, not closing Guantanamo, and de-funding NPR Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 11, 201151 min

Slate: The Confidence Fairy Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The federal budget showdown, the Republican presidential campaign accelerates, and the Westboro Baptist Church and hate speech Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 4, 201149 min

Slate: The Screw the American Worker Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The fight over public unions in Wisconsin, unrest in Libya, and the Defense of Marriage Act Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 25, 201148 min

Slate: The Amazing Amalgam of Facts Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The budget fight in Washington, state budget woes in Wisconsin, and troubling news about Egypt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 18, 201149 min

Slate: The What Was He Thinking Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The continuing political unrest in Egypt, the abrupt resignation of Republican Congressman Chris Lee, and the unlikely marriage of the Huffington Post and AOL Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 11, 201143 min

Slate: The Democracy is Messy Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Political unrest in Egypt, the latest court ruling on healthcare, and 2012 presidential politics Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 4, 201150 min

Slate: David’s Big Birthday Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The president’s State of the Union Address, Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago mayoral bid, and the civil unrest in Egypt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 28, 201141 min

Slate: The Clearly the World Leader Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The visit to Washington by China’s President, politics and health care reform, and Senator Joseph Lieberman’s retirement announcement Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 21, 201146 min

Slate: The Clear and Present Danger Live Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The shooting in Arizona of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and others, the political discussion following the shooting, and the book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 13, 201153 min

Slate: The Clear and Present Danger Gabfest Questions

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This podcast contains the question and answer period from this week's live gabfest taping Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 13, 201118 min

Slate: The House of the People Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The new Congress, the U.S. Constitution, and iPads in the classroom Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 7, 201144 min

Slate: The Conundrum Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: For our year-end show, the panelists ponder a number of conundrums. Or is it conundra? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 29, 201042 min

Slate: The Dulcet and Ebullient Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The New START treaty, the not-so-lame duck session of Congress, and what the 2010 census data means for politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 23, 201042 min

Slate: The Washington Snow Rage Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The tax cut extensions, a challenge to Obama’s Health Care plan, and Mark Zuckerberg as Person of the Year Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 17, 201047 min

Slate: The Consenting Adults Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Congressional tax cut battle, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and developments with California's Prop 8 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 10, 201045 min

Slate: The Say the Phrase Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The fallout from the WikiLeaks documents, extending tax cuts, and repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 3, 201045 min

Slate: The Chocolate Pie Conundrum Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The TSA flap over airport security, the Pope and condom use, and the Taliban leader who wasn’t Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 25, 201042 min

Slate: The Put On Your Praise Face Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon, with special guest Julia Turner. This week: The Lame Duck Congress, a terrorism trial decision, and Sarah Palin and the children of Royalty Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 19, 201050 min

Slate: The Michigan Live Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Election results in the rust belt, former President Bush’s new book, and a Supreme Court case on discrimination and immigration law Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 12, 201045 min

Slate: Michigan Live Gabfest Questions

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The question and answer session from the Slate Political Gabfest recorded live on November 10th, 2010 in An Arbor, Michigan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 11, 201025 min

Slate: The Canny Long-Term Strategy Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: An election results round-up, a look at women candidates, and redistricting Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 5, 201048 min

Slate: The Rile Up the Base Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The elections draw near, dealing with a New Congressional Order, and video game violence comes before the Supreme Court Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 29, 201042 min

The Crazy Money and Crazier Candidates Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: A political roundup, Ginny Thomas calls Anita Hill, NPR dumps Juan Williams and European austerity Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 22, 201045 min

Slate: The New York Live Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week, live from New York: money and politics, the Obama presidency, and the documentary ‘Waiting for Superman’ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 15, 201047 min

Slate: The Marinating in Anger Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Democrats move up in the polls, the Palin spat, and defense spending Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 8, 201043 min

Slate: The Don't Gang Up on David Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Obama administration and the fall election, the fall docket for the Supreme Court, and the sad death of Tyler Clementi Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 1, 201050 min

Slate: The Fur Coat of Irony Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: the GOP Pledge for America, John's swing through Ohio, Colbert and Stewart march on Washington, and Obama's wars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 24, 201034 min

Slate: The Dangerous Prognostication Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: the latest primary results, the Tea Party candidate surge, and Republican leader John Boehner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 17, 201036 min

Slate: The No Story Too Crazy Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon, along with special guest Steven Greene. This week: The beginning of the end in Iraq, a Palin profile, and the DC mayoral election Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 3, 201044 min

Slate: The Golden Touch Gabfest

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: A primary update, a Republican comes out, and Glenn Beck prepares to rally in Washington Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 27, 201045 min