Political Gabfest
Voted “Favorite Political Podcast” by Apple Podcasts listeners. Stephen Colbert says "Everybody should listen to the Slate Political Gabfest." The Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz, is the kind of informal and irreverent discussion Washington journalists have after hours over drinks.
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The Political Gabfest: The Between Two Ferns Ed...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Congress v. the CIA, Jolly wins Florida-13, and Obama v. Galifianakis.
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The Political Gabfest: The "Do I Look Stoned?" ...
Slate's Political Gabfest live from Washington D.C., featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and New Republic editor Julia Ioffe. This week: The crisis in Ukraine, the decriminalization of marijuana, and the revamping of the SAT.
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The Political Gabfest: The If You Listen Closel...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: States seek to legalize gay discrimination, Clarence Thomas says nothing, and Spike Lee decries gentrification.
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The Political Gabfest: The You're No Frank Unde...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and Slate political editor Will Dobson. This week: Is Ukraine headed for war? Are unions headed for extinction? And is House of Cards any good?
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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The Political Gabfest: The "Are You on Hillary'...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and Planet Money co-founder Adam Davidson. This week: The Clintons, the vanishing middle class, and AOL chief Tim Armstrong's "distressed babies" comment.
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
57 min
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The Political Gabfest: The Take This Job and Sh...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Dems' midterm prospects, Obamacare's impact on the economy, and Facebook's big birthday.
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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The Political Gabfest: The State of the Union C...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The "State of the Union" is lame, immigration reform is unlikely, and new news is the news.
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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The Political Gabfest: The "Would You Like a Ri...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: David Remnick's Obama profile, Netflix's Romney documentary, and the McDonells' political scandal.
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
52 min
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The Political Gabfest: The "You're Married—Psyc...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Should the NSA be restrained? Will the Supreme Court revisit marriage equality? And is the First Amendment absolute outside abortion clinics?
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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The Political Gabfest: The "I Am Not a Bully" E...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Chris Christie scandal, the Republican poverty push, and the sad case of a brain-dead woman and her unborn child.
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
53 min
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The Political Gabfest: The Three Jews, Two-and-...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Will Saletan, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Progressives fight for a higher minimum wage, violence looms over the coming Olympics, and Jews debate the limits of discourse.
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
50 min
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The Political Gabfest: The 2013 Conundrums Edition
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: A special edition, live from Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco, in which life's great dilemmas are tackled. For example, would you rather be smarter or funnier?
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
57 min
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The Political Gabfest: The You’ll Drag Me Out o...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: A judge rules against NSA spying, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's refusal to resign strategically, and a look at the original "welfare queen." Show page at www.slate.com/gabfest
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The Political Gabfest: Why Don't the Homeless J...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The bipartisan budget
deal, can Obama resurrect his second term, and the effect of the super rich on
cities. Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest."
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The Political Gabfest: The Motor City Massacre ...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Oklahoma challenges Obamacare, workers decry the minimum wage, and Detroit further deteriorates.
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
54 min
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The Political Gabfest: The Hobby Lobby Liberal ...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Iran nuclear deal, the Obamacare contraception court case, and the filibuster nuclear option.
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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The Political Gabfest: Live from Brooklyn, the ...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Why does the Kennedy clan still have a hold on the American psyche? Also, what if JFK had lived?
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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Gabfest Extra: The Nuclear Option
Slate's David Plotz and Emily Bazelon discuss the Senate's vote to end the use of the filibuster on Federal judicial nominees and other appointments below the level of Supreme Court.
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The Political Gabfest: The Don't You Dare Call ...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Can Obamacare be saved? Will Warren run in 2016? Should cyclists share the road?
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
57 min
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The Political Gabfest: The It's Not Plagiarism ...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Christie's decisive victory, Paul's apparent plagiarism, and Bazelon's Nazi anatomists.
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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The Political Gabfest: The Maybe the NSA Should...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The fallout from healthcare.gov, revelations regarding foreign snooping by the NSA, and racial profiling in department stores.
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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Gabfest Extra: What Went Wrong with Healthcare....
John Dickerson speaks with software engineer and Slate contributor David Auerbach about Healthcare.gov's disastrous launch.
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The Political Gabfest: The Healthcare.bomb Edition
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Healthcare.gov is broken, @NatSecWonk is outed, and Maryland gubernatorial candidate Doug Gansler photobombs a drunken, teenage party.
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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The Political Gabfest: "Was That the Alamo or t...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The why and wherefore of the end of the shutdown. Plus, what Facebook's new policy means for teenagers.
Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
54 min
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Gabfest Extra: Day 16, The End, For Now
Slate's David Plotz and John Dickerson are joined by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to discuss the longterm implications of the shutdown for the Republican party. Show page at www.slate.com/gabfest
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