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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Slate: The "Is That Stephen Colbert?" Edition
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.
84 min
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Slate: The Gigantic, Delicious, Sugary Drink Ga...
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?
55 min
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Slate: The Screw You, Let's Have Lunch Gabfest
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.
49 min
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Slate: The I'm Working from Home Gabfest
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.
53 min
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Slate: The Sequestering Obama's Golf Game Gabfest
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.
42 min
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Slate: The Send Them to the Glue Factory Gabfest
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.
47 min
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Slate: The Drone On Gabfest
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.
40 min
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Slate: The Huddled Masses and David Plotz's Bir...
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.
45 min
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Slate: The Live in Washington, D.C. Gabfest
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.
72 min
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Slate: The Elitist and Hypocrite Gabfest
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.
52 min
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Slate: The One Trillion Dollars Gabfest
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.
52 min
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Slate: The After the Fiscal Cliff, the Debt Cei...
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.
59 min
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Slate: The Conundrums Gabfest
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.
35 min
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Slate: The Last Shot Gabfest
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.
46 min
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Slate: The Union Made Gabfest
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.
43 min
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Slate: The Doomsday Scenario Gabfest
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.
44 min
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Slate: The Going Nuclear Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The fiscal cliff, filibuster reform and outing bullies online.
46 min
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Slate: The Will You Sign My Pledge Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Norquist Pledge, Israel and Gaza and Spielberg's Lincoln.
44 min
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Slate: The All In Gabfest
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.
51 min
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Slate: The 72 Percent White Gabfest
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.
57 min
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Slate: The Chris Christie Is My Co-Pilot Gabfest
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.
60 min
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Slate: The God Intended This Gabfest to Happen ...
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.
38 min
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Slate: The Binders and Binders and Binders Gabfest
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?
45 min
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Slate: The Barcalounger Gabfest
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.
37 min
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Slate: The Live From Seattle Gabfest
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.
68 min