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 Crazy Negotiating Posture Gabfest
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
47 min
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Dancing on the Debt Ceiling
How Republicans are framing the debate about the debt ceiling and Democrats are playing along. By David Weigel. Read by Andy Bowers
8 min
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Slate: The Purdue Live Gabfest
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
55 min
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Slate: Purdue Live Gabfest Questions
The question and answer session from the Slate Political Gabfest recorded live on April 7th, 2011 at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana
28 min
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Slate: The Yearning to be Free Gabfest
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
48 min
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Slate: The Grit and Gristle Gabfest
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.
46 min
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Slate: Bachmann Overdrive
Michele Bachmann for president? Among Republicans, she's more popular than you think. By David Weigel. Narrated by Andy Bowers.
7 min
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Slate: The Particularly Terrifying Gabfest
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
46 min
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Slate: The P.T. Barnum Hucksterism Gabfest
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
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Slate: The Confidence Fairy Gabfest
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
49 min
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Slate: The Screw the American Worker Gabfest
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
48 min
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Slate: The Amazing Amalgam of Facts Gabfest
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
49 min
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Slate: The What Was He Thinking Gabfest
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
43 min
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Slate: The Democracy is Messy Gabfest
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
50 min
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Slate: David’s Big Birthday Gabfest
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
41 min
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Slate: The Clearly the World Leader Gabfest
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
46 min
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Slate: The Clear and Present Danger Live Gabfest
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
53 min
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Slate: The Clear and Present Danger Gabfest Que...
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
18 min
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Slate: The House of the People Gabfest
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
44 min
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Slate: The Conundrum Gabfest
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?
42 min
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Slate: The Dulcet and Ebullient Gabfest
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.
42 min
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Slate: The Washington Snow Rage Gabfest
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
47 min
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Slate: The Consenting Adults Gabfest
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
45 min
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Slate: The Say the Phrase Gabfest
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
45 min
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Slate: The Chocolate Pie Conundrum Gabfest
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
42 min