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 Put On Your Praise Face Gabfest
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
50 min
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Slate: The Michigan Live Gabfest
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
45 min
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Slate: Michigan Live Gabfest Questions
The question and answer session from the Slate Political Gabfest recorded live on November 10th, 2010 in An Arbor, Michigan
25 min
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Slate: The Canny Long-Term Strategy Gabfest
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
48 min
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Slate: The Rile Up the Base Gabfest
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
42 min
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The Crazy Money and Crazier Candidates Gabfest
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
45 min
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Slate: The New York Live Gabfest
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’
47 min
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Slate: The Marinating in Anger Gabfest
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
43 min
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Slate: The Don't Gang Up on David Gabfest
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
50 min
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Slate: The Fur Coat of Irony Gabfest
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
34 min
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Slate: The Dangerous Prognostication Gabfest
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
36 min
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Slate: The No Story Too Crazy Gabfest
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
44 min
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Slate: The Golden Touch Gabfest
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
45 min
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Slate: The Free-Fall Political Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Michael Newman and Dave Weigel. This week: The New York City Mosque, our Muslim president, and they provide a political primary update
40 min
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Slate: The Groping Duck Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, William Saletan and special Guest Eliot Spitzer. This week: Mid-term primary elections, the state of the economy, and workplace rage
33 min
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Slate: The 8th Century Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, Dahlia Lithwick and Cord Jefferson. This week: A federal judge over-rules Proposition 8, New York’s Islamic Center controversy, and the Democratic Congress’ ethics problems
44 min
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Slate: The Big Babies and Liars Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon, with special guest Farhad Manjoo. This week: The Wiki war leaks, Arizona's immigration law in court, updating the Bush-era tax cuts, and Charlie Rangel on trial
39 min
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Slate: The Spasmodic Drama Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Daniel Gross, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The economy and the fall election, the Shirley Sherrod debacle, and the complications of the Phoebe Prince internet bullying death
40 min
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Slate: The Bracing for a Backlash Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Will Saletan, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Regaining control of the House, abortion providers, and the NAACP takes on the Tea Party
44 min
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Slate: The Groping for Answers Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Dahlia Lithwick, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings, gun rights in Chicago, and Al Gore's masseuse problem
40 min
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Slate: The Studly Young Hero Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Will Saletan, and Emily Bazelon. This week: General McChrystal is removed as the country's top officer in Afghanistan, a Supreme Court roundup with more on Elena Kagan, and the World Cup
36 min
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Slate: The Curious Candidate Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: President Obama and the BP spill, California's Proposition Eight, and the unlikely Democratic candidate from South Carolina
37 min
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Slate: The Palin Effect Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: An election roundup, more on the gulf oil spill and BP, and Helen Thomas retires
44 min
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Slate: The Not My Spittle Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The BP oil spill continues, the Gaza flotilla, and the White House meddles again
38 min
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Slate: The Brotherly Love Live Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon, live from Philadelphia. This week: The BP oil spill, a political grab-bag, and Red and Blue America
53 min