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: 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
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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
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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