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 Unsafe for Vegetarians Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Timothy Noah and Emily Bazelon. This week: Final debate on the Senate health care bill, airline passenger rights, and the real Salahis
38 min
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Slate: The Kitchen Bitch Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: Health care reform and Joe Lieberman, the climate in Copenhagen, and on-line bullying
42 min
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Slate: The You Say Tomato Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week: A compromise brewing on health care, Obama's Nobel speech, and texting traps
37 min
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Slate: The Endless Afghanistan Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week: Obama's Afghanistan plan, the climate change e-mail dust-up, and potential political problems for Mike Huckabee
37 min
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Slate: The McKinsey War Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week: The Administration's decision on Afghanistan, Obama's approval ratings drop below 50%, and troubled times at Thanksgiving
40 min
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Slate: The Following of Nutters Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week: Trying five terrorists in New York City, confusing, conflicting information about mammograms, and Sarah Palin turns a new page
35 min
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Slate: The Nightmare Agenda Live Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week: Health Care Reform, the Obama Presidency, and the shootings at Fort Hood
71 min
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Slate: The Post Off-Year Election Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week: We dissect Tuesday's election results from New Jersey, Virginia, Upstate New York, Maine, and what it all means.
37 min
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Slate: The Boys Club Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week: Health care reform limps forward, vaccinations, and the Obama marriage.
37 min
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Slate: The Things That Don't Make Sense Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Bill Smee and Emily Bazelon. This week: Afghanistan, limits to Wall Street compensation, and the New Jersey Governor's race
38 min
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Slate: The Kinder, Gentler Political Conversati...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: More on Health Care Reform, the White House gay policy, and partisan political fighting from Fox News
36 min
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Slate: The Island Nation Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: National Security and Afghanistan, the FTC regulates bloggers, and a roundup of action at the Supreme Court
41 min
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Slate: The Outrageous Behavior Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The health care debate continues, guns back before the Supreme Court, and proposing a coup in the U.S.
38 min
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Slate: The Political Second Acts Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week the panelists discuss Afghanistan, this week's parade of leaders at the U.N., and attempted comebacks of Sarah Palin, Tom DeLay, and John Edwards.
34 min
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Slate: The Baucus Without the Bacchus Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: A more sober panel discusses Sen. Max Baucus's health care plan, Jimmy Carter's charges of anti-Obama racism, and ACORN's pimp problem.
37 min
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Slate: The Pie-Eyed Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Obama's health care speech to Congress, free speech before the Supreme Court, and Dan Brown wows Washington with The Lost Symbol
37 min
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Slate: The Jamming it Through Congress Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The latest on health care, the week in Afghanistan, and the troubling case of Jaycee Dugard
34 min
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Slate: The Unkindest Cut Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The legacy of Ted Kennedy, investigating torture, and required circumcision
38 min
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Slate: The Scintillating, Fascinating and Excel...
Slate's Political Gabfest featuring Slate Foreign Editor and Guest Host June Thomas, along with Jacob Weisberg, Editor in Chief of the Slate Group, and Slate Deputy Editor Julia Turner. This week: The latest developments in health care, elections in Afghanistan and a renewed rivalry between New York City and the nation's capital.
33 min
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Slate: The Death Panel Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest featuring Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and Gabfest intern Jefferson Pestronk. This week: Turmoil in the town halls, the tricky politics of presidential vacations, and a farewell to Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
36 min
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Slate: The Flat is the New Up Gabfest
John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Newsweek's Economics Editor Dan Gross talk politics. This week: Is the economy getting better, the latest on health care and former President Bill Clinton brings home two Americans imprisoned in North Korea
34 min
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Slate: The Coalition of the Swilling Gabfest
John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and Michael Newman talk politics. This week: Disapproval over Obama's plan for health care, racism and beer at the White House, and more on Sonia Sotomayor
36 min
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Slate: The Game-Changer Gabfest
Emily Bazelon, Jacob Weisberg and James Ledbetter talk politics. This week: President Obama and health care, racism and the Cambridge Massachusetts Police Department, and the stimulus package
41 min
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Slate: The Abolish August Gabfest
John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and Chris Beam talk politics. This week: Judge Sotomayor makes it through a week of hearings, Health Care moves toward front and center, and Dick Cheney is in the news again
37 min
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Slate: The New Media Gal Gabfest
John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon talk politics. This week: Sarah Palin bows out, an Obama round-up, and so-long Salon at the Washington Post
38 min