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 as a Loon Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: Obama's health care meeting, a verdict on Bush Administration lawyers and torture, and the trials of Toyota
38 min
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Slate: The Sins Both Large and Small Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: Evan Bayh's election decision, should Rahm Emmanuel leave the White House, and the Tea Party Manifesto
37 min
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Slate: The Ice-Bound Edition Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: President Obama and party politics, where to hold terrorist trials, and why we care about the Olympics
36 min
954
Slate: The Turkeys Come Home to Roost Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: The budget debate starts in earnest, Don't ask, don't tell, don't care, and abortion at the Superbowl
36 min
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Slate: The Something We're Good At Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Christopher Beam, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Reaction to the State of the Union, more help for the Democrats, and dissecting the IPad
38 min
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Slate: The Yearning for the Clarity of George B...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, Dahlia Lithwick and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Supreme Court rules on corporations and the First Amendment, Scott Brown takes over Massachusetts, and a run-down of the Obama Administration's first year
38 min
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Slate: The He's No Bobby Kennedy Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: Earthquake relief for Haiti, the week's political roundup, and gay marriage on YouTube
39 min
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Slate: The Road to Salvation Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: Airplane security, the changing national political landscape, and Brit Hume, Tiger Woods and God
43 min
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Slate: The Apolitical Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week: The trio answers your year-end truth-or-dare questions!
24 min
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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