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Political Gabfest

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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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Episodes

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 07, 201145 min

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 29, 201043 min

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 23, 201042 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 17, 201047 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 10, 201045 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 03, 201046 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 25, 201042 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 19, 201050 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 12, 201046 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 11, 201025 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 05, 201049 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 29, 201042 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 22, 201045 min

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’ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 15, 201048 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 08, 201043 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 01, 201051 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 24, 201035 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 17, 201037 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 03, 201044 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 27, 201045 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 20, 201040 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 13, 201034 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 06, 201044 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 30, 201040 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 22, 201041 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 16, 201045 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 02, 201040 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 25, 201036 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 18, 201038 min

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 11, 201045 min
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