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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 I'm Working from Home Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The sequester gets real, SCOTUS weighs the Voting Rights Act and Slate employees work from home. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 01, 201353 min

Slate: The Sequestering Obama's Golf Game Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Austerity approaches, SCOTUS considers campaign contributions and the president putts in private. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 22, 201343 min

Slate: The Send Them to the Glue Factory Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Obama's SOTU, knowing when to retire (à la Pope Benedict XVI) and universal pre-k. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 15, 201347 min

Slate: The Drone On Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and special guest David Leonhardt, Washington bureau chief of The New York Times. This week: Obama's drone policy and his upcoming SOTU, plus Leonhardt's new eBook, Here's the Deal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 08, 201340 min

Slate: The Huddled Masses and David Plotz's Birthday Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and special guest William Dobson. This week: Immigration reform and the recent unrest in Egypt. Plus, Emily's NYT Magazine piece on compensating the victims of child pornography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 01, 201346 min

Slate: The Live in Washington, D.C. Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Obama's second inaugural, filibuster reform and social media policy in the workplace. Plus, a special audience Q&A. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 25, 20131 hr 12 min

Slate: The Elitist and Hypocrite Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The likelihood of gun control, the suicide of Aaron Swartz and an inauguration preview. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 18, 201352 min

Slate: The One Trillion Dollars Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: An embattled Chuck Hagel, a debt ceiling coin and Obama's white men problem. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 11, 201353 min

Slate: The After the Fiscal Cliff, the Debt Ceiling Chasm Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and special guest David Weigel. This week: The fiscal cliff is averted, Congress is broken and gun owners get mapped. Plus, an interview with Slate's War Stories columnist Fred Kaplan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 04, 20131 hr

Slate: The Conundrums Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Gabfesters tackle life's most vexing dilemmas, as submitted by listeners, in a special year-end episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 28, 201236 min

Slate: The Last Shot Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Confronting gun violence, teetering on the edge of the fiscal cliff and remembering Robert Bork. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 21, 201246 min

Slate: The Union Made Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Michigan's right-to-work law, marriage equality at the High Court and Zero Dark Thirty's depiction of torture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 14, 201243 min

Slate: The Doomsday Scenario Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Inching toward the fiscal cliff, Republican soul-searching and a debate over a horrifying photo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 07, 201245 min

Slate: The Going Nuclear Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The fiscal cliff, filibuster reform and outing bullies online. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 30, 201247 min

Slate: The Will You Sign My Pledge Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Norquist Pledge, Israel and Gaza and Spielberg's Lincoln. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 23, 201245 min

Slate: The All In Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and special guest Ta-Nahisi Coates. This week: The Petraeus Affair, the fiscal cliff and a challenge to the Voting Rights Act. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 16, 201252 min

Slate: The 72 Percent White Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: An election post mortem, marriage equality and an ounce of the kine bud in Colorado. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 09, 201258 min

Slate: The Chris Christie Is My Co-Pilot Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Sandy and the race, the race after Sandy and the Nate Silver backlash. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 02, 20121 hr

Slate: The God Intended This Gabfest to Happen Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Ployz, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and special guest William Saletan. This week: The Campaign 2012 homestretch, the Republicans' continuing "rape" problem and the Castle Doctrine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 26, 201239 min

Slate: The Binders and Binders and Binders Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Town Hall Brawl: Did Obama successfully neutralize lingering questions about Libya and did Romney lose points among the many binders full of women? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 19, 201245 min

Slate: The Barcalounger Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and special guest Jacob Weisberg. This week: Biden/Ryan debate, Romney bounces back and SCOTUS revisits affirmative action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 12, 201237 min

Slate: The Live From Seattle Gabfest

A special live show of Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and guest Dan Savage. This week: The debate, the election aftermath and the maternity leave that wasn't. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 05, 20121 hr 9 min

Slate: The Media Is Skewing the Polls Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Has Romney imploded? Is the media gunning for Obama? Is the Senate up for grabs? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 28, 201242 min

Slate: The Moochers, Beggars and Parasites Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Romney fingers freeloaders, author Sasha Issenberg explains The Victory Lab and SCOTUS officiates gay marriage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 21, 201247 min

Slate: The Teeny Little Bounce Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: An embassy breach, a modest bounce and a union battle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 14, 201242 min

Slate: The Conventional Wisdom Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Romney/Ryan makes its case, fact-checkers are rebuffed and Charlotte looms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 31, 201235 min

Slate: The Legitimate/Forcible Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and special guest Hanna Rosin. This week: Romney's reboot, Akin's aftermath and the Ferguson-Krugman contretemps. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 24, 201236 min

Slate: The David Plotz Dream Come True Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and special guest Dave Weigel. This week: Republican VP pick Paul Ryan, Fareed Zakaria's sins of omission and progressive rock Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 17, 201257 min

Slate: The Ode to Nixon Gabfest

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon and her special guests from Yale, Beverly Gage and Anthony Leiserowitz. This week: Mitt Romney’s tax plan, climate change in the U.S., and a New Yorker profile of Paul Ryan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 10, 201249 min
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