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<p>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.</p><br><p>Get more Political Gabfest with Slate Plus. Join to unlock weekly bonus episodes—plus ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from the Political Gabfest show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or visit slate.com/gabfestplus to get access wherever you listen.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy<…; for more information.</p>
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Am I Blue?
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the results of the midterm elections and what they tell us about the state of the country, what kind of balance new Democratic majorities in the House and Senate should st
Finally, We Vote
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss what they're paying attention to and what to expect on Election Day next Tuesday, how to understand the complex results of Israel's elections with guest <u><a href="https:
Polls Are So Bad for Trump
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss whether Trump is as unpopular as polls suggest and what this means for the midterms, the causes and consequences of the riots in France with Paris-based journalist <u><a h
Gabfest Reads | Situating Yourself for Success
<p>For this month’s edition of Gabfest Reads, John Dickerson interviews Angela Duckworth about her new book, <em><u><a href="https://books.apple.com/us/book/situated/id6756924251?itscg=30200&itsct=books_box_link&mttnsubad=6756924251&campaig
Help Russia Win
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss what the evidence beyond polling signals for the impending midterm elections, how Trump betrayed Ukraine with his sudden deal over Russian diesel and Starshield restrictio
Blue Wave or Blue Ripple?
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss where the midterms stand mere weeks out from Election Day, the legal and cultural issues at the heart of the deeply disturbing Cornell University rape case, and the perenn
Meet You at the Hawks Game
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and guest host <u><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/david-leonhardt" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">David Leonhardt</a></u> discuss the GOP's failed witch hunt against Jack Smith and bi
Purposely Negative
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and guest host <u><a href="https://earlywarningwithjuliette.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Juliette Kayyem</a></u> discuss what we learn from Trump's escalating battle w
Gabfest Reads | The Tax Nobody Talks About: Your Time
<p>David Plotz talks with journalist Annie Lowrey about her new book <a href="https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-time-tax/id6748314661?itscg=30200&itsct=books_box_link&mttnsubad=6748314661&campaign_id=books_box&at=1000l38Mz&ct=gabfest-read
Kremlin Wedding Present
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss whether this week's Supreme Court intervention rejecting Trump's mail-in ballot restrictions will prevent midterm chaos, explore the fast-evolving dynamics of public and p
Pretend I'm on the Ballot
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss why Republicans are holding an unusual midterm convention and what it says about the state of the race at the homestretch, talk about the new book <a href="https://www.ama
What Is the Bond Market, Anyway?
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss how a narrow Supreme Court majority used aesthetic standing to greenlight Trump's ballroom construction, why bond yields are rising around the world and how that impacts e
Please Do Not Ruin the Post Office
<p>This week, John Dickerson, David Plotz, and guest host <a href="https://earlywarningwithjuliette.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Juliette Kayyem</a> discuss this week's Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump adm
Listener Questions
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz answer listeners' questions of all kinds: the political, the personal, and everything in-between.</p><p> </p><p>Many thanks to all question contributors: Daniel, Karen, Kelly, Jas
Gabfest Reads | Look What You Made Me Do
<p>David Plotz interviews John Lanchester about his new novel <a href="https://books.apple.com/us/book/look-what-you-made-me-do/id6754467632?itscg=30200&itsct=books_box_link&mttnsubad=6754467632&at=1000l38Mz&ct=gabfest-reads" rel="noopener
Air Faux One
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and guest host <a href="https://juliettekayyem.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Juliette Kayyem</a> discuss the security calculations behind Trump’s plane switch operation; the White H
Data Center Backlash
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss what Abdul El-Sayed's Michigan primary win signals about the future of the Democratic Party, Todd Blanche's march toward confirmation as attorney general and how oppositio
Unhinged Obsession
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the expanding Iran war and what it means for Trump that news of U.S. missile shortages is leaking from the inside, the blend of conspiracy theory and Rand Paul's personal
Now We Can Call It a Quagmire
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss why the war in Iran has flared back up despite the increasing likelihood of political consequences for Trump and his allies, the promises and perils for the U.K.'s newest
Gabfest Reads | The Presidency as Pure Pleasure
<p>John Dickerson interviews Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan about their new book <a href="https://books.apple.com/us/book/regime-change/id6761716648?itscg=30200&itsct=books_box_link&mttnsubad=6761716648&at=1000l38Mz&ct=Gabfest-reads" rel
I'm His Lawyer
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss how the confirmation hearing for Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is yet another example of Trump trying to force Congress to bend the knee, what is behind the horrifi
Maybe That Nazi Tattoo Was a Clue
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss why an insurgent candidate with so many red flags got so far, how shocking new details about Trump's 2025 income show billions in earnings while those who bought his crypt
America Has a King Now
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and guest host <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/ruth-marcus" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ruth Marcus</a> discuss this week's momentous Supreme Court rulings. The FTC/<em
New York is Red
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Tuesday's NY congressional primaries won by three Mamdani-backed democratic socialists and what they could mean for the Democratic Party, two new Supreme Court immigration
Gabfest Reads | Why America Is Spiritually Broken and How to Fix It
<p>Emily Bazelon interviews Senator Chris Murphy about his new book <a href="https://books.apple.com/us/book/crisis-of-the-common-good/id6758423831?itscg=30200&itsct=books_box_link&mttnsubad=6758423831&at=1000l38Mz" rel="noopener noreferrer
Another Treaty of Versailles
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss what the U.S. is getting and what it is giving up with the deal to end Trump's Iran war, how Trump's UFC fight at the White House intentionally used the symbols of the pre
California Is an Embarrassment
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss whether this week's resumption of open hostilities in the Iran war has changed the likelihood of an imminent end to the conflict, what to do about how California's slow vo
Man-Child Graham Platner
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss whether Graham Platner's accumulating self-inflicted wounds will cost Democrats their best shot at Senate control, how Trump's evolving plans for America's semiquincentenn
They Messed with Texas
<p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss what Ken Paxton's dominant win over John Cornyn could mean when he faces Democrat James Talarico for the Texas Senate seat in November, how Trump has no good options in th
Corruption Never Stops
<p> </p><p>This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss what Trump is actually trying to buy with his blatantly corrupt "anti-weaponization" slush fund and self-dealing, why Trump can exact primary election revenge on h
