This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss GOP’s speakership debacle; George Santos; and improving access to medication abortion.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Emily Bazelon for The New York Times: “The Dawn of the Post-Clinic Abortion”
Emily Bazelon for The New York Times: “Risking Everything to Offer Abortions Across State Lines”
Mark Oppenheimer for The New York Times: “Why Did George Santos Lie About Being Jewish?”
Here are this week’s chatters:
John: Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
Emily: The Furrows, by Namwali Serpell; Tár ; Zadie Smith for The New York Review of Books: “The Instrumentalist”; Amanda Hess for The New York Times: “Breaking Out of the #MeToo Movie Formula”; Dan Kois for Slate: “Tár Is the Most-Talked-About Movie of the Year. So Why Is Everyone Talking About It All Wrong?”
David: Gastrodiplomacy
Listener chatter from Nathan Kamps: Miles Klee for Rolling Stone: “‘A Celebrity in the Land of Celebrities’: Remembering P-22, L.A.’s Favorite Mountain Lion”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss the ethics of watching football in light of Damar Hamlin’s life threatening injury.
Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth.
Research by Bridgette Dunlap.
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