The best of Slate podcasts for the weekend of Aug. 25.

McConnell, the Eclipse, and Why the Dems Keep Losing: This Week’s Best Podcasts

McConnell, the Eclipse, and Why the Dems Keep Losing: This Week’s Best Podcasts

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Aug. 25 2017 2:12 PM
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The Best of Slate Podcasts

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Full solar eclipse in Kansas
The sun is seen in full eclipse over a park on August 21, 2017 in Hiawatha, Kansas.

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In this edition of our members-only podcast digest, listen to the best segments of the week:

  • The Culture Gabfest on the solar eclipse (begins at 00:00:25);
  • The Political Gabfest on the fight between Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell (00:15:47);
  • and I Have to Ask on the plight of the Democratic Party, with Mark Lilla, author of The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics (00:29:45).