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Posted Friday, July 30, 2010, at 10:45 AM ET
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On this week's Slate Political Gabfest, John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and special guest Farhad Manjoo discuss the WikiLeaks release of secret documents from the Afghanistan war, Arizona's immigration law, updating the Bush-era tax cuts, and Charlie Rangel's ethics trial.
Here are some of the links and references mentioned during this week's show:
John chatters about the WikiLeaks disclosures as an additional example of an ongoing outrage.
David chatters about the Atlantic's boring-article contest.
Emily chatters about the Awl's mock PR e-mail.
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Posted on July 30 by Gail Sullivan at 10:46 a.m.
David Plotz is the Editor of Slate. He's the author of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank and Good Book. He appears on Slate's Political Gabfest.
Emily Bazelon is a Slate senior editor and writes about law, family, and kids. She's working on a book about bullying.
John Dickerson is Slate's chief political correspondent and author of On Her Trail. He can be reached at slatepolitics@gmail.com. Read his series on Risk. Follow him on Twitter.
Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society.