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On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the post-debate race, how Bill Clinton’s scandals figure into the election, and new statistics showing an increase in violent crime.
Here are some of the links and references from this week’s show:
- Patrick Healy, Ashley Parker, and Maggie Haberman write in the New York Times: “New Debate Strategy for Donald Trump: Practice, Practice, Practice”
- Franklin Foer writes in Slate: “Making It Up as He Goes Along”
- Eric Trump says it “took courage” for his father not to bring up Bill Clinton’s infidelity
- The spike in the murder rate was fueled by a handful of cities
- The majority of new victims are black men
- In Right on Crime: “Conservative Justice Reform Advocates React to New FBI Crime Report”
- Leon Neyfakh writes in Slate: “Should the Media Downplay the New Murder Spike?”
John chatters about real life eerily mirroring an Edgar Allan Poe story of sailors resorting to cannibalism at sea.
Emily chatters about a Tony Mauro story that describes how the Supreme Court came to recognize the Jewish High Holidays.
David chatters about the book Blitzed, which describes how Hitler and the Third Reich were saturated with drugs.
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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Links compiled by Kevin Townsend.
