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On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the attacks in Europe, policymaking under Trump, and North Carolina politics.
Here are some of the links and references from this week’s show:
- Joshua Keating in Slate: “This Isn’t 1914, and the Russian Ambassador to Turkey Isn’t Franz Ferdinand”
- Brad Plumer in Vox: “Obama tries to preempt Trump by banning oil drilling in parts of the Arctic and Atlantic”
- The Economist: “Donald Trump’s most damaging legacy may be a lower-trust America”
- Dave Weigel in the Washington Post: “GOP voters warm to Russia, Putin, WikiLeaks, poll finds”
- Jane Mayer in the New Yorker: “State for Sale”
John chatters about Poynter’s best media corrections of 2016.
Emily chatters about Sarah Kliff writing on why Obamacare enrollees voted for Trump.
David chatters about deep-sea fisherman Roman Fedortsov’s incredible photos of strange ocean creatures.
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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Links compiled by Kevin Townsend.
