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On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Trump’s Cabinet picks, Pizzagate, and the Electoral College.
Here are some of the links and references from this week’s show:
- Nikole Hannah-Jones writes in ProPublica: “Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law”
- Trump’s pick for Environmental Protection Agency head, Scott Pruitt, was the subject of a Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times investigation that revealed a letter he’d written to the EPA as Oklahoma’s attorney general was actually written by lawyers for one of the state’s largest oil and gas companies.
- Jane Mayer writes in the New Yorker: “Scott Pruitt, Trump’s Industry Pick for the E.P.A.”
- Lawrence Lessig argues for a legal challenge to the Electoral College
- Steven Johnson writes in the New York Times: “Why Blue States Are the Real ‘Tea Party’ ”
Emily chatters about the Walter Scott mistrial, which Jelani Cobb writes about in the New Yorker.
John chatters about an interview with mathematician Andrew Wiles.
David chatters about Knight’s Spider Web Farm, a small Vermont workshop that makes art out of spider webs. A fire recently destroyed the buildings and the Knights hope to rebuild with the help of a GoFundMe page.
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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Links compiled by Kevin Townsend.
