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On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss efforts to pass health care and tax plans before President Trump’s 100-day mark, Obama’s Wall Street speech, and a judge who blocked an executive order on sanctuary cities.
Here are some of the links and references from this week’s show:
- Tyler Cowen writes in Bloomberg: “U.S. Can Afford Trump’s Radical Tax Cut”
- Sarah Kliff writes in Vox: “Republicans Exempt Their Own Insurance From Their Latest Health Care Proposal”
- Matt Yglesias writes in Vox: “Obama’s $400,000 Wall Street Speaking Fee Will Undermine Everything He Believes In”
- Ben Mathis-Lilley writes in Slate: “Trump Is Whining About the 9th Circuit’s Overturn Rate, but the Most Overturned Circuits Are in Trump Country”
Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:
- Emily: The new book Awakening by Nathaniel Frank that tells “how gays and lesbians brought marriage equality to America.”
- John: A 130,000-year-old mastodon bone found in California that could upend human history.
- David: Obscura Day on May 6 and a story of saving the U.S. Patent Office in the War of 1812.
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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Links compiled by Kevin Townsend.
