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On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the initial indictments in Robert Mueller’s investigation and the House’s tax cut bill. Then Civil War historian David Blight joins the team to dig into John Kelly’s comments on Robert E. Lee and the Civil War.
Here are some of the links and references from this week’s show:
- Philip Bump for the Washington Post: “Historians respond to John F. Kelly’s Civil War remarks: ‘Strange,’ ‘sad,’ ‘wrong’ ”
- David Blight for the Atlantic: “Frederick Douglass, Refugee”
- W.E.B. Du Bois in 1928: “Robert E. Lee”
- Ken Burns’ 1990 series The Civil War
- Jason Furman and Greg Leiserson for Vox: “The real cost of the Republican tax cuts”
- Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb for CNN: “Exclusive: In Hill interviews, top Dems denied knowledge of payments to firm behind Trump dossier”
Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:
- Emily: The race for district attorney of Philadelphia is next week, and it offers an example of a progressive, nontraditional prosecutor up against a veteran of the office
- John: An imaging technique called “muon radiography” has revealed a never-before-seen space inside the Great Pyramid
- David: Paul Ryan magazine, by the team behind the Neu Jorker
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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Links compiled by Izzy Rode.
