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By Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz
Updated Friday, Jan. 4, 2008, at 12:11 PM ET

To play the Dec. 21 Gabfest, download the program here, or you can subscribe to the weekly Gabfest podcast feed in iTunes by clicking here.

John Dickerson, trapped in a snowstorm in New Hampshire, called into the warm and cozy D.C. studio, where he spoke with David and Chadwick Matlin. On the agenda: the presidential contest, U.S. energy policy, and Time magazine's "Person of the Year." Posted by June Thomas at 12:11 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 14, 2007

To play the Dec. 14 Gabfest download the program here, or you can subscribe to the weekly Gabfest podcast feed in iTunes by clicking here.

John called in from Iowa, where it's cold and wet, while David and Emily gathered in the warm and dry D.C. "studio." Emily hosted a discussion of the presidential campaign, the Mitchell report, and the CIA videotapes.

Our e-mail address is . (E-mail may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Posted by June Thomas at 1:40 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 7, 2007

To play the Dec. 7 Gabfest, download the program here, or you can subscribe to the weekly Gabfest podcast feed in iTunes by clicking here.

John Dickerson was on the road this week, so "Trailhead" wrangler Christopher Beam joined Emily and David. On today's agenda: New intelligence on Iran is released, Mitt Romney finally makes his Mormon speech, and the Supreme Court hears more on Guantanamo.

Some of the articles mentioned in the discussion:

John Dickerson on the Romney speech
Dahlia Lithwick on the Guantanamo case
Dahlia and Emily's video discussion of the case
Emily's column on The Golden Compass/V.C. Andrews

Our e-mail address is . (E-mail may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Posted by June Thomas at 5:51 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 30, 2007

To listen to the Nov. 30 Gabfest, download the program here, or you can subscribe to the weekly Gabfest podcast feed in iTunes by clicking here.

On today's agenda: Huckabee wins the YouTube debates; Bush restarts the peace process in Annapolis; a schoolteacher in Sudan is targeted by Islamic extremists; and a study links acne to poor diet.

Some of the articles mentioned in this week's Gabfest:

John on the second CNN/YouTube Debate
David Shulman's Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine

Our e-mail address is . (E-mail may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Posted by Brad Flora at 6:30 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 23, 2007

To play the Nov. 23 Gabfest, download the program here, or you can subscribe to the weekly Gabfest podcast feed in iTunes by clicking here.

On today's agenda: Barack Obama surges in Iowa, a stem-cell breakthrough, and D.C.'s handgun law goes to court.

Our e-mail address is . (E-mail may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Posted by June Thomas at 3:15 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 16, 2007

To play the Nov. 16 Gabfest, download the program here, or you can subscribe to the weekly Gabfest podcast feed in iTunes by clicking here.

On this week's agenda: bad news for Hillary; parsing the good news from Iraq; and the debate over whether to issue driver's licenses to undocumented aliens.

Some of the articles mentioned in the discussion:

Emily's "XX Factor" post on John McCain's "gaffe"
John on Hillary Clinton's planted question
Time's Michael Duffy on Rudy Giuliani's Kerik problem

Our e-mail address is . (E-mail may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Posted by June Thomas at 3:30 p.m.

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Emily Bazelon is a Slate senior editor. John Dickerson is Slate's chief political correspondent and author of On Her Trail. He can be reached at . David Plotz is Slate's editor. He is the author of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank. You can e-mail him at .
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