This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Kamala Harris-Donald Trump debate and other campaign goings-on; the January 6th and classified documents cases brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith; and the national housing shortage with Conor Dougherty of The New York Times.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Meg Kinnard and Jill Colvin for AP: ABC’s rules for the Harris-Trump debate include muted mics when candidates aren’t speaking
Emily Bazelon for The New York Times Magazine: Kamala Harris, a ‘Top Cop’ in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Rich Lowry in The New York Times: Trump Can Win on Character; Chris Cameron, Maggie Haberman, and Eric Schmitt: Trump Videos at Arlington Stir More Fallout After Gravesite Visit; and Ben Protess, Kate Christobek, and Jonah E. Bromwich: Prosecutors Leave Decision on Delaying Trump’s Sentencing Up to Judge
Tom Nichols for The Atlantic: The Conservatives Who Sold Their Souls for Trump
Tim Miller for The Bulwark: They Served With Trump and Saw the Crazy. They Should Endorse Harris. and Will Selber: Trump Manages to Spoil One of Our Few Remaining Sacred Spaces
Nate Silver for Silver Bulletin: We removed RFK Jr. from our model. But it didn’t hurt Kamala.
Ruth Marcus for The Washington Post: A new indictment points to Trump’s illegal acts – and justices’ errors
Adam Unikowsky for Adam’s Legal Newsletter: Don’t be a visionary
Conor Dougherty for The New York Times: Why Too Few Homes Get Built in the U.S., What Kalamazoo (Yes, Kalamazoo) Reveals About the Nation’s Housing Crisis, and Glenn Thrush and Conor Dougherty: Why $46 Billion Couldn’t Prevent an Eviction Crisis
Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream by Conor Dougherty
The Gated City by Ryan Avent
Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership by Andro Linklater
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Wayne Homes: The Great Debate: Front Porch vs. Back Porch; Mariah Timms for The Wall Street Journal: Lawsuits Fly Over Election Rules and Who Gets to Vote; Fin Gómez and Nidia Cavazos for CBS News: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton raids Latino Democrats’ homes, including those of LULAC members; and Frederka Schouten and Tierney Sneed for CNN: Democrats sue to block new GOP-backed Georgia election certification rules
John: Glenn Thrush for The New York Times: Would-Be Trump Assassin’s Interest in Violence Went Back to 2019
David: Jonathan Shaw for Harvard Magazine: Mapping the Human Brain
Listener chatter from Adam Webb in Chicago: Paul Collins in The Believer: Why Can’t My Son Vote?
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, David, Emily, and John will talk about the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz interview. Bonus content this week will be available on Friday.
In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily talks with Joshua Leifer about his book, Tablets Shattered.
Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth
Research by Julie Huygen
