1 week Ago By David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson
Political Gabfest The “Bond Market Shrieks” Edition The ongoing fallout after Trump’s complex tariffs and partial retreat; the Supreme Court’s tepid responses to deportation cases leave questions open; and the NC GOP tries to steal a state Supreme Court seat. Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Spotify TuneIn Pocket Casts RSS Feed For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ . Please enable javascript to get your Slate Plus feeds.
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Episode Notes This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the self-inflicted chaos of Trump’s tariffs and an escalating trade war with China; the Supreme Court’s careful responses to deportations without due process which leave key questions unanswered; and the brazen attempted heist of a North Carolina Supreme Court seat by Republicans. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Jeff Stein, Rachel Siegel, and Aaron Gregg for The Washington Post: Trump announces pause and lowered tariffs for all countries but China David J. Lynch for The Washington Post: Trump’s tariffs pushed the U.
S. uncomfortably close to a financial crisis before pause Greg Ip for The Wall Street Journal: The Dollar and the Bond Market’s Ominous Message for Trump David Pierson and Berry Wang for The New York Times (Analysis): For U.S.
and China, a Risky Game of Chicken With No Off-Ramp in Sight Annie Linskey for The Wall Street Journal: Trump Says He Will Consider Exempting Some U.S. Companies From Tariffs John Dickerson for CBS Evening News: Reporter’s Notebook: Wall Street wobbles as Main Street worries Chip Cutter and Heather Haddon for The Wall Street Journal: CEOs Break Silence on Trump Trade War Walter Russell Mead for The Wall Street Journal (Opinion): Why Trump Wants Tariffs The Editors, National Review: Congress Should End Trump’s Trade War Alan Feuer and Jonah E.
Bromwich for The New York Times: Rulings in New York and Texas Block Deportations of Venezuelans to El Salvador Cecilia Vega for 60 Minutes (CBS News): U.S. sent 238 migrants to Salvadoran mega-prison; documents indicate most have no apparent criminal records Adam Liptak for The New York Times (Analysis): In Trump Cases, Supreme Court Retreats From Confrontation Erwin Chemerinsky and Laurence H.
Tribe for The New York Times (Opinion: Guest Essay): We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid Nick Corasaniti and Eduardo Medina for The New York Times: N.C. Supreme Court Halts Voter Eligibility Review in Contested Judicial Race Ari Berman for Mother Jones: Republicans Are Stealing a North Carolina Judicial Race.
They Won’t Stop There. Kyle Ingram, The Herald Sun: Black NC voters twice as likely to have ballots challenged in Griffin election protests Richard Pildes for Election Law Blog: The NC Judicial Election Litigation: Federal Due Process Prohibits All State Actors, Including State Courts, From Changing State Election Law and Practice After The Votes Have Been Cast Here are this week’s chatters: Emily: Adam Cancryn and Maggie Miller for Politico: Trump orders investigation of two first-term administration aides who criticized him John: Blue Mass (Wikipedia) ; National Museum of American History: Blue Mass Compound, Sugar-coated Pills ; Wallace B. Mendelson for Psychology Today: Heavy Metal Blues: The History of Medicinal Mercury ; Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green; Alka Agrawal for Science: All the President’s Pills .
David: Sage McHugh for The Spruce: The 7 Best Moth Repellents the Spruce Has Tested ; Sophie Yarin for The Brink: Pioneering Research from Boston University: Elevating the Clothes-Eating Moth from Pest to Evolutionary Marvel ; Chris Obenschain for HowStuffWorks: What To Do If You Inherit An Old Car Listener chatter from Tim in Solana Beach, California: Jack Dolan for the L.A. Times: As baby great whites cruise among California surfers, science finds (almost) nothing to fear ; Video (3:15), L.
A. Times on YouTube For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss favorite artworks they turn to for solace and perspective when chaos and tumult dominates the news. In the latest Gabfest Reads , David talks with author Adam Higginbotham about his new book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space .
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Hosts David Plotz is a host of the Slate Political Gabfest and the CEO of City Cast . Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine, the author of Charged and Sticks and Stones , and co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest. John Dickerson is host of CBS News Prime Time With John Dickerson , co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest, host of the Whistlestop podcast, and author of The Hardest Job in the World .
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