This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the close race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump; Why Legal Experts Are Worried About a Second Trump Presidency; and Hurricanes Helene and Milton and climate change. And it’s never too early to send us your Conundrums at slate.com/conundrum.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Theodoric Meyer and Leigh Ann Caldwell for The Washington Post: Part of Harris’s Pennsylvania strategy: Lose red counties by less; Isaac Stanley-Becker: Trump secretly sent covid tests to Putin during 2020 shortage, new book says; and Michael Scherer: Harris campaign concerned about money after raising $1 billion
Hannah Demissie for ABC News: Vance and Walz visit Arizona as early voting begins in the battleground state
Nate Cohn for The New York Times: How One Polling Decision Is Leading to Two Distinct Stories of the Election; Astead W. Herndon for The Run-Up: A Pollster’s Guide to the Homestretch; and Peter Baker and Dylan Freedman: Trump’s Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age
Seema Mehta for the Los Angeles Times: Podcasts, ‘The View’ and Howard Stern: How Harris and Trump are ‘microtargeting’ voters
Emily Bazelon and Mattathias Schwartz for The New York Times: Why Legal Experts Are Worried About a Second Trump Presidency; Emily Bazelon, Marco Hernandez, Mattathias Schwartz, and Bill Marsh: If Trump Wins, Could He Really Use the Justice Department to Jail His Rivals?; and Jack Goldsmith: Opinion: Jack Smith Owes Us an Explanation
World Weather Attribution: Climate change key driver of catastrophic impacts of Hurricane Helene that devastated both coastal and inland communities and full study
Alejandra Borunda and Rachel Waldholz for NPR: Climate change made Helene more dangerous. It also makes similar storms more likely and Huo Jingnan: How FEMA tries to combat rumors and conspiracy theories about Milton and Helene
Andrew Egger for The Bulwark: This Is Your Brain on Space Lasers
Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims for Popular Information: Every problem Trump wrongfully blames on undocumented immigrants
Here are this week’s chatters:
John: Yan Zhuang for The New York Times: 18-Year-Old Sherpa Becomes Youngest Climber to Summit 14 Highest Mountains and Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Emily: Jeff Gammage for The Inquirer: History’s Hard Lesson; Japanese American National Museum: Uprooted; and National Park Service: Tule Lake National Monument
David: Tim Fernholz for Sherwood: Who died and left the US $7 billion? and Matt Levine for Money Stuff
Listener chatter from Lara in Cleveland, Ohio: Olivia Hebert for The Independent: Zoo admits that their pandas are ‘painted dogs’ after backlash from visitors
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David talk about media endorsements of political candidates.
In the latest Gabfest Reads, David talks with Elizabeth Strout about her new book, Tell Me Everything: A Novel.
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
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