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Voted “Favorite Political Podcast” by Apple Podcasts listeners. Stephen Colbert says, “Everybody should listen to the Slate Political Gabfest.” The Gabfest is hosted by Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz. Listen for the debates, stay for the cocktail chatter.All episodes 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
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This has been a bad year for the anxious among us â myself very much included. The pandemic was objectively terrifying. And many of us were trapped inside, with nothing we could do about it, severed from social connection and routine, with plenty of time to fret.
But that almost gives anxiety, at least as I experience it, too much credit. This year, anyway, being anxious made sense. It so often doesnât. Your mind has so much power and capacity, and there are so many real problems to solve or wonders to contemplate, and instead youâre obsessively ruminating over something that happened three years ago or might happen three years from now.