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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
called who counts. this is a project that you re asking readers to support, to look at who is underrepresented when it comes to voting. what are you all trying to explore? i think that we re just responding to the fact that we and other media entities try to do the thing where we wait until the week before an election to say, oh, wow, polling places are shutting? what s going on? vote suppression is happening? folks can t get their i.d.s? we want to start a year out and ask readers to help us understand, gerrymandering, vote suppression, the census case. all the ways in which again, you talked about boring process questions, these boring process questions of who counts, quite literally in america, we need to do it now, not wait until next year to figure out whose vote is being suppressed, who can t speak, who can t get i.d., and we needs readers to help us. and you re asking readers to help financially with support and also with ideas. we need the readers to be a part of this.