Actually Good News for Women Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
June Thomas, Noreen Malone, and Dahlia Lithwick Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, the HBO documentary Suited, and The New York Times' war on "mom hair."
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.1 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.5 | Welcome to the Slate Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, June 30th, the Actually Good News for Women Edition. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm June Thomas, a writer and editor at Slate, and I'm in the New York studios with Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. |
| 0:24.5 | Hello, Noreen. |
| 0:25.3 | Hi, June. How is Alaska? |
| 0:26.7 | Alaska was awesome. |
| 0:28.2 | What animals did you see? |
| 0:30.5 | Walrus, beluga whales, bears, moose. |
| 0:34.6 | It's pretty good. |
| 0:35.5 | Yeah, it was good. It was really, really good. It was awesome. |
| 0:38.3 | I am not among the wildlife of Alaska, but here in New York, but in a more pastoral |
| 0:45.3 | location in the state of Virginia, Slate's Supreme Court correspondent, Dahlia Lithwick, is joining us this week since Hannah is away. |
| 0:53.3 | This is the last week of the Supreme Court term, so Dahlia, I is joining us this week since Hannah is away. This is the last week of the |
| 0:54.7 | Supreme Court term. So Dahlia, I imagine you are looking right now like Santa Claus, Luke's, |
| 1:00.4 | just five minutes after he delivered his last package. Am I accurate in that at all? |
| 1:06.4 | Yeah, a little bit of that. Hi, June and hi, hi, Noreen. Hello. Thank you for joining us. By the way, before we get started, I just want to mention that if you listeners have not yet heard the most recent edition of Amicus, which is Dahlia's Supreme Court podcast, you really, really need to because there are two great interviews on it. |
| 1:26.4 | First, she talks with Cheryl and Eiffel of the NCAA Legal Defense Fund, which is a really great interview. But then |
| 1:32.5 | the last two-thirds is an interview with the retiring Solicitor General Don Verily, which is just |
| 1:38.7 | so fascinating. It's like the greatest legal interview, the most revealing legal interview |
| 1:43.1 | of our time. |
| 1:45.9 | And so everybody should listen. |
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