Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for April 1st, 2021, the impending Doom edition.

I am David Plotz of CityCast here in Washington, D.C., Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine

and Yale University of Law School

joins me from New Haven. Hello, Emily.

That was like an athlete introduction.

Because we were just talking about all the great response we got to our basketball

Slate Plus last thing, I think that put you in the mood.

No, I would introduce you.

And now at 5'9 from...

Don't say anything else.

Friends High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Power forward, Emily Bazelon.

That was pretty good.

Then, at W.T. Austin, Hookham Horns, Andrea Valdez, the Eddairn Chief of the 19th from Austin, Texas.

Welcome to the Gab Fest.

Hi, thanks for having me.

I just want to make sure everybody knows what the 19th is.

It is my new favorite publication, centering often on issues involving gender and women and policy. And I'm so glad Andrea

helped start it. And we're going to talk more about it in the Slate Plus segment. Stay tuned.

John Dickerson, you will notice, is absent John is, I think he's on a reporting trip. Anyway,

he's not here, wherever he is. He had to interview a famous person. Is that right? Yeah.

He's interviewing a famous person. Good for them. Good for him. Lucky, lucky famous person to be interviewed by John. Today, we are going to talk about the fourth wave. Is there a fourth wave? Is it going to swamp us? Then the trial of Derek Chauvin gets underway in Minneapolis. What can that trial accomplish? What should our goals be for that trial? Then is child care and elder care? Is that infrastructure? We are going to talk about Joe Biden's infrastructure plan and how care of giving should be incorporated into it. Plus, Emily, what a remarkable story out of France this week. Did you see that?

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