Political Gabfest - President Nikki Haley?
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🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week, David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon discuss Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign; the legal history likely to lead to the end of affirmative action; and Slate How To! podcast host Amanda Ripley’s reporting on the congressional committee that got things done.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Emily Bazelon for The New York Times Magazine: “Why Is Affirmative Action in Peril? One Man’s Decision.”
Amanda Ripley for The Washington Post: “These Radically Simple Changes Helped Lawmakers Actually Get Things Done”
Julia Ioffe for The New Yorker: “Russia on Fire”
Becky Sullivan for NPR: “What To Know About The Train Derailment in East Palestine, Ohio”
Here are this week’s chatters:
John: CBS Sunday Morning: “Almanac: Abraham Lincoln's Beard”
Emily: John J. Lennon for The New York Review of Books: “Peddling Darkness”
David: David French for The New York Times: “Men Need Purpose More Than ‘Respect’”; City Cast DC live
Listener chatter from Tim Anderson: CNN: “Johannes Vermeer Exhibition Stuns With Scientific Revelations”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David, John, and Emily discuss the derailment of a train carrying hazardous materials in Ohio.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest. |
| 0:16.0 | February 16, 2023, the President Nikki Haley, question mark, edition. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm David Fletz of CityCase, and here in Washington, D.C. I am joined by John Dickerson |
| 0:28.0 | of CBS, Prime Time from New York City. Hello, John. On this show, not in life, but on this show. |
| 0:34.9 | And of course, Emily Vazlon of New York Times magazine and Yale University Law School back, |
| 0:39.3 | back safely in New Haven. Hello, Emily. Hello, hello. This week on the Gap Fest, |
| 0:44.9 | Nikki Haley is running for President. Will she be the non-Trump non-decentess alternative |
| 0:50.8 | that some Republicans, like six Republicans are waiting for? Then as the Supreme Court prepares to |
| 0:57.9 | gut affirmative action at universities, Emily has a brilliant piece about how |
| 1:02.8 | university affirmative action came to be. And we'll talk to her about that. |
| 1:06.5 | Then maybe Congress can get along. Amanda Ripley will join us to talk about the bipartisan |
| 1:13.9 | House committee that actually works and why it actually works. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:19.2 | And a reminder that we are hiring a researcher. If you love the Gap Fest, you love Slate. Maybe you |
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| 1:58.6 | letter to GapFest at Slate.com. I'm Josh Levine, the host of Slate's podcast one year. |
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