Unfulfilled
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🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss immigration, violence against Asian Americans and how Amazon is shaping the American economic landscape.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Emily Bazelon for Slate: “Stop Telling Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Retire: It's Counterproductive”
David Leonhardt for The New York Times: “The Democrats’ Immigration Problem”
Nicole Narea for Vox: “Migrants Are Heading North Because Central America Never Recovered From Last Year’s Hurricanes”
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger by Matthew Yglesias
Slate’s Political Gabfest, “The “Rage” Edition” (with Matthew Yglesias)
Claire Jean Kim for Politics and Society: “The Racial Triangulation Of Asian Americans”
How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alec MacGillis
Michael Corkery and Karen Weise for The New York Times: “Amazon Workers’ Union Drive Reaches Far Beyond Alabama”
Lina M. Kahn for The Yale Law Journal: “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox”
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency by John Dickerson
John Dickerson for 60 Minutes: “Studying Coronavirus Spread in One Georgia School System”
Here’s this week’s chatter:
Emily chattered about her forthcoming article about the exoneration of Yutico Briley. Matt Sledge for The New Orleans Advocate: “A Man Serving 60 Years For Armed Robbery Is Free After Jason Williams Clears The Way For Release”
John: Howard Schneider for Reuters: “U.S. Covid Response Could Have Avoided Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths - Research”
David: Janelle Shane for Substack: “GPT-3 Tries Pickup Lines”
Listener chatter from Mathew Dicks: Philip Hoare for The Guardian: "Sperm Whales in 19th Century Shared Ship Attack Information"
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Test for March 25th, 2021, the Unfulfilled Edition. |
| 0:13.5 | I am David Plotz of Citicast in Washington, D.C.C. We launched CityCast Denver this morning, |
| 0:19.8 | Thursday morning. I'm going to talk more about CityCass next week, but check out Citicast Denver this morning, Thursday morning. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm going to talk more about CityCass next week, but check out CityCast Denver if you're in Denver or love Denver. |
| 0:27.5 | It's a daily podcast and newsletter. |
| 0:29.6 | I am joined by John Dickerson of CBS 60 Minutes from New York. |
| 0:33.6 | Hello, John. |
| 0:34.5 | Hello, David. |
| 0:35.1 | And by an extremely jacked up Emily Bazelon of the New Times Magazine and Yale University Law School, |
| 0:41.3 | I cannot wait for the Emily Bazelon of today's show. |
| 0:43.8 | You're totally ruining by expectation. |
| 0:46.2 | I really am like way too animated this morning. It's true. |
| 0:49.6 | It's because I missed you guys. I have two weeks of like energy to expel. Listeners. Listeners buckle up. |
| 0:57.4 | Watch out. Here we go. On today's gap fest, we'll talk about the immigration crisis. Is there an |
| 1:02.5 | immigration crisis at the southern border and elsewhere in the United States? Then we're going to talk |
| 1:07.0 | about violence and harassment of Asian Americans in the wake of the murders |
| 1:12.7 | in Atlanta and data suggesting incidents against Asian Americans have risen dramatically |
| 1:18.1 | in the last year. And we're going to talk to Professor Claire Jean Kim of the University |
| 1:22.7 | of California, Irvine, about that. Then we're going to be joined by Alec McGillis to talk about |
| 1:26.9 | his book |
| 1:28.0 | Fulfillment, which is about Amazon and Amazon's effect on the United States and the Amazon |
| 1:34.5 | Union fight and what that tells us about the state of America. Plus, what a gaffe on Fox |
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