Political: I Need More Ammunition

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🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss Ukraine's resistance, the State of the Union, and an increasing backlash against reformer prosecutors. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Thomas L. Friedman for The New York Times: “I See Three Scenarios for How This War Ends” Anne Appelbaum for the Atlantic: “The Bad Guys Are Winning” Gal Beckerman for The Atlantic: “How Zelensky Gave the World a Jewish Hero” Rebecca Davis O’Brien for The New York Times: “How This ‘Progressive Prosecutor’ Balances Politics and Public Safety” Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, by Emily Bazelon Here’s this week’s chatter: David: The Postman, by David Brin Emily: In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss, by Amy Bloom; Away, by Amy Bloom John: New York Times, Feb. 22, 1862: “The Execution of Nathaniel Gordon” Listener chatter from Leslie Camp: Phil Davison for The Washington Post: “Monique Hanotte, Belgian resistance member who rescued 135 downed Allied airmen in World War II, dies at 101” For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment John, Emily and David discuss what they do to find and boost their courage. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate political gap as for March 3rd, 2022, the I Need Amunition
0:12.5	edition.
0:13.5	I'm David Plots, a city cast here in Washington, D.C.
0:16.9	I'm joined by Emily Bazzlon at the New York Times magazine and Yale University Law School
0:21.3	from New Haven.
0:22.3	Hello, Emily.
0:23.3	Hey, David.
0:25.1	And back, thank goodness.
0:27.0	We missed you, John.
0:28.0	It's John Dickerson of CBS' Sunday Morning from New York.
0:30.8	Hello.
0:31.8	I missed you guys a lot.
0:32.8	It feels, yeah, it feels like it was a many years ago.
0:36.0	Well, the world, the world has actually changed since last time.
0:38.7	Holy cow.
0:39.7	That is literally true.
0:42.0	This week, in fact, we're going to talk about the Ukrainian invasion that has upended
0:45.9	the world we thought we knew.
0:48.1	Then we're going to cogitate on, we'll puzzle over President Biden's State of the Union
0:53.1	and, in fact, the State of the Union.
0:56.1	Then we'll talk about San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin, who faces a recall, what's
1:01.8	behind this move to dump a reform-minded prosecutor, plus we'll have cocktail chatter.
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