Too Big to Govern?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On the Gist, a vice presidential debate starring plexiglass. In the interview, Mike hosts a roundtable discussion with journalist Richard Kreitner and Vox's Matthew Yglesias to talk about how each of their new books address the problem of an ever-increasing American population. They debate if the U.S. should split into more manageable nations, or if the country should keep pushing population growth. Yglesias' book is One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Big, and Kreitner's latest is Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union. In the spiel, Delco, South Philly, and NY tri-state area Italian Americans for Joe Biden. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.6	So when's the October 7th, 2020, from slate, it's the GIST I might pass got.
0:41.6	Tonight's Vice Presidential debate will take place against a backdrop of social upheaval,
0:46.8	civil unrest, presidential instability, widespread inability to define the word therapeutic,
0:53.8	and public health peril.
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0:58.2	The side-drop is a four-inch sheet of plexiglass.
1:02.3	When South Carolina Democratic nominee James Harris showed up to debate Lindsey Graham,
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