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**Slate Conversations**

A feed of the up close and the personal, drawn from Working and across the Slate podcast network. Let’s talk.

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Latest Episodes:

Anthony Bourdain: A Previously Unaired Conversation from 2017 Jun 15, 2018

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Anthony Bourdain—the late chef and author—talks about his mistakes, the #MeToo movement, and Harvey Weinstein.

Email: ask@slate.comTwitter: @IHaveToAskPod

Podcast production by Max Jacobs.

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Judd Apatow (Re-Air) Jun 08, 2018

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Judd Apatow is a comedian, writer, director, and producer. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss his new documentary on the life of Garry Shandling, which comedians are actually “normal” people, and having your friends accused of bad behavior in the age of #MeToo.Email: ask@slate.comTwitter: @IHaveToAskPod

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Harry Enten Jun 01, 2018

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Harry Enten is a polling expert and a political writer at CNN. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss California’s crucial importance to the 2018 election, where Trump is and isn’t politically vulnerable, and whether pollsters have corrected the mistakes they made in 2016.

Email: ask@slate.comTwitter: @IHaveToAskPod

Podcast production by Max Jacobs.

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Re-Air: Ta-Nehisi Coates May 25, 2018

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Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of Between the World and Me, and now, We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss the costs of writing off your fellow citizens as “deplorable,” why he chose writing over activism, and how Trump is both uniquely dangerous and a predictable consequence of American racism.

This interview was first published November 8, 2017.

Podcast Production by Audrey Dilling.

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Cecilia Muñoz May 18, 2018

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Cecilia Muñoz was the director of the White House Policy Council Under Barack Obama, and an expert on immigration policy. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to talk about the mechanics of the Trump administration’s war on immigrants, the future of the Dreamers, and the campaign to abolish I.C.E.

Email: ask@slate.comTwitter: @IHaveToAskPod Podcast production by Max Jacobs.

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Maggie Haberman May 11, 2018

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Maggie Haberman is a White House correspondent for The New York Times and an analyst at CNN. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss why Trump fears the Michael Cohen investigation, reporting in the age of Twitter, and whether the White House beat is changing Trump—or the people covering him.

Email: ask@slate.comTwitter: @IHaveToAskPod

Podcast production by Max Jacobs.

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Michelle Dean May 04, 2018

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Michelle Dean is the author of Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss how a group of 20th century intellectuals—including Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Hannah Arendt, and Nora Ephron—changed the way we think about women in public life, and what they can tell us about today’s debates over feminism.

Email: ask@slate.comTwitter: @IHaveToAskPod

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Amy Chozick Apr 27, 2018

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Amy Chozick is the author of Chasing Hillary, a memoir about her experience covering the Clinton campaign for the New York Times. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss how the press and the Clinton campaign exacerbated one another’s worst instincts, whether the media has learned from the 2016 debacle, and what really drives Hillary Clinton.

Email: ask@slate.comTwitter: @IHaveToAskPod

Podcast production by Max Jacobs.

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Adam Davidson Apr 20, 2018

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Adam Davidson is a staff writer at The New Yorker who has been examining the president’s tangled business dealings. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss why people misunderstand Trump’s business skills, the real threat the Michael Cohen raid poses to Donald Trump, and whether we have reached the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency.

Email: ask@slate.comTwitter: @IHaveToAskPod

Podcast production by Max Jacobs.

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Barbara Ehrenreich Apr 13, 2018

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Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss why Americans thinks “mindfulness” will make them happy, whether smoking bans are a form of condescension towards the working-class, and the problems with Oprah’s very real ideology.

Email: ask@slate.comTwitter: @IHaveToAskPod

Podcast production by Max Jacobs.

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