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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Coasts are Sinking Feb 23, 2024

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Studies have found that, in tiny increments, America’s East Coast is sinking into the ground thanks to climate change. Can a new approach to urban planning mitigate the effect?

Guest: Matt Simon, senior staff writer at Wired.

You can read Matt’s reporting here.

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Political Gabfest - Can Putin Be Stopped? Feb 22, 2024

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This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the tragic death of Alexei Navalny and the fallout in the US; Donald Trump’s civil fraud case and consequences; and Alabama’s new stance on frozen embryos.

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Pam Belluck for the New York Times on A New Abortion Access Strategy

Adam Liptak for the New York Times on Supreme Court Seems Ready to Block a Biden Plan on Air Pollution

Jeffrey Blehar for National Review on We Need to Talk about Tucker

Brett Stephens for the New York Times on How Biden Can Avenge Navalny’s Death

David Ignatius, for the Washington Post on Ukraine faces a valley of death. There’s a way Biden can help it get across.

Neil MacFarquhar for the New York Times on Wife, Protector and Now Political Heir: Yulia Navalnaya Rallies Russians

Jonah E. Bromwich and Ben Protess for the New York Times on What the Civil Fraud Ruling Means for Trump’s Finances and His Empire

Jonathan O'Connell for the Washington Post on Hefty fines, penalties will rock Trump family's business and fortune

Ruth Marcus for the Washington Post on Alabama’s frozen embryo ruling is misguided

Jan Hoffman for the New York times on Alabama Says Embryos in a Lab Are Children. What Are the Implications?

Here are this week’s chatters:

Emily: The fight against the EPA’s “good neighbor” air pollution rule heats up at the Supreme Court.

John: Allison Russel’s Grammy Award win for Eve Was Black, which some members of the Tennessee legislature sought to reject a congratulatory resolution for the singer.

David: Closet beds in the Netherlands.

Listener chatter from Lee Underwood in Atlanta, Georgia: Caley Fretz for Escape Collective: Meet the man who rode more new roads than anyone else

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Emily are joined by Gongwer News Service Executive Editor and Publisher Zach Gorchow. Zach also co-hosts the Michigan politics podcast MichMash. They discuss the dustup among Democratic votes who may vote “uncommitted” in the primary because of Biden’s stance on Israel.

In the latest Gabfest Reads, John talks with Brad Stulberg about his book, Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You.

Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)

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Research by Keya Bajaj

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What Next - The Basketball Phenom Shaking Up the NCAA Feb 22, 2024

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Iowa’s Caitlin Clark has scored more points than any other NCAA women’s basketball player in history, but her impact extends even further than her substantial range on the court.

Guest: Hayley McGoldrick, associate editor at Sportsnet.

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What Next - Why a Hi-Tech Gun Safety Tool Isn’t Working Feb 21, 2024

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Shotspotter lost a huge contract and some face when Chicago opted out of its partnership with the gunfire-identification tech company.

Why can’t new policing tech seem to break the old patterns and problems?

Guest: Jim Daley, investigations editor at South Side Weekly

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Slate Money - Money Talks: I Was a Billionaire’s Right Hand Feb 20, 2024

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Felix Salmon sits down with Carrie Sun, whose book Private Equity: A Memoirrecalls her life as the right-hand woman of a billionaire hedge fund manager. Burnt out on corporate life, Carrie wanted a low-key day job while she pursued her writing career. Instead, she found herself in a world of high-octane Wall Street hustle where profit is paramount. She and Felix discuss Wall Street culture,

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What Next - Who’s Left to Help Migrants? Feb 20, 2024

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The migrant crisis has come to Denver. With no federal help on the way and temperatures dropping well below freezing, a local church tries to pick up the slack.

Guest: Keith Reeser, pastor at Denver Friends Church in Colorado.

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What Next - Alexei Navalny Is Dead. Is His Movement Gone With Him? Feb 19, 2024

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Alexei Navalny died last week at age 47 in the prison where he was serving a 19-year sentence for extremism. With just one month left before a presidential election in which Putin is nearly guaranteed to win, the pro-democracy opposition movement in Russia is more beleaguered than ever.

Guest: Joshua Yaffa, contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia.

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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Apple Vision Pro: The Ultimate Surveillance Device? Feb 18, 2024

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Apple Vision Pro goggles might be a crime against fashion but with the amount of data they can collect—both on the world around the user and on the users themselves—they have the potential to invade privacy right down to where you’re looking and for how long.

Guest: Geoffrey Fowler, Washington Post tech columnist

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Race, Money and Fictional Life at the University of Arkansas Feb 17, 2024

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David Plotz talks with author Kiley Reid about her new book, Come & Get It. They discuss how money can work in the same way as language, writing realistic dialogue, and the things we can’t let go of.

Tweet us your questions @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages could be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)

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Slate Money - America is Beating Everyone Feb 17, 2024

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This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers explain why factories, energy, stimulus money, and immigration have helped the U.S. economy succeed where its rivals struggle. Also: The failed Universal Music deal that silenced Taylor Swift music on TikTok, and why a typo by Lyft was the scourge of after-hours traders. In the Plus segment: Why is chocolate chip ice cream so hard to find?

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