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Slate Money - Our Surprisingly Great Year Dec 23, 2023

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This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and guest host Edmund Lee, media reporter for the New York Times, recap the 2023 economic year, which saw strong growth, reduced inflation, and soaring stocks. Also: What a potential Warner Bros.-Paramount merger means for the entertainment business, and why a growing number of pedestrians are being killed by cars at night. In the Plus segment: Can the news industry profit from ChatGPT?

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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Can Hybrid Cars Save Us? Dec 22, 2023

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Without infrastructure to support all-electric vehicles, consumers have increasingly embraced the hybrid. The lower emissions are good—but are they slowing down our transition into an electric future?

Guest: Patrick George, editor-in-chief of InsideEVs.com, contributor to The Atlantic and The Verge.

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Political Gabfest - Trump versus Colorado Dec 21, 2023

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This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to block Donald Trump from the ballot, the new Texas law to allow state and local authorities to arrest immigrants, and guest Amanda Ripley’s suggestions to survive 2024.

Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:

Colorado Supreme Court’s opinion in Anderson, et al. v. Griswold, et al.

Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

John Dickerson for CBS News Prime Time: John Dickerson on Trump, Colorado and the 14th Amendment

Adam Unikowsky for Adam’s Legal Newsletter: Is the Supreme Court seriously going to disqualify Trump?

Mark A. Graber in The New York Times: Donald Trump and the Jefferson Davis Problem

Lawfare: Tracking Section 3 Trump Disqualification Challenges

Karoun Demirjian for The New York Times: Congress Abandons Ukraine Aid Until Next Year as Border Talks Continue

Ashley Wu for The New York Times: Why Illegal Border Crossings Are at Sustained Highs

Elizabeth Findell for The Wall Street Journal: Texas Spent Billions on Border Security. It’s Not Working

Tom Cohen and Bill Mears for CNN: Supreme Court mostly rejects Arizona immigration law; gov says ‘heart’ remains

Edgar Sandoval for The New York Times: Appellate Court Says U.S. Can’t Cut Through Texas Border Wire Along Rio Grande

Gabriela Baczynska for Reuters: What’s in the new EU migration and asylum deal?

Karen Musalo for Just Security: Biden’s Embrace of Trump’s Transit Ban Violates US Legal and Moral Refugee Obligations

Amanda Ripley for Unraveled: How to Survive 2024

Adam Mastroianni in The New York Times: Your Brain Has Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse and for Experimental History: Things could be better

The Economist: What psychology experiments tell you about why people deny facts

Here are this week’s chatters:

John: Jason Bittel for National Geographic: A bonobo was separated from her sister for 26 years. She still remembers her.

Emily: May December on Netflix

David: Hiroaki Nakagawa and Yasushi Miyata in Internal Medicine: An Underdiagnosed Cause of an Itchy Back

Listener chatter from Michael in Queens, New York: Irin Carmon for New York Magazine: A $45 Million Effort to Make Pregnancy Less Deadly in Brooklyn

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Amanda joins David, John, and Emily to talk about their holiday plans, which include To Asia, With Love: Everyday Asian Recipes and Stories From the Heart by Hetty McKinnon, the DC Public Library, Purlie Victorious, the National Zoo, and Sara Lee’s Butter Streusel Coffee Cake.

In the next Gabfest Reads, John talks with Christine Coulson about her new book, One Woman Show.

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

Podcast production by Cheyna Roth

Research by Julie Huygen

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What Next - Marvel’s Disastrous Year Dec 21, 2023

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After his character, Kang the Conqueror, was set up to be the big villain of the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Jonathan Majors was dismissed from the franchise after being found guilty of reckless assault and harassment.

Guest: Michael Schulman, staff writer for the New Yorker.

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What Next - When a Miscarriage Becomes a Crime Dec 20, 2023

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In September, Brittany Watts had a miscarriage at her home in Ohio. Prosecutors are now charging her with “abuse of a corpse,” a felony that could result in up to a year in prison.

When does a miscarriage become a felony? And could the anti-abortion movement be using this case as a step towards achieving “fetal personhood”?

Guest: Mary Ziegler, law professor at UC Davis and author of Roe: The History of a National Obsession.

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What Next - Oh the Humanities! Dec 19, 2023

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West Virginia University is wrapping up its first semester following dramatic cuts to undergraduate and graduate programs. Its president calls the “restructuring” an effort to better focus on majors like medicine, nursing, and business – degrees that will lead directly to lucrative jobs. But what is a degree really for? And how do you decide when a diploma is “worth it?”

Guest: Michael Powell, staff writer at The Atlantic.

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Slate Money - Slate Money Goes to the Movies: This Is Spinal Tap Dec 18, 2023

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In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, director Rob Reiner gave the world a band named Spinal Tap. No one knows who they were or what they were doing … except for legendary designer Paula Scher, the mind behind 40 years of music artwork and branding. She chats with Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers about the true stories that inspired the classic mockumentary.

Podcast production by Jared Downing.

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What Next - Where Do Returned Gifts Go? Dec 18, 2023

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“Easy returns” are an essential part of the online shopping experience. But 20-30 percent of online purchases get sent “back,” which is to say, they then enter the labyrinth of third-party return facilities, destined for re-evaluation, restocking—or possibly, the garbage.

Guest: Amanda Mull, staff writer at The Atlantic.

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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Case Against CLEAR Dec 17, 2023

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Going through airport security is a legal requirement. Is it fair for a private company to interject itself in that process—and cut to the front of the line?

Guest: David Zipper, visiting Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, focused on mobility, cities and technology.

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Slate Money - Is Starbucks Still a Union Buster? Dec 16, 2023

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This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers speculate on the Federal Reserve’s surprising new interest rates, whether Starbucks’ store closings are anti-union, and the financial machinations of Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani. In the Plus segment, Felix and Emily hash it out over the usefulness of the UN’s climate change conference.

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