The “I Would Like You to Do Us a Favor” Edition

Here are some of the links and references from this week’s show:

• Greg Miller, Josh Dawsey, Paul Sonne and Ellen Nakashima for the Washington Post: “Giuliani Pursued Shadow Ukraine Agenda as Key Foreign Policy Officials Were Sidelined”

• A. G. Sulzberger for the New York Times: “The Growing Threat to Journalism Around the World”

• “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community,” by Daniel R. Coats, Director of National Intelligence

• Ross Douthat for the New York Times: “Does Donald Trump Want to Be Impeached?”

• Osita Nwanevu for the New Republic: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Greta Thunberg”

• She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

• Ronan Farrow for the New Yorker: “Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies”

Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:

John:  Late 19^th-century advertisement for “Cocarettes” tweeted by Lindsey Fitzharris @DrLindseyFitz

Kirsten: Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You, by Clive D.L. Wynne

David: Shows about car racing like Formula 1 and Le Mans: Racing Is Everything as a cure for insomnia

Listener chatter from @RealFuzzyMarmot: Ryan Pickrell for Business Insider: “Walruses Have Attacked And Sunk a Russian Navy Boat in the Arctic“

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Kirsten discuss what makes Greta Thunberg wonderful and why she drives her critics crazy.

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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.

Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.