The “DP [Hearts] MB” Edition

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

• Megan Garber, the Atlantic: “ ‘I’d Do Her’: Mike Bloomberg and the Underbelly of #MeToo”

• Kevin Van Valkenburg’s Twitter thread on why journalists have to cold-call sources.

Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:

• Emily: Felon, by Reginald Dwayne Betts; The World Doesn’t Require You, by Rion Amilcar Scott

• John: Pew Research Center: “Partisan Antipathy: More Intense, More Personal”

• David: Jed Kolko for the New York Times: “Red and Blue Economies Are Heading in Sharply Different Directions”; Atlas Obscura Trivia Night at the Bell House

• Listener chatter from Cyrus Farivar: Deborah Netburn for the Los Angeles Times: “Meet the Scientist Who’s Been Counting California Butterflies for 47 Years and Has No Plans to Stop.” And from Jamey Kelley: Alex Samuels for the Texas Tribune: “Texas Voters Approve State Income Tax Ban, Most Other Constitutional Amendments”

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, Emily, and John discuss recent controversies in college journalism.

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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.

Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.