The “One Year From This Week” Edition
New polls and election results, impeachment, and leaving the Paris Agreement.
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Episode Notes
Here are some of the links and references from this week’s show:
• Nate Cohn for the New York Times: “One Year From Election, Trump Trails Biden but Leads Warren in Battlegrounds”
• Jonathan Chait for the Intelligencer: “New Poll Shows Democratic Candidates Have Been Living in a Fantasy World”
• John F. Kerry and Chuck Hagel for the Washington Post: “Trump Has Formally Pulled the U.S. Out of the Paris Agreement. This Is a Dark Time for America.”
Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:
• Emily: Douglas Belkin for the Wall Street Journal: “For Sale: SAT-Takers’ Names. Colleges Buy Student Data and Boost Exclusivity”
• John: Sara Lentati for the BBC: “The Man Who Cut Out His Own Appendix”
• David: His Dark Materials on HBO
• Listener chatter from @shah_of_shaw: Jeanne Bonner for CNN: “Wind and Rain Dislodge Boat Trapped on Rocks Above Niagara Falls for 101 Years”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, Emily, and John discuss the “OK, Boomer” phenomenon.
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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.
Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.
