The “Good Trouble” Edition

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

• Noah Feldman for Bloomberg: “Trump Isn’t Impeached Until the House Tells the Senate”
• Julia Ioffe’s tweets in reaction to Bret Stephens for the New York Times: “The Secrets of Jewish Genius”
• Jack Shafer for Politico: “Bret Stephens and the Perils of the Tapped-Out Column”
• Adam Serwer’s tweet in response new of John Lewis’ cancer diagnosis

Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:

• Emily: Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth project
• Josie: Fintan O’Toole for the New York Review of Books: “The Designated Mourner”
• David: The soundtrack for Guys and Dolls
• Listener Alex Hungerford @achungerford: Drew Harwell for the Washington Post: “Colleges Are Turning Students’ Phones Into Surveillance Machines, Tracking the Locations of Hundreds of Thousands”

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and Josie revisit a conundrum about how to extricate oneself from (or apologize for) a difficult situation.

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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.

Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.