This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and guest host Jamelle Bouie discuss the perils of this week’s Trump-plus-Putin (minus Zelensky) summit in Alaska, how Trump’s claimed crime “emergency” provided pretext for National Guard deployment and takeover of D.C. police, and a new presidential memorandum requiring colleges to share admissions data to “verify” that they are not considering race.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Jim Tankersley for The New York Times: Europe’s Leaders Say They’ve Agreed With Trump on a Strategy for Russia Talks
John Haltiwanger for Foreign Policy (Analysis): The Risks of the Trump-Putin Summit
Jonathan Lemire for The Atlantic: Vladimir Putin Could Be Laying a Trap
The Editorial Board of The Washington Post (Opinion): A risky peace gamble in Alaska
Adam Goldman, Glenn Thrush, and Mattathias Schwartz for The New York Times: Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System
Michael R. Gordon, Vera Bergengruen, and Lara Seligman for The Wall Street Journal: How Trump Is Expanding the Role of the American Military on U.S. Soil
Olivia George, Emily Davies, Jenny Gathright, Meagan Flynn, and Dan Lamothe for The Washington Post: As National Guard troops arrive, uncertainty over command of D.C. police
Jamelle Bouie for The New York Times (Opinion): Why Trump Always Wants a Crisis
Jay Kuo for The Status Kuo (Substack): King of the Sandbox
Megan McArdle for The Washington Post (Opinion): D.C. has a real crime problem. Federal control won’t solve it.
The Editors of National Review (Opinion): D.C.’s Problems Require a Long-Term Fix
Alex Horton and David Ovalle for The Washington Post: Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest
Cory Turner for NPR: Trump orders colleges to share admissions data, with an eye on affirmative action
Eric Hoover for The Chronicle of Higher Education: Trump Begins Hunt for ‘Bogeyman’ in Admissions Data
Frederick M. Hess for American Enterprise Institute: Trump Is Right to Insist on More Transparency in College Admissions
Claire Cain Miller for The New York Times (The Upshot): Trump’s Deals With Top Colleges May Give Rich Applicants a Bigger Edge
Vimal Patel for The New York Times: West Point and Air Force Academy Affirmative Action Lawsuits Are Dropped
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Reis Thebault, Alice Li, and Melina Mara for The Washington Post: 15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free.; Something Rotten! (Official Trailer, Stratford Festival 2024 on YouTube); the Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Unlimited Podcast, Episode 68: Something Rotten! The Broadway Musical.
John: Matthew Thomas for Bloomberg: US Consumers to Bear Brunt of Tariff Hit, Goldman Economists Say; Nick Lichtenberg for Fortune: Goldman Sachs doubles down on tariff research that infuriated Trump, saying average Americans will bear two-thirds of the costs; Hannah Parker for Quartz: U.S. consumers will take most of the hit from tariff costs: Goldman Sachs.
Jamelle: Justin Chang for Criterion.com: Sorcerer: Bleak Magic; William Friedkin’s Sorcerer.
Listener chatter from Christina Cavedon in Switzerland: Not Just the Tudors Podcast, Episode 288: Trading British Brides for American Tobacco; Jennifer Potter: The Jamestown Brides; Jamestown Rediscovery: Historic Jamestowne
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and guest host Jamelle Bouie discuss when and, perhaps more importantly, when not to give advice.
In the latest Gabfest Reads, David talks with Carl Hiaasen about his new book, Fever Beach, a political satire for the Trump Era.
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