This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Gaza ceasefire and prospects for long-term peace with Rob Malley[1], Middle East policy expert and co-author (with Hussein Agha) of the new book Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine[2], which side is likely to fold first in the ongoing government shutdown, and who benefits as the Supreme Court hears arguments about whether the 14th Amendment clashes with the Voting Rights Act.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Amna Nawaz and Dan Sagalyn for PBS News Hour: Experienced Mideast negotiators break down how Gaza peace deal came together[3](video, 8:18)
Hussein Agha and Robert Malley for The Guardian (Opinion): Life in Gaza may go from utter hell to mere nightmare. What happens now?[4]
Karen DeYoung for The Washington Post: Trump, hailing a ‘new Middle East,’ avoids many of the hard questions ahead[5]
The Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal (Opinion): Trump’s Hostage Triumph in Jerusalem[6]
Joshua Keating for Vox: The Gaza peace deal’s greatest strength is also its greatest weakness[7]
Siobhan Hughes, Theo Francis, and Katy Stech Ferek for The Wall Street Journal: The Government Shutdown Is Finally Starting to Bite[8]
Dan Merica and Matthew Choi for The Washington Post: The truths beneath Republicans’ shutdown strategy[9]
Tony Romm and Lazaro Gamio for The New York Times: Trump Targets Democratic Districts By Halting Billions During Shutdown[10]
Alexandra Skores for CNN: Legal questions arise as many airports refuse to play Kristi Noem’s shutdown message blaming Democrats[11]
Anastasia Obis for Federal News Network: Is it legal to use R&D money to pay troops during shutdown?[12]
Alexander Bolton for The Hill: GOP seeks to ramp up political pain for Democrats on shutdown[13]
A Martínez for NPR: ‘We’re not doing well’: U.S.-China trade war taking a toll on American soybean farms[14]
Abbie VanSickle for The New York Times: Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Key Provision of Voting Rights Act[15]
Greg Stohr for Bloomberg Law: Supreme Court Weighs Ending Race-Based Districts Before Election[16]
The Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal (Opinion): A Supreme Court Reckoning for Racial Gerrymanders[17]
David H. Gans for Slate: The Supreme Court Is Being Tested on History Once Again[18]
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: David Bauder for the Associated Press: Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules; Geoff Bennett and Dan Sagalyn for PBS News Hour: Why news organizations are rejecting the Pentagon’s new press rules[19][20]
John: Jason Furman: Sept. 27 Post on X; Matthew Yglesias for Slow Boring (Substack): The AI boom is propping up the whole economy; Jose Antonio Lanz for Yahoo! Finance: Most US Growth Now Rides on AI – And Economists Suspect a Bubble; Lesley Stahl, Shachar Bar-On, Aliza Chasan, and Jinsol Jung for CBS News: Andrew Ross Sorkin on worrying similarities between Wall Street today and 1929’s pre-crash market[21][22][23][24]
David: The Atlantic: 65 Essential Children’s Books[25]
Listener chatter from Ashley Kennedy in Wilmington, Delaware: A Very Brady Sequel (IMDB); Witney Seibold for SlashFilm: Do Gilligan’s Island And The Brady Bunch Share A Universe?[26][27]
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie “One Battle After Another” and its political and social themes. Is it a love letter to the revolutionary left and community connection, “apologia for radical left-wing terrorism,” or something else entirely?
In the latest Gabfest Reads[28], Emily talks with author and Yale professor Judith Resnik[29] about her new book, Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy[30]. They discuss the history of the prison system’s use of punishments like whipping, how the practice came to an end, and more.
Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com[31]. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
Podcast production by Nina Porzucki
Research by Emily Ditto
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References
- ^ Rob Malley (jackson.yale.edu)
- ^ Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine (www.amazon.com)
- ^ Experienced Mideast negotiators break down how Gaza peace deal came together (www.pbs.org)
- ^ Life in Gaza may go from utter hell to mere nightmare. What happens now? (www.theguardian.com)
- ^ Trump, hailing a ‘new Middle East,’ avoids many of the hard questions ahead (www.washingtonpost.com)
- ^ Trump’s Hostage Triumph in Jerusalem (www.wsj.com)
- ^ The Gaza peace deal’s greatest strength is also its greatest weakness (www.vox.com)
- ^ The Government Shutdown Is Finally Starting to Bite (www.wsj.com)
- ^ The truths beneath Republicans’ shutdown strategy (www.washingtonpost.com)
- ^ Trump Targets Democratic Districts By Halting Billions During Shutdown (www.nytimes.com)
- ^ Legal questions arise as many airports refuse to play Kristi Noem’s shutdown message blaming Democrats (www.cnn.com)
- ^ Is it legal to use R&D money to pay troops during shutdown? (federalnewsnetwork.com)
- ^ GOP seeks to ramp up political pain for Democrats on shutdown (thehill.com)
- ^ ‘We’re not doing well’: U.S.-China trade war taking a toll on American soybean farms (www.npr.org)
- ^ Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Key Provision of Voting Rights Act (www.nytimes.com)
- ^ Supreme Court Weighs Ending Race-Based Districts Before Election (www.bloomberg.com)
- ^ A Supreme Court Reckoning for Racial Gerrymanders (www.wsj.com)
- ^ The Supreme Court Is Being Tested on History Once Again (slate.com)
- ^ Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules (apnews.com)
- ^ Why news organizations are rejecting the Pentagon’s new press rules (www.pbs.org)
- ^ Sept. 27 Post on X (x.com)
- ^ The AI boom is propping up the whole economy (www.slowboring.com)
- ^ Most US Growth Now Rides on AI – And Economists Suspect a Bubble (finance.yahoo.com)
- ^ Andrew Ross Sorkin on worrying similarities between Wall Street today and 1929’s pre-crash market (www.cbsnews.com)
- ^ 65 Essential Children’s Books (www.theatlantic.com)
- ^ A Very Brady Sequel (IMDB) (www.imdb.com)
- ^ Do Gilligan’s Island And The Brady Bunch Share A Universe? (www.slashfilm.com)
- ^ Gabfest Reads (slate.com)
- ^ Judith Resnik (law.yale.edu)
- ^ Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy (press.uchicago.edu)
- ^ gabfest@slate.com (slate.com)
- ^ show pages here (slate.com)
- ^ Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com)
- ^ Spotify (open.spotify.com)
- ^ slate.com/gabfestplus (slate.com)
- ^ Bonus: One Battle After Another
People can’t stop talking about the new action thriller movie from Paul Thomas Anderson (slate.com)