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Political Gabfest - Ministerial Exception

Emily, John and David discuss Biden's understated presidential campaign, the new Supreme Court decisions, and Hamilton.

Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:

Jamelle Bouie for The New York Times: “Maybe This Isn’t Such a Good Time to Prosecute a Culture War”

David Weigel for The Washington Post: “The Trailer: Who's Afraid of Joe Biden?”

Michael W. McConnell for the New York Times: “On Religion, the Supreme Court Protects the Right to Be Different”

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy by Annette Gordon-Reed

The New York Times Magazine: “The 1619 Project”

Winds of Change podcast

Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:

Emily: Sea Wife by Amity Gaige; “426 Years: An Examination of 25 Wrongful Convictions

in Brooklyn, New York”

John: Jake Rossen for Mental Floss: “10 Examples of the Mandela Effect”; Chess.com: “What is Zugzwang?”

David: Meghann Myers for Military Times: “Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Who Testified Against Trump, Announces Retirement From the Army”

Listener chatter from Emmy Rald @RaldEmmy: Phoebe Weston for The Guardian: “‘Landscape of Fear’: What a Mass of Rotting Reindeer Carcasses Taught Scientists”

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For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David and Emily discuss the shaming of wealthy companies that took Paycheck Protection Program loans.

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Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.

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