Political Gabfest - Actually It Is ‘Infrastructure Week'
Slate Daily Feed22 Juli 2021

Political Gabfest - Actually It Is ‘Infrastructure Week'

Emily, John and David discuss the Delta variant and the vaccination decline, the bipartisan infrastructure plan living another day, and the pandemic Olympics.


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


David Leonhardt for The New York Times: “Why Aren’t the Vaccines Approved?


Matthew Yglesias for Slow Boring: “Let's Get More People Vaccinated


Ross Douthat for The New York Times: “How to Reach the Unvaccinated


John Dickerson for CBS News: “Governor Asa Hutchinson on ‘Face the Nation,’ June 27, 2021


Here’s this week’s chatter:


John: Jack Thomas for The Boston Globe: “I Just Learned I Only Have Months to Live. This Is What I Want to Say”; Susan B. Glasser for The New Yorker: “‘You’re Gonna Have a Fucking War’: Mark Milley’s Fight to Stop Trump from Striking Iran


Emily: Eliza Apperly for The Guardian: “‘Stumbling Stones’: A Different Vision of Holocaust Remembrance”; Atlas Obscura: “The Bebelplatz, Berlin, Germany: The Site of the Famous Nazi Book Burning Campaign of 1933 Remembers It’s ‘Night of Shame.’


David: The Quiet American, by Graham Greene; Catherine Bosley for Bloomberg: “Women Are Still Suffering More Than Men in Pandemic Job Hit


Listener chatter from Ragav Venkatesan: “W Series: Off Track”; Giles Richards for The Guardian: “Hamilton Commission Report Aims to Improve Diversity in Motorsport


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