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This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss anti-Trump sentiment in foreign elections with former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, why the Trump administration has done relatively little about medication abortion so far and whether it will last, and how looming Medicaid cuts will hurt millions of Americans.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Matina Stevis-Gridneff for The New York Times (Analysis): A New Trend in Global Elections: The Anti-Trump Bump
Charlotte Lawson, James P. Sutton, and Peter Gattuso for The Dispatch (The Morning Dispatch Newsletter): Canada’s Liberals Pull Off A Narrow Win
Joshua Kurlantzick for Council on Foreign Relations: A Tale of Two Elections: Trump Casts Shadow Over Australia and Singapore
E.J. Dionne Jr. for The Washington Post (Opinion): Trump boomerang sinks Australia’s right wing
Malcolm Turnbull for Foreign Affairs: How the World Can Deal With Trump
Alex Wickham for Bloomberg: Starmer’s Wooing of Trump Helps Farage Dodge Anti-Populist Wave
Karen Diep, Bryana Castillo Sanchez, Usha Ranji, and Alina Salganicoff for KFF: Abortion Trends Before and After Dobbs
Pam Belluck for The New York Times: Trump Administration Asks Court to Dismiss Abortion Pill Case
Andrea González-Ramírez for New York Magazine (The Cut): Why Is Trump Asking a Judge to Toss an Abortion-Pill Case?
Alice Miranda Ollstein for Politico: The anti-abortion movement readies its gameplan for Trump 2.0
Mabinty Quarshie and Ramsey Touchberry for Washington Examiner: Conservatives denounce Trump’s DOJ defending abortion pill rules
Congressional Budget Office: Letter: New Analysis Enumerating Medicaid Policy Options and State Responses
Kevin Stansbury for The New York Times (Opinion): What Medicaid Cuts Would Do to My Rural Hospital
Anna Claire Vollers for Stateline: A fifth of Americans are on Medicaid. Some of them have no idea.
Nathaniel Weixel for The Hill: CBO: Millions of people could lose insurance under GOP Medicaid options
Ben Leonard for Politico: Capitol agenda: A new twist in the Medicaid fight
Paul Winfree and Brian Blase for The Wall Street Journal (Opinion): The Politics of Medicaid Reform
David Dayen for The American Prospect: Medicaid Cuts in Republican Bill Would Charge Poor People More for Coverage
Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez for KFF: Tribal Health Leaders Say Medicaid Cuts Would Decimate Health Programs
Ben Leonard for Politico: Laura Loomer hammers Trump ally for backing Medicaid cuts
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Alice Evans: The Great Gender Divergence (Substack); Post: Can We Track the Great Gender Divergence on TV?
John: Award-winning Broadway star Audra McDonald on Instagram; the pepperoni post.
David: Maya C. Miller for The New York Times: D.C. Budget Fix Stalls in the House as Conservative Republicans Balk
Listener chatter from Alesh Houdek in Longmont, Colorado: Cory Doctorow on Medium: Sarah Wynn-Williams’s ‘Careless People’; book Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss whether and how to pay attention and respond when Trump “jokes” about the possibility of serving a third term as president.
In the latest Gabfest Reads, John talks with author Maggie Smith about her new book, Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life.
Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected]. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
Podcast production by Ethan Oberman
Research by Emily Ditto
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