A Civic Obligation

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A Civic Obligation

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Jul 22, 2016

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Jacob Weisberg talks to Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter for Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal, about why he felt compelled to speak up about Trump now and the reaction he has received since.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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A quasi-daily podcast from Slate chronicling Donald Trump's rise to the presidency and his current administration. Journalists Virginia Heffernan and León Krauze talk to reporters, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in the United States of America.

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A Man of His Generation: Jacob Weisberg talks to Stephen Metcalf about his Slate cover story "Donald Trump, Baby Boomer." by Slate News
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A Campus Outlier: Jacob Weisberg talks to a college student about his support for Donald Trump. by Slate News
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I LOVE Women!: Jacob Weisberg talks to Slate's Christina Cauterucci about Trump's core philosophy: misogyny. by Slate News
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Is Trump A Racist?: Jacob Weisberg talks to Jamelle Bouie about his latest article "How Trump Happened" by Slate News
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Slate's Trumpcast Trailer: A roundup of all things Donald Trump. Hosted by Jacob Weisberg. by Slate News
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The Pivot: Jacob Weisberg talks to Mark Leibovich about Trump's transition into a more tolerable candidate. by Slate News
22 min listen
When Trump Doesn’t Win: Slate’s Jacob Weisberg talks to EJ Dionne about the results of the Wisconsin primary and why it’s OK for the media to be calling the demise of Trump (again). by Slate News
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A Contested Convention?: Jacob Weisberg talks to Jeff Greenfield about possible GOP scenarios. by Slate News
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Brussels, ISIS & Islam: Jacob Weisberg talks to former Islamic extremist Ed Husain about how Trump is perceived within Muslim communities. by Slate News
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Wait Wait How Do You Make Fun of Trump?!: Jacob Weisberg talks to Peter Sagal, the host of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, about the difficulties of satirizing the un-satirizable. by Slate News
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Life on the Trump Trail: Leon Neyfakh guest-hosts and talks to Seth Stevenson about what it's like to write about a candidate who hates you. by Slate News
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Let's Talk To A Shrink: Jacob Weisberg talks to Dr. Ben Michaelis, a clinical psychologist, about narcissistic personality order. by Slate News
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Negotiation 101: Seth Stevenson guest-hosts and talks to Columbia Business School lecturer Aaron Wallen about negotiation tactics. by Slate News
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Why This Podcast Isn't Neutral: Glenn Greenwald on media neutrality, objectivity, and the history of an opinionated press. by Slate News
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A Public Display of Autoeroticism: Jacob Weisberg talks to Mark Singer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, about his 1997 profile of Donald Trump and whether he's changed in the past 20 years. by Slate News
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The GOP's Top Trump Buster: Jacob Weisberg talks to Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney's top political strategist in 2012, about stopping Trump. by Slate News
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My Mom's Voting For Him: Hanna Rosin of Slate's DoubleX Gabfest and NPR's Invisibilia calls her mother to ask why she's voting for Trump. by Slate News
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Trading Places: Leon Neyfakh talks to Lawrence Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute about Donald Trump's trade speech. by Slate News
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Reporting The Future From The Boston Globe: Slate’s Leon Neyfakh talks to Katie Kingsbury, Editor at The Boston Globe, about this weekend’s satirical front page that looks a year into the future at Donald Trump’s presidency. by Slate News
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Dictators’ Favorite Sleazebag: Jacob Weisberg talks to Frank Foer about the history of Paul Manafort, Trump’s political strategist. by Slate News
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No Koch Money: Jacob Weisberg talks to Jane Mayer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, about the Koch brothers and whether or not they're serious about supporting Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. by Slate News
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Here Come the Vichy Republicans: Jacob Weisberg talks to John Podhoretz, Editor at Commentary Magazine, about Vichy Republicans and striking back at Trump’s twitter supporters. by Slate News
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A Theater of Cruelty: Jacob Weisberg talks to Virginia Heffernan about The Apprentice. by Slate News
21 min listen
What's With The White Working Class?: Slate’s Jacob Weisberg talks to Barbara Ehrenreich about the white working class. by Slate News
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What to Call Donald Trump: Jacob Weisberg talks to Aaron James about different types of a-holes and where Trump fits in. Plus a sketch about "John Miller." by Slate News
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The Johnald: Jacob Weisberg talks to John Di Domenico, our voice of Donald Trump about life as a Trump impersonator. by Slate News
28 min listen
Moral Larceny...With Flair!: Jacob Weisberg talks to Wayne Barrett about "the first detailed examination of Trump’s business practices to appear in the press." Plus, another round of Donald’s latest tweets. by Slate News
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A Brief History of the Drumpfs: Jacob Weisberg talks to Gwenda Blair about three generations of the Drumpf family. by Slate News
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Trumpcast University: Jacob Weisberg talks to Helaine Olen about Trump’s wealth seminar, otherwise known as Trump University, and how several of those he scammed are still supporting him. by Slate News
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The Gaudy Construction Project On His Head: Jacob Weisberg talks to Ashley Feinberg about yet another expensive, ugly construction project from Donald Trump – his hair. Plus, a conversation with Trump biographer, Michael D'Antonio. by Slate News
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What Next: How Trump Found His Lawyer: An ex-prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, Todd Blanche left one of the oldest Wall Street law firms to represent the former president. by Slate News
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What Next: Columbia Calls the Cops: How student protests have intensified and spread. by Slate News
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AMICUS PREVIEW: Abortion Gaslighting is Back at SCOTUS: Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern take you through the arguments in the emergency abortion care case and a look ahead to Trump’s immunity case. by Slate News
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What Next: Your Right to Protest? Not the Supreme Court’s Problem.: Looks like the highest court will let the wildly conservative Fifth Circuit judges violate the Constitution a bit, as a treat. by Slate News
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What Next: What the WNBA Salary Debate Misses: Caitlin Clark’s $76,000 pay is shocking—but the story is bigger than her. by Slate News
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A Word: Freaknik: Party in the Black: Remembering the freedom, fun and –sometimes– foolishness of 1990s Black spring break. by Slate News
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What Next TBD: The Internet Archive Endangered: A non-profit site just digitized Aruba’s history. They could be sued out of existence. by Slate News
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Well, Now: We Don’t Need to Cure Autism: “If your kid didn’t have autism anymore, they would be a different person. A person that doesn’t exist.” by Slate News
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Amicus: Twelve Jurors and One Angry Ex-President: What the first week of Trump’s hush money trial tells us about how the former President is handling his first criminal trial by Slate News
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Political Gabfest: Could You Be A Trump Juror?: Donald Trump faces his first criminal trial; the Supreme Court considers a charge related to another Trump case; and The Atlantic’s Mark Leibovich finds Gavin Newsom can’t help himself. by Slate News
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What Next: Will Abortion in Florida and Arizona Decide the Election?: The ghost of Roe v. Wade haunts our voting booths. by Slate News
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Hang Up: The Meaning of O.J. Simpson by Slate News
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Hear Me Out: Legalize Weed, But Not Like This: Smoke and mirrors. by Slate News
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What Next: What Israel Does Now: How to interpret Iran’s checked-swing retaliation. by Slate News
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What Next: Trump In (Criminal) Court: What to expect when a former president facing jail time appears before a jury of his peers. by Slate News
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A Word: Candace Owens: Back to Black?: What’s next for the conservative provocateur’s redemption tour on Black media. by Slate News
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Political Gabfest: Arizona Territory’s 1864 Abortion Law: Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban is back and Donald Trump is not for it; No Labels is done; and we question if presidential debates are over. by Slate News
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What Next TBD: Does Google Suck Now?: Wither our once-best search engine? by Slate News
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What Next: The Judge Protecting Trump: Why the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case is going nowhere. by Slate News
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