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Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson, and EmilyBazelon. This week: It’s talk of appointments to the Obama Cabinet, the financial bailout and other economic woes, and the Obamas pick a school
John Dickerson and EmilyBazelon on Slate have compiled a kind-of Frequently Asked Questions selection focusing on questions from children about the historical significance of Obama’s election. It does seem a difficult thing to explain to children that the reason we, and everyone in the US is happy/smug, is that a black man has been [...]
Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson, and EmilyBazelon. This week: The Obama administration begins to take shape, Washington political happenings, and the Big Three automakers come to town
Slate has been planning their new ladyblog—sorry, "online magazine"—as a sort-of-but-not-really competitor to our sister site Jezebel. Gals all over town want to get in on the action—some the few media jobs left! Now we know the ladies who will lead it, . It will be a "triumvirate" of editors (that means three): EmilyBazelon, Meghan O'Rourke, and Hanna Rosin. Three eds? Bad idea. Their...
EmilyBazelon writing in Slate: Witness the harsh and sometimes hostile partisanship of the sweet liberal children I know ... And so I fear the election is teaching them not only about the joy of supporting an appealing candidate but also about the more vicious pleasures of despising the other side--with a zeal that's usually off-limits to them. Also during the soccer carpool, the kids...
This has been the most emotionally charged election I can remember since, well, ever, and it makes sense that the kids would pick up on that. But Slate 's EmilyBazelon asks, what do you do when your children's political allegiances are extreme? She covers a Halloween experiment in which kids chose candy from either side of a porch: The Obama side--marked with a large sign and life-size...
Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, John Dickerson, and EmilyBazelon. This week: It’s all about the last week of the presidential campaign, and just a little about the Philadelphia Phillies
Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, EmilyBazelon and Michael Newman. This week: the latest from the presidential campaign trail, a Vice Presidential wardrobe and a super secret topic
"Dread is the emotion pro-life groups look to instill when they push states to pass laws that make an ultrasound part of the abortion procedure," Slate senior editor EmilyBazelon writes in an opinion piece.
In the tug-o-war over abortion rights, are ultrasounds the next frontier? Over at Slate , EmilyBazelon has an essay entitled “Required Viewing: Oklahoma’s gallingly paternalistic ultrasound law.” Oklahoma, apparently, is one of four states — the others are Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi — to pass a law that mandates ultrasounds for pregnant women prior to getting an abortion. In...