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Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Emily Bazelon for The New York Times Magazine: “The Pandemic Election”
Isaac Chotiner for The New Yorker: “How We Can Contain the Second Wave of the Coronavirus”
Mike Pence for The Wall Street Journal: “There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’”
Between the World and Meby Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me on HBO
Ta-Nehisi Coates for The Atlantic: “The Case for Reparations”
The Water Dancerby Ta-Nehisi Coates
Josie Duffy Rice for Vanity Fair: “The Abolition Movement”
Barack Obama for The Atlantic: “I’m Not Yet Ready to Abandon the Possibility of America”
Jed Sugerman for The Washington Post: “Trump’s Legal Challenges to the Election Will Help Democrats”
Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:
Emily: Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America by Mark A. Bradley
John: John’s fundraising page for Covenant House's Virtual Sleep Out; Charlotte Regan’s short documentary, “No Ball Games: Life and Play Through the Eyes of Children Across the UK”
David: Washington Post: “Fort Hood is named for a Confederate traitor. Is it time for ‘Fort Benavidez’?”
Listener chatter from Mike @rifenbury: Kanazawa Kenichi video
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David and John discuss the holiday movies they’d like to see made.
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