This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the problems with issue polling and issues with political journalism; the chaos and conflict of Sam Altman and OpenAI; and the failure of the Oslo Accords and perpetual struggle between Israel and Palestine. Send us your Conundrums: submit them at <a href="https://slate.com/conundrum">slate.com/conundrum</a>. And join us in-person or online with our special guest – <a href="https://www.cbs.com/shows/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/">The Late Show’s Steven Colbert</a> – for <a href="https://slate.com/live/slates-political-gabfest-podcast-live-show-at-the-92nd-street-y-new-york.html">Gabfest Live: The Conundrums Edition</a>! December 7 at <a href="https://www.92ny.org/event/newmark/political-gabfest-live-in-nyc">The 92nd Street Y</a>, New York City. <a href="https://www.92ny.org/event/newmark/political-gabfest-live-in-nyc">Tickets on sale now!</a> Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Nate Cohn for The New York Times: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/upshot/polling-elections-issues-2024.html">The Crisis in Issue Polling, and What We’re Doing About It</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/upshot/polling-experiment-democracy-abortion.html">We Did an Experiment to See How Much Democracy and Abortion Matter to Voters</a>Claire Cain Miller and Francesca Paris for The New York Times: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/upshot/economy-voters-poll.html">The Great Disconnect: Why Voters Feel One Way About the Economy but Act Differently</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Image-Guide-Pseudo-Events-America-ebook/dp/B0082XLP7O/tag=slatmaga-20">The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America</a> by Daniel J. Boorstin<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Matter-Kansas-Conservatives-America-ebook/dp/B003J4VEM2/tag=slatmaga-20">What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America</a> by Thomas FrankEli Saslow for The New York Times: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/us/politics/jan-6-trial-father-son.html">A Jan. 6 Defendant Pleads His Case to the Son Who Turned Him In</a>Brian Beutler for the Off Message newsletter: <a href="https://www.offmessage.net/p/2024-election-stakes-biden-trump">The 2024 Election Is About Real Things</a>Charlie Warzel for The Atlantic: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/sam-altman-open-ai-microsoft-investment-profit/676077/">The Money Always Wins</a> and Karen Hao and Charlie Warzel: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-chaos/676050/">Inside the Chaos at OpenAI</a>John Dickerson and Jo Ling Kent for CBS News Prime Time: <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/what-sam-altmans-ouster-from-openai-could-mean-for-the-tech-world/">What Sam Altman’s ouster from OpenAI could mean for the tech world</a>Pranshu Verman, Nitasha Tiku, and Gerrit De Vynck for The Washington Post: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/22/sam-altman-back-openai/">Sam Altman reinstated as OpenAI CEO with new board members</a> Louise Matsakis and Reed Albergotti for Semafor: <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/11/21/2023/how-effective-altruism-led-to-a-crisis-at-openai">The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy</a>Emily Bazelon for The New York Times Magazine: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/20/magazine/israel-gaza-oslo-accords.html">Was Peace Ever Possible?</a> Ezra Klein for The New York Times’s The Ezra Klein Show podcast: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-aaron-david-miller.html">The Best Primer I’ve Heard on Israeli-Palestinian Peace Efforts</a><a href="https://www.hbo.com/movies/oslo">Oslo</a> on HBOJohn Dickerson for CBS Mornings: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0DOJD91_GA">Former President Jimmy Carter: “America will learn from its mistakes”</a><a href="https://www.hulu.com/movie/the-lady-bird-diaries-48967c41-c397-47c2-a4b4-b087b7034017">The Lady Bird Diaries</a> on Hulu<a href="https://photos.com/featured/eleanor-roosevelt-in-a-coal-bettmann.html">Eleanor Roosevelt in a Coal</a> by Bettman and The George Washington University’s <a href="https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/case-studies/Case_Study_ER_coal_miners_updated.pdf">Case Study: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Visit to Coal Mine (1935)</a> Here are this week’s chatters:John: Julia Simon for NPR: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213600629/-it-feels-like-im-not-crazy-gardeners-arent-surprised-as-usda-updates-key-map">‘It feels like I’m not crazy.’ Gardeners aren’t surprised as USDA updates key map</a> and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service: <a href="https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news/research-news/2023/usda-unveils-updated-plant-hardiness-zone-map/">USDA Unveils Updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map</a>Emily: Liran Samuni and Martin Surbeck in Science: <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg0844">Cooperation across social borders in bonobos</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bonobo-Sisterhood-Revolution-Through-Alliance-ebook/dp/B09NW3Z9V7/tag=slatmaga-20">The Bonobo Sisterhood: Revolution Through Female Alliance</a> by Diane Rosenfeld David: <a href="https://citycast.fm/jobs">City Cast Executive Producer, Nashville, Executive Producer, Austin, and Events Director, remote</a> and The National WWII Museum: <a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/wwii-veteran-statistics">WWII Veteran Statistics</a> Listener chatter from Dimitri in Boulder, Colorado: University of Evansville: <a href="https://evansville.meritpages.com/news/Library-of-Congress-Recognizes-Plagiarized-University-of-Evansville-Archaeologist-After-90-Years/39399">Library of Congress Recognizes Plagiarized University of Evansville Archaeologist After 90 Years</a> and Jessica Blake for Inside Higher Ed: <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/11/07/female-archaeologists-scholarly-work-gets-overdue-recognition">Female Archaeologist’s Work Receives Overdue Recognition—90 Years Later</a> For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Emily talk about the death of former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and her 77-year marriage with Jimmy Carter. See also Rick Rojas for The New York Times: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/us/carter-rosalynn-jimmy-plains-georgia.html">The Carters’ Hometown Mourns for the Love of a Lifetime</a> and Peter Baker: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/us/politics/rosalynn-carter-first-lady.html">Rosalynn Carter Helped Shape the Role of the Modern First Lady</a>.In the latest <a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/political-gabfest/2023/11/books-how-literary-classic-watership-down-became-a-graphic-novel">Gabfest Reads</a>, Emily talks with James Sturm about <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Watership-Down-Graphic-Richard-Adams-ebook/dp/B09R6SG3H7/tag=slatmaga-20">Watership Down: The Graphic Novel</a>. See also James Sturm and Joe Sutphin in The New York Times: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/06/books/review/graphic-review-watership-down.html">In Times of Danger, There’s Strength in Numbers</a>. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to <a href="mailto:gabfest@slate.com">gabfest@slate.com</a>. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

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