This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the vivid and impulsive portrait Susie Wiles paints of Trump’s White House in a revealing interview with Vanity Fair, what the new unemployment numbers say about the economy and how Americans are feeling about it, and why some studies show that young Americans are increasingly antisemitic.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, David, and special guest Stephen Colbert answer listeners’ conundrums of all kinds: the meaningful, the trivial, and the delightfully absurd.
 
In the latest <a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/gabfestreads">Gabfest Reads</a>, John talks with journalist and author Andrew Ross Sorkin about his new book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/1929-Inside-Greatest-History-Shattered/dp/0593949242/tag=slatmaga-20">1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How It Shattered a Nation </a>— the story of speculation, debt, and the human drives that fueled the Wall Street crash that changed everything.
 
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Podcast production by Nina Porzucki
 
Research by Emily Ditto

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