This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss why Democrats caved to end the government shutdown and what comes next, the affordability crisis with guest and editorial director for New York Times Opinion <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/david-leonhardt">David Leonhardt</a>, and the importance of this week’s spectacle of competing Epstein document drops.

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss the consequential career and historic legacy of Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, who announced her retirement from Congress.
 
In the latest <a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/gabfestreads">Gabfest Reads</a>, Emily talks with Yale law professor <a href="https://law.yale.edu/john-fabian-witt">John Witt</a> about his new book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1476765871/?tag=slatmaga-20%29">The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America</a>. They explore the remarkable story of the Garland Fund—a small 1920s foundation that bankrolled early work by A. Philip Randolph, and others who would go on to shape the civil rights and labor movements.
 
Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
 
Podcast production by Kevin Bendis
 
Research by Emily Ditto
You can find the full Political Gabfest <a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/political-gabfest">show pages here</a>.
 
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