This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss what the so-called “Donroe Doctrine” means for international order after the US military extracted Maduro from Venezuela amid rumblings over Greenland and Cuba, the background and evolving situation in Minnesota after an ICE agent killed a woman during a raid, and how changes to the federal recommended childhood vaccine schedule dangerously denormalize routine vaccines with guest<a href="https://publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty/1781/joshua-m-sharfstein"> Dr. Josh Sharfstein</a>, Professor of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. 

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss reports that X chatbot Grok is making nonconsensual sexualized photos of women and children at user prompts, Elon Musk’s reaction, and how to stop it.
 
In the latest <a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/gabfestreads">Gabfest Reads</a>, David Plotz talks with Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales about his new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Rules-Trust-Blueprint-Building/dp/0593727460/tag=slatmaga-20">The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last</a>. They discuss how Wikipedia’s culture of assuming good faith and shared purpose became a model for building trustworthy digital communities — and what lessons that holds for companies, social media, and politics today.
 
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Podcast production by Nina Porzucki
 
Research by Emily Ditto
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Find out more about <a href="http://secretfortdc.com/">David Plotz's monthly tours of Ft. DeRussy,</a> the secret Civil War fort hidden in Rock Creek Park.  
 
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