This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the second Republican presidential primary debate; the next federal case against Senator Bob Menendez, and the latest lawsuit of United States v. Big Tech. Join us for <a href="https://slate.com/gabfestlive">Political Gabfest Live</a> in Madison, Wisconsin on October 25!Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Dan Balz for The Washington Post: “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/27/republican-debate-analysis/">Republican debate brings chaos, attacks and a slog for second place</a>”G. Elliott Morris for 538: “<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/538/outlier-polls-happen/story?id=103463726">How outlier polls happen – and what to do with them</a>”Nicole Hong for The New York Times: “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/nyregion/bob-menendez-indictment-bribery-investigation.html">Gold Bullion and Halal Meat: Inside the Menendez Investigation</a>”John Dickerson for CBS News Prime Time: “<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/chairwoman-lina-khan-on-how-ftc-can-stop-monopolies/">FTC chair Lina Khan discusses need for regulations on big business</a>”Lina M. Khan in The Yale Law Journal: “<a href="https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/e.710.Khan.805_zuvfyyeh.pdf">Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox</a>”Lisa Mascaro and Stephen Groves for AP: “<a href="https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-mccarthy-biden-trump-18ef8a03363d31742c5b4c5ecb23506f">House Speaker McCarthy is back to square one as the Senate pushes ahead to avert a federal shutdown</a>”John Dickerson and Kris Van Cleave for CBS News: “<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-government-shutdown-could-affect-air-travel/">How a government shutdown could cause chaos at airports</a>”Here are this week’s chatters:Emily: Mary Harris for This American Life: <a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/809/the-call">Act One of The Call</a>; Slate’s podcast <a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next">What Next</a> hosted by Mary Harris; <a href="https://neverusealone.com/">Never Use Alone Inc.</a> National Overdose Prevention Lifeline; Dr. Alison Block for the <a href="https://thenocturnists.com/post-roe-america-series">Post-Roe America</a> series of The Nocturnists podcast; and Slate’s podcast Amicus hosted by Dahlia Lithwick: “<a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus/2023/09/guns-and-abortion-and-the-conservative-art-of-never-giving-up-on-scotus">SCOTUS Is Not Done With Guns and Abortion</a>”John: Michael Schneider for Variety: “<a href="https://variety.com/2023/tv/awards/emmys-news-documentary-winners-2023-wolf-blitzer-barbara-kopple-1235738429/">CNN and Now-Canceled ‘Vice News Tonight’ Lead News & Documentary Night 1 Winners List</a>” and John Dickerson for CBS News Prime Time: “<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-to-stay-safe-online-cisa-campaign/">How to stay safe online, according to CISA</a>”David: Jonathan O’Callaghan for Nature: “<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03005-6">This is what Earth’s continents will look like in 250 million years</a>”Listener chatter from Kevin McEvilly: Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser in The New York Times: “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/opinion/cosmology-crisis-webb-telescope.html">The Story of Our Universe May Be Starting to Unravel</a>”For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, John, and David discuss the possible shutdown of the U.S. government.In the latest <a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/political-gabfest/2023/09/zadie-smith-historical-novel-the-fraud-dives-trial-scam-artist-politics-crime-race">Gabfest Reads</a>, Emily talks with <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/28946/zadie-smith/">Zadie Smith</a> about her book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fraud-Novel-Zadie-Smith-ebook/dp/B0BP66G6B7/tag=slatmaga-20">The Fraud: A Novel</a>.In the next Gabfest Reads, David talks with Kristi Coulter about her book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Exit-Interview-Death-Ambitious-Career-ebook/dp/B0BQGGW515/tag=slatmaga-20">Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career</a>.Email your chatters, questions, and comments to <a href="mailto:gabfest@slate.com">gabfest@slate.com</a> or X us <a href="https://twitter.com/slategabfest?lang=en">@SlateGabfest</a>. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)Podcast production by Jared Downing and Cheyna RothResearch by Julie Huygen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

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