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Slate Political Gabfest
The ''Slate Political Gabfest'' is an American political podcast by '' Slate'' magazine that covers topics on current politics and issues featuring David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson. Podcast The show is usually hosted by former ''Slate'' editor David Plotz with regular contributors Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson, likewise ''Slate'' alums. It covers three political topics in the week's news. Each topic is discussed from various viewpoints, and the podcast runs about 40 minutes to an hour. Ads are incorporated into the show between topics, with Plotz or one of the other contributors describing the product in a casual way, similar to the manner of early radio and television shows. The Slate Plus version of the program omits advertising spots and adds a shorter bonus section after the closing credits. The group typically treats Dickerson as their expert on Washington politics and presidential campaigns. Bazelon is turned to for her legal expertise as well as for ...
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Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with Decision-making, making decisions in Social group, groups, or other forms of Power (social and political), power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or Social status, status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subje ...
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Farhad Manjoo
Farhad Manjoo (born 1978) is an American journalist. Manjoo was a staff writer for ''Slate'' magazine from 2008 to September 2013, when they left to join ''The Wall Street Journal''. In January 2014, they joined ''The New York Times'', replacing David Pogue as the technology columnist. Manjoo became an opinion columnist at the paper in 2018. They have also been a contributor to National Public Radio since 2009. and moved to Southern California. Manjoo graduated from Cornell University in 2000. As an undergraduate, Manjoo served as writer and editor-in-chief of the ''Cornell Daily Sun'' student newspaper. Manjoo wrote in the ''New York Times'' that they prefer to be referred to with singular ''they'' pronouns. Manjoo publicly disclosed their struggle with esophageal achalasia in 2019. Career Manjoo wrote for ''Wired News'' before taking a staff position at Salon.com. In July 2008, they accepted a job at ''Slate'' magazine writing a twice-weekly technology column. In September 201 ...
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Audio Podcasts
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American Podcasts
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5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3p ...
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Advertising Age
''Ad Age'' (known as ''Advertising Age'' until 2017) is a global media brand that publishes news, analysis, and data on marketing and media. Its namesake magazine was started as a broadsheet newspaper in Chicago in 1930. ''Ad Age'' appears in multiple formats, including its website, daily email newsletters, social channels, events and a bimonthly print magazine. ''Ad Age'' is based in New York City. Its parent company, the Detroit-based Crain Communications, is a privately held publishing company with more than 30 magazines, including ''Autoweek'', ''Crain's New York Business'', ''Crain's Chicago Business'', ''Crain's Detroit Business'', and ''Automotive News''. History ''Advertising Age'' launched as a broadsheet newspaper in Chicago in 1930. Its first editor was Sid Bernstein. The site AdCritic.com was acquired by The Ad Age Group in March 2002. An industry trade magazine, ''BtoB'', was folded into ''Advertising Age'' in January 2014. In 2017, the magazine shortened its na ...
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The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. In general, the political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be centre-right. ''The Times'' is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as ''The Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and more recently, digital-first publications such as TheTimesBlog.com (Since 2017). In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as , or as , although the newspaper is of nationa ...
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Gimlet Media
Gimlet Media LLC is a digital media company and podcast network, focused on producing narrative podcasts and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. The company was founded in 2014 by Alex Blumberg and Matthew Lieber, who serve as the company's CEO and president respectively until Lieber stepped down in 2022. In February 2019, Spotify announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Gimlet for $230 million. History Gimlet was founded in August 2014 with the launch of its flagship podcast '' StartUp'' hosted by Alex Blumberg. Originally billed as the American Podcasting Corporation (APC), Blumberg was eventually convinced to change the company's name. After working with Lexicon Branding, Blumberg and Lieber chose the name Gimlet Media for the venture. The company raised $1.5 million in seed funding at a $10 million valuation. After raising most of its initial capital from investment firms Betaworks, Lowercase Capital, and Knight Enterprise Fund, Gimlet invited the ...
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WNYC
WNYC is the trademark and a set of call letters shared by WNYC (AM) and WNYC-FM, a pair of nonprofit, noncommercial, public radio stations located in New York City. WNYC is owned by New York Public Radio (NYPR), a nonprofit organization that did business as "WNYC RADIO" until March 2013. WNYC (AM) broadcasts on 820 kHz, and WNYC-FM broadcasts on 93.9 MHz. Both stations are members of NPR and carry local and national news/talk programs. Some hours the programming is simulcast, some hours different shows air on each station. WNYC reaches more than one million listeners each week and has the largest public radio audience in the United States. The WNYC stations are co-owned with Newark, New Jersey-licensed classical music outlet WQXR-FM (105.9 MHz), and all three broadcast from studios located in the Hudson Square neighborhood in lower Manhattan. WNYC's AM transmitter is located in Kearny, New Jersey; WNYC-FM's transmitter is located at the Empire State Building in New Y ...
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Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
The Sixth & I Historic Synagogue is a non-denominational, non-membership, non-traditional Jewish synagogue located at the corner of Sixth Street and I Street, NW in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is one of the oldest synagogues in the city. In addition to hosting religious services for different Jewish denominations, the synagogue hosts many lectures, concerts, and art exhibitions for the general public. History The building was constructed by the Adas Israel Congregation and dedicated on January 8, 1908, near what was then the main commercial district in town and the center of the Jewish community in Washington. In 1951 the congregation moved to a new building on Connecticut Avenue and sold its building on the corner of 6th and I Streets, NW to the Turner Memorial A.M.E. Church. The church in turn moved to Hyattsville, Maryland, fifty years later. Three local Jewish developers saved the historic building from being turned into a nightclub and restored it to ...
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Slate's Culture Gabfest
''Slate's Culture Gabfest'' is a New York-based podcast from ''Slate'' hosted by Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner. The show has been positively reviewed in ''The Guardian'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', The A.V. Club, and '' Kill Your Darlings'', which described the show as the "distilled... pleasures, the prowess and, indeed, the rigours of sophisticated cultural critique". From 2012 until 2014, the show was also broadcast on the radio in an abridged version alongside the ''Slate Political Gabfest'' as part of WNYC WNYC is the trademark and a set of call letters shared by WNYC (AM) and WNYC-FM, a pair of nonprofit, noncommercial, public radio stations located in New York City. WNYC is owned by New York Public Radio (NYPR), a nonprofit organization that di ...'s now discontinued ''Gabfest Radio''. References External links * {{podcast platform links 2008 podcast debuts Audio podcasts Arts podcasts Book podcasts ...
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Andy Bowers
Andy Bowers (born April 1, 1964) is an American radio journalist and podcaster, and is the co-founder and chief content officer of Panoply Media, a podcasting production and services company owned by The Slate Group. After working as a White House and foreign correspondent for NPR during the 1990s, Bowers joined ''Slate'' in 2003, and founded the magazine's podcasts in 2005. The growth of the Slate podcasting network led the magazine's parent company to create Panoply in 2015. Early life and education Andrew Bowers, known professionally as Andy, grew up in Los Angeles, CA, the child of screenwriter William Bowers and costume designer Marjorie Bowers. In 1986, Bowers graduated from Yale University with a B.A. degree. Career Bowers began working as a producer for NPR's All Things Considered shortly after graduating from college in 1986. He was a member of the original staff of Weekend Edition Sunday when it launched in 1987, serving as the program's first director. He also worked as ...
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