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Mike Pesca has today’s rundown: President Trump misquotes Rep. Elijah Cummings, a professor says most U.S. military entanglements aren’t actually due to alliances, and the New York Times throws Tiffany Trump a bone. 

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Hanna Rosin, June Thomas, and Noreen Malone discuss the recent Mike Pence controversy, abortion on TV, and millennial men that want stay-at-home wives.

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Andrew Sullivan has been writing about the menace of Donald Trump over the past year for New York Magazine, warning America about creeping authoritarianism and the danger Trump poses to American democracy. Born in England, Sullivan was for many years known as the most prominent gay conservative in America. He became editor of The New Republic in his late 20s, and within a decade he started blogging, becoming one of the first must-read bloggers on the internet. Sullivan supported the Iraq war in 2003, but eventually turned against the Bush Administration because of issues like torture and gay marriage – the latter was something Sullivan had supported all the way back in the 1980s. Sullivan was among one of Barack Obama’s most ardent admirers during his first Presidential bid.

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Virginia Heffernan talks to Lili Bayer, a journalist in Central Europe who writes for Politico and The Forward, about the story of Sebastian Gorka (Trump's Chief Counter-Terrorism Adviser) and his far right wing roots. Plus, what are the parallels between the rise of the right in Hungary and in America?

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In The Discovery, director Charlie McDowell imagines a world where the afterlife has been proven, and a man played by Jason Segel is trying to negotiate the emotional consequences. McDowell says he was out to make a kind of “grounded sci-fi,” in the vein of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. “It’s not focused on a futuristic look or society,” says McDowell. “It’s a backdrop for exploring the characters.” The Discovery premiered on Netflix on Friday. 

In the Spiel, one question, and one question only, about chemical weapons in Syria. 

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In the final episode, our Slate Academy tries to determine how historical examples of fascism help us understand the present.

Joshua Keating, Rebecca Onion, and June Thomas talk to NYU historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert in Fascist Italy and a guest on our first episode.

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This episode of Whistlestop revisits October 15, 1969 and the divisive words of then Vice President Spiro Agnew.

Whistlestop is Slate's podcast about presidential history. Hosted by political correspondent and Political Gabfest panelist John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable (or even forgotten) moments from America's Presidential carnival.

Podcast production and edit by Jocelyn Frank.Research by Brian Rosenwald.

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Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: Advertisers run from Bill O’Reilly, Russian hubris caught on tape, and a Scottish woman loses her privacy-breach case against Trump International.  

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June Thomas joins Joe Weisberg, Joel Fields, and Noah Emmerich, who plays Stan Beeman and directed this episode, at the sound synch to discuss the latest developments. (And, yes, they explain what a sound synch involves.) Then we check in with actor Costa Ronin to find out how he sees that final scene.

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Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and special guest David Plotz of the Slate Political Gabfest discuss the new podcast S-Town, the film Ghost in the Shell with Represent host Aisha Harris, and the controversy surrounding Vice President Pence and his self-imposed rules around women.

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