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In the follow-up to Slate Money’s much-beloved original wine episode, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and author Bianca Bosker dive into her new book Cork Dork. They discuss:The difference between natural and unnatural winesWhat to look for when ordering wine at a restaurant How to judge the character of different wines

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Jamelle Bouie talks to FiveThirtyEight's Clare Malone about infighting in the Republican party.

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After a long hiatus, the groundbreaking comedy show Mystery Science Theatre 3000 returns to piteously mock the worst movies ever made. Show creator Joel Hodgson and new head writer Elliott Kalan (The Daily Show) explain how to get some tiny pleasure out of cinematic garbage. The show returns on Netflix April 14. 

In the Spiel, why Melissa McCarthy will never keep up with relentless self-parody artist Sean Spicer.  

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Mike Pesca with two things you need to know, one you don't: 1) Two Democratic Senators line up behind Gorsuch; 2) The US no longer wants Assad out of power; 3) A baseball star gets a very unusual contract bonus.

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Aisha Harris talks to Inkoo Kang of MTV News and Alex Jung of Vulture about recent whitewashing controversies over casting in Ghost In The Shell. And in our second installment of Recognize, producer Veralyn Williams discusses, Big Little Lies.

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Represent Live at The Tribeca Film Festival

For the first time ever, Slate Represent will be live! Join us on April 24th at 6:45pm at The Tribeca Film Festival! For more information and tickets click here.

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Why does Russia find NATO so deeply offensive? Tom Nichols says it comes down to something quite human. NATO represents all of the successes that Russia couldn’t quite manage to achieve: “Part of the reason Russians hate NATO is because Russia just doesn’t have any friends in the world.” Nichols is a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. He’ll be back on the show soon to discuss his new book, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters.

In the Spiel, there was some damn fine inquiry on the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. 

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Gabfest hosts discuss Devin Nunes and the investigation into Russian interference in the Presidential election, what follows failure of the new health care bill and how to define President Trump's plan for energy independence. 

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Gabriel Roth is joined this week by writer Carvell Wallace and Rebecca Lavoie, host of Crime Writers On..., to discuss those parenting hacks you just can't live without. They also answer a call from a listener struggling to decide if medication is right for her child. Also, the conclusion to last episode's daycare dilemma, on Slate Plus.  

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Chris Berube with two things you need to know, one you don't: 1) Trump's plans to turf the Freedom Caucus; 2) SpaceX wants to re-use some rockets; 3) A creative, definitely fraudulent way to sell your screenplay.

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Our resident debunker of nonsense, Maria Konnikova, returns to take on the billion-dollar homeopathy industry. Why aren’t homeopathic remedies regulated in the United States? And what can their dubious history tell us about their effectiveness? Maria Konnikova is a contributing writer at the New Yorkerand the author of The Confidence Game. 

In the Spiel, watching CNN go haywire for a pretty banal accident on Capitol Hill.

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