About this episode
This week, John Dickerson and David Plotz are joined by Vox’s Marin Cogan @marincogan to discuss the extreme weather, heat, and floods that are wreaking havoc across the United States and around the world; the social media phenomenon of Threads; and the American love-hate relationship with cars. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Cara Buckley for The New York Times: “ To Help Cool a Hot Planet, the Whitest of White Coats ” Jonathan Erdman for The Weather Channel: “ America’s Top Weather Killer Is Not Tornadoes, Flooding, Lightning Or Hurricanes – It’s Heat ” Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar Antonio Pequeño IV for Forbes: “ Zuckerberg Vs. Musk: Everything We Know About The Possible Cage Fight ” These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore Insider Intelligence: “ US Social Network Ad Revenue Growth, 2021-2023 ” Marin Cogan for Vox: “ The impossible paradox of car ownership ”; “ The deadliest road in America ”; and “ Cars transformed America. They also made people more vulnerable to the police. ” Tracy Chapman: “ Fast Car ”; Luke Combs: “ Fast Car ”; and Emily Yahr for The Washington Post: “ Tracy Chapman, Luke Combs and the complicated response to ‘Fast Car’ ” Henry Grabar for Slate: “ Why More Americans Are Using Fake License Plates and Getting Away With It ” Gersh Kuntzman for Streetsblog NYC: “ Paris Mayor Enters Fray Between E-Bikes and Pedestrians – By Fighting Drivers ” Here are this week’s chatters: John: Hannah Hartig, Andrew Daniller, Scott Keeter, and Ted Van Green for Pew Research Center: “ Republican Gains in 2022 Midterms Driven Mostly by Turnout Advantage ” Marin and David: Tour de France on NBC Sports; Tour de France: Unchained on Netflix Listener chatter from Dan Kirkwood: Claire Stremple for The Alaska Beacon: “ Angoon students name, launch first dugout canoe since 1882 Bombardment ” For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Marin discuss traffic enforcement, the need for it, and the harms it causes. In the latest edition of Gabfest Reads , Emily talks with Monica Potts @MonicaBPotts about her book, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America . Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com or Tweet us @SlateGabfest . (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices