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Event: David Plotz will interview?or interrogate?his wife, DoubleX co-founder Hanna Rosin, about her new book The End of Men on Sept. 11 in Washington (tickets here) and on Sept. 12 in New York City (more details here).

On this week?s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon hosts the program from New Haven, Conn., and welcomes two special guests: Yale history professor Beverly Gage and Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. They discuss Mitt Romney?s tax plan, climate change in the United States, and a New Yorker profile of Paul Ryan.

Here are some of the links and references mentioned during this week's show:

• An analysis by the Tax Policy Center of the Romney tax plan.
• The New York Times has a backgrounder on the growing ?swingle? vote; Slate?s Hanna Rosin wrote that this demographic is often misunderstood.
• Emily talks about a new study by James Hansen on extreme weather events?Hansen has a Washington Post op-ed that summarizes his findings.
• Anthony talks about his research on American opinions about climate change. An update to his ?Six Americas? survey is here.
• Bill McKibben?s recent piece in Rolling Stone argues for the creation of a political movement around climate change.?
• Ryan Lizza?s profile of Paul Ryan in The New Yorker.

Anthony chatters about criticism by the Koch brothers of the new film The Campaign.

Beverly chatters about The Communist, a new book by Grove City College professor Paul Kengor.

Emily chatters about a trip to family court in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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Podcast production by Andy Bowers and Dale Willman. Links compiled by Jeff Friedrich.

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