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President Joe Biden has just completed his first 100 days and the Political Gabfest is breaking down the accomplishments, the disappointments, the surprises, and the gaffes. Join hosts Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz for a special live show, presented by Lord Jones, right now. Use the player above or tune in on Facebook or YouTube to add your own questions and comments on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Eastern. See more of Slate’s 

to receive the newsletter every other Saturday. Writing about the future is daunting. It’s hard not to imagine future cynics, tenting their fingers and chortling about just how wrong you were—the way that we do when we look back at past predictions. (We still don’t have flying cars, after all.) The future is a strange creature, full of tentacles that you can’t quite keep track of even if you know how many there are. Advertisement Take the current pandemic, for example. For years, experts had warned that the next pandemic was a question of when, not if. It was a certainty that it wou...

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