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John: The central claim of the NYT's 1619 Project "simply isn't true" ... Glenn offers a defense of the Project's perspective ... What the Constitution's three-fifths clause really meant ... John: "America is an endless rehearsal" ... After Kobe Bryant died, was it bad taste to bring up his rape accusation? ... Glenn praises Khalil Gibran Muhammad's The Condemnation of Blackness ...

David says a “narrative of brokenness” distorts news and politics ... Bob laments the demise of the ideal of journalistic objectivity ... David explains "solutions journalism" ... Making stories about solutions sexy ... Does the Solutions Journalism Network have an ideological bias? ... Insights from red states ... Defying the market forces that work against solutions journalism ...

Wesley's new book of essays, The Souls of Yellow Folk ... The meaning of Andrew Yang as an Asian American ... Ivy League admissions, intermarriage, and Harvard's "personality scores" ... Wesley: There's a "false crisis" about race in NYC elite public schools ... Wesley's essay about the Virginia Tech mass shooter ... The dismissed grievances of the Asian-American male ...

Matt: The Bolton story has changed the impeachment dynamic ... Is impeachment helping or hurting Biden? ... Matt quakes at the prospect of Sanders vs. Trump ... Bill explains why the other candidates aren't attacking Bernie ... Joe Rogan and the Dems' wokeness conundrum ...

James's new book on Trump and television, Audience of One ... When TV was about the "least objectionable programming" ... The 1980s, when cable fractured TV and Trump started to rise ... Trump's postmodern transformation into a signifier of wealth ... How David Letterman and Trump used each other ... Aryeh recalls his days watching The Apprentice ... James: The Trump campaign was "like a plane that crashes every day" ... The master of TV becomes TV's slave ... What did Trump understand about TV that Hillary didn't? ...

Steve's critique of NPR's Scott Simon ... Bob's larger grievance against NPR ... The media’s implicit bias in favor of military intervention ... Dual theories about the NYT’s weird dual endorsement ... How Steve's paper, the Chicago Tribune, has shrunk ... Is Bernie well positioned to run against Trump? ... The Houston Astros and the whistleblower who exposed their cheating ...

The controversy over the new thriller novel American Dirt ... Phoebe: The trouble is that now every novel is supposed to "do good" ... The Shining doesn't represent an authentic hotel caretaker's experience ... "Don't read this, read that" ... Kat: Women writers are not supposed to not take up space ... The NYT's dual presidential endorsement as a failed feminist gesture ...

Daniel, a Trump supporter, says the politics of impeachment favor the GOP ... Debating Trump's alleged Ukraine transgressions ... What liberals don't get about the nature of Trump's support ... Pat Buchanan and the politics of cultural difference ... The case against "good government" ... Daniel touts Trump's "personalized" foreign policy ... What Daniel doesn't like about Trump ...

John: The racial conversation has improved over the past decade ... Decrying the "racism" explanation when black people don't succeed in a given field ... Glenn: "You're the weakest sister at the table, and you're gonna place demands?" ... The young black men who jump turnstiles and cross in the middle of the street ... So what does Martin Luther King Day mean now? ... How and why black culture changed so much between 1960 and 1970 ... Do changing sensibilities exonerate Russell Simmons? ...

Aryeh wonders: Does Twitter matter? ... Why people on Twitter like to get mad and stay mad ... The very white and male Oscar nominations ... Kat defends Stephen King's comments on diversity and quality ... Why do so many duds win Best Picture? ... Why journalists should spend less time on Twitter ...