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Did the debate reinforce the "Warren is a liar" narrative? ... Matt: Biden could wrap this up early... ... ...even though he didn't have a great debate ... How Iowa caucus rule changes could change the outcome ... Should senators leave the trail to attend the impeachment trial? ... Why haven't Warren and Bernie teamed up against Biden? ...

Eli: Trump wants "regime disruption" in Iran ... Assessing Iranians’ reactions to Suleimani’s death ... Is Iran playing offense or defense in the Middle East? ... What do "death to America" and "death to Israel" really mean? ... Weighing whether Iraq will actually expel US forces ... Optimistic and pessimistic regime change scenarios ... How likely is war with Iran and what would it look like? ...

Is impeachment justified? ... Summarizing Corey Robin's new book, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas ... Scott: Robin doesn't understand Thomas's actual constitutional interpretation ... Critiquing Robin's psychological reading of Thomas's childhood ... Thomas's actual views on gender and the family ...

Zachary’s new group of (mainly) optimistic thinkers, the Progress Network ... What many missed about the effects of globalization ... What good comes from highlighting the good stuff? ... A case study in the dangers of alarmism: Trump and the Resistance ... Bob on the perils of not nurturing global governance ... Lessons from past periods of rapid change in infotech ... Bob on the Quincy Institute, a new non-Blob foreign policy think tank ... Are there too many doomsayers? ...

So what's the deal with Tulsi Gabbard? ... Tulsi's critique of the Democratic party ... Who counts as a "crank"? ... The many reasons Tulsi drives people crazy ... Why is she not just barnstorming for Bernie? ... The theory that she's a secret Trump agent ... Does Tulsi support Indian PM Modi's Hindu nationalism? ... Tulsi's foreign policy beyond the Middle East ... A brief exchange on the wisdom of impeachment ...

Matt: Trump showed weakness, which led Iran to escalate ... Bill: Assassination by drone is "a new frontier of global warfare" ... Does Mike Pompeo have presidential aspirations? ... Bill on who's winning 2024 ... If Trump loses, would he concede? Would he run again in '24? ... How much does Iowa actually matter? ...

The ethics of posting some guy's lame dating app profile ... "The high school-ness of it all" ... The toxic combo of performative punching plus public dating ... It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man lacking a bed frame must be...what exactly? ... Our furniture, ourselves ...

What's new about the culture wars? ... Meghan: "White women are the new white men" ... Reacting vs. responding ... Meghan: Gen Xers had the advantage of second-wave feminist childhoods ... Meghan's controversial essay on "toxic femininity" ... The different kinds of power men and women have ... The case for and against pussy hats ...

Initial reactions to The Rise of Skywalker ... Aryeh: The movie's problems start in the first ten seconds ... The bizarre revelation of Rey's parentage ... Kylo Ren's sudden personality change ... Did the finale violate a central rule of the Star Wars universe? ... Why the Marvel movies mostly worked and the new trilogy mostly didn't ... Dan: Massive corporations plus social media blowback have ruined these films ... Speculating on the future of the saga ...

If Trump wins re-election, will Democrats "go berserk," as Mickey says? ... The top 1% vs. the next 29% ... What are Bernie's chances? ... Bob: Negative partisanship is the decade's most alarming psycho-political trend ... Mickey floats some UFO theories ... An under-the-radar scandal at the world’s chemical weapons watchdog agency ... Bob and Mickey mystified by influence of Twitter elites on presidential campaign ... Silicon Valley: What’s not to hate? ... The past decade’s glimmer of hope: growing awareness of cognitive biases ... Who's crazier, Bob or Mickey? ...