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The best Christmas sitcom episodes ... Was 2019 full of sound and fury, signifying nothing? ... Matt's mom turns against Trump ... Bill claims vindication on Democratic moderation ... Two cheers for Iowa ... Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell and Eric Rudolph ... Ranking the presidential dropouts (Beto is last) ...

Peter explains how stop-and-frisk went too far ... Who or what deserves credit for NYC's massive murder decline? ... Peter: Reducing poverty is not the way to reduce crime ... Are cops reaping the whirlwind? ... The aftermath of Freddie Gray in Baltimore and Laquan McDonald in Chicago ... Criminal justice reform and the potential backlash ...

Dominic’s paper, “Bad World: The Negativity Bias in International Politics” ... Why politicians overestimate threats to national security ... The cognitive bias of “loss avoidance” as fuel for war ... Do international actors give too much weight to past failures? ... World War I as a case study in negativity bias ... Arguments against Dominic’s argument ... Can we use our growing knowledge of cognitive biases to avoid unwise conflicts? ...

Bill and Matt’s holiday cultural exchange, featuring Adam Sandler ... Fallout between #NeverTrump conservatives and their peers ... Matt: The Democratic majority is the real silent moral majority ... Bill doubts the influence of progressives in the Democratic primaries ... Should Pelosi “slow-walk” the articles of impeachment to the Senate? ... Why Democrats benefit from delaying the impeachment vote ... Biden winning the nomination will help Dems down-ticket (or so says Biden) ...

Bob reminisces about the origins of Bloggingheads.tv ... Where The Glenn Show fits into the BhTV ecosystem ... Speech policing, the "n-word," and the uses of ridicule ... What's Trump's executive order on anti-Semitism really about? ... Does the IDW care about protecting speech critical of Israel? ... Bob critiques The Trayvon Hoax ... Bob: Be wary of throwing around the word "hoax" ... Quillette accuses Bob of palling around with tyranny apologists ...

Stationary bike company Peloton's holiday ad drives the Internet batty ... Does the ad have a secret message? ... Kat: The ad is about spiritual transformation through exercise ... When banal chitchat at holiday parties goes viral ... An era of performative hypersensitivity/outrage ... The gender politics of a $400 Star Wars Dutch oven ...

Alan's new book, Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now ... Alan on taking over the Guardian in 1995, at the dawn of the web ... Was giving news away for free the "original sin" of online journalism? ... Pros and cons of different media funding models ... The downsides of having lots of subscribers and traffic ... Alan: The British press has failed on Brexit ... A few kinds words about social media ... How the Guardian uses "open journalism" ... Will we soon enter a post-newspaper future? ...

Why Biden might make a one-term pledge, like James K. Polk did ... Gaming out Biden's VP options ... Who will be helped by the Iowa caucuses' byzantine rules? ... Mayor Pete catches some heat ... How is Biden handling questions about Hunter? ... Matt: Hillary Clinton seems much more likable now ... Why do the black candidates have so little black support? ...

Glenn and John respond to criticism of their discussion of The Trayvon Hoax ... Why Glenn finds the film credible despite its creator's conspiracy theories ... John: The public didn't get the full story of Zimmerman's 911 call ... The case as a forerunner of larger dynamics in American political culture ... Did Zimmerman have a rational prejudice? ... Glenn and John ain't running away ... What was Trayvon thinking? ...

George Zimmerman sues a bunch of people for $100 million ... Rightwing filmmaker Joel Gilbert's The Trayvon Hoax ... Gilbert's past conspiracy theorizing ... An age of fake news and relativism ... What John thinks really happened ... Recent racially charged hoaxes ... The racial narrative and "whose side are you on?" ...