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Oliver's recent essay in the Guardian, "How the news took over reality" ... The vanished distinction between private and public spheres ... Oliver: Maybe our problem is too much participation in democracy ... Bob on the halcyon early days at Slate, when writers didn't know their traffic stats ... Oliver: We've put the fear in our pockets ... Is it possible to be enlightened on Twitter? ... Tending our community gardens ...

Darrell’s new book, Divided Politics, Divided Nation ... Why is racial demographic change so important to conservatives? ... How Darrell’s conservative Christian family exemplifies the ideological divide ... Identity politics on the Brown University campus ... Darrell: The push to impeach Trump is misguided ... Darrell’s challenge: Take a conservative (or a liberal) to lunch ...

Gabe, just returned from a stint in China, on the controversial tech giant Huawei ... Is the battle over Huawei in fact just about curbing China's power? ... The "did we get China wrong?" debate ... Gabe (kind of) defends Trump's tariff policy ... Thirty years after Tiananmen Square, is political reform dead? ... What outsiders don't understand about the oppression of the Uighurs ...

Why shoe-leather reporting is really hard ... Why is the right debating “David Frenchism”? ... Who’s really winning the culture war? ... How Biden’s climate plan could win over the left ... Bill: Conservatives have been engaging in "cancel culture" since the Bush years ... Matt: What was wrong with the “binders full of women” comment, anyway? ...

Moby’s Natalie Portman misstep and “May-December” relationships ... How old is too old to infantilize yourself? ... Kat: Incels aren’t a feminist issue; they hate themselves too ... Phoebe: Teenage heartbreak isn’t as gendered as one would think ... Strong recommends and non-recommends from Feminine Chaos ... Interrogating Budweiser's celebration of Gray Asexual Pride ...

David's new book, Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet ... Did social media companies treat Alex Jones unfairly? ... Why online censorship is much easier than it was 15 years ago ... Bob proposes a "free market of algorithms" ... Why the Global South loses out ... How Facebook helped Trump's anti-Iran policy ... David: American sensibilities shouldn't dominate online moderation ... The Chinese government's mastery of online control ... International human rights law as a guiding light ...

Bob introduces the idea of Mindful Resistance ... Mindfulness is all about clarity ... Mindfulness as a weapon against Trumpian tribalism ... Buddhism opposes an essentialist view of Trump supporters (and of anything else) ... Salvation of self and salvation of the world ... Question and answer session ...

The legacies of Bill Buckner and Edmund Morris ... Should we be defined by their worst moments? ... Why big crowds and yard signs don’t win elections ... Iowa’s Democratic Party introduces remote caucusing—will it help Biden? ... Progressives jostle for second place ... Why is Trump denouncing regime change in Iran? ... Matt wonders why John Walker Lindh was released from prison ...

Max's new book, The Management of Savagery ... How arming rebels in Afghanistan put America on the path to 9/11 ... Threat inflation in the War on Terror ... The "seamless continuity" between the Iraq War and the Syrian civil war ... Max: US actions in Syria caused Russia to intervene ... Critiquing Obama's foreign policy ... Max's case against the White Helmets in Syria ...

Are journalists becoming too thirsty for their subjects? ... Phoebe: Journalists dunking on subjects can backfire ... The College Board Adversity Index ... Is a “holistic” college admissions process even possible? ... Kat and Phoebe’s qualifications as Francophiles ... The cult of reverence for stereotypically French customs ... Why Americans look to “exotic” cultures for basic life skills ...