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Richard's new book, A Brief History of Doom ... The forgotten causes of the Great Depression ... Parallels between the Great Depression and the Great Recession ... Richard: If Obama had done more for consumers, Trump would not be president ... How railroads led to lots of financial crises in the nineteenth century ... The real economic story of the 1980s ... The late twentieth-century Japanese boom and bust, all due to debt ... Richard: The China crash is coming ... About that BuzzFeed story saying Richard may run for president... ...

Richard's new book, A Brief History of Doom ... The forgotten causes of the Great Depression ... Parallels between the Great Depression and the Great Recession ... Richard: If Obama had done more for consumers, Trump would not be president ... How railroads led to lots of financial crises in the nineteenth century ... The real economic story of the 1980s ... The late twentieth-century Japanese boom and bust, all due to debt ... Richard: The China crash is coming ... About that BuzzFeed story saying Richard may run for president... ...

Matt: I would vote for Justin Amash for president ... Bill: An Amash run would be good for Trump ... Bill's case against impeachment ... Matt: Trump wants to be impeached ... Signs that Biden gets under Trump's skin ... Biden's aspirational bipartisanship ... Could Biden win Matt's mom's vote? ... If Trump loses, will the GOP change? ...

Why NYC’s elite schools are ditching standardized entry exams ... John: The academic achievement gap is a cultural issue ... Getting good grades and the pressure against "acting white" ... What is oppositional culture theory? ... John: There's no replacement for parental instruction ... Has there been a sea change on the stigma against "acting white"? ... The College Board’s controversial new “adversity index" ...

The controversial finale of Game of Thrones ... Would Dany have been a good queen? ... Why many female fans felt so betrayed ... Was the story just a big red herring? ... Aryeh: The second part of the episode felt like fan fiction ... The fates of Jon, Arya, and Sansa ... Michael explains how the coffee cup blooper happened ... The end of a TV era ...

William's new book, Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason ... Is William's view of history Marxian or Hegelian? ... Are we experiencing a crisis of expertise or a revolt against the elites? ... The Internet as a massive crowd we are all wired into ... The populist power of calling BS on the establishment ... Politics as total war ... Was the March for Science a mistake? ...

Wilfred’s new book, Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War ... The real statistics on racial hate crimes ... How the “continuing oppression narrative” hurts race relations in the US ... Wilfred: Being a conservative at a historically black college isn’t so bad ... When Trump’s message resonates with black voters ... Does social media magnify racism? ... Wilfred explains what the race/IQ debate gets wrong ... Wilfred’s research assessing privilege along all axes of identity ... Settling the matter: Is Trump really a racist? ...

Are Trump and Biden jockeying for the same voters? ... Aspirational vs. pragmatic campaigning ... Has Elizabeth Warren shot herself in the foot (again)? ... Is there a double standard in likability for men and women? ... What Dems could learn from Trump’s sense of humor ... Matt: Old progressive Dems still vote moderate ...

Politics after the Mueller report ... Glenn: Twitter "fosters the worst in all of us" ... The origins of Glenn's Russiagate skepticism ... Glenn: Trump is more belligerent toward Russia than Obama was ... Is Russiagate the Benghazi of the left? ... Did Marcy Wheeler go too far? ... Why Glenn takes Trump's charges of FBI wrongdoing seriously ...

Michael's new podcast, Against the Rules ... Michael: Referees across society are under assault ... Is technology making umpires obsolete in tennis and baseball? ... The credibility crisis facing federal judges ... The half-billion-dollar Da Vinci painting that Da Vinci probably didn’t paint ... The need for good referees in the financial sector ... Why Cambridge Analytica wasn’t as nefarious as we thought ... Referees in new media and old ...