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What does the American left have wrong about Indian politics? ... Basic facts and history about India’s government ... Varsha’s dating encounters with Hindu nationalists ... Who counts as “desi”? ... How the Partition of India defined its national myths ... What about Pakistan? ... Varsha on Narendra Modi’s biggest policy mistakes ... Varsha: Muslims are still an oppressed minority in India ...

Kat's article on #OwnVoices novels ... The case against sensitivity readers ... Fiction and our common humanity ... The controversy over the "clean" Chinese restaurant ... Sexism posing as anti-racism ... Is "white Jew" a slur? Is "TERF" a slur? ...

Clues in the new Game of Thrones title sequence ... Reviewing the season premiere ... What's the point of Euron? ... Does Westeros have a "true" religion? ... Possible endings: Happy, sad, and time travel-y ... Gratuitous nudity returns ... Is this the last communal TV show? ...

Julian Assange’s arrest and the source–journalist relationship ... Trump, Barr, and the difference between “spying” and “investigating” ... Will Barr and the Mueller report help Trump’s chances for reelection? ... Bill: Moderates could make or break the 2020 election for Dems ... Reviewing Joe Biden’s greatest gaffes ...

Yousef: This election wasn’t democratic ... A referendum on Netanyahu ... Why the two-state solution was already dead ... Yousef: Netanyahu is a byproduct of the problem, not the problem itself ... Why has Trump gone so far right on Israel? ... The peace process as a way to buy time for settlement building ... Yousef: We need to start with recognizing Palestinian rights ...

The new documentary Charm City, featuring the Rose Street Community Center ... Theory, righteousness, and Glenn’s path to clean living ... Police and public policy in Baltimore ... Alex: Morality isn’t clear-cut on the streets ... Why black grief is often interpreted as anger ... Mr. C’s lesson on “snitching” ...

Has Biden weathered accusations of inappropriate touching? ... Bill: Biden splits Dems along generational lines ... Is Pete Buttigieg's youth an asset or a liability? ... How experience as a mayor could translate to the presidential office ... Matt: Dems are too "woke" for their own good ... Does Bernie have a ceiling of potential support? ...

The origins of Dan and Bob’s debate over whether the foreign policy “Blob” is a thing ... Is Trump’s foreign policy a neocon’s dream? ... Did we or didn’t we intervene in Syria? (And what’s the lesson?) ... Bob complains about the Blob’s use of the term ‘destabilizing’ ... Why Bob wants the US to take international law seriously ... Should China’s maritime assertiveness worry us? ... Dan: Polarized politics makes for a bipolar foreign policy ...

Leggings, the modern locus of anxiety ... A deep dive into Jia Tolentino's New Yorker story about fitness brand Outdoor Voices ... Was Isaac Chotiner's interview with Bernard-Henri Lévy unfair? ... The "Leggings Mom" and other helicopter parents ... A controversial Modern Love column on interracial dating ... The conjugal drama of the "soap dispenser husband" ...

Why Amy is dubbed the “controversial” law professor ... Why the Intellectual Dark Web is maligned in online media circles ... How the drive for academic stardom stifles the climate debate ... Does the IDW have its own “grievance politics”? ... Glenn’s vision for a new kind of university ... Amy: The humanities are “a jobs program” ... Why do liberal students feel unsafe on campus? ...