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Why a dozen Republicans voted against Trump’s emergency declaration ... Matt: Kasich can’t scold his way into the nomination ... Why did Beto’s momentum fizzle? ... Bill’s taxonomy of the left, from Bernie to Biden ... The perks of a Texan running mate ... Who is Andrew Yang? ... Bill: The House needs more moderate Democrats ...

How Alfred, ordained in the Baptist church at age 7, became a Muslim imam ... The “spellbinder” Louis Farrakhan and modern black leadership ... Alfred enters electoral politics in his town of Linden, NJ ... How to uplift “our people” ... Why Alfred finds little hope in national politics ... The challenge of uniting progressive politics with the black Christian right ...

How Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments were received across the Jewish community ... Is AIPAC really “all about the Benjamins”? ... Ron: Jews are criticizing Rep. Omar in good faith ... Memory of the Holocaust is fading, and older Jews are concerned ... Ron: Omar has mainly been an asset to her party ... Why wasn’t Jeanine Pirro fired from Fox News? ... ls the speech code regarding Israel getting looser? ... The Israeli take on Trump ...

Dan's recent essay, "Adolescent Politics" ... Dan: Social media has turned the world into a high school cafeteria ... Shouldn't stand-up comics be bad people? ... Trump, Exhibit A of the adolescent id ... The (largely pointless) college activism of the 1980s ... Why Aryeh kept his mouth shut about Jussie Smollett ... Reasons for optimism and pessimism ... How Joan Didion helped inspire Dan's essay ...

Critiquing the essay "How Marie Kondo Helped Me Sort Out My Gender" ... "Fauxbivalence," Miley Cyrus, and boring straight women ... Feeling like the label of "woman" doesn't fit ... The strange Twitter man who instructed women on how to be beautiful ... When men tell women online that they're not attractive ... Does #RetweetWomen undermine itself? ...

Bill and Matt trade breakfast smoothie tips ... Rep. Ilhan Omar and the Democrats’ resolution against “hate” ... Is Farrakhan-style anti-Semitism making a comeback? ... Intersectionality discourse looms large in Congress ... Can Bernie beat Trump’s inevitable attack on socialism? ... Can Biden be a “tough healer” and win the left’s vote?  ... What Biden could learn from Bill Clinton’s Sistah Souljah moment ...

Immigration lessons from California ... Why Black Lives Matter should take a second look at Bernie ... Bob worries the Dems will tear themselves apart ... What should Bernie say about immigration? ... How to cover controversies when social media makes everyone stupid ... The real meaning of the Covington kid's "smirk" ... The problems with "post-Rapture" Twitter ... Conor’s least favorite Democratic candidate ...

Mary’s piece in Quillette, “Public Education’s Dirty Secret” ... The importance of a calm, disciplined learning environment ... How to help the students most eager to learn ... Why Mary believes in meritocracy in schools ... Mary: Good teaching requires parental involvement ... Is America suffering from moral decay? ... Mary’s 9/11 experience and the decline of patriotism ...

Remembering Nathan Glazer, iconic neoconservative scholar and Peter's former teacher ... Glazer's NYC origins and Harvard tenure ... Glazer's controversial 1975 book, Affirmative Discrimination ... Peter: Not all racial groups have equally legitimate claims to redress ... Do Hispanics view themselves as a minority analogous to blacks? ... Glazer and Zionism ...

Is the normalization of Trump complete? ... Matt to 90% of the House GOP: You're dead to me ... What would it take to get Republicans to turn against Trump? ... Bill's History Corner: John Tyler, the Whigs, and preventing war over Maine ... The Republicans who would be totally cool with foreign collusion ... Why impeachment hearings are coming ... Should Democrats embrace norm-breaking? ...