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Tim's new book, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age ... Tim: We're approaching a Standard Oil–like consolidation in tech ... Some subtle negative effects of monopoly ... Type in "batteries" on Amazon, and the first result is batteries made by Amazon ... Tim critiques Robert Bork's famous critique of antitrust law ... Why Bob is worried about monopoly in artificial intelligence ... Mark Zuckerberg as the "bad king" of tech ... How Google and Amazon might be broken up ...

Sarah and Mark on election surprises ... How the GOP increased its Senate margin ... White evangelicals' transactional relationship with Trump ... How Kavanaugh and the caravan affected the election ... Should Dems run progressive rockstars or boring moderates? ... Why governors matter ... What should the Dem House do? Hold hearings! ... With Sessions forced out, could Mueller's report be shelved? ...

Bill’s midterm all-nighter ... Which minority candidates were successful, and why? ... What lessons will Dems take from the election? ... Bill challenges the “two Americas” narrative ... Are low-key Dems like Amy Klobuchar the future of the party? ... Bill: Dems are diversifying while Republicans are distilling down to Trumpism ...

How politics took over arts and culture criticism ... The new Halloween, an empty vessel for critics to project baggage onto ... When a white woman calls the cops on a black person doing nothing wrong ... The economics of online outrage ... Louis CK, Sarah Silverman, masturbation, and consent ... Phoebe and Kat offer dating advice for young women ...

Does Matt want Democrats to take the House? ... Matt: Steve King has got to go ... Bill: If you’re a white nationalist, now is your time to shine ... A final round of midterm predictions ... Is Michael Avenatti right that only a white man can beat Trump? ... What lessons for 2020 will we learn in 2018? ...

What should US foreign policy look like after Trump? ... Schisms on the left on foreign policy ... Why most think tanks ignore the left ... Do Americans even care about global affairs? ... Daniel: As Boomers die off, America will move left ... Daniel's book about a key Cold War intellectual, Democracy in Exile ...

Why Bob K. calls himself a "liberal realist," not a neoconservative ... Bob K.'s new book on foreign policy, The Jungle Grows Back ... Did America's interventions in the Middle East lead to Trump? ... Could the US have effectuated a better outcome in Syria? ... Bob K.: "There is no such thing as justice in the international system" ... What should US strategy be toward China? ...

Does nationalism have a place in America's global trade strategy? ... Larry: To compete with China, invest in education ... Why test scores aren’t everything ... Affirmative action: for how long, and why race? ... Larry: Working with remedial students is part of teaching at every level ... Glenn: Affirmative action undermines black students' dignity ... The success story of women in economics departments ... Affirmative action as a transitional policy ... Are Harvard’s personality admissions criteria racist? ...

Are the Kavanaugh hearings already old news? ... How Dems in red states play the optics game ... Are progressive voters lacking enthusiasm? ... Bill and Matt make potentially embarrassing election predictions ... Matt on civility politics: “Sometimes, ‘both-siderism’ is right” ... Would Saul Alinksy have approved of heckling politicians in restaurants? ... Matt: The pipe bomb story will have faded by Election Day ...

The murder of Jamal Khashoggi and other Saudi outrages ... How Trump helped legitimize the Crown Prince ... Greg: The Saudi elite needs to be reminded they're not a great power ... Can MBS be disempowered? ... Should we keep on indulging friendly Middle East authoritarians? ... What's the best strategy to influence MBS? ... The declining importance of Saudi oil ... Shadi: Middle Eastern instability threatens the liberal international order ...