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Was Alex Jones kicked off social media unfairly? ... Are social media platforms biased against conservatives? ... Algorithms built to play on our intense emotions ... How Facebook catalyzed atrocities in Myanmar ... Could international human rights law help save the Internet? ... Do we need local social media councils? ... Why Europe is leading the way in online regulation ...

John becomes a contributing writer at The Atlantic ... Assessing Adolph Reed's recent essay, "The Trouble with Uplift" ... What has Black Lives Matter accomplished? ... John: I was wrong about Obama and race ... Glenn: Obama should've delivered a social conservative message to the black community ... Praising Meghan Daum's essay on the Intellectual Dark Web ...

A Modern Love column on sexual consent and breakups goes viral ... Are we returning to a retrograde model of consent? ... The new genre of essays by aggrieved #MeToo bystanders ... Assessing the recent redemption essays by #MeToo men ... Phoebe: Punishing abusive men shouldn't be the movement's focus ... The case of Avital Ronell, a female professor accused of sexually harassing a male grad student ... #MeatToo: Jordan Peterson's daughter pushes an all-beef diet ...

So what's the deal with Mickey and Trump? ... Trump the authoritarian, or Trump the pathetic? ... Mickey defends the GOP tax cut ... Bob: Trump’s team wants regime in Iran, which is a terrible idea ... Bad news for Trump from the New York primary ... Trump Derangement Syndrome at the NYT? ... Is Russiagate a nothingburger? ... Mickey sees an immigration deal, but fears Trump is too incompetent to push it ... Mickey endorses Medicare for All ...

Robin’s “futarchy” political system: Vote on values, bet on beliefs ... Speculation and the first great failures of modern markets ... Robin: Speculative markets are best at aggregating data ... Polling during the 2016 election as analogy for predictive markets ... What Blu-Ray DVDs can tell us about speculative markets ... Is the gender pay gap the product of a rational market? ... Robin’s solution to ineffective CEOs who are left in charge too long ... What’s better than a market? Democracy, Simon says ...

The anonymous NYT op-ed and who qualifies as a "senior administration official" ... Marc's critique of Bob Woodward's new book ... The various motivations for being an anonymous source ... A history of the idea of a "deep state" ... The ethics of reporting on intelligence leaks ... Marc's new book, The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983 ... How can the US respond mindfully to Russian provocations? ...

The politics of hurricanes ... What explains Trump's neglect of Puerto Rico? ... Did McCain's death hurt Trump's approval ratings? ... Matt: Kavanagh did not do a very good job at his hearing ... Bill: Susan Collins is taking a huge risk by supporting Kavanagh ... Andrew Cuomo, Cynthia Nixon, and Archie Bunker ...

Why death is an important theme in Glenn II's fiction ... Intergenerational Loury family struggles ... Was John McCain's funeral a propaganda event? ... The Glenns get very honest about family matters ... Being a fiction writer with a full-time job ... Can a non-superstar writer still "make it"? ...

Matt’s new microphone and the creative benefits of dialogue ... Matt takes issue with Kamala Harris’s interrogation of Brett Kavanaugh ... Are Harris and Cory Booker eroding democracy with their grandstanding? ... Bill: The anonymous NYT op-ed doesn’t say anything new ... How will Republicans woo “Alex Jones conservatives” post-Trump? ... Should social media be treated like a utility? “Deplatformed” conservatives think so ...

Ian's new book, Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism ... Trump’s foreign policy: belligerent nationalism or non-interventionism or both? ... What Trump offers disgruntled voters and the news media ... The perilous future of US-Iran relations ... Do US foreign policy makers pay too much attention to the oil states? ... Ian: Technology is empowering authoritarian regimes ... Why Ian is still optimistic about the world ...