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Larry gives Trump's tax reform a B- ... Persistent economic problems: real wages stagnating, inflation rising, stock market gains are temporary ... What really drove the stock market gains? ... Larry: Trump's tax reform is progressive when measured correctly ... Trump's overreaction to trade deficits ... China's policies on American tech and appropriate responses ... Assessing Trump's deregulation initiatives ...

Bill and Matt are back—and all dolled up ... The critical phase of remembrance: Was McCain really a maverick? ... How McCain’s 2008 campaign made Matt’s career in writing ... Bill faces blowback for his negative review of The Chapo Guide to Revolution ... A lefty revision of modern American history ... Is fully-automated socialism a pipe dream? ...

Nanette, the stand-up comedy special everyone loves—right? ... Self-deprecatory Jewish humor and comedy that flatters your politics ... Why Kat liked Insatiable, the Netflix series that was despised before it aired ... Is "white fragility" about racism a real thing? ... Considering whether white liberals are the problem ... The Times Magazine gives some very bad advice to a white-guilt sufferer ...

Does Glenn belong in the Intellectual Dark Web? ... Glenn: Why is “Fuck Trump” an acceptable slogan? ... How black is the American narrative? ... How to reform community under capitalism ... Is the left afraid of Jordan Peterson? ... Finding the positive takeaways from capitalism ... Is identity politics stifling "race science"? ... What does society owe the unskilled? ... Is the IDW a right-wing brand? ...

Why the media loved John McCain ... How McCain's irascible streak helped him survive torture in Vietnam ... From a "Vietnam-syndrome realist" to the hawkiest hawk ... How calculated were McCain's political shifts? ... Allying with neocons in the late '90s to fight cynicism ... Matt: McCain had "an elitist disdain for populist bigotry" ... The 2008 election and our current predicament ... When McCain was not particularly mavericky ...

Alden’s new position at WBEZ’s “race, class, and communities” desk ... Are there labor tensions between blacks and Latinos in Chicago? ... Alden: Fighting immigrant labor is a losing strategy for black Chicagoans ... Glenn takes a “black radical” perspective on labor ... What about working-class whites? ... Alden’s article on Chicago’s “Great Black Exodus” ... Did Rahm Emanuel’s speech on “faith and values” fall flat? ...

Why the fight over security clearances matters ... Are the norms that Trump broke permanently broken? ... Dan: Trump's trade wars have created more free trade supporters ... Why NAFTA isn't getting renegotiated any time soon ... Would a Dem Congress be able to change Trump's trade policy? ... Will the liberal international order survive Trump? ...

Will's blockbuster podcast, Chapo Trap House ... Chapo's new book, The Chapo Guide to Revolution ... Celebrity dumbasses, liberal hawks, and neocons ... How the Iraq war radicalized Will ... Why Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein are in Chapo's crosshairs ... Critiquing the Resistance from the left ... Are Trump voters racist? Economically anxious? ... Will: There is no decent conservatism in America ...

Robby explains why he still opposes Trump ... Trump's superpower: making everything more polarized ... The tempestuous political climate on college campuses ... Why are professors overwhelmingly on the left? ... Deplatforming: Where to draw the line? ... Peter Singer’s controversial views on infanticide ... Bob laments the damage done to US foreign policy by DC think tanks ... Philosopher Thomas Nagel and ideological tribalism ...

DMZ technical difficulties: James Buchanan conversation lost to the ages ... Why has Bill been tagged as the archetypal centrist pundit? ... “Down Goes Socialism” this election cycle ... What Berniecrats and Trump voters have in common ... Bill to socialists: Don’t judge Dems by their losses ...